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Legalzoom.com has an office here in Austin and held a fantastic holiday party for their local employees at the Oasis in Lakeway. The Oasis burned several years back and rebuilt with a vision, adding amazing event rooms to their spectacular Lake Travis views we’ve come to expect when dining there. Legalzoom founders came in from Los Angeles, California for the party, gave a speech I’ve heard is funny every time, and sat in my photo booth just to show some solidarity! Great food, fantastic band, a dj with some creative karaoke, a great photographer (me!) with portraits printed on site, and a gorgeous setting made a very fun night!

Dr. Brent Powell is opening his own pediatric dentistry practice in Fresno, California, and needed a sleek logo that was kid friendly without looking childish or cliche. We like the look of this with the fun hidden smile at the bottom and the reminiscent look of the classic toothpaste swirl. Not only that, but it looks great in black and white and with or without the text. It’s going to be amazing in brushed aluminum for the exterior sign on his building, and I can’t wait to get photos of all the products using the various renditions of the logo such as his brochures, letterhead, business cards, and of course the fridge magnets and free toothbrushes! Congratulations on the new practice and exciting business venture!

Halloween Express in Cedar Park, Texas just north of Austin hosts body artist Michelle Puslifer of On the Spot Body Art every year to decorate their patrons for Halloween parties and haunting. This year they wanted to showcase their costume selection by allowing their staff to creatively “shop” the store and put together unique ideas for their customers. This is a small sampling as they really got into it, each choosing multiple costumes ranging from the Mad Hatter and crazy Queen of Hearts complete with severed head, to a broken antique china doll. Here we just see how Beetlejuice and Sally of The Nightmare Before Christmas make friends with a wraith and Indian maiden. I sense the plot of a new B movie coming on.

Just doing my part to uphold our local motto of “Keep Austin Weird” this weekend as Austin Fashion Week opened with its Kick Off Red Carpet Party at GSD&M Idea City downtown. The clever designers and creative stylists put on a fantastic show, as well as local graphic artists creating the original virtual signature characters to advertise the event, and body artists Michelle Pulsifer and Donald McCaskill recreating them in the flesh to the thrill of the paparazzi! I came in to do head shots of the models and got to hang around pretending like I was blending in to the camera crowd.

11441 Cherisse Dr 4/2.5 in Austin’s Circle C Meridian neighborhood offered by Audrey Serenil of Sky Realty at $314,900. Flyers are included in all real estate photo packages. Audrey opted for the pay at close feature of my real estate pricing structure for risk-free access to professional real estate photography. View the full tour here.

Lakeview Hearing Center in Marble Falls has 3 audiologists on staff for hearing assessments, treatment, education, and rehab with hearing aids and other devices, working closely with the medical community. State of the art and traditional diagnostic equipment with personnel passionate about their craft sets them apart. I recently had the opportunity to photograph their facility and staff as they interacted with clients and vendors for their upcoming promotional materials, and even had the chance to have my own hearing assessed in their sound booth (that’s me in the photo up there). It’s official: I have hearing loss! I’ve known since high school, and it seems my right hear has some degree of bone stiffening preventing vibration. Thankfully, they made me a custom set of musician’s ear plugs for when I photograph concerts to prevent any noise-related loss in the future. I was very impressed with all the new information I learned.

Parker Piano Studio in Austin and Dripping Springs offers lessons from beginner to advanced intermediate. A beautiful, open, bright studio filled with both traditional and cutting-edge music technology, it is organized and well run by an experienced and passionate instructor, Kathlyn Parker.

It was a pleasure to spend time in her studio with her students, watching her enjoy playing for herself. This session is destined for use on her web site and promotional materials and brochures.

Steve Wolf of the Wolf Stunt Ranch and Firelake Event Center put on a great show with his Science in the Movies presentation now performed at over 2,000 schools in North America. He demonstrates all the science concepts needs for the Texas TAKS in a fun educational way that really gets the kids excited and involved. Who wouldn’t appreciate all the guys putting themselves at risk by hoisting, dangling, falling, shooting, and the best of all, igniting and fire training? All for the kids, right? It looked pretty fun to me too, relaxing while all the child labor did the work!

Michelle Pulsifer of On the Spot Body Art needed some updated portfolio portraits for holiday faces, and our models were running to and fro like firecrackers, leprechauns, covered in masks and more!

If you are interested in posing as a model for face and body art, specifically full-body or maternity belly art, please contact Michelle.

Jeremy K. Frost of Keller Williams Steel Action Team is offering 321 Abbey Dr in Austin for $359,000. A beautiful and meticulously kept 3474 sq ft 5br, 3 1/2 bath single story in an outstanding master-planned community and exemplary Dripping Springs school district. Photography and flyer design standard in real estate package.

The Rise School of Austin is an early education center specializing in children with developmental disabilities or delays with an inclusive program with typically developing peers. The NISH non-profit organization is one of the major funders of the Rise program, and the board of directors met to participate in a fun art project with the children painting slipper shoes as gifts! No clothing was damaged by too much paint, though we really hope it’s water based!

The children were adorable, about the same age as my own. Crawling around on the floor with a camera trying to capture all of their abundant personalities was just like being at home! And to make it feel more like home, my neighbor was there as she’s the office manager: the NISH office in Washington DC hired me, but it’s a nice coincidence of working locally. I enjoyed meeting the administrators, the board and trustees, but mostly the kids!

Interiority Complex interior design and home staging owned by Ashley Whittenberger has staged a beautifully remodeled 1930′s Travis Heights home offered by Creath Partners in downtown Austin with stunning skyline views on Town Lake. She had a fantastic idea that in lieu of the staging décor which are to be removed from the home later this month, she ordered 6 20×24 enlargements framed and displayed on easels in each of the formerly staged rooms. This way a vacant home can be staged to advertise well on the MLS image listings, and during walk throughs the same photography can be displayed to help it show better. Marketing is key in real estate, and in vacant homes especially prodding the imagination from large empty rooms into livable areas is essential. Since the realtor’s original photos were no where near large enough to be blown up at high quality, Ashley called me in with my big Nikon guns to make big pictures!
I must admit that while RE photography is some of the most technically challenging and physically demanding photography I do, I fall in love every time! Bringing rooms alive in this small scale is so rewarding, but I especially love elevated exterior photography to bring a unique look to the images.

The business name describes what I do, and says more about the services I offer: I am a photographer who goes beyond the photo to create keepsake art. The logo reflects that also by using photography-related artwork. And it cleverly incorporates my statement in a sleek way: the lens in the letter p, the box that is reminiscent of either a photo, a piece of framed art, or a camera, and even a little “shutter button” up top! (Look closely to find our family “happy face” logo.) It can also redesign into components for many configurations on business cards, letterhead, envelopes, etc. Because I do business makeovers with photos, fliers, brochures, logo design, and related artwork, I need to represent myself well in that category. Thanks for your support as we grow!

Lesley Bowles of Texas Jumping Beans inflatable playground does in-house face painting and body art. Halloween is a great time for adults and children alike to get their faces on! Lesley does outstanding work, and the crowds gathering to watch as she created was fun for the guests and human canvases alike! The full devil face was the final piece of the day, and with head shaved to really carry it off, they had the largest crowd to ooh-and-ah over them. I provided an on-site printing event where the customers walked away with a lab-quality instant print as a keepsake of their costumes. On the last photo, you can see my blue beast printer cart working away in the background! Finally, some appreciation for all “his” hard work with some face time in my portfolio.

Faith Beltz and June Lamphier, midwives in Austin, TX, recently opened a new birth and women’s wellness center in south Austin, Centre Vida at 7002 Manchaca, Suite 200 Austin TX 78745 next door to the New Flower Market. It’s a beautiful facility that has already “given birth” to several new babies!
I am their new contracted photographer to display my framed maternity and newborn work in the office and design their promotional materials for print and web. These photos of the new center show not only the high-quality care received, but also the joy, life, family, and connection found there. I first met Faith when her now-retired colleague attended my first home birth in 2006, and then Faith delivered my own baby in our home in 2008. It is truly an honor to be given the opportunity to photograph these caring women in action. I am looking forward to capturing that spiriti in my designs, and I am very excited to be invited into the center during an upcoming birth to capture them at work.

This might be my first double photo shoot in one day, and they couldn’t have been any different!
Michelle and I have a gig booked through Halloween at the Mansion of Terror haunted house in Round Rock to “victimize” and photograph the patrons after they survive the attack inflicted by the house staff. Those teenagers with plastic grim reaper sickles become quite cranky and dangerous on that minimum wage. Should be fun!

My friend Michelle Pulsifer is a face and body painter (www.onthespotbodyart.com), and it just goes to show that you never know the people you know! How could two art forms marry better than a face painter and a portrait photographer? Not only is she a joy as a friend, but wonderful to collaborate with. She does beautiful work, and has booked me with all sorts of event photo printing gigs as her camera-toting sidekick! Here are a few of her littler clients for her portfolio.

I contract as a design and technical instructor at a graphic-design firm specializing in digital scrapbook graphics, and recently our team redesigned our company logo. Several of us suggested designs, but we had a hard time getting in everything we wanted about our company while keeping it sleek (a typical logo design woe.) After almost choosing a design that no one was truly crazy about, I finally submitted a design I felt was bold and memorable and described our company well, and another team member refined it to this finished version. It came back to me for final clean up in Illustrator, and we all love what we created. It breaks down into components very well for different versions on cards, brochures, banners, letterhead, and email signatures. Now it adorns all of our packaging and promotional materials, and is a big part of defining our brand.

If it involves a camera and a computer, I can do it for you. Yah, I’m amazing, I know, but you get my drift. Be creative, ask for the moon, we’ll work together to create exactly what you want!

My standard offerings should get our creativity fired up to design custom products especially for your family or your business.

Portrait Sessions
Digital enhancement (plastic “surgery”)
Graphic borders, enhancements, scrapbook pages, web and blog themes
Logo, flier, brochure design or redesign
Albums, hard or softcover, sleeve or press printed
Framing and wall gallery design
High-quality photo or business promotionals printing
Lab-quality event printing on site

Got any more good ideas?

A la Carte Services

Printed Invitations and Announcements (available with my photos or another photographer’s with release)

all cards include custom-designed graphics, white envelopes, identical design for each batch of 50
call for bulk pricing over 50, or wedding invitation extras like foil envelopes, double envelopes, full-color front and back design, etc

25 4×6 flat $50, 50 $85
25 4×6 folded with interior design $75, 50 $140
25 5×7 flat $100, 50 $180
25 5×7 folded with interior design $125, 50 $225
colored envelopes, add $25 each 50
return address printed envelopes, $25 each 50
recipient address printed envelopes, $50 each 50

Prints & Enlargements

4×6 $10
up to 300 4×6 proofs from session, $75 (included free in wedding packages)
5×7 $15
8×10 $25
11×14 $35, artboard $50
16×20 $45, artboard $80, canvas wrap $150

Montages and Scrapbook Layouts

8×10 or 11×14 custom photo montage $100
12×12 or 8.5×11 custom digital scrapbook page $50

Albums and Frames (available for my photos or another photographer’s with release)

4×6 proof sleeve album $10
4×6 frame album $30
4×6 keepsake box with all proofs from session, $100

5×7 bound album $45
framing $35 up to 8×10, $40 up to 16×20, $50 20×24 with 16×20 mat
10×10 10-page (20 layouts) bound, hardcover album $200

DVD’s and Keepsakes (available for my photos or another photographer’s with release)

DVD photo-music slide show $150
all images 4×6-quality high resolution on DVD $250 w/ personal reprint rights
up to 100 images enlargement-quality high resolution on DVD $350 w/ personal reprint rights
100+ images enlargement-quality high resolution on DVD $500 w/ personal reprint rights
all images enlargement-quality high resolution on DVD $1000 w/ commercial reprint rights

Sitting fee due at time of session, remainder due at ordering consultation. Print prices are honored 90 days from portrait session. Digital negatives are stored for 90 days from session, and 2 years for negatives selected for prints.

With lab-quality prints in just a few seconds, I cover all types of events (such as weddings, family reunions, quincineras, bar/bat mitzvahs, holiday and birthday parties, sporting events, corporate gatherings,) and provide your guests with excellent, waterproof, smudge-proof prints they carry away right from the party!

Guests choose from a variety of custom-designed card borders and graphics to print directly on the photos.

Professional, fast reliability with a smile to add to your party atmosphere.

No travel fee to cities in Central Texas (surrounding Austin, San Antonio), and travel fees to other locations such as Dallas, Houston, or other cities are always competitive and reasonable. I speak fluent French, working Spanish, and have travel experience in North America, Hawaii, Asia, and Europe.

Parties by the Hour $100/hr, 2-hr minimum
For every hour booked, get 15 minutes free
$25 print credit per hour booked for on-site prints or print orders after the event

Backdrop and “portrait station” for guests included
Roaming candid photography
optional with second photographer or in lieu of portrait station
Unlimited digital photos
On-site prints $0.75 for 4×6, $1 for 5×7

Portraits and Candids Combo $175/hr
Two photographers
For every hour booked, get 15 minutes free

Combine the Portrait Party and a second roaming photographer for roaming candid shots while primary photographer attends portrait station

Commission Parties $500 minimum offset by commission
Guests pay $20 for 2 5×7 or $5 for 4×6 prints
If I sell more than $500 (50 photos), you pay nothing!
If I sell less than 50 photos, you pay only the difference

Free Portrait Parties
Host a portrait party for free photos! Suitable for family holiday cards sessions, reunions, springtime outdoor photos, or anytime: invite family, friends, and neighbors for an afternoon or evening of 15-30 minute sessions. Guests pay $50 for session and 1 8×10, and for every $50 order host receives a free 8×10.

Vendor recommendations available for catering, videography, design/staging, event planners, etc

Entertainers

Face Painter $80/hr
Santa Claus $170/hr, $250 per event for backdrop and chair
Clown $100/hr
Juggler $100/hr
other entertainers available by request

As a realtor, seller, or business owner, beautifully professional exterior and interior photos help you aggressively advertise your property or business in a competitive market. Realtors and stagers have a value-adding service to offer sellers at no upfront cost with options to pay on delivery for a discount, or defer until closing, giving you a tremendous value with no risk.

All real estate sessions include
option to pay up front or defer to closing
up to 25 photos (MLS maximum)
minor home or business staging (professional staging available)
exterior pole photography elevated images
all images 4×6-quality high resolution on DVD w/ reprint rights
brochure or flier design
1 hour travel, Austin and San Antonio, TX metro areas
online portfolio for each realtor of each project to show at prospective listings
realtor clients retain portfolio rights to photos even if property doesn’t close
seller clients retain usage rights to photos even if changing realtors

Photos include all rooms in home, front and back exterior and elevated pole photography, landscaping, acreage as applicable, and any special features by request.

Real Estate session times that include exterior images are scheduled to begin at sunrise (for north or east front exposures) or end at sunset (for south or west front exposures). Depending on time of year, this ranges from 6:30-8am and 5:30-7:30pm.

Basic Real Estate $100 upon delivery/$150 at closing
1-hour session
10-15 photos
suitable for cabins, condos, or basic real estate with simple lighting

Standard Real Estate $150 upon delivery/$200 at closing
2-hour session
15-25 photos
suitable for small to large homes
professional lighting
virtual tour photo slide show included on DVD

Full-Service Real Estate $275 upon delivery/$325 at closing
2-3 hour session
25-30 photos
suitable for homes with acreage, detailed or very large homes, business facilities
extended professional lighting
virtual tour photo slide show included on DVD
100 printed fliers
$50 credit for professional stager

Turn-Key Real Estate $450 upon delivery/$475 at closing
This is a fantastic deal that is truly turn key: staging, photos, tour, and fliers in one package!
2 sessions with certified professional stager from acclaimed Interiority Complex
2-3 hour photo session
30-40 photos
suitable for homes and properties of all sizes
extended professional lighting
virtual tour photo slide show included on DVD
100 printed fliers

Enlargement Prints
suitable for vacant homes or office display: photograph while staged or before vacated, and display the staged enlargements in each room during showings. Also provides staged images that show better for online tours. For businesses, display your architecture portfolio or facility. On delivery pricing only.
16×20 mounted on artboard $40 ea
16×20 framed $60 ea
20×30 mounted on artboard $60 ea
20×30 framed  $75 ea
100 waterproof fliers (for exterior boxes) $100

Print prices are honored 90 days from session. Digital negatives are stored for 90 days from portrait session, and 2 years for negatives selected for prints.