HAD to peek at these tonight!

We did an engagement session with Graham and Travis tonight. Oh my was it fun! We just walked around being silly and laughing a ton. They turned the ick day I was having into a great night! I had to stay up for a bit when we got home and play with a few of these.

They will be getting married on Friday, October 26th, 2007 on Marco Island. We can't wait for the wedding!!

Booking for Holiday Photos!

We are already booking into the fall for holiday photos. If you'd like to secure your spot, please do so ASAP so we can assure that you get a slot on our calendar. The holiday cutoff this year is November 1st. We are cutting it off earlier this year due to the upcoming birth of our second child. We will only accept 15-20 families for holiday photos this year as we have a busy wedding season during that time as well, so please book your session now to secure your spot.

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Going on vacation!

My daughter and I are headed to Maine next Monday the 6th for a wedding I am shooting and some vacation time. We will return on the 15th. John will be home and helping me handle emails and phone calls, but I will not be able to deliver orders, or place orders to the lab until I return. Please keep that in mind when placing your order or sending an email. All orders that come in while I am away will be ready for pickup at the end of August. Any collage or album work will have to wait until after the 15th as well. Thank you for your understanding. This is our once a year trip that we make, so we are very excited!

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Really fun and great family!

John and I did a family session yesterday at the Marriot Grande Vista in Orlando while we were away on our "adult only" weekend. This family came into town for a get together and Disney trip. They were all from out of state. We had a great time and the kids were so wonderful. Sharing a few from their session!

Welcome Baby Lucas!!!!

Please join me in congratulating CJ, Brandon and Jordan on the birth of Lucas! He was born just over two weeks ago, and my goodness the lil dude is the cutest thing ever! His big sister Jordan is just elated to have a brother. Had to share a few from this session!

Since you asked...

A few clients have asked to see photos of my belly. They know that John has been documenting this pregnancy pretty much weekly. So I thought I'd share a few of the ones he shot this weekend while we were away. Looks like we have another maternity photographer in the making... he's so darn good! And he makes me feel so beautiful! He loves to play with different light sources, light from angles, etc so these were so different and fun. I'm so used to being the one doing the maternity photos, so it's weird for me to be IN them!

Enjoy!

Happy Anniversary Babe!!

John and I are celebrating 12 years of knowing each other and 6 years of marriage this weekend. Our actual anniversary was Friday. We spent the weekend at a resort in Orlando having some downtime together and enjoy two days alone! We haven't ever done two nights alone so this was a welcome treat. We had a great time!

Happy Anniversary to my man... I LOVE YOU!

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We were nominated for Best Orlando Photographer!

Woo hoo! We were nominated for the WESH Channel 2 contest for Orlando's best Photographer! We had several different nominations so that was pretty darn cool! To vote, please click HERE!

Carrie & Dennis!

This session was this past Saturday. Unfortunately these guys hired a different photographer for their wedding and weren't happy with the photos that they received from them, so they asked if we would reshoot some of their formals for them. It was quite a night... first off it rained when we were supposed to be outside shooting, so I made a desperate call to the Embassy Suites on I Drive and they allowed us to use their hotel for an indoor location. Thanks to Jennifer at ES! It's a gorgeous hotel and actually where my photography group will be having their convention this coming year. We got there and Carrie's son was feeling sick... poor guy! All in all though we got some fun shots! Had to share a few!

Friendly Reminder and Policy Notice!

This policy has been in place at CNP for quite some time, but wanted to post a reminder for our clients so that they were aware of it.

We do our best to get your photos online in a timely manner for you to view in your slideshows, order galleries, etc. We ask that you please do the same and place a timely order. All galleries expire after 10 days of being loaded to the internet. If you order within the first 3 days you will receive a early order savings of 10%. If you fail to place your order within the 10 day time frame, a $25 fee will be required to be paid prior to reloading the gallery. As a business we pay for the space that we use online. The first time we cover the costs of loading the gallery, but failure to order on time forces us to charge that fee to load the gallery again to our servers. If you choose not to place an order or not pay the fee for gallery reload, the images are placed into archive storage for 60 days. To retrieve those files is a $75 fee to pull them from the archives, and a $200 minimum order is required to do so. After 60 days all unordered images are deleted from the system.

As I'm sure you can understand CNP schedules sessions on a tight schedule. We leave time for us to work behind the scenes on editing, your orders, and filling and delivering those orders. Untimely ordering force us to put your order to the back of our workflow when it does come in as we have timely clients that will receive priority. To you this means a longer wait to receive your prints. We are headed into our busy fall and holiday season, and we are also having our second baby. We are strongly enforcing these policies in order to maintain the highest level of customer service and return of orders.

So please save yourself the extra money and get your orders in in a timely manner. It saves us time in the end which is why we offer that savings to you. As a business it hurts our workflow when orders come in late, so please plan accordingly. There are no exceptions to this policy. If your gallery expires without an order we require a fee to reload.

Thank you!

Congratulations Christine, Josh, & Kekai!

We are proud to announce the arrival of our new nephew! Makoa Daniel! He was born early, and weighs 6 lbs 8 oz. Congrats to Christine, Josh and big brother Kekai! We love and miss you so much!

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July and August Canvas Special!!

Order a canvas sized 16x20 or larger and receive 30% off your accompanying print order! A great opportunity to get a canvas and get gift prints for family at a discount!

** Please note the discount applies to single prints only, collages not included.

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John's shots from a workshop this weekend!

John attended a workshop this past weekend by Mike Fulton and Cody Clinton. He got some amazing shots while they were working with off camera flash and video light. Thought I'd share some of the images he captured. Loving these! Great job babe! HOT STUFF!

Elora 3 months!

Little miss Elora is now 3 months. Here's a few shots from her session. I'll be photographing her every 3 months so stay tuned! To watch her slideshow click the arrow below to play.

Noah turns one!

I've had a ton of one year olds lately! Noah turned one a few weeks ago, but we did his session on Saturday. Poor little dude did not dig gettin messy at all, and wasn't fond of the cake. He's been making this little pouty face since straight from the womb so his mom, dad, and I were giggling at him. What a cutie tho... he's such an easy baby to photograph. Happy Birthday Noah! Click the arrow below to watch his slideshow!

Can these guys be any more perfect?

My goodness I LOVED doing this session yesterday. Meet CJ, her hubby Brandon, daughter Jordan and baby in the belly. They are welcoming their baby boy on Tuesday. This has to be the most beautiful family... She puts me to shame with her perfect pregnant belly. She's one of those you just look at and wanna say "BITE ME!"...lol. Thanks guys for a great session. I've been having so much fun looking through the images and choosing the ones to show. To watch the slideshow click on the arrow below!