Archive for the ‘pregnancy photography’ Category

Facebook

March 9, 2009

Take 5 Photograhy has had a facebook fan page for about 9 months now. They have recently changed the way they have their business and product pages. It now looks and acts more like profiles. I am personally really liking the change! You can see what I have recently updated, write on Take 5′s wall, and I can post discounts and specials that I’m running.

Please add Take 5 Photography as a friend!  :-)

Featured on NW Kids!

March 6, 2009

NW Kids is a great resource for moms and dads. They compile “extensive listings of local and regional resources to keep you and your littles entertained, educated, and enriched.”

I have been really impressed with their services, especially their email newsletters. If you haven’t already, definitely get on their mailing list!

Today, I checked out their photography guide to see my listing and I was totally surprised! Out of all the area photographers listed, I’m so honored to have my photo featured on the photographer guide page! Check it out! :-)

http://www.nwkids.com/guide/photographers

Bring on the babies!

February 26, 2009

In order to bring more maternity, newborn, and children’s sessions, I’ve started my online campaigns with Kidzlist.com & nwkids.com. Both are great resources for parents and I hope my ads will spark some interest!

I’m offering $25.00 off any package off with KidzList until April 30th. Mention this ad when you call or email.

Keep a look out for my online marketing campain coming soon with nwkids.com! Sign up for their free e-newsletter here.

February 26- Mar 3, 2009
This week’s list
Local Events
Honus and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure
Oregon Children’s Theater Company
Hina Matsuri 2009: A Special Day for Girls!
Japanese Garden Society of or

Peter Pan
Oregon City Childrens Theater

Little Kids’ Jamboree
Mississippi Pizza Pub

Family Dance Time!
Airplay Cafe

Who’s in Hare’s House?
Belmont Branch Library

Community Square Dance
Portland Waldorf School


Sunday Family Skate Discount
Mountain View Ice Arena

Sundays For Families: La volupté du goût
Portland Art Museum

Baby Sign Language Classes
Portland Early Learning Project

School Tours
Buckman Elementary School

Da Vinci: The Genius
OMSI Oregon Museum of Science & Industry

No End to the Banana
World Forestry Center Discovery Museum

Bob The Builder
The Childrens Museum

When Animals Were People
Tears of Joy Puppet Theater

Symphony Storytime – Saturdays
Northwest Library

Celebrate Oregon: 150 Years of Architecture
Pittock Mansion

“By Any Other Name”
Lakewood Theatre Company/Lakewood Center

Carnival & Silent Auction
Open Bible Learning Center

Storytellers Guild Storytime

Milagros Boutique


Special! $25 off any package!
Take 5 Photography

Open House
Horizon Christian Learning Center

Audra {Maternity}

February 5, 2009

Audra is one of my mommies from the Vancouver Mommies Group, I LOVE meeting and spending time with these women! She was 2 weeks away from her scheduled C section (today!!) when I took these photos and she couldn’t have been more beautiful. I love doing maternity sessions at the 8th month, when a woman’s body is at the peak of pregnancy. You can just see the joy and love on her face when she looks down at her child growing inside her.

Good luck today Audra! I can’t wait to see meet little Grace! :-)

I’ve known Courtney since I was 8 years old. We played on the Salmon Creek Soccer Club “Foxes” team together. Her long legs made her fast as hell…easily striding past the defenders for goal after goal.

We lost touch after middle school, each of us going to different high schools. I was lucky enough to be reunited with her at a friend’s wedding 3 years ago and have been able to call her one of my best friends ever since. I was so happy to do this session for her and her husband Eric. She was literally glowing! What a beautiful family….

Jacob Eric was born on November 24th, 2008. Hospital and newborn pics coming soon!  :-)


I had been working at my old job for about 4 months when I asked my coworker if she’d like to go to the Portland Beer Festival with me that weekend. She looked at me with a shy grin…”I would, but I kinda stopped drinking.”

“What??” I said, surprised how those words came out of a newly 21-year-old’s mouth.

She smiles again. “I’m pregnant.”

Ohhhhh! Ok. That makes more sense! haha. As soon as that thought left my head the photographer in me started thinking about her maternity session.

“I get to take pictures of you in March!”

And so I did. :-)

Her baby’s due ANY DAY now. Congratulations Michaela and Junior!



VMG and Maternity!

February 21, 2008

Wow. I am not a very timely blogger. I’ll get better I promise! :-)

This last month has been a busy one — which is awesome! I started a new group in Vancouver for moms and moms-to-be called the Vancouver Mommies Group. Check it out at www.myspace.com/vancouvermommiesgroup. It’s doing really good things for moms in this area. Here’s what we’re about! -

Who we are

The Vancouver Mommies Group was started by 2 mommies (and 1 friend, not a mommy yet, but a children’s photographer) that felt that Vancouver needed a place for moms to join together – without the drive across the bridge.

VMG is…

1. A place to vent.
This is number 1 because we feel that it is the most important. We know how frustrating and hard life can be some days with one or more little lives completely dependent on you. Your mental health is so vital to your child’s upbringing. Please use this page to share frustrations, read about others’ issues, give advice, and receive words of wisdom. Use the comments as a reader board or you can also message us and we’ll post it as a bulletin for others to respond to.

2. A place to share.

We love love new things! Be it new ways to keep our children happy, new healthy yummy recipes, tips on how to get your figure back, or how to successfully potty train your 2 year old…post it all! Again, just leave a comment, or email it to us and we’ll post a collection of tips and secrets as a weekly bulletin.

3. A place to network.

Some of you may be new to this area and don’t have many friends. Or others may be young mothers and all your friends are still in the “party” stage. Whatever your situation may be, use this page to connect with others like you and gain valuable relationships! We also talked about hopefully putting together a monthly get-together at local venues or even group members houses if everyone likes that idea! We can talk more about that later though…

4. A place to learn.

Eventually (when the group grows to a good number) we’re going to start featuring local companies, vendors, and publications, as well as helpful (or just fun and awesome!) links and national “mommy news”. We’re really excited about this aspect, to do our part in furthering the local economy and give Vancouver mothers the convenience of in-town services! Always nice! :-)
If you, family, or friends own family-oriented Vancouver area businesses let us know! We’ll feature it in an upcoming bulletin!

5. Finally, we’d like this page to be a place to smile.

As we said before, your mental health is so important. For you to be able to laugh even just 5 mins a day is crucial to life as a mother. We are going to share funny, awesome, and sentimental “adult”-type material on a regular basis. After hours of Veggie Tales, boo-boo’s, potty’s, booties, pee-pee’s, Disney movies, and “Moooooommmmmyyyyy!!!”‘s…..we know you need it!!

What do you think? Pretty awesome idea huh :-)


I hope it can be a place that really helps new moms in this area. I’m going to post great deals for picture packages too! Can’t wait until it really takes off. Tell your friends!

Here are some pictures from my maternity session a couple weeks ago. Kristin is due in 2 short weeks! Good luck honey!!