I just finished packaging two print orders. In one of the orders is a 20x30 family portrait, I can’t wait to deliver it to the family. I wish I would be able to see what it will look like once it’s hung above their fireplace. Well, that got me thinking… How and where do you have your Unscripted Moments Photos in your home? I would love to have a small snapshot of your images to post here on the blog. So if you would like to share your images email your pictures to kim@unscriptedmomentsphotography.com and I will post them here as(if) I get them.

To send photos via email for those that do not know how:

1.upload your images from your camera to your computer. Most camera’s have software in the setup to help with this, follow the directions according to your camera.  

2. find the images you would like to attach to an email, write down the folder/file/name of where the image is so you remember where to look.

3. open up your email and click on new message

4. put in my email address

5. click on the attachment button. A window will open up, find the folder and image you would like to send.

6. click on the image and make sure it shows up as an attachment in the email.

7. hit send

8. check back here every few days to see if any photos are posted.

 On another note, tomorrow is February 1st and I am currently booking sessions for February and March, and April. Clients have already started to book their summer sessions as well, so if you are considering having a children, family, maternity/newborn, or senior portrait session please do not wait to contact me. 

Are you ready for Valentine’s Day?

Monday morning I am bringing my computer in the shop for a tune up. It will take 24 - 48 hours before I get it back so if you do not hear from me until after Wednesday do not be surprised. If you want to place a print order, you can still email or call me but I will not be able to send it off to the printers until later this week.

Until I come back online here is how we have spent our weekend so far.

I am currently booking photo sessions for the spring 2008 and only have a limited number of openings. If you would like to have your children or family unscripted moments captured please call or email.  I schedule portrait / candid photo sessions for children, family, senior, maternity, and newborns (within first two weeks of life is best) photo session.  

edited to add: This photo is just for Courtney J. The best I could get even though it’s out of focus.

In one of my photography forums I have been helping other photographers with various aspects of their business. Sometimes people just need a little spark to get the creative juices going, so help me. What do you want to see me take photos of? Here is your chance to give me direction, it’s just for fun so give me good ideas.

The rules:

•must include something to do with children or include a child (preferably girls since I have two:-))

•must be family friendly!!!

I will post the photos as I get them done.  

edited to add: I know people are reading this so please don’t be shy. Atleast comment to say hello:-) 

 For Amie:-)

I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. We spent the week at my parents relaxing, visiting with family, and playing in the snow. I think the snow likes us because it followed us to my parents, rained here at home and we returned to grass, then woke up the next morning to snow on the ground. Thankfully, We love it!

this is looking up our street. 

I will be out of town on vacation 12.23.07 - 1.1.08. Please email with any questions or wanting to book a 2008 date and I will respond to your email when we return home.

I hope you all have a wonderful, safe and warm Christmas. See you in 2008!! 

For the past couple of days I have been fighting a chest cold. Well this morning I woke with no voice. YIKES! (Why can’t this happen to my kids from time to time, just kidding.) My dh made a MD appointment for me this morning and come to find out I have bronchitis. I should be better in a few days with the help of antibiotics but don’t know how long before my voice is back. So if you need to contact me I would appeciate if you email or atleast leave an email address in your voice mail so I can get back to you in a timely manner.

I am currently booking maternity, child, senior, family portrait sessions for the weekends in 2008. Each family I had the pleasure of photographing in 2007 recieves a 10% discount on their 2008 session fee, on top of any referral discounts you may have earned. Dates do fill up in advance so  if there is a particular date you want your photos on call in advance.

We should be getting snow this weekend, I hope every one satys warms and enjoys the holiday season.

Why is it Murphy’s Law actually happens? I was driving home from, I don’t even remember, and I thought "How great that I have not gotten sick in the past two years." Sure I would get a sniffle here a cough there but nothing that really slowed me down. WELL, wouldn’t you know it I woke up yesterday morning with chest congestion and now a fever. I look fine but my head is all foggy. So I apologize ahead of time if I talk to anyone and do not make sense, it’s the cold talking. For example, Hannah and I went grocery shopping yesterday morning. The cashier had to remind me three times to not do things. First I started unloading my groceries before the lady in form of my was done unloading, then to pay, and finally to tell me they put my groceries in a new cart. I thought I was being helpful by putting some of my own items in my cart.

Now I am off to take a nap and I don’t even care if the girls trash the house. (Ok, I am not that sick, they will lay down with me.) 

Here is the big change for the face of Unscripted Moments Photography. It my new website! You have to see how BIG the images are, I love it and hope you will as well. Check it out.

www.unscriptedmomentsphotography.com

I am so excited!!! Can’t really give you all the details right now but a biG changes is coming for Unscripted Moments Photography. When everything is all said and done I hope you all like it as much as I think I am going to.

As Halloween gets closer, watch for ghost, goblins, and witches to look in your windows. They are after your candy.

I am completely booked for the 2007 year, except for newborn sessions. If you are looking for newborn, family, child sessions call to schedule a date for Winter/Spring 2008. 

The girls and I carved one pumkin tonight for fun. There are 4 other pumpkins around our house which need carving over the next week.

Fall is my FAVORITE season. What can be better than having a cloud free day slight breeze, although this weekend is quite windy, temps in the 60’s, and leaves full of bold warm orange, red, and yellow colors.  Being able to go outside in a pair of capri pants, and long sleeve shirt do anything you want without being to hot or to cold is bliss.

Along with being able to be outside, daylight starts to get shorter. To me it brings about a sense of peace and the feeling of wanting to relax. In the summer, it doesn’t get dark in my area until between 9-10p so to have it dark between 7-8p is great. THe girls are able to settle down hours before I feel ready to go to be. I don’t feel like because it’s still sunny out we should be outside until the mosquito’s drives us inside. (and they were aweful towards the end of summer) The extra few hours of darkness help me sleep through the night also instead of suffering from insomnia.

 Right now I am sitting in a pair of shorts and a long sleeve T shirt listening to the windy rustle through the trees outside. The sunny is shining bright and it’s going to be a BEAUTIFUL day!! I love FALL.

Currently all my regular session dates for the rest of 2007 are filled, I will still book newborn sessions throughout the rest of the year,  but am booking for the 2008 year. If you are interested in having a maternity, newborn, child, or family session call or email me.

Today the girls and I went and found a park that had tons of leaves on the ground. They loved running through the leaves and raking them into piles.

Doesn’t this make you wish you were a kid again. Just to be able to dress up and pretend you have super hero powers. This afternoon we were playing around and I was letting Reese throw me onto the couch with her Super Hero Powers. Yes, I over exaggerated the throw, call my the bionic woman, LOL, but the girls thought it was so much fun.

Do your children play super heros, knights, princesses? Would you want to be able to remember those moments forever? Call and set up a photo session to capture those fun unscripted moments. 

With Halloween soon approaching Reese wakes up asking when are we going to decorate out home for Halloween, How many days until Halloween, can I watch a scary movie, etc. Do you think she likes Halloween? On Tuesday, we took the girls to the pumpkin patch to get their pumpkins. It was the last warm day of the fall I think (60-70’s it was 92 out Monday). Here are a few pictures of our adventure.

and this last one is because Reese will walk around and suddenly stop, turn to me and say

"this looks like a pretty spot for a picture." then pose. It’s the one brief second she will let me take a picture.

Wednesday Reese had a preschool field trip to a local apple orchard. Unlike last year, where is was sleeting/snowing and everyone froze, we had beautiful weather. A perfect fall morning.

The first thing we did was go into a barn were an apple orchard instructor talked to all the kids about apples. They talked about the different kinds of apples, how bees pollinate the apple, and even made all the fathers use little bee puppets and do the dance of the bees. FUNNY! We then took a tractor ride and each child was able to pick an apple to take home. After the tractor ride, everyone went inside had apple cider and doughnuts. Reese asked to have my cider and as I was passing it to her Hannah stood up, hit my cup, and I spilled cider all down her head. She just thought it was funny. To burn off energy the kids were able to run around by the pumpkins and the little petting zoo they had.

and of course what else are you to do with a pumpkin but put stones on it. All the kids were doing it, must have been the pea gravel.

And among everything else I was able to get a mini session in for my friend Pam.

Chris brought home the new truck this week.

The girls get sooo excited to play around in it. Had a DRIVE IN movie night last night.

Look what we received this morning. Our friend Pam knitted this adorable purple hat for Hannah. I was going to take a picture with Hannah wearing it but then the delivery man dropped off my order from Old Navy. WELL, I forgot I ordered Reese a purple dress. they match perfectly. I love this hat and now can’t wait for the cold weather to arrive. If you are interested in having a custom knot hat made contact me and I will pass the word on.

Wouldn’t this hat be adorable in a fall outdoor photo session?? Call or email if you are interested in booking a session, I would love to be your maternity, newborn, child, senior, or family photographer. 

This picture sums it up pretty accurately.

Here are photos of my girls.

Getting ready for school. I took a photo in front of this bush last year before we left for Reese’s first day of school. Thought I would repeat it. I find it fun to look back at photos and see how similiar the girls are and how much they have grown. 

The "chaos" for us started yesterday. The start of another school year. Reese started her 4 year old pre-school program and will be going 3 days a week. Our Monday’s are the busiest day of the week with School in the am, violin/piano in the afternoon followed by swimming. We get home just in time for bed, LOL!!! I have pictures of the first day of school and swimming. When I get a few moments I will post them. Reese said she LOVES swimming and wants to do it every day.

Today we are off to ice skating. Hannah’s first time on the ice without me. YIKES!! Poor thing will probably fall so much I feel for her already. She so wants to be a big girl though. Watching her yesterday in Piano group made me sad, she really is becoming a big girl. She did EVERYTHING the 3.5 -5 year olds did. JUST ADORABLE!!!!

I will try to get the photo posted this afternoon for everyone.

ETA.. one photo from Hannah’s first ice skating lesson.

Remember if you are interested in a holiday mini-session email or call me. Also call if you are looking for a:

child photography, newborn photographer, senior portrait photographer or want to book a regular family photographer session.  

For those thinking about booking a regular session, there are only 3 sessions left in 2007. October is completely booked and my only September date left opened is the weekend of 9/15/07. So if you are thinking about booking a session hoping to get outside without red noses call soon! If you can’t do a regular session there is always the mini "holiday" sessions being offered Oct. 6th.

Tasha- Homeshade Photography tagged me to post 8 random facts about myself. So here we go:

1.) I am an only girl of four children.

2.) Grew up in a small town called Baraga in Michigan’s Upper Pennisula

3.) Have two Bachelor degree. A BS in Biological Sciences from Michigan Technological University  and the second a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Detroit Mercy.

4.) my favorite color is green.

5.) I am terrified of flying in an airplane. Well maybe it’s not the flying part but the thought of crashing. I will get on an airplane though because I hate the thought of driving anything over 12 hours. 

6.) To go with #5..I am deathly afraid of heights!!

7.) My wedding anniversary just happened to be on my grandparents wedding anniversary. 

8.) I get up at 5:30a after a snow fall just to be the first person in my sub to be outside. I have done this even as a child. The blanket of white snow, crisp air, and monochrome color bring about a sense of peacefullness and completely beautiful!! i you have never gotten up that early to see the perfect snow you really should try it. Especially, if you have children.

Those are my 8 random facts, now I tag…

Sue

Amie

Courtney

Kristi

Jodi

Ellen 

My two daughters hosted a mini Tea Party this past week. Just thought I would share my favorite photo. This one just may be put on a LARGE canvas in one of the girls room.

If you are lookng for children newborn family photographer in the Metro Detroit Michigan area call me to get further information.

Last night I found out one of my photos is in contention of winning a contest on 411marketplace.com . Voting ends August 24th 5pm EST. The winner receives 6 months of Free upgraded advertising on their web site. It will help me get my business name out in the community a little easier.

It’s a photo of Hannah, while we were on a preschool field trip with Reese to a farm last spring. We were in looking at all the chicks in the barn and inbetween all the preschools running around I was able to capture Hannah looking out on of the old barn doors. I would appreciate if you voted, only once per 24hr, when you get a chance. My photo is #7.

Here is the photo I entered:

Thanks for supporting me in advance. 

This morning a friend had called after looking at my site and wanted me to take some photos for a catalog they are making featuring M&M candy merchandise. The business Sigma Sportswear Holdings, LLC plan to do their own creative editing on the photos but here are a few quick versions of my own.

and Reese was so excited to get to keep her backpack, (so did Hannah). Thank You Angie!!!

I updated the look of the website and also added a new link. It’s a TESTIMONIAL page. I would love to hear what you have to say about your Unscripted Moments experience. Your feedback will allow me to make improvements to how the sessions/proofing are run. Is there an item you wished I offered, jewelry, different size prints, etc.

Let me know your thoughts.  

Thank you for visiting my Unscripted Moments Photography Blog. I plan to use this site to post sneak peeks for all my sessions and anything to do with Unscripted Moments Photography. First, I would like to share my newest addition to the family. It’s a FujiFilm S5 Pro. So far, I love the results and hope you will too. I am letting the girls practice their photography skills with my Nikon. Hopefully, one day they will be my second and third shooters on sessions.