Whales, a surprise wedding, and a lot of fun!!

Adrienne and I are just about to return from Mexico in fact as I write this I'm sitting in the resort lobby missing out on some of the last of the sun. We came down here with Erica, Adrienne's sister and some of Erica's friends. First let me tell you about the whales. I got up early one morning to get some shots of the sun rise. As I'm sitting on the beach taking pictures I heard someone say "there he is." There was a whale swimming right across my field of view only about 200 feet off shore. He or she, who know, was there for about 10 minutes just swimming along. I got some really cool shots of that. As a matter of fact, looking back at some of my pictures, I see that I had some shots of him before I even knew he was there. It was a really cool experience.

Now the wedding...Bridgette and Jim, some of Erica's friends, got engaged while on the trip here and unknown to everyone, Jim had done his research and gotten everything in order to have a wedding. The entire event was put together in 24 hours. I didn't have two of the needed lenses with me to shoot a wedding, but what the hell, we did it anyway. Adrienne did Bridgette's hair and I shot the wedding. The results turned out pretty good and I think Bridgette and Jim will be very happy with the pictures.

So I know someone famous!!!

I was watching American Idol tonight. I know I know please don't make fun of me. Anyway one of the contestants, a very pretty young lady named Amy Davis, looked very familiar to me the first time I saw her on the show but I couldn't figure it out. Tonight while she was being introduced before her song Ryan introduced here is "Amy Davis from Lowell, IN." Bang!!!! Holy Crap that's AMY! Amy was a model in a class I took in Chicago this summer. I really disliked the class, it wasn't structured very well and it was the last class the school put on before they closed their doors. The models were all really cool people though and made it easier to get through the boring sessions. Amy was a very nice person we made small talk at different times. I'm struggling to find any of the shots I might have of her. Help me wish her good luck.

Check here out here

My 2 year old could kick your 2 year old's butt....

....on the computer. LOL! We woke up the other morning to the clicking sound of a mouse. Briley our 2 year old got up (as she has been doing for a while now) and started her morning visit to her two favorites sites. pbskids.com and nickjr.com. I got some new lenses in the night before and had a camera close to me so I was able to get a few shots of Briley and her "mad" gaming skills in action. Things have been slow this week (we all got sick and had to cancel sessions this weekend). I thought I'd use this as an excuse to put up a picture of one of my girls. Enjoy...and if I could make your computer make clicking sounds in you bedroom at 6AM, I would.

Mallory's newborn session.

Audrey and Chad came over again today but this time they had someone else with them. Introducing Mallory! This little bundle of joy was so cooperative we really grabbed some great pictures for this family today. Mallory is such a beautiful little girl as I'm sure you can tell from the pictures. The session had all the making of a great newborn session...a little #1, a little #2, a hungry baby, and a sleepy baby (the sleepy ones are my favorites). Enough of me rambling on....Here's Mallory.

Our new pricing is complete.

We listened to what you liked and what you didn't like about our first run at pricing(we really didn't expect the studio to take off like it has). The big change is that there is now only 1 discount, the Build Your Own Package discount. This will make it easier for customers to figure their order totals. The Grand Opening sale has ended but some of the prices came down from their original point to a lower price. I think that our customers will love our new pricing and the flexibility it offers over the other studios in the area. Our customers get a new and fresh approach to their portraits and at the same time they typically get many more prints for their money. To check out our new pricing head on over to Rowe Portrait Studios and click on the information link.

My old buddy Evan is 1!

My good friends Jason and Amber brought over their son Evan today. We took pictures to celebrate his first birthday. This kid is hilarious. He is so content just hangin' out especially when you stick a big fat birthday cake in his lap. He went to town on that sucker. It was really funny watching him go after it like that. Here are some from the session.

And that's a Wrap!

The Coolest Flash Mob ever!!!!!

You might have already seen this but I had not. I think we should get all of the Rowe Portrait Studio Customers to do something like this. Maybe do it at Denny's or something. :)
Check it out!

WHIZ, BOOM, POP, ZING, POOF!

The new website just went live. http://roweportraitstudios.com now takes you to the updated website. There will be some changes in the coming weeks with the site colors and backgrounds but the layout and functionality won't change. We're really excited about this and the new functionality it will bring to our clients. The ability to place orders directly from the proofing gallery will allow family members of our clients living all over to place orders of their favorite pictures directly with us insuring accuracy of the order.

We are currently working on new pricing and we hope to have that finalized in by next week. Our goal is to get our pricing as simple as possible. We still will have the Build Your Own Package option that our customers love so much but instead of having to figure multiple discounts we would like our customers to be able to easily figure their own costs. More to come on that soon.

Adrienne and I would like to thank all of our customers for making our first 1/2 year in business magnitudes more successful than we could have possibly ever imagined. Continue to join us as we embarq on what is looking to be an even more incredible year in 2008.

The new website is almost done!!!!

I have been putting some work in on the new website. It has been turned over from the designers to me and now I just have to put some finishing touches to it. You can check it out here
Keep in mind at this point it is not at all done and there will most definitely be some bugginess to it. I'm hoping to have it done by the end of the week if all goes as planned. At that time you will just go the the usual roweportratstudios.com address and you will find the new splash page with links to the new site and the blog. All of the old galleries for you existing customers will stay up for a few more months until their scheduled delete dates (3 months from your session date). Any galleries going forward will be password protected and you will be given a password on the day of your session. So take a look at the new design and let us know what you think in the comments section below. Peace,

Dan

Amanda's Senior Session

Well today we had the pleasure of shooting Amanda's senior session. We had a blast. Amanda was a little shy at first but once we got going things were A O K. This young lady is a true beauty. Usually right after a shoot I go through the images and pick my favorite 6 or 7 to post to the blog. I do this by narrowing down a field of 10 or 15 images. At first pass on Amanda's files, I had a field of 40 to choose from....That's how photogenic she is.

Congratulations are in order as Amanda an Matt, the young man seen below, are engaged. We sneaked in a few shots of the two together for a mini engagement session. Sorry Matt but I don't think many people are gonna notice you in those pictures....I kid, I kid. Enough said enjoy the small sampling below.











WOW! Voted Dan's favorite picture!!!