I thought I would put up a few of her album pages that she was OK with sharing, I wish I could show some of the racier shots, love them!!

In honor of the news piece, I am going to have a special on boudoir albums!   20% off a 5×7 twenty page album with black leather cover and 30% off an 8×8 twenty page album with a cover design like the one seen on the news feature.  Must contact me for a session before December 1st and hold the session before April 2011.

I hope everyone had a wonderful August!  I can’t believe how quickly it went!  We took the family and dog to Outer Banks, North Carolina and loved it!  I was good and took a real vacation, only answering a few calls and emails…and a few hours one night working on wedding proofs when I wasn’t sleepy.  So not used to getting that much sleep!  Hopefully someday I will get a chance to share the pictures I got…it was so beautiful and relaxing there!

Then I got home and spent a week working myself into the loony bin…laundry, school shopping, school paperwork, emails, calls, orders, proofs…who’s bright idea was it to take a vacation right after my busiest wedding month and right before school started?

The next week, I had the chance to go to a workshop…I actually had it planned since last year.  My favorite children’s photographer, many photographers and her clients of course consider her the best…was in Ohio all the way from Australia!  It was an amazing experience and I learned so much…and have so many things I am ready to start up and change for my business!  I can’t wait to get some time to sort it all out!

So that brings me to this week… I am still catching up from not being around last week, so please allow some extra time for me to get back to calls and emails, orders and proofs.  One of my favorite things I took from my workshop, mostly because I stress and have guilt over the time it takes me to get proofs out, get orders out…is that what we do is art, it is creative and custom and not a chain studio.  We can’t rush or we’ll lose some of that attention that makes our pictures special.  She actually has a 6-8 week delay for proofs and orders, let alone designs which made me feel better   I am such a perfectionist and want every family and every wedding to get my best work.

So…I promise I will have new pictures up soon, but for now a few announcements!

** First, I am holding a casting call for one boudoir model.  You must be willing to share with a TV news program about your boudoir session experience and allow some more tasteful images be public on my site and the news.  Must be someone who has always wanted to do a session like this for their boyfriend/fiancee/husband or themselves and can talk about why.  First choice would be someone who can have the session in their home, but we may work with another location if needed.  Please email me at jennifer@jennifermott.com with the subject line: boudoir casting call  and expect around a week or so to hear back from me.  You will get a free session and a large discount on prints and other items.

** Second, I have set up a fall mini session event for a few clients who I promised one to a while back… It is the evening of September 19th and will have a fall theme.  I currently have 3 spots left.  These will be 20 minute sessions for a $50 session fee and regular pricing will apply.  There may be special packages announced.  If I get enough interest, I may add one more day.  Email me at jennifer@jennifermott.com with the subject line: fall minis and expect to wait a week to hear back from me.

** Third, I will be setting up holiday mini sessions in November.  These will again be limited and will be announced soon.  This year I will have an ordering deadline for the holidays before December starts, so make sure to plan ahead if you want to order prints, cards or anything else.

I had to include one of my favorite boudoir images in honor of the casting call, I am so excited:

Isn’t she beautiful?  Not only that, but she has to be one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met!  It’s been wonderful to work with you R!

There are a ton more that I loved scanning through, but I just pulled out these few…this was last night, so probably a record for blogging!  Now before everyone gets mad at me, one of the bridesmaids is being deployed very soon and I wanted her to be able to see a few before she left.  I’ll be right back to my regular line-up soon!

I had two weddings this weekend (both amazingly gorgeous and full of love), then we decided to take the kids to the zoo today for some family time.  Needless to say, after all that walking, lugging equipment, carrying Lucy….I was exhausted!  I had a session this evening that had to reschedule, so I took advantage and took a nap with Lucy.   I’ve been doing some mindless work to copy and back up files, and archive old sessions tonight.  I had a huge amount of emails from this weekend and I will get back to everyone tomorrow!

But for now, these have been ready to show for weeks…the veil was from her wedding: