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Hello once again from the retouching desk. Our Christmas Season went off without a hitch and there was very little blood spilt. Every order went out before the Holidays and plenty of smiles to boot.

So now the madness is over, I've had a "little" extra time to work on something near and dear to my heart. The below gorgeous children are the grandchildren to my very own mother. Only 4 belong personally to me. WE HAD A CRAZY time with all 13 of them in one shoot..sooo.... we brought out the white seamless!!

The kids were photographed in 4 different groups on the white and then removed by yours truly and placed on different backgrounds. Here's MY Personal Favorite!!!



So the result is that my mom has flaunted her new treasure and all that has seen was sure that is was taken as is!!!!
WANT ONE of your own gang? Give us a call!!!
Must go and work!
:)Stephanie

David Morrison

 Yes, I am back again with another handsome high school senior, David Morrison.  Monica photographed his sister, Lara about two years ago and from David we heard that she is doing extremely well in college.  Who doesn't love a man in a tux!  David was easy to photograph which is so unlike some men.  Good luck to you David!

Kenny Green

Hello!  Here are a couple of images from Kenny Green's high school senior session.  We were lucky enough to photograph Kenny when he got his braces off from Dr. Wendell a few years ago and it was fun to get to know him again.  I photographed him in the studio as well as the beach at College Creek.  At the beach, Lucy ran circles around Monica with her leash on to help Kenny smile!  What an extremely nice guy to photograph! 

           

            

Back from Convention!

It's hard to believe that our Imaging USA convention is already over! We were extremely busy but we had a great time. In addition to finding all kinds of new products for the studio this year (just wait till you see them you will be SO excited!!), Michael and I spent time teaching in the Kodak and Burrell Colour (our AWESOME lab that prints all of your beautiful portraits) booths in the trade show. Rumor is that we had almost 7000 attendees in Phoenix so it was pretty packed. We also got to visit with friends at the Canon, Nikon, and Sony booths to see what's new and exciting. Before and after the trade show we attended several classes and also got to spend time with some good friends tasting the local tex-mex/latin cuisine. Now it's time to get back to work and implement all of the great ideas we picked up...it's gonna be a GREAT 2009!

Lucy's Christmas Video

Special thanks to Jeff and Christy, Bell and Andrew from Custom Culinary Connections for the amazing GINGERBREAD DOG HOUSE!!!! We love it!!

Blush Debut Video

Check out Blush's new video!

Greetings from the Computer/Retouching Room!
Shhh...don't tell Monica, but I am taking a "short" break to BLOG.
The Christmas rush has begun and we are workin' non-stop(my fingers are killin' me). It's all soup-via-microwave and TONS of Cafe' to refuel the system. All is FABULOUS!!
If you haven't met me before, I am formaly known as Stephanie - MSP's Digital Diva and retoucher. If you haven't checked out our site or haven't been getting our newsletter... give me a shout out and I'll take care of it personally :)
Well... fun's over, Monica's done her shoot so I must get back to pretending I am working (heeheehee)
Have a great one!
Steph

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Quick Takes Update

Well, it's finally here! Quick Takes: Home for the Holidays is officially underway. We are busier than Santa's elves today and have another full day tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who participated and helped us raise $650 for Williamsburg Area Meals on Wheels. That provides over 125 meals for local folks in need!!!

I thought I would go ahead and share this image that we captured this morning. Some of you may recognize Miss Logan Cline...is she gorgeous or what?! We have been so blessed to be able to capture images of Logan from the very beginning. It's hard to believe she is 4-and-a-half already! Here's one of my favorites from a couple years ago. Oh yeah, that's her mom and dad with her, Heather and Keith!


We sure are thankful we get to document such wonderful memories. We never ever take it for granted and appreciate each and everyone of you who walks through our door.

Lucy and Her New Boyfriend, Luke

Okay...Everybody now: "Aaaaaaaaaah!"

I was going through some of my personal files this afternoon and came across this image of Lucy at one of the workshops we taught recently in North Carolina. Michael and I went down to a friends' studio outside of Charlotte in August and taught a day-long seminar to 20 professional photographers from the area. We had a blast and our Lucy fell in L-O-V-E with their resident guard-dog, Luke. While we were getting ready for a shoot, Luke jumped on his favorite red chair and wherever Luke went, of course Lucy insisted on following.

Hmmmmmmm....I wonder if this would qualify as an engagement portrait...