It’s October and the holidays are creeping up on us!  Now is the perfect time to schedule a family portrait session and utilize the images on holiday cards, gifts for family members or update your home with a beautiful canvas portrait before family and friends are in town.  This year to help you along in sharing your images we are offering 25 FREE cards with any week day portrait session before November 22nd.

Choose from a studio mini session that is shot near our studio including  some fabulous urban, natural and rustic locations or a full session at a location of your choice in Dallas Fort Worth.

$200 – Studio Mini Sessions include:

30 minutes on location in and around our studio

up to 5 participants

DVD of images

FREE 25 custom holiday cards for weekday sessions!

$300 – Full Sessions include:

1 hour at location of your choice in Dallas Fort Worth

up to 6 participants

$100 product credit

FREE 25 custom holiday cards for weekday sessions!

DVD available for purchase for $300 ($200 after credit is applied)

Here are just a few sample holiday cards from last year and if you want to see more of our custom designs check out this blog post:

http://lightlyphoto.com/blog/holiday-card-designs-custom-cards-with-your-photos/

Call us today at 817.810.9282 or email info@lighltyphoto.com to set up your appointment time!

I do have a true love story with brides and wedding dresses.  One of the main reasons I am passionate about shooting weddings is that I love the fairy tale, the excitement and the uniqueness that surrounds each wedding gown and the bride that chooses it.  When the owners of Brides of North Texas Magazine approached me about this dreamy vintage shoot I was on board from the  moment I saw the inspiration board.  It was completely up my alley as I love all things that are soft, natural, vintage and romantic.  It stood out to me as different as well from other gown editorials as we were going to throw into the mix a good looking young man, some designer suiting, a table-scape, detail shots and a boudoir look!  I was completely taken a back as well as I thought, little old me, shoot a gown editorial?  I knew I could do it but I also think that a degree of humbleness and wanting to improve is essential to any artists growth.  This shoot humbled me, wowed me and when I finally held the magazine in my hands I was in awe of what I created.  I actually looked at my staff and said I can’t believe these are my photos!  I am so in love with each image and the Brides of North Texas staff so blessed me with this opportunity.  I can’t wait for the projects I will shoot with them in the future!  Later this Fall I will share some more images from the shoot that are not in the magazine as well as a few behind the scenes moments.

Jadrien and McCall’s TCU Purple wedding was announced in the most recent issue, Fall/Winter 2011, of Brides of North Texas Magazine.  We are always so excited to read the stories of our couples in print along with the photos from their wedding.  If you are interested in having your wedding in the next issue see how on the Brides of North Texas Website.

We are so very proud and excited that one of our brides portraits from her bridal session with me last Fall was selected for the cover of the latest Brides of North Texas Magazine.  It is a huge honor and we feel that Kendall’s photos truly defines what we love to do and are so happy to see it celebrated.  For a copy visit your local Barnes and Noble or Central Market.  Kendall married her husband, Jason, in December.  You can see more of her beautiful bridal portraits and wedding on our blog.

This week marked a major milestone in my life and the studio.  We purchased a building!  That is right, a brand new place of our own that we will be spending many years to come creating beautiful images in and servicing our clients.  Want to know more?  Well, I’m being a bit stingy with the details at the moment as we are hard at work on renovations but we will be sharing photos through out the process.   What I can tell you is that it is a bungalow style home built in the 1920′s in the Fort Worth South Side very close to Magnolia Ave.  It is the perfect vintage home for us to hang out hats (and our camera straps.)  At the new studio we will have a room set aside for shooting boudoir and babies, a fabulous claw foot tub, a HUGE porch to photograph toddlers and small children and will be able to walk to some of the best eats in Fort Worth.  If all goes as planned with just minor hiccups we will be in the new space by late October.  Here is a sneak peek at just a few parts of our soon to be home!