Merry Christmas Wishes!

Last weekend I finalized my Christmas card. I decided to do another "make your own" card of one of my photos.

The past 2 years I had my Black Lab Lucas on the card...one with a Photoshopped Christmas hat and last year he was sitting in front of the Christmas tree.

I decided to not do another Lucas card so I photographed my ornaments on my tree and picked my favorite one...show below:



Some that weren't chosen for the card:








Some good news! My husband ordered my Birthday/Christmas gift from B&H Photo. On Monday my Nikon Telephoto AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR (Vibration Reduction) Autofocus Lens should arrive! I can't wait!!

I'm looking forward to creating my own softbox (hopefully over this weekend) and working on Macros to make my own Birthday Cards/Special occasion cards for family & friends like I do for Christmas every year. I think it's a great way to send them something personal while saving the $4.00-$5.00 that card companies charge!!

I want to find cardboard cards that have the open hole in the front where I can slip the photos into. Otherwise I have to figure out how else to make the cards. I haven't done any research yet on the best ways to do it but I'm sure once I search ideas will come out of the woodwork. :)

More of "Baby's 1st Christmas"

This turned out to be the best gift I could give to my friend...portraits of her baby who is a little over 6 weeks now.

As you can see the new muslin backdrop worked really well!

I spent all night and all of today editing this particular portrait shoot (of course with lots of distractions LOL!)

I think my friend is going to use of the first few for her Christmas card. I can't wait to hear what she picks out.







And don't forget my favorite shot that I shared in yesterday's post (Dec 1st)

With Mommy:





I have lots more non-Christmas shots that I will hopefully post soon!

The entire gallery can be seen HERE. (There are many unedited shots there that I haven't worked on yet. I just dumped the whole session so my friend could choose which she'd like.

Family Photo Christmas Shoot

My friend asked me to take some photos of her and her 2 sons because her mother wanted to use them as Christmas cards so I went there tonight and shot some quick photos for them aroud the house.

I'm excited that my website host started offering holiday cards for customers.

This is probably the "keeper" shot ... they just have to finalize the card type our of the 36 varieties.



I like this one too...



I liked how this one came out as well:



And I couldn't resist this one of my friend: