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:

Here are just a few pics from the workshop… I didn’t do much with them, I have been catching up on sessions since I got back instead.  There kids were so cute and stylin!

I am a bit worn down, the drive was 2 hours each way…class til 10 Friday, then 8 til 9 Saturday, and then I had two sessions yesterday (sneak peaks coming soon, I promise!) Today the kids were not feeling well. So I hung out with the whineys and took a trip to the pediatrician.  As the day went on, I think I am getting a cold myself. FUN!  You can tell when school starts back up and the bugs start getting passed around.   Bed time!

Another reason I had these pictures in my head… I read a lot of blogs.  Actually I track a ton, 192, and read little because I have no time.  Bloglines is giving me a guilt trip that I have 1190 unread blog entries right now.  But when I have stuff processing I will read a few that catch my eye.  One recent addition is called Turtle Parade.  (I am having trouble getting a link to work.)  Duncan is obsessed with turtles and I noticed a link to me so I checked it out…well the author has been having a photo parade each week, this week is heros.  Anyway, a long story to tell you why these pictures have been nagging at me to edit.

Thank you to everyone that has contacted me to get your sessions scheduled!  July is full and I am now down to 1 Saturday and 1 weeknight I just opened up in August.  I got a lot of requests for October.  If you are thinking about October, contact me soon.  I do still have openings in September, so that may be your best bet.  I had a few questions about what will happen with babies or weather rescheduling since I am fully booked.  I have some time available still to do rescheduling.  I may have to get a babysitter since it’s a golf night or something, but I know unplanned things happen and the session will happen close to the scheduled time.  And I will always fit newborns in before they turn 2 weeks old. 

Off to edit… watch for more shots on the blog, I am catching up

Love this one so much:

I will be back to somewhat normal tomorrow and I will be able to return phone calls.