Sweet Newborn

Last week I had the pleasure of photographing this beautiful little red headed newborn! Newborn sessions are best within the first 10 days, after that they tend to stay awake more, and are not as curly as they are when they are born.

Miss "K" was 3 weeks old, and well as her mom says she has red hair so she is going to be full of spirit! Miss "K" was adorable, a sweet smelling baby that gave me a run for my money lol. We managed to get some beautiful photographs of her, I especially love the ones with mom. I enjoy capturing the emotional connection between a mother and child.

Thanks for letting me get my baby fix for the day!!

I have been tagged again!

Well I have been tagged again by Karmen.

The rules are;
1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
2. Each player answer the questions about themselves.
3. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

What I was doing 10 years ago; I was newly married to my husband Gary, teaching 1-2nd grade split in the inner city of Flint.

First things to do on my list today;

Gosh my list gets bigger everyday!!
Here are some things I need to do;
work on my new senior blog so I can release it
order new business cards
design two 5x5 softcover books for 2 of my reps
post a new contest on my blog here :)
then of course your normal thinkgs like, laundry, dinner etc
Watch Lost tonight it is supposed to be sooo good!

Things I would do if I was a billionare;
Never have any debt, have more kids, adopt kids, invest for my children's future, buy a vacation home, enjoy life!

Three of my bad habits;

I analyze everything.
I stay up too late and am cranky in the morning.
Chocolate, cannot live without it.

Five places I have lived;

House on West Street as a baby
House on Main street till I was 5
House on overlook until I got married ( Fenton)
House on cook rd with my husband in Swartz Creek.
The house Gary and I built that we live in now in Linden.

Five jobs I have had;
Domino's Pizza Delivery girl
Bank Teller
Telemarketer
Elementary Teacher
Photographer

People I am tagging are;

Natalie K Photography

Dan Brouillette

Teri Eddy Photography


Michelle Miller Photography

Dixie

Spokesmodel Jenna

May is filling up!

Just a quick note, inbetween all the editing lol. I am booking up for May, between my son playing soccer and Karli in dance & soccer time slots are slim.
I will be booking a few evenings during the week and weekends. If you are thinking about booking a family session, kids, babies please contact me asap to get in the books.
I am officially booking 2009 seniors. I have a great new blog just for seniors, hope to announce that this week along with a booking special!

Natalie

The importance of family portraits

Last November I had a surprise family session for a grandma's birthday. My client Julie called me from Texas to schedule a session because all of her family was flying into Michigan to surprise her mom. The grandma's birthday was not until March, but with the Thanksgiving holiday all the family and grandkids would be there.

I ended up photographing the individual families, grandkids etc. Everyone was so nice and then the grandparents arrived at the country club. We quickly did their entire group in front of 100 guests. I only briefly got to meet them before they were to enjoy spending time with all of their friends.

The session went well for inside a country club and my studio lighting. The family ordered Christmas cards and several prints for everyone.

Just a few weeks ago the grandma ordered quite a few more prints and I went to deliver them to her today. Upon delivering them she told me how her husband had died in December, not long after the family session. She was so grateful that they had had the opportunity to have a family portrait session. I had no idea that he had passed, and as a very emotional person I tried everything I could to not cry. Unfortunately if you get to know me, you will know that never is the case, I tend to tear up pretty easily.

The grandma explained what happened and my heart just went out to her. She said that they had not had a family portrait in over 20 years, she had promised the kids she would never make them do that again! She was now so happy that she had this portrait though.

I am sharing this with you because I want you to know how very very important it is to have a family portrait done. I am not even saying that you have to have it done professionally but make sure you do some time. You will never regret it if you do. I know that we all make excuses, not enough time, not enough money, need to lose weight, when the kids are older etc.

You never know when you are going to lose someone precious in your life. Having the recorded memories means so much to you. I encourage you, if you have never had a family session or it has been a long time please consider booking one. You will be so happy that you have those memories.

And Judy if you read this, I am so sorry I lost it today! I really enjoyed meeting your family and feel so blessed that I was able to record those precious memories for you.

Natalie

Miss "M" 5 years old

Today I had the pleasure of photographing one of my fresh faces winners miss "M".
She is all of 5 years and full of spirit! We had a good time talking and walking though downtown Holly.
Miss "M" is going to have a new baby sister in a few days so it was a nice time for her to have a little "me" time before the new arrival!
Here are a few sneak peeks! I had fun today with you.

2009 Spokesmodel Miss "A"

I am so behind on posting!! My husband decided last weekend that we should have a garage sale this week. Well let me tell you, just cleaning out and setting up had me exhausted! Garage sales are so much work!


It is nice to be able to have things cleaned out and we had a goal in mind to put some money towards a new piece of furniture and a basketball hoop for our boys. Thank goodness it is over though!!



Ok on to the sneak peeks, here is Miss "A" another of my 2009 spokemodels. She is such a sweet person and wants to go to college for photography. It was a little hard for her to be on the other end of the camera but she did great!!