On my recent vacation to the great state of Texas, we had the pleasure of spending a few days in Houston. I can’t even tell you how glad I am for this small detour! I had 2 family photo sessions scheduled during our 2 day stay (note to self: stay longer in Houston next time). Houston is a great city and I highly recommend visiting! If you go, stay near Hermann Park Conservancy. We could have spent two days just exploring the park alone. But close by is the Museum District and if you only have time for one museum, I can personally recommend the Contemporary Art Museum Houston.

“But wait!” you say. “I thought this was a sneak peak at the Allen family, not an advertisement for Visit Houston!” Okay, now that I’ve put a plug in for vacationing in Houston, bring on the Allen family!

We met at Hermann Park. It was great to see the Allen family again! They were clients of mine in Columbia - I was lucky enough to get to photograph Kai’s birth. Meeting Ari was such a treat! Definitely two beautiful little guys with curly locks and loads of personality. Here’s just a very small selection of images to whet your appetite!

There were plenty examples of what is evidently known as, “The Allen Tongue”. Very expressive appendage!

My family and I just returned from the most fabulous vacation in Texas.  Part of it was work and most of it was pleasure.  I’ll be posting more images as I sort through them all, but here are a few of my immediate favorites.

This last one is of the amazing oak trees that are all over south Texas. We were pretty taken with them. This bunch was just beside the parking area of the Pelican Bay Resort, where we stayed for the Dembowski Family Reunion.

UPDATE: Both of the specials have been taken! I am so pleased with how this turned out, keep a watch on the blog because I think I’ll do more specials in the future!

It’s your lucky day!  (Well, for two of you it is!)  For the first two people to contact me at staciephoto@gmail.com I am extending a one of a kind deal.

Lock in a most fantastic deal for photography sessions now! $1500 (payable all at once) will get you five (5) five! photo sessions of any type I offer. Up to two of these can be transferable to friends or family as gifts or you can split the offer with one friend/family.

AND, you not only get the session! For this special deal, you will get a fully edited and processed cd with the images copyright released to you so you can make prints for personal use.

I don’t have to tell you what a ridiculously great deal this is– you already know! Thank the sunshine and cool temperatures today for this one. I am so happy I get to do what I do every day and I want to share that in an exciting way today!

Give me a call or contact me if you have any questions. Payment can be made by check or credit card (using PayPal).

Kristen and I had been talking about her head shot for several weeks now and the day had finally come to get down to business and do it! Her graphic design business, Hoot Design Co is hip, fun, funky and just a tad quirky at times… kinda like Kristen, herself. We wanted her head shot to reflect all of that and not be a ’sit down here and look at me’ type of shot. (Of course, those have their place as well!) I think we did a fine job on conveying all of these things. Here are a few of our favorites. And if you have a minute, go on over to her website and check back often. She’s definitely got her pulse on all things hip…(especially cool ways to decorate your new baby’s room…)

Two and a half years after my very first post containing images of manhole covers, I have finally put together a print I am pretty excited about. When the first one was made in 2008, and over the next 2 years I have had so many people suggest I make a poster size design that was more thoughtful than the original image. After collecting images of manholes from Missouri to LA to Chicago I was finally inspired to put this together. It will be my entry into the next exhibition at the Columbia Art League, The Visual Word.

I have a few different images I can post of the positions I’ve been in shooting the upcoming new SPECTRAVOX cd artwork….

but for now I’ll just post this one from this morning. This doesn’t really capture my bravery. This was early on in the shooting when I was still a little unsure of that ladder. Later, I perched on the top rung. I think the scariest, though was when I climbed to the top of the file cabinet tower they had assembled for me. You can see it here on the far left side of the image. We were supposed to have a TALL ladder… or a forklift…. but, hey, the file cabinet tower was a pretty unique experience for me.

I’m particularly proud of this image of Hannah from this week’s photo session. Sometimes (most of the time) the image that speaks the loudest is not the one where the subject is smiling (saying cheese - ugh) and looking at the camera. I recently read a quote that I liked so much I wrote it down and stuck it up on the studio wall: “Great photographers capture moments that speak beyond the frame”.

Last weekend I had the privilege of driving to the Kansas City area to photograph the newest addition to an old high school friend’s family. This marks baby number 3 and the first one I’ve been able to photograph! I was pretty darn excited about it. Except what happened is I fell in love with baby number 2. At my favorite age of two, I was completely smitten with Silas. Was it the curls? Was it the way he ate a cookie with gusto? Was it the way he followed me around pointing to my gear saying, “stuff”? I don’t know, but here’s a few images from the morning. I’ll post a few of baby number 3 (Calvin… come on people, of course I know his name) later this week.

Yesterday I received an email informing me that I was a finalist in the World Photography Gala Awards’ annual Juliet Margaret Cameron Award. I was so excited I nearly had a heart attack as I read the list of finalists searching for my name among the 245 other selected images in the professional division. Two of my images were selected as finalists in the nude category. I submitted these three images from my centenarian study project. (The first two images are the ones selected as finalists) To be listed among these amazing women photographers is quite a humbling experience, I tell you.

Read about the life of Juliet Margaret Cameron here.

From the WPGA web site: “Worldwide Photography Gala Award’s mission is to recognize exceptional photographers through exhibitions, publications and by extensively promoting their work. Believing that everyone and every organization has a responsibility to contribute to the benefit of world humanity; WPGA donates a substantial portion of its revenues to established international organizations which advance the welfare of underprivileged societies. Save the Children is the humanitarian organization to benefit from these events.” There were over 4,500 entries to the competition which is open to female photographers from around the world. The winning images (announced the last week of June) will be invited to exhibit in Berlin, Germany during the month of September, 2010.

In other exciting news, I also learned last week that my image, What Time Creates, has been selected to be a part of the new group exhibition in the RoHo Gallery located in Cincinatti, OH. Winning images from this exhibition will be announced at the end of May.

Between the stunningly gorgeous days we’ve been having here in central Missouri, it’s been raining. A LOT. Last weekend the grounds were fairly swampy from the rain. Lucky for me, I work with the funnest clients! We knew by the end of this photo session we were going to all end up muddy and wet and we planned for it! Here are a few images from the end of our session. These guys made me smile the whole time we were together. In fact, as I’ve been looking through the images, they continue to crack me up. As the dad said to me, “Nathanial brought his own sunshine to the shoot.”

A big thank you to Russell for taking some pictures of me with his iPhone while I worked. I love lying in mud puddles as much as the kids do!

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