The Medlin Family

Featured Session

Since I can share the videos online again, I may start featuring sessions this way. I will play around with it and see how it goes over and how I like it, but for now, I will use the videos :) If you are on facebook, I will also share and tag there (hint to join and friend me!)

For this week, a sweet baby girl! I am a few days behind in my workflow, so mom and dad are very anxious to see. What a precious angel she was in the studio, and I hear great things about her all around! Thanks so much for bringing her in, I really enjoyed all of you!

Miss Dawson's slide show :)

Featured Session

ok, back in action this week. I am sooo busy, the blog and facebook take a back seat when I am trying to stay caught up. I have several sessions I want to feature, so it's all good! I take a break in December if the mommies and babies allow, so the way it is looking, I will have sessions to feature even when I am not working, so that will be cool! Some of what I have done recently is really worthy of being featured, I am quite proud, if I do say so myself.
This week, Miss Grace turned one and came in for her smash cake session. I don't have to tell you how fun these are! I never get tired of seeing these little ones dive into their cakes, and I have yet to see a baby have the same reaction twice!
While Grace was here, she was a bit cranky, and we were trying to sneak some family shots in as well, so when she was taking a break and walking around, I got a few of mom and dad! I love them, they are such a beautiful couple (and family)

Go check out facebook mom - I will be taggin ya in a few minutes!

I saw God today.

I just want to do a quick blog about how thankful I am that we have a God that loves us.

Without great details, I have been prayed for today, and it feels good.It also sent me to some time with God I have been needing to spend as well, and with a grateful heart.
So I just wanted to share that I am thankful for
*my Heavenly Father, who loves me in spite of myself.
*having loved ones in my life who listen to God
*having loved ones in my life who pray for me
*seeing in action God taking something that Satan meant for harm, and God using it for His good
*the peace to know that He is watching over us, even if we feel alone
*the gift He gives us in surrounding His children with Love, through our friends, family, and even the occasional stranger.

In all things, big and small - God is good.We are blessed.

2009 Christmas Cards

I finally have the 2009 template collection ready for this year's christmas cards. There are two ways to order cards, one is to order a custom created card just for you from a session this year or one that is coming up. Pricing for those can be sent to you if requested, or you can view it in the price guide, or at your selection and design session. The template collection is designed for fast and easy pricing. You may choose one of four designs. For this price, you are restricted to these four, the only changes that can be made are if the colors clash with your portrait, they will be changed to match, and the words will of course reflect your family :) Also, with this option, other people may be sending out a card like yours.
With the custom option, you get a one-of-a-kind design, that no one else will have anything similar to. This costs a bit more, because it takes more work for me, but it is my most popular option.
Also, don't forget to take a look at the paper options available on the custom greetings.
The holidays are upon us, contact me if you want to send out greetings this year. I will be taking orders thru Thanksgiving. Sessions in December may order a card if done so early in the first week.

Please let me know if you want or need me to send more information. I am happy to do so!

Featuring online slideshows again!

I am very excited to report that I will be featuring online slide shows again! I did this when I first started out, and it was wildly popular, but the program I use for it and the introduction of windows vista did not mesh well together, and it became nearly impossible to do. I have found a new company, and I am very happy to be able to put the slide shows back online! Now you can view them in the privacy of your own home, share with family and friends, and you can all laugh and cry together as you watch them. I am even going to have options where you can post them on facebook and load them on your iphone!

Today I will be putting up the first two!
so stay tuned....

Featured Session

This weeks featured session is me proudly showing off one of my favorite families to photograph. This is their third year with me, I LOVE when clients come back year after year. They are a great group of kids, and mom and dad even joined in this time!

We had lots of fun out in dad's sunflower field, and can't you tell? Wow the images are so great! I am so proud of them. It was an overcast cool day, and I really wanted some sun to backlight those flowers, but you have to work with what you get, and I am not dissapointed.

These kids are another great example of the relationship you build when they are regular clients. Each year, the kids are more relaxed in front of the camera, and it shows. We interact better, they know what to expect from me, and I with them, it is a great way to play...and the results are the proof of that!

I just love working with Tracy, she is always after something original and that is how I roll too! My goal is to create something for each client that is different and uniquely you. Sometimes it is a slight difference, other times it really shows, but the word "custom" is used a lot in my work. Tracy and I fit just right in this arena. She has great ideas and will go the extra mile to "get the shot"!

Thanks Tracy, for being such a great and loyal client!
(go check out facebook too, got D tagged and there is a surprise there I am not sure you know about!)

Featured Session

Better late than never...
Here is this week's featured session, and what a little sweetheart!
Mommy saw my canvas baby bits display at McCalls, and called to bring her baby girl in so she could get one!

I love the way that babies curl up. This little pose is why it is so important to get those babies in early, early. The first two weeks work so much better, but they will curl up with a little assistance up to a month, and sometimes even 6 weeks, but if you get them here early, in those first few precious weeks, they are still "womby", and like that feeling of being swaddled and cuddled up tight. Once they get used to being stretched out and making use of all the room they have, curling them up for these precious poses gets more difficult.

This little sweetie was between 3-4 weeks, and still did well curling up, but we had a limit, and when she hit it, it was time to stretch!
She was such a little doll, the newest member to my baby plan, so watch for her again in 5 months.

Trying to get this weeks Featured Session posted...

fighting the flu or something, working on it...