Happy Holidays {Kansas City child photography}
Hear that? No, really … take a good listen.
It’s the sound of me exhaling, accompanied by a good, long stretch. I can’t begin to explain how great it feels to have made it up, up and over the busy fall/holiday season and be sitting on the downward side knowing that not only have all client products arrived on time, but we were able to get our own holiday cards out last week, too. It’s an unbelievable feeling! Tomorrow night, we even have a small group of photographer friends getting together for dinner and much-needed chatter. I can’t wait!
2008 was an amazing year and I’m so blessed and humbled by the support of my husband, my family, wonderful clients, friends and faithful blog readers. I could not in a million years have dreamed I would be at this point in my business, right here, right now. Keep watching the blog for several new items in 2009, including a new website design and new products.
I’ll be posting more client holiday cards later this week, but thought it appropriate to start with our own. We got lucky the afternoon we did this session. She had just woken from her afternoon nap and the light was fading quickly, but it was simply tooooo cold to go outside for pictures, so we threw on the holiday outfit and set up in my husband’s office … a small room with an east-facing window. Keep in mind what little light was left was on the other side of the house and I didn’t want to break out the flash. Luckily, my trusty 50/1.4 did the trick. This is what I love about natural light — the soft glow on the skin and the depth of contrast and tones. It almost looks like we were in a studio, but it was simply a chocolate leather couch.
The back image of our family was shot earlier this fall by my wonderful photographer friend,
Jamie Miller. I had always wanted this shot for our family, but we never seemed to find the time to get our own family shots taken in the same manner that I do for my clients (isn’t that the case with most photographers?) So thank you, Jamie, for giving us such a beautiful gift that we will treasure forever.
Happy Holidays to all!
Bella looks adorable! And the family picture is too cute. I love that smile she has. We will be in Denver over Christmas but hope to make it back to KC at the beginning of January. I will let you know – I must stop by and say hello!
Abby!
You have to come see us! Bella misses you and we would love to see you. Definitely in January! She’s in a big girl bed now and, you’ll appreciate this: Has a recovering goose egg right on the forehead from playing “Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” her second afternoon napping on it. Ha!
Kami, love the new blog. Hot pink is my favorite color of all, so no wonder. And all the photos are just amazing of course. Your family’s holiday card is perfectly beautiful. You have a gorgeous family, and Bella is drop dead. What great material she is to work with! And talk about eyes as big as saucers!! OMG! Wanted to let you know that we had a ton of great comments on the cards you did for us. One that I have to share is, “I wanted to let you know how beautiful the Christmas card was of your family…it was the most unique one we received.” Thanks for the note and happy new year to you and the family!
Kelly – thank you so much!!! I’m so glad your card was a hit – not that I had any doubts with your beautiful family being front and center. I’ll be posting several more of the client holiday cards this weekend once the current sneak peek has had its time in the spotlight, so to speak. Can’t wait to see you all in ’09!