Mason is in the Big Boy Club! We celebrated his first birthday and the end of his Watch Me Grow plan with a little family fun at the park. Mason was WAY into all the grass and flowers and it took all we had to get him to pay us any attention, let alone smile! This was the hardest I have ever worked for a Mason smile, he is generally my little cheeser!
You might not be thinking about Christmas yet, but here at the studio, we are getting ready to go into high gear for the holidays! We want to reward our early bird families with a great portrait special– we will be taking sessions all day October 23rd at Dorothy B. Oven park for only $75! The mini family sessions can accommodate up to six people/pets and also include a 20% discount on holiday cards! To reserve your session, contact the studio at 850.339.5799!
There is a breath of fall in the air already, so lets start celebrating the end of summer! We will be hosting our Annual Pumpkin Patch Portraits outside the studio on Saturday, October 2nd! We will be setting up a full pumpkin patch here at the studio, so everything is right here for you! With the sessions being early this year, you can have your prints back in time for Halloween! So whether you are looking for some fall themed portraits or commemorating that super cute Halloween costume, schedule your session now before they are all gone!
The mini sessions are $29 and can accommodate up to three siblings. Sessions are 30 minutes and are for one outfit only. Session times are booked first-come first-serve and require the nonrefundable session fee to reserve your time. Call the studio at 850.339.5799 to reserve your session now!
Our Annual Boudoir Portrait Marathon is here! We will be at the McFarlin House Bed and Breakfast in Quincy, FL on Saturday, October 9th! If you have ever considered doing a boudoir portrait session before, you don’t want to miss this!
We will only be accepting eight ladies for this year’s marathon and it is guaranteed to book up! The boudoir marathon portrait session includes professional hair and makeup styling, a one hour portrait session with Linda Long at the historic McFarlin House Bed and Breakfast, retouching of all final images and a 20 image black leather 8×8 album! Sessions are already booking, so if you are interested, please contact the studio as soon as possible. A nonrefundable $150 deposit reserves your session and the balance of $450 is due the day of the session. Contact the studio at 850.339.5799 or email Linda with any of your questions– Linda @LongsPhotography.com
WE HAVE NOW FULLY BOOKED THE 2010 MARATHON. Please email Linda@LongsPhotography.com if you would like to be on the waiting list if any spaces open up.
Thank you to everyone for the kind emails and FB messages making sure we were OK, since the blog updates were a bit slow this month. We are more than fine, we are great! Just crazy busy! 🙂
At the beginning of the month, we traveled to Orlando for the Florida Professional Photographers’ annual print competition. The results were super exciting for us! We entered albums for the first time in competition and BOTH of our albums received merits! Then, at the banquet we learned that our albums had placed second and third statewide in their category. Then, we received the Reedy Album Award for first time entry of albums! To say were were shocked is an understatement! Two of my prints also received merits, so it to put it mildly, it was an absolutely amazing competition for us!
I was also recognized at the banquet, receiving the Outstanding Service Award for the work I have been doing with the Tallahassee Professional Photographers’ Guild. Coming back to Tallahassee, Olyn and I had a short amount of time to prepare for the program we were presenting to the Guild on workflow and time management. That presentation was last week and was a great success! We are now scheduled to travel to other guilds to teach more photographers!
Olyn and I are completely overwhelmed with gratitude and emotion to this great group of photographers we have the pleasure of working with, learning from and giving back to. Through their support and guidance, we have both become better photographers. Thank you so much to our clients for their support, their cheerleading and their excitement. Sharing our successes with you is so awesome! And a HUGE thank you to our families who are the people who keep us sane! We are truly two of the luckiest people in the world!
