Studio Update

Well, well, well. It has been busy last month with some construction going on at the studio. My studio used to be a double long garage and now is going to be completely, souly a studio. Since we moved into our house three years ago, my office has been in my house while my camera room was in the back half of the double-long garage. I did use the front part for all my props, but everyone was using it.
Through the last two years, little ones have been growing and becoming very active and curious. So, it is time to move my office out of my house. Which is fine with me, because I get tired of having to clean my house all the time and then to have my kids make a mess before clients come. My kids and my husband also like to lounge in the pj's when they get home from work. So, I am trying to save myself some of the embarassment...lol
It will be good to be out there, because it will make it so much easier to manage my time with work and my family. It will be no more editing while the kids are watching tv or whatever excuse I come up with. I will now have time to spend with my family once I leave the office. It is a good thing, and it is definitely needed. My kids are growing up way to fast and I have been missing it.
So, with new beginnings about to happen (which includes my sister working part time for me), I have to share some images of the progress. I can't wait until it is completely done and ready to enjoy :)

Here I Am - Newborn Session

Are you looking to have beautiful, creative portraits done of your newborn?  Well, you have come to the right place.
For the months of April and May, you can have your newborn photographed and receive 25 5×7 Birth Announcements for $79 (a savings of $50).
For this offer, you must have your newborn photographed in the month of April or May and your newborn needs to be between 5-7 days old.
If you are interested in this great offer, give us a call at 715-286-2644.  After May 31, 2011 the “Here I AM” newborn session goes back to $129.



Littlest Angels

Recently I held my first "Littlest Angels" Calendar Charity Event.  To be honest, I thought there would have been more of a response than I received.  I guess I just have high expectations, but I know I will probably do some thing a little different for next year.  Yes, there will be another one, and it will become an annual charity event that I will hold at the studio of Angi Randall Photography.  The "Littlest Angels" Calendar Charity Event is a fundraising event for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  All session fees and calendar sales will be given to LLS to help find a cure for blood diseases.

I would like to share with you some of the "Littlest Angels" that I had the honor to photograph for such a wonderful cause.  Here they are:

aren't they just beautiful?  Bless these little angels for helping out.  I have a few more, but I will post them all once I have the calendars printed.

Thank you to all who participated in the "Littlest Angels" Calendar Charity Event!

A Sweet Little Angel

This sweet little angel is so stinkin' precious.  She reminded me a lot of her older brother when I photographed him as a newborn.  Miss "A" definitely looks a lot like her brother...you can tell they are siblings. 
Well, let me tell you that this little angel was wide awake when her mama took her out of her carseat.  So, everything I had set up for a sleepy angel portrait had to be moved to the side so we could start with brother and family photos first.  She did eventually get sleepy and we were able to do all the sleepy images that I love
to do :)
Enjoy the sneak peek of this sweet little angel.

Lil' Man On The Go

Oh how this lil' guy had us on the go!!  This was one of the busiest little 9 month olds I have had in a long time.  He was also a happy-go-lucky little boy as well.  I LOVE THAT :)

Lil' "R" would walk around the chair or he would squat down by the chair.  He was crawling all around the camera room and playing with his dinosaurs.  Then he wanted to crawl down off my platform floor (it is a six in drop...not far, but high enough).  So his mama was close by at all times.  He sure gave us our work out, but it was so much fun!  What a little busy body :)

Here are a few sneak peeks for you to enjoy.



Mini Valentines Day Giveaway

Congrats to Jen Comins...you are the winner of the Mini Valentine's Day Giveaway!!

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Happy Valentines Day to everyone on this day of LOVE!  In honor of Valentines day Angi Randall Photography is holding a Mini Valentines Day giveaway with to other amazing women:)  We just want to let you,  all our fans, know how much we love and appreciate you.

Here is what is being given away today in the Mini Valentines Day giveway:

One Mini Valentine's Day Template by Angi Randall Photography:

A $25 store credit to Nifty Swags:

A $10 store credit to Fluffy Girl Boutique:

Here is how to enter:

1)  Go "LIKE" each one of our Fan Pages and then come back here and leave a comment telling us that you are a Fan.

Do you want extra chances to win?  GREAT!  Here is how you can earn two extra chances:

1)  Show us some love and leave a comment on each of our Fan Pages telling us who sent you and come back here telling us you sent us some LOVE!

2)  Post the Mini Valentine's Day giveaway link on your Facebook page and come back here and leave the link to your Facebook page showing us you posted the Mini Valentine's Day giveaway.

The Mini Valentine's Day giveaway will end at 9pm central time and one winner will be picked by random.

Good Luck and Happy Valentine's Day!! 

Precious Little "A"

This little girl is one precious little girl.  She has beautiful eyes and a beautiful smile.  What is so amazing with this little girl is that she was born with a cleft palate and a cleft lip, but that doesn't matter.  She is a happy, beautiful baby girl.  I have the images to prove it :) 

Isn't she precious?  I love this little girl,  and I am so honored that I get to watch her grow and change within her first year of life.  Life is amazing.



Best Friends Maternity Session

Last week I photographed a "Best Friend's Maternity Session".  They were so cute and giggly :)
Their due dates are only three weeks a part...I see a lot of play dates in the future for the babies.
Cortney is going to be a first time mom, so this will be a very exciting time for her, and this will be Sarah's second child.  So, this will be very exciting for her daughter to be a big sister and a wonderful time for Sarah to be able to see the bond of her to two children.
Here are a couple of images I am sharing with you all.



Baby #2 On The Way

Well, I am so excited to have Nicole come back to have me photograph her second pregnancy.  I photographed her first one two years ago where I guessed that they were going to have a baby boy.  Which they did and he is just a sweet little boy.  I can't believe two years have gone by.

Now I get to continue watching their family grow as I photograph her second pregnancy, and I will have the honor to photograph their second child as well.  This time Nicole and Jake found out what they are having and I am very excited for them!!  I am not going to tell you, because you will just have to come back to see what they have...lol!

Enjoy a couple of my favorite images from their session :)



Precious Baby "E"

What a precious baby.  Baby "E" came in for her newborn portraits at six weeks.  I can't believe how much babies grow in six weeks.  I typically photograph newborns between birth and 7 days old, so when Baby "E" came in, I was amazed.  Don't get me wrong, she STILL was tiny.

She did so good and of course I was able to get my sleeping images that I love doing with newborns, but I also was able to get some of her smiling :)  She has a beautiful smile.  I had a fantastic time with Baby "E" and her mama.

Here are a few of my favorites from Baby "E's" session.



Baby "J"

Ahhh...baby "J".  What a sweet little guy.  His eyes are so captivating I could have just gazed in his eyes the whole time that he was at the studio.  Baby "J" was also a very content little guy and was happy to be looking around and seeing the new sights.  Ya know, just taking it all in and not having a care in the world.

I have to tell you that he has one of the best laughs I have heard from a four month old.  His laugh reminds me of the commercial with the baby sitting in the highchair and the dog is barking in the back and the little baby was just a laughing every time the dog barked.  His laugh was amazing, so I loved it when his mama was tickling his thighs and under his arms.  It was AWESOME!



My Sweet Valentines

Today I took my children in the studio to do a mini valentine shoot.  Seems my kids are the last ones to be photographed, but I need to get Valentine Cards made up so they have something to hand out to their classmates.  For once, they weren't photographed at the last minute...haha!! 

I love these two images of my kiddos, but I will choose different images for their school valentine cards, just cause.  Well, I am sure they wouldn't want to see my son shirtless, but I on the other hand love his shirtless
valentines :)  My daughter loves to pose listening to Lady Gaga or Avril Lavigne.  You can see the sass in this pose :)  So, here are my favorite images from their session.

I also designed these two wallet templates that they will use for their school valentine handouts.
Love them.



Sweet Lil' "J"

Sweet Lil' "J" came to visit me yesterday.  She was having her seven month portraits taken.  She wasn't quite sitting at six months so we waited a little bit until she could sit.  She did very well, but she sure made us all work hard on getting her to smile.  She was a little stingy with those smiles, but we definitely captured the ones she did give us. 
Lil' "J" also discovered she has a tooth that came in.  She was thrusting her little tongue out quite a bit to feel the new tooth that poked through.  It was so stinkin' cute...she made me giggle :)
Here are a few sneak peeks from her session..



Sweet Little Valentine

Here is Little Miss "R" who came in for her Valentine Mini Session yesterday.  Little Miss "R" is so sweet and so full of energy (I wish I had all that energy).  So, everytime I photograph this little girl I have to give her candy to get her to stay in front of my lights so I can photograph her (I am sure her mama loves me afterwards...haha).  She moves very quick, so the sweethearts came out right away :)  Gotta love bribing with candy...lol.  But, I can tell you this, Little Miss "R" sure makes a "sweet little valentine"!! 



Miss "M" Pretty In Pink

I just photographed this little six month old girl, Miss "M", and because it is close to Valentines I had to put her in some pink.  She is so "pretty in pink", and especially with those blue eyes :)
Miss "M" sat pretty good for most of her session, but I also did some images of her on her belly to give her a rest from sitting.  Towards the end, she was just done sitting.  She would wobble from side to side and I would giggle inside.  She reminded me of the Weeble-Wobbles...I use to love playing with weeble-wobbles when I was just a child.  :)
Here is one of the "pretty in pink" images from her session.  Enjoy!

 



Giveaway - Angi Randall Photography

Angi Randall Photography is having a giveaway.  If we reach 400 likes on the Angi Randall Photography fan page by midnight on January 26th, 2011 Angi will choose a lucky winner to win a $50 gift certificate by the random chooser.  Winner will be announced on Thursday, January 27th.

How to enter:
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*must reach 400 likes on the Angi Randall Photography Fan Page, if there is not 400 likes on the Angi Randall Photography Fan Page a winner will not be chosen.



Random Desk Images

Every now and then I think it is fun to take images of what is on or near my work station.  Yesterday I was drinking a Dr. Thunder, which I think is the best imitation of Dr. Pepper, and set it near my keyboard.  Well, I thought it would be fun to wipe the dust off of my 50 mm 1.8 lens and play with the shallow depth of field.  So, I shot both the Dr.Thunder soda can and the keyboard at ISO 160, F1.8 @ 125
Things I do when I get bored or need a little creative time.

Precious Baby Girl

OMG...today I was blessed to photograph this precious baby girl who just turned seven months old.  She was just too sweet.  I have to say though,  she was a little stingy with her smiles, but she was such a ham.  Her eyes are amazing and can speak a thousand words.  I could find myself getting lost in them.

I was also excited to have her wear two new outfits that I received two days ago.  This precious baby girl sure came at the right time :)  Love her *hugs*



Sweet Baby

Yesterday I photographed a "Sweet Baby" who just turned four months old on her session day :)
She was so full of smiles, that to try and capture images without smiles was a little bit of work.  Seriously, it ususally is the other way around.  Everytime you said her name to look at you, she smiled...it was awesome.   But, I am showing a non-smile image because I love images when babies aren't smiling and just looking up at you.  :)
She did have a little bit of a melt down when we put her on her belly, and her mama said it would happen.    This sweet baby is just not a fan of tummy time.  This liitle girl did AWESOME, and I couln't have asked for more.

This is a sample of one of the Valentine Mini's you can get with your Valentine Mini Session.

Sweet Baby makes a cute Valentine :)

What a boy...

What a boy...this cute little guy was a very happy go lucky lil' boy.  He is so sweet and charming.  I loved that he loved to play with his little toes.  I think I could photograph him all day if he would let me...haha.

He did well and gave me 45 minutes of his time.  Yes, 45 minutes of smiles and wonderment with no breaks.  I do have my work cut out for me though.  Try and narrow all those cute images down to less than 40 images is going to be hard!! 

Well, here are some sweet images of Sweet Lil' "E" :)