I’m very excited to “crack open” Brown Eyed Photography’s most interesting contest yet: an Easter Egg Hunt!
Here’s how it works: tucked away throughout the website are little egg-pictures like this:

Your job is to find them all! How many? A dozen, of course. (And yes, the one above is your first egg!) When you find an egg, click on it to enlarge the image, and underneath the picture find the number and name of that egg. Write it down, or do your hunting in a separate browser window, because after you find the name of the egg, put it in your “basket” – the entry form below – and once you’ve found all 12, submit your answers to me. You have until Easter to find them!

What goodies are in store for the happy hunters? Everyone who fills their basket will be entered into a drawing for some sweet rewards:

Grand-prize mother-of-all-chocolate-bunnies: Photo session* with 16×20 canvas wrap
Second-place (x2) pair of yellow-sugar Peeps™: $75 gift certificate and 20×20 lustre print
Third-place (x3) pick-your-favorite jelly bean: $40 gift certificate
*or $150 off wedding photography

Does it get better? Yes it does! If you get a friend to join the fun, and they write you in the “referred by” section of the entry form, you’ll receive an additional entry (up to two) in the raffle, doubling your chance to win!

Grab your basket, poke around, and happy hunting!
(One little hint: you won’t find any eggs in any of the other blog posts.  But everything else is fair game!
And if the top menu isn’t working properly in your browser, here is a static site map for navigation.)

The largest midwifery practice in the state is working on a new brochure and they want to include a multi-generational image featuring at least 3 women as they want to let everyone know that midwives are not only for prenatal care.
What a fun project for me! I racked my brain trying to think of a family in the area where all three generations were relatively close. It was tricky because while I know a lot of moms-to-be and moms-with-toddlers and under, I don’t know many who have older daughters… and then I thought of Tara.
Thankfully Tara, her mom Nancy, and her daughter Delani were all up for a quick shoot.

Loved having an excuse to hang out with Tara and meet her kind mother and fabulous daughter!

Teeny tiny Frankie grew up to have a smile ready for his parents and now has an even bigger ever-ready grin! I could not believe how much Frankie has grown between 3 months and now! His parents are so crazy about him, it’s very very adorable. And to be fair, he’s really hard to resist!

and his mom brought in this blanket that Frankie LOVES! I have never seen a baby so excited about an item. He was attempting to shove the whole thing in his mouth. His very talented great grandmother made this blanket for him. Love it!

I can’t wait to see you, Frankie (and your parents too!) for your 9 month pictures! I’m excited to see how you change and grow over the next three months – and how you don’t!

What’s a senior rep?

A senior rep is an outgoing, motivated, friendly member of the class of 2011 who will help get the word out about Brown Eyed Photography to their classmates by sharing how fun their experience was during their senior session. In exchange reps receive a FREE senior session, rep cards featuring pictures of you and Brown Eyed Photography contact info, and fun bonuses for every person that brings one of your rep cards to their senior session.

Oh- the friend you referred that brings in the card? They get 8 free wallets!

How do you get the word out?

The more you can promote me on your facebook and other social media, the better! You’ll receive several photos from our session with a logo on it that you can use as your profile pic as often as possible. I’ll also give you a limited supply of rep cards featuring pictures from our session to give to your family so they can help spread the word too! You can also hand these rep cards out at school to all of your senior friends.

Interested in more details?

email me today to ask about senior rep positions in your area!
be sure to include the following information:

• your name
• birthday
• current high school
• city
• myspace/facebook

I can’t wait to get to know you!

Fine print:

All senior sessions must be completed by May of the Junior Year. Parents or legal guardians of the senior must sign a model release, allowing us to use your images for advertising purposes. A valid rep card must be presented by a referred student in order to receive any credits toward bonuses. Bonuses will only be issued when a referred senior’s session is complete and all fees are paid in a timely manner by the referred senior. Positions are limited so act fast if you’re interested!

Amanda and Mike planned their wedding in a week and a half and it was perfect!
Bride and groom looked amazing, their home (yes, they even hosted their wedding at home!) was welcoming, and those that could attend were so completely supportive of these two.
I could go on for days about how comfortable Mike and Amanda are with each other and how hospitable they are. But really, it’s about pictures, not about hearing how great the bride and groom are, right? You can just see for yourself….

Congratulations, Amanda and Mike!

Enjoyable afternoon spent capturing this new arrival. To be honest a lot of the time I spent chatting with Katie, Julia’s mom. Katie is a super put together, confident, self assured, mellow first time mom.
I’m impressed.
Yes, she has questions, moments of doubt, and forgets to eat at times, but she’s also so naturally a mom. It’s amazing.
And her daughter is pretty fantastic too. She wanted to stay up and hear all of our chatting. We had to figure out silence would help the poor baby fall asleep. Between waking and sleeping we captured the amazing 8 day old Julia:

Congratulations Katie and Darren. I love that you spend time watching Julia’s face trying to figure out if it’s the “I’m full!” face or the “I’m hungry!” face. Julia is lucky to have such interested parents.

The adorable Morgan with her big eyes made the trek up to Vermont to see her mama’s family for the holidays and was so very kind to take some time out to come and do her 9 month pictures, inviting her parents to join the photo shoot this time. I’m so glad she did!

I should confess- her parents, particularly her mom, who claim to be not so photogenic… well, they were having such a good time that I couldn’t resist capturing some family action. In fact, there are way fewer Morgan proofs than family proofs. Morgan is moving and grooving and very into hanging out with her parents (unless an older kid is around to distract…) so why not include the family love?

… and some family fun too!

Love having the ongoing excuse to get together with you Morgan. Next time I see you you’ll be a year!! Hard to believe.

Heidi and I went to St. Mike’s together and apparently our time at St. Mike’s overlapped with Brian… I don’t remember him, I was a senior, he was a freshman. He does remember my husband’s huge proposal that included a very large piece of campus… but that’s another story.

Heidi also doesn’t remember Brian BUT she does have a picture of her friend at a party standing next to some random guy… that’s right, it’s Brian. She met him after she graduated… and now wedding bells will be ringing at the St. Mike’s chapel in August!
First comes love, then comes the e-session, the comes marriage…, right?
Brian and Heidi make the 1.5 drive up to Enosburg, Vermont for their snowy e-session. Fun, but cold.

They want their wedding to say “Vermont”- I think we got it in the e-session. Can’t wait to incorporate their love for Vermont in their wedding pictures.

I’ve been wanting to do a snow session since… well, probably when I was hot hot in July. Thank you both for braving the cold for your e-session!

It has been an incredible year.
Thank you all for contributing to the fun, the creativity, and the success of this year for Brown Eyed Photography.
I’m excited about next year and everything that is planned from seniors to weddings to babies and everything in between.
But right now I’m just sitting in wonder at all that happened this year.

And as an end-of-year tribute to the friends and faces of Brown Eyed Photography, here’s a slideshow we put together highlighting all the great people I was able to work with in 2009. What a beautiful bunch they are!

Thanks again everyone, and see you in 2010!

Sheba and John placed this fun order and I had to grab a picture quick to share. I love the fall colors, I love the holiday cards, I love…well, everything about what they ordered!

That reminded me that I should probably remind you that all orders that you’re wanting by Christmas must be ordered by December 7th. I hate rushing the holidays but I want to make sure that you get your order on time.