“Baby on the Brain” Final special
Today only! Expires tomorrow @ 9 a.m. when the giveaway closes.
Book a newborn session for $50.
Contact me via dmphoto@yahoo.com if interested.
“Baby on the Brain” special #3
Today’s special is the addition of 25 birth announcements to be included when you book a newborn session with us.
Size 5×7, includes envelopes.
Contact me if interested.
“Baby on the Brain” Special #2
Sorry I missed putting this up yesterday, but my second special for this giveaway, is a 2 for the price of 1 Special. Book a newborn session at our $75 rate and recieve a free mini-session. You can do a maternity shoot, family with the newborn, or use it for 3, or 6 months photos of your baby, it’s your choice!
Contact me if you’d like to take advantage of this special!
Don’t forget, Comments on this blog count as entries into the giveaway. This one would qualify for giveaway #2.
“Baby on the Brain” Special #1
Today I am offering, for those who may not win a giveaway, a special rate for this giveaway week. Our newborn sessions (regular priced at $125) are 40% off this week at $75. You may book a session anytime this week, or at the end of this week, and take advantage of any one of the specials I am offering this week.
Today I am offering, along with the 40% discount, a free 11X14 float wrap of a session image. Float wraps are a sleek contemporary way to display your images on your home walls. Check them out, I think they are kinda fun:-) :
A comment here enters you in the giveaway for today, as does ‘sharing’ the image I have posted on Facebook yesterday. Tomorrow will be the start of the second giveaway, there will be a new image to “share”, and another entry here to comment on.
If you are interested in taking advantage of this booking special, please message myself or Daryl on Facebook, or drop Daryl an email at darylmphoto@yahoo.com.
Baby on the Brain Giveaway week!
As you may have seen on Facebook, we’ve got a little baby on the brain around here:
July can’t get here fast enough!:-)
One of my personal goals for this next year of photography to focus on newborn photography a bit more, esp. since I hope to have one of my own to ‘play with’. I feel like I have learned alot in the past year about photographing newborns, yet there is still so much I need to learn. Babies take ALOT of practice, not to mention lots of fun props too! Of course the only way to get that practice, is to actually photograph newborns. You can read blogs and books and watch DVDs but it can only help you so much with a newborn. Alot of learning is simply good ol’ fashioned hands-on doing, and acquiring ‘the touch’. I esp. enjoy using the outdoors and natural light, and am learning how to work w/ those factors while shooting a newborn. 
Alongside newborns, this past year I have discovered what JOY maternity shoots can be. So incredibly fun!
And yet another favorite moments: the first days at the hospital–that squeaky new freshness. I love just hanging out with a new mom and getting some great snapshots of those first hours of life. I’d love to get enough experience shooting first moments in the hospital to where I would feel comfortable offering our services with “Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep”, in honor of our baby Eli.
If not at the hospital, I also enjoy going to a clients house and getting images of baby in it’s new nursury or in moms arms, in addition to the more traditional newborn shots.
Birth Photography is another area that intrigues me, if I met the right person who was game, I’d love to give it a go, one day.
And so, with all that baby goodness in mind, for this next week I am offering a give-away of newborn sessions. I will be giving away 4 newborn sessions, plus offering an introductory rate for newborn sitting fees during the month of January. Also, each day of the giveaway, I will be offering a deal, of which you can take advantage, if you book a newborn, maternity or hospital session sometime within this week.
The Details:
Who can Enter:
-PG people! For sure:-) If you are expecting a wee one within the next 9 months, and don’t mind your precious little being a bit of a ‘guinea pig’, feel free to enter here each day, or on our Facebook page. (I will be posting an image to “share” each day). Enter your name and due date. It is also permissable for you to rally your family and friends to enter your name into the giveaway to increase your chances.
If you are still in the secretive stage of pregnancy, drop me a message on Facebook. I’d love to have you still participate in the giveaway and will announce you as anonymous if you win.
-Friends, sister, moms, acquaintences of PG people. Enter your name, their name and due date. You can also try to win this to give as a shower or baby gift. If that is the case and you wish to remain anonymous, message me.
Also, for practical purposes, I’m sorry to say that our faraway friends are prly not eligible, unless you are happening to travel to the Lancaster area sometime soon after the birth of your baby. So if you are farther then 30-40 minutes of our Akron location, please be willing to travel here if you wish to enter. If you live in the vicinity of my parents in NY, however, please enter away:-) I always love an excuse to visit my mom.
How to enter to win:
Each day starting tomorrow, I will post a “deal of the day” here on the blog. By commenting w/ the above info, you will be entered.
Each day, starting today I will also post an image on Facebook that you can ‘share’ and by sharing, will be another entry.
Also, remember, if you reeeeallyy want to win, get those family and friends to enter your name as well, thus increasing your chances.
Each days giveaway will be open for the rest of the week, so if you only find out about this on Friday you can enter all of them. I will announce the winners on Saturday.
Additional info you may wish to know is that a newborn photo shoot takes several hours. Babies need breaks to eat, and cry and whatever else they do, then they need to be lulled back to sleep– it tends to be a long process. The first two weeks of a babies life are the best time to capture that squeaky ‘newness’.
I am beginning to collect props, but also love when you gather things that are special to you, it makes the shoot a bit more unique to you. Special blankets, fun hats, cute flowers–all welcome additions. I will prly be in touch before you give birth to plan the shoot just a bit.
The value of these shoots are $125. Files and copyright release not included at this time, but will be available for purchase.
Last night, the light was soft, the air warm. I was again reminded how very much I LOVE doing maternity shoots. Yes, we’re fairly new at them, but it’s like the happiness of an engagement session x 10, I just love it! I seriously could do these all the time, I think.
To be asked to do these images for Krista and Sheldon is kinda a special honor. These precious two (yes, I said two) babies are so loved already, and so anticipated, and so looked forward to. Such gifts they are. Every baby is a miracle but esp. these two, literally.
Waaaay back in the day, think way way WAY back, we shot Krista’s senior photos. Daryl and I were only dating then. Smile. Then not too long after, in our newlywed 2 bedroom apt. we did Krista and Sheldon’s engagement photos, then a few months later, their wedding, and now, this. The best occassion yet, I think:-)
We kinda went overboard on images, but I just couldn’t help myself. Cute couple. great light. It was fun.
Reese is one!
Not sure if I’ve ever expressed on here how much I loooove doing kids’ stuff, esp. when they are as cute as this little peanut.
Nate+Adrienne+baby
What a great, but busy summer we’ve been having! If all good intentions happens as they were thought, this blog would be updated daily, or weekly, for sure. I almost cringe with embarrassment at how few times I’ve thrown stuff up here lately! Lots has happened this summer and once again, I resolve to do better then I’ve been doing!
The other night was sunny and warm. We had our first ever maternity shoot! It was kinda like doing an egagement only, funner, I think:-) Maybe it was because we had a fabulous couple to work with. We hope they love these images as much as we loved doing them. Congrats, Nate and Adrienne, best best wishes for a safe arrival of your little person:-)
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