Giving Thanks!!!!

Giving Thanks is the theme for my 800 likes contest!

First off I want to thank everyone again for sharing my page, plus all the comments and likes on my pictures too!  I am so thankful for all the help you have done by spreading the word about my photography business!   

You have helped me reach another goal on my photography facebook page, 800 likes!  So to say Thank you I am holding another photo contest.

The rules:

1. must be a photo taken by you
2. must have at least one subject in the photo
3. this subject must have a sign saying what they are thankful for
4. can be a person or pet
5. be creative
6. have fun

Send the photo to me at pictureme@ojwstudios.com  put "Thankful Contest" in the subject

You have until November 15th to send in your picture and Voting starts November 16th and will end November 23rd.

Winner will get a photo session with seven 5x7 with those pictures on CD with rights to print up to the same size.

Example:

 

 

Good Luck!!!

Christmas Card Season is here

 

It is that time again!!!

 

Christmas Card Season!  My cards come Folded or Flat and in boxes of 25. Examples below are all flat cards.  Some are punched out into a shape others are not.  Box of 25 Flat cards  is $35, Box of 25 punched cards is  $40.  Box of 25 Folded cards is $45, and Box of 25 punched folded cards is $50 (examples of folded cards will be up after the weekend)

 

Packages that you can pick from with a full session fee that included cards are:

 

Christmas 1:

24 wallets, one 8x10, two 5x7 and 1 pack of folded Christmas Cards

 

Christmas 2:

24 wallets, two 8x10, two 5x7 and 1 pack of flat cards

 

Christmas 3:

Two packs of Flat cards, two 8x10 and one 5x7

 

Christmas 4:

Two packs of Folded Cards and three 5x7

 

 

Time is running out for Christmas pictures!

Hurry and book your Christmas portraits now!   Lots of openings still for November and the first week of December! 

Full sessions are $250 with prints and/or Christmas cards.

Or book a mini session on select times and dates listed on my events section on Facebook.

Family Portraits

A family portrait isn't just for you, it is for the legacy you leave behind.  For your children, for their children.   So no matter if you take the picture yourself or hire a photographer, just make sure you are in the photos with your kids.  It is and will always be worth it.  

Winner for my Fall 700 likes contest is...................

#6 Fall!!!!!!!

 

 

Email will be sent out to you on the 20th!

 

Thank you to all who voted and all to who entered!

 

Next contest (800 likes) will be announced during the week!  If you didn't win here is another chance to try!

Family Reps..

Do you want to earn FREE photo session(s) with Olivia Jean Williams?

 

 

I am looking for four families that are willing to

•  pass out some of my business cards,
•  share at least 1 of my facebook statuses a week
•  show off the pictures of their family that I take for you to friends and family in the area
•  send facebook invites to your friends to my mini sessions
•  pin two of my blog pictures a month

You earn points towards sessions and prints.  Every full complete session the Family Rep sends to me earns them 2 points, each completed mini session will earn them 1 point.  

Each Rep will have ONE photo session at the start of 2014 (Jan, Feb or March).  The prints are earned by the points.    Rep packages start at 6 points.     Want another Session that year?  Get more points and it is paid for again!

That is it!  Simple right?

If you are willing to do the above, please copy and paste this section below into an email, fill it out and email it to pictureme@ojwstudios.com  Please put  "2014 Family Rep" in the subject

Your name:
Kids (with ages):
Pets:
Other half:

Your town:
Groups you belong to:

Facebook link:
Twitter:
Pintrest:

Fall Photo Contest!!!!

Again, I want to thank everyone who has shared my page and my links on facebook!   You are GREAT!!!  I love every one of you!  Thank you so much!  

My goal of being full time photographer is getting closer with every 100 likes!    What will this mean for you when I become full time photographer?  More time spots available, More mini sessions, and More contests!   So keep sending your friends and family to my facebook page.

 

 

Thank you to the 7 families who entered!

 

 
How to vote!  Please visit and like my photography facebook page www.facebook.com/OJWSTUDIOS

 

Then Post on my page on the post pinned at the top that says "who should win the fall contest, vote here".  Winner will get a photo session with ten 5x7 and one 8x10.

Vote only counts if the voter liked the page too.

 

 

 

 

#1 Abby the Great Pumpkin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#2 Karyana fall 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#3 Isabelle enjoying the leaves last fall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#4 Isabella

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#5 Tristan expressing his fall love ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#6 Fall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#7 Kaiyah giving a goat a kiss at the pumpkin patch last week

 

 

 

Please visit and like my photography facebook page www.facebook.com/OJWSTUDIOS

 

 

Then Post on my page on the post pinned at the top that says "who should win the fall contest, vote here".  Winner will get a photo session with ten 5x7 and one 8x10.

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

Halloween Email Mini Session and Early Christmas Email Mini Session!

First date:

       Monday October 14th from 9am-2pm $30 Email Mini Sessions!  2 pictures sent to you by email, one set up per $30 fee, limit 3 kids per session.   It can be Halloween Set up or the Christmas setup.   You pick!  By appointments only, $15 must be paid up front to hold your spot by October 10th.



Second date:

       Saturday October 26th from 9am-11am then again 3pm-6pm.  $30 Email Mini Sessions!  2 pictures sent to you by email, one set up per $30 fee, limit 3 kids per session.  It can be Halloween Setup or the Christmas setup.  You pick!  By appointments only, $15 must be paid up front to hold your spot by October 22nd.

Fall Mini Sessions!!!!

It is back!  Fall Mini Sessions!!!!!


Saturday October 19th  10am-5pm

All my sessions are by appointments only!    Session Fee is $75 and you will get 5 pictures on CD with rights to print.  

At my mini session you get to pick one setup to use during the session.  I will have 3 up to choose from.  Mini sessions are only for the kids ages 5months old to 18 years old,  There will be no family portraits during mini sessions,

 I now require that you pay $15 when you book your mini session to hold your spot!   You can pay by Credit Card (via paypal) Cash or check.  Email me and we can set up something for you to either drop off payment or I can send you the invoice for you to pay online. 


At my mini session you get to pick one setup to use during the session.  I will have 3 up to choose from.  Mini sessions are only for kid ages 4 months old to 18 years old,  There will be no family portraits during mini sessions, however you can bring furry kids to be photographed with your kids.  I ask that you have the rest of your payment ready at the start of the session.  If paying by check, checks need to be made out to Olivia Jean Williams.


Keep an eye out for my Halloween Email Mini Sessions coming up!
My November Fall Mini Session, Christmas Mini session, Santa Portraits, Email Christmas Mini Session! 

Portraits with Santa

 

 

Why wait in a mall line for portraits with Santa.  You end up waiting for 20 minutes or longer before you get up to the front. Your family has less than 5 minutes.  You or someone else puts your child on his lap, your kid screams and then they snap a picture and send you on your way so they can push along the next family.

 

 

 

Kids need time to adjust, warm up to Santa and the new surroundings.   I have two type of Santa Sessions:

Most popular is The CD session.  It is a 25 minute session with Santa and me for only $75! ...

You and your family will have 25 minutes with Santa so your kid can warm up to him. I will have a few different setups. Pictures of the other setups will be posted closer to December.

You will get the Slide show DVD to watch on your own DVD player or on your computer. A CD with 5 pictures with rights to print and some facebook images for you to share with family and friends.


 Then there is the Email Session, it too is a 25 minute session but it is only $30! You and your family will have 25 minutes with Santa, I will have a few different backgrounds set up and you will get 2 pictures sent to you by email with rights to print up to 8x12 in size. Plus a few facebook images.
Date and times are posted on my facebook page.


 A $15 deposit must be paid to hold your spot by November 17th. If your deposit isn't paid by then your spot will be removed. You can pay it by paypal or in person with cash or check. Deposits are used towards the session fee and are not refundable. If you call me 24 hours before to reschedule your appointment then we will use your deposit towards that date. No more than 3 kids per spot. $10 extra per additional kid.


 If you would like to have Santa hand your child a gift during the session please drop it off at my studio at least 2 days before. It will make it run smoother for Santa and you. The only ones that can bring gift with the child is when the children are 3 and under. Thank you!

Another Contest!!!!

First off I want to thank everyone who has shared my page!   You are GREAT!!!  I love every one of you!  Thank you so much!   

My goal of being full time photographer is getting closer with every 100 likes!    What will this mean for you when I become full time photographer?  More time spots available, More mini sessions, and More contests!   So keep sending your friends and family my way. 

 

 

This Contest is about FALL!    With football going again and the leaves changing color, I am in the mood to see your fall snap shots!

 

 

Rules for the photo:

• one person in the photo
• some leaves
• the colors yellow and orange in there somewhere
• photo must be taken by you
• email the picture to pictureme@ojwstudios.com with "Fall Contest" in the subject

 

How to enter the contest:

• if you haven't yet, LIKE my facebook page
• send your picture to my email pictureme@ojwstudios.com with "FALL Contest" in the subject
• pin one of the pictures from this blog post
• share the link to this blog on your facebook
• once you have completed all of the above steps, come back to this blog and let me know you have entered, pinned and shared!   

If you don't have pintrest then share my page and this blog post separately.

You have until October 10th to enter, voting for the pictures will start October 11th and end October 18th!

Best of luck to everyone again!

If you won a contest within the last 60 days with me you can not enter, but don't worry, I am sure there will be another contest soon!

How much do you vaule a family portrait?

I have a confession....I was guilty of not having a current family portrait.  Yes, a family photographer who couldn't seem to get a family portrait.  Always finding a reason why we couldn't all be in the picture.  When I did want one something would come up and my husband would have to go to work or one of the kids was sick.  Then when we had the time there would be other reason like: I didn't like my hair, or I was tired from my other job.  So last week I scheduled my family a time for portraits.  Yes I had to schedule portraits with myself.  It didn't turn out the way I saw it in my mind's eye,  but it is a family portrait of all 5 of us!

 

 

Took a total of 2 minutes to gather my family and take 4 pictures with my remote to capture this.

 

The last time we had a family portrait was a few months after my father passed away.  That is when I felt I needed a family portrait, I thought to myself  " what if something happened to me, what if something happened to Josh?  Wouldn't my kids like to have a picture of all 5 of us to look back on"

 

 

This picture was taken by my Mom just a few months after my father passed away.


 

Remember your family portrait isn't just for you.  It is for your kids, for your grandkids.  No one will look back and say, oh Grandma was over weight here, or look at his smile he needs braces.  They are going to look back and say "what a nice family portrait"

Exisitng in Portraits for your children.........

 

How important is family portraits to you?  How important do you think it will be 20 years from now when your kids are grown?  How important do you think it will be in 40 years from now when you are older and so are your kids?  How important will it be 60 years from now to your children? 

 

For me, being in my 30's and no longer having my Dad with me, I wish I had something like this with my family back then!  Yes we have photos of some of us in front of Stone Mountain, well 3 of us, someone had to take the picture.  Yes we have pictures of us visiting Pikes Peak, again 3 of us.  Many other places too but never something that was taken just to hang on the wall, just to display and then save for later years. 

 

I am sure that is the same for many families back then and now!  It is time to make a change!  Family portraits are something that should be put on the top of your list.  If you can't do it every year, then do it every other year.  Kids grow fast, too fast!  I know this too well!  My oldest is about to be 16!  YES 16! It is crazy!

 

In his almost 16 years of life we have had 3 family portraits.  THREE and I am a photographer!  Yes I have taken pictures of him alone almost EVERY month from the time he was born or with his brother and sister, but never a full family portrait.  I never thought of putting myself in the mix, always some reason why I didn't want to be in the picture. My husband, now that is a different story.  Let us just say he takes great photo bomb style pictures. 

 

Below is our last family portrait.

 

Soon you will see the current one. 

 

You must exist in photos for your children.....

I feel family portraits are extremely important!  I look back at my own childhood and see that we never had a professional family portrait.  We had a few snaps shots over the years, but never something that was hung on the wall.   Since my father passed away (7 years ago) all I think about is making sure I have portraits that my kids can look back at and say, "that is me and my Mom!"

I am offering online gift vouchers for a Family Photo Sessions that are booked for October and November ONLY.  Your Family Photo Session must have Parent(s) and kids.   This voucher will get you a Family Photo Session with no prints.  A minimum print purchase of $100 is required.  (with this voucher you will save $150)

If you would like to book an October Family Photo Session and get this Gift Voucher you must email me ASAP!   Booking for October Sessions until September 30th.

THE WINNER IS.....

#7

 

 

Congrats!

 

Everyone that entered and didn't win has four credits to use towards a session (mini or full).  I will be sending out emails later tonight to everyone!

Summer Fun (600 likes contest) Who will win?

 Help pick the winner for my 600 likes contest of Summer Fun!

 

Here are all 15 photos!  Take a look then visit my facebook and look for the pinned posted to vote!

 

Thank you to those who have entered and good luck!!!  Voting ends 8/10/13 at 9pm!

 

 

1. Big brother (Bobby) holding little sisters hand (Kaiyah) while we take a walk.

 

 

 

2. Kassie at the beach with Mommy.

 

 

 

3.  Krystal , her mother, Scrappy and Lady........ "If I do win the contest though, the session would really be for my Child, but he is a foster whom we are adopting, but as of now I can not post photos of him."

 

 

 

4. Emma playing in the summer sun.

 

 

 

 

5.    Kamren and his very first time going down a waterside alone last month!

 

 

 

6.   Owen enjoying his first circus this summer!!

 

 

 

7.   Lexi having some carefree summer fun jumping off a dock.

 

 

 

8. Kloe the sand mermaid!!

 

 

9.   Makenzie at having fun at York Beach!

 

 

 

 

10.  This was Isabelle's first time Fishing and this was a picture of the first fish her and daddy caught.  (The fish was set free after this photo)

 

 

11.  Amelia and Jewel at the beach!

 

 

12. This is lily and Logan at Salisbury beach this summer.

 

 

13.  Arianna and her first time kayaking!

 

 

14.  Adalyn's first beach trip and she looooved it!

 

 

15.  Lucas beach ready!!!