Postcards for this Spring!

These are the postcards we will be sending out soon to promote our spring flower sessions. Keep a look out for them in the mail!

We are now taking appointments for our "spring flower" sessions in Forest Park. The middle of March is the best time for daffodils and mid-April hosts a beautiful tulip display around the Jewel Box. Call us at 314.454.6612 or email us to book one of these very special yet limited sessions.

(While we do not charge a sitting fee, each sessions require a $100 retainer that is applied to your enlargement and print order. Our average client spends $250 to $300 for print packages.)

We updated our Babies page!!

We've finally done a little updating to our babies web galleries. Check out the really cute photos of some really cute babies!

Click on Baby Portraits

We're starting to take appointments for our "spring flower" sessions in Forest Park. The middle of March is the best time for daffodils and Mid April hosts a beautiful tulip display around the Jewel Box. Call us at 314.454.6612 or email us to book one of these very special yet limited sessions.

(While we do not charge a sitting fee, each sessions require a $100 retainer that is applied to your enlargement and print order. Our average client spends $250 to $300 for print packages.)

We went to Mexico…

… back in January. But like always, I’m a little slow about getting photos posted to my blog. We made some wonderful new friends in Mexico. And even had an impromptu portrait session on the stairs leading up from their garage to their house. Don’t you love the architecture in Mexico? I wish the stairs from my house looked so nice!

Nosotros

La familia Uribe

La familia Mena

Is it posed or not?

There has been a lot of talk among my friends about a photo I took during a wedding. The photo is of a dear friend who happened to be a bridesmaid in a beautiful September wedding. The photo was taken in a hotel room and was lit by both window light and incondessent room lights. It has been sweetened a little in PhotoShop, but in general what you see is what you get. So is it posed or isn’t?

Not only isn’t this photo posed, she didn’t even know it was being taken. The truth is she was dialing the bride’s father on a cell phone to make sure the ceremony was being set up properly.

I like to call myself a documentary photographer because I capture the action as it unfolds before my lens. Twelve different photographers will document the scene in twelve different ways. Knowing when to push the shutter and how to compose an image makes all the difference in finding a certain photo. The photograph I am looking for is the beautiful and the expressive. This is the reason why a candid moment I find may look like a portrait and an expressive moment may look like a master painting.