Engagement Session

Today we had the opportunity to photograph Ryan and Skye. They are recently engaged and will be married in Hawaii in September where it is warm! Here in Augusta the temperatures have dropped to nearly freezing at night after a warm just a few days ago of 85 degrees. We were all so COLD at the 6:30 pm session at Woodbridge. They were a lot of fun to photograph and get to know better. We especially liked the poses by the tree with the wooden bridge in the distant background.

Our logo is Remember Today Tomorrow with Custom Portraits. We hope Ryan and Skye will have many times to remember this time in their life and these portraits will add to those memories.

I’ve added a short slide show of some of the previews from the session here.

Dreams Sweet Dreams

Yesterday I had the opportunity to photograph
this sweet little 2 month old. Her 2 year old
brother was so quick we only captured a quick
kiss for his new sister and a few other shots.
This is my first slide show on the Blog.
I’m using RockYou.com to create it.
Let me know if shows up for you.
Thanks. Ruth

The Slide show should be on the sidebar on your right.
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I would love to hear from you!

We have a New Post Card to Advertise our Portraits

This card features Alissa L who was a really fun bride to photograph.
We wish her well as she marries on April 5th.
This is a kick up your heels and enjoy life portrait
with red shoes no less.

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All photographs on the blog are copyright protected. Do
not copy them.

PS Click on the card to enlarge it. The cards arrived from the printer on April 10th.

I only managed a Candid of Grandpa with our Grandson!

A photo a day… here’s a snap shot of Grandpa with the grandson…
“Hoodie” complilment of Uncle Adam.

Introducing One of My Favorite Subjects!

Well, this is not a
photograph
taken on 2/2/2007
as part of my
photograph
a day commitment
in order
to grow
in my photography
skills!
This the awesome
grandson
at 2 months of age
taken in in September
with only a the flash on the
camera bounced off the
ceiling as we had limited
equipment on our visit.
He’s darling and happy in this picture. Our daughter selected the color version for her baby announcements. Soon you’ll be seeing some pictures of him at 6 months of age as do take at least a photograph a day.

Blessed Event

Isn’t this little fellow darling in his white outfit for his blessing in church? At only 8.5 weeks old in this photograph we find his smile is so engaging. I’ll post some more of him later. RuthEllen

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Aspen Loop Family

Isn’t this a great image! You can see the loving relationship between the family members. Try clicking on images more than once. They may enlarge for you.

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Birth Announcement Portraits of New Born 2 Weeks Young

(Click card to enlarge it.)

This weekend we had the opportunity to photograph on of the mothers we took maternity portaits of in September. Her son is two weeks old. While he was here he did take the opportunity to open his eyes and try to figure out what all the lights popping was all about. Here’s an announcement card made espcially for him.

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Maternity Portraits

It is no wonder Maternity Portraiture is really popular these days as women have a special beauty and bloom when they are expecting a child. The best time to capture that “bloom” is usually in the 7th to 8th month. We are doing a series of maternity portraits this month for our portfolio. My goal is to have 12 for our portfolio before the end of the month. Did I just write that? Twelve? Only nine more to go. We like to taking images of the mother alone, with her husband or significant other, and with other children in the family. If you “google” images using matenity portraits you can see a wide variety of approaches. Our style is somewhat conservative. Showing the pregnant belly is okay and a relationship between the folks in the picture, but we shy away from portraits that convey a lot of intimacy and we do not do scantly clad or nude images, just in case you were wondering. Here’s a card I made of my “favorite” client, our daughter Julie, with her husband. Please note, too, that we do not post photographs to the blog unless we have permission of our clients and then, we do not give out personal information beyond what is discussed with the client. Most agree to first names and we would advise against using last names anyway.

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These are some of the poses that were done by Ruth at a park. Our son-in-law is not crazy about having pictures taken, but Julie conveyed to him how much they would want to have these later and enjoy them. He really worked with me during me in the photography session and made suggestions of what he would like after viewing samples. When the previews were ready, both of them were thrilled and happy they had pictures taken of them together. A number of their friends and relatives have said how much they wish they had pictures like this made during this special time in their lives. Here are some more photographs from the session. You can view more of our photographs at http://www.Geitgey.PhotoReflect.com

Here is a contemplative moment portrait done in the studio
If you would like to be one of our Portfolio Sessions this month, give me a call at 706/868-5429 or send me an e-mail or e-mail me at Ruth at geitgey.com. Maternity creative session fees normally range from $50 to $150.00. The charge for the Portfolio Session is $25.00 and you receive you choice of a 5×7 or 6×6 Preview Print from the session and 20 referral cards with one of your photographs on it to give to friends. You can earn additional prints when your friends book a regular session with us. When you participate in our Portfolio Sessions you agree to sign a model release for us to use your portraits as samples.

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Montage from Linda G’s Wedding

This past summer we did Linda’s bridal portrait. She a good friend from work. Warren and I do not do wedding photography, but we do engagement and bridal portraits. Linda ordered a 24×30 print that she displayed at her wedding of the portrait we did. It turned out beautifully and was elegantly framed to compliment the beautiful girl and high quality print. I attended her wedding as a guest and stayed “out of the way” of the photographer she hired to do her wedding photographs along with video photographers and friends her wedding was very well documented. Since my camera is attached to my right hand much of the time, I took it to the wedding and did take pictures that the photographer who was working solo did not venture to or have time to take. I also took a few pictures of the ceremony from the back of the patio where the ceremony took place overlooking Lake Olmstead. One of the biggest challenges in taking pictures was there were so many folks taking pictures and in the pictures and a guy with a big white hat was in my view much of the time!

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None the less, I took some pictures she just loves and I plan to post some of them here in the blog. However, since I’ve been posting my grandson’s birth announcements (and we still have not decided which one will become the official one) I decided to add some variety to my blog and post this montage I did from Linda’s Wedding. This is the second one I did. We are deciding on a card for her to send out to her guests with her thank you notes. I designed this one in size 12×12. I like the square format. I add a black boarder with a white key light to most of my wedding photographs to frame them. This can be sized down to say 4×4 or 5×5 or 6×6. Linda could also make a 12×12 print or even 24 x 24 if she wished of the montage. The file posted here is a smaller file for viewing purposes so it will load quickly. As I have mentioned before, files for my blog do not reflect the quality of a print file. If you have a question or comment, please post it.

Ruth Ellen

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