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.