Christmas Christmas Time is Near
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So last year, much to my surprise my home-made photograph Christmas cards were a huge hit. If one person told me, I must have had 10 people tell me they were worth selling. So I thought I would give it a shot this year and offer them for purchase.
So here’s the deal….
Go and browse the designs for this years cards. They can be found here. If you prefer a design from last year, they located here.
Select which design you wish. Email me or comment below either the link of the picture or what the reference is “C30″ You can pick multiple pictures (1 of each, 2 of this shot, 5 or this shot, etc.)
If you place your card order now, during the month of November, these are the lovely rates. (Once it hits December because of the time crunch I may stop making them or I may charge a little more.)
Purchase
1 - 10 cards for $1.00 a card
11- 20 cards for $.90 a card
21- 30 cards for $.85 a card
31 - 40 cards for $.80 a card
41 - 50 cards for $.75 a card
Additional cards over 50 - $.70
Here’s another little bonus, if you would like to have family portraits taken for Christmas in general or for your cards that can be done as well. You have two options -
Option 1 - Just Shoot Us
$50 for 1 hour of shooting in the location of your choice, plus a cd with all unedited and edited pictures on it. You then take the cd and print and do with the pictures as you want.
Option 2 - Do it for Us
$50 for 1 hour of shooting in the location of your choice, plus a cd with all unedited and edited pictures on it.
You decide the shots for the cards, I’ll get them printed and make the cards. You pay for the cards as priced above.
And one last special added bonus….
If you think the cards are worth it or you like my portraits then spread the word. If someone you have shared this with purchases cards or has their pictures taken I will give you either $5 off a card order of 10 cards or more or $10 off a portrait setting. How’s that for a fun referral bonus!
Would You Vote For Me Again Please?!
Posted by Cindy | Filed under Photographs
So I have entered another contest and I would REALLY love to win it, but I need your help. Part of winning is having the “popular” vote.
So if you would take a moment and go to this website.
My picture (the one of Livi at the park) is entry number 0077 and is on page 6. Go to that page and click on her picture. When you do that the picture will open and in the bottom of the frame it will say “Vote for entry 0077″, click on that text. It will ask you for your email address as a means of tracking who votes. (I just found out that the pages are showing up different on different computers. The picture you are looking for is this one -
Here’s the catch….You can only vote for one photo and you can only vote once per computer. So if you have a home and a work computer you could vote twice for the photo. And there is ONLY 7 days to vote - so you have to act fast!
I won’t have any idea how many votes at all.
Also please pass this around to all your friends and see if they would vote for me. I need all the help I can get.
The first place prize is valued at $3350. All the prizes involve building a website for your photography and the company who would be making the site is AMAZING. It would be incredible to have a site designed by them. If you have questions let me know and thanks for voting!
Behind The Scenes - Again
Posted by Cindy | Filed under Photographs, Stories
This is a Black-footed penguin. This room dedicated The Penguin Encounters experience.
Interesting fact - Newport Aquarium goes through 22,000 pounds of food each month. Most would guess that the sharks consume the most food. The truth is the penguins consume the most food. Penguins eat 20% of the body weight, whereas sharks only eat 2 - 3% of their body weight. A penguins diet includes small fish such as pilchards, sardines, anchovies small crustaceans and squid.
Behind the Scenes Tour allows you an inside look at the Aquarium facility and learn what it takes to maintain a one million-gallon environment. In a guided tour, you’ll see miles of pipes, explore how the animals are fed and visit the vet lab.
Behind The Scenes Tour
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This is the shark tank filter room. This is an entire room dedicated strictly to the filtration system for the Surrounded by Sharks tank.
Interesting fact - The tanks contains 385,000 gallons of water. About every 2 hours, every single drop of water in that tank passes through this filtration system.
The Behind the Scenes Tour allows you an inside look at the Aquarium facility and learn what it takes to maintain a one million-gallon environment. In a guided tour, you’ll see miles of pipes, explore how the animals are fed and visit the vet lab.
Behind the Scenes
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This is the food prep area. This the fish oil that they have to give “Sweet Pea” and “Scooter”. Yes you read that correctly, they give fish oil to a shark. The same fish oil that helps you and I have a healthy heart enables the sharks to swim.
<b>Interesting fact</b> - Unlike bony fish, sharks do not have gas-filled swim bladders for buoyancy. Instead, sharks rely on a large liver, filled with oil that contains squalene. The buoyant liver may constitute up to 30% of their body mass. When in captivity, their keepers have to ensure that they receive enough oil to be able to remain buoyant.
The Behind the Scenes Tour allows you an inside look at the Aquarium facility and learn what it takes to maintain a one million-gallon environment. In a guided tour, you’ll see miles of pipes, explore how the animals are fed and visit the vet lab.
Behind the Scenes Tour
Posted by Cindy | Filed under Photographs, Stories
This is the food prep area. Here this gentleman is prepping lobster for the sharks “Sweet Pea” and “Scooter”.
Interesting facts - the sharks get the lobsters and the turtle, whose name I forgot, gets the claws. Newport Aquarium has the only shark ray breeding program in the world. Newport Aquarium only serves restaurant quality, certified USDA FDA food to it’s animals. Yes, you could be eating those pounds of lobsters.
The Behind the Scenes Tour allows you an inside look at the Aquarium facility and learn what it takes to maintain a one million-gallon environment. In a guided tour, you’ll see miles of pipes, explore how the animals are fed and visit the vet lab.
Surrounded
Posted by Cindy | Filed under Photographs, Stories
“Hey I got an idea. Why don’t I lie down on the ground and we get everyone to circle around and look down at me and I’ll take a picture.”
“Ok” (sounding of running feet)
“Hmmm…this isn’t as easy as I thought and this blue playground stuff sure does attract heat.”
Sometimes an idea doesn’t work as planned but it is fun trying. I love how their faces have a range of emotion on them.
That “Something”
Posted by Cindy | Filed under Photographs, Stories
Some of my favorite pictures are my favorites because in them they capture that “something”. Whether it be a smile, a twinkle in their eyes, a glimpse of their personality - there is that “something” that draws you to the picture.
This picture has that “something” to me - the lighting in the background, the shades of green, and the expressions on their faces.
Silly Faces
Posted by Cindy | Filed under Photographs, Stories
When your assignment is to take photos of 7 kids 9 years old and under, you get a little nervous no matter who the kids are. For me, I wonder how on earth am I going to be able to capture all of their attention at once? But at the same time it’s a blast. You see their personalities open up and you just go with the flow.
Oh and it helps to let them burn off a little energy making crazy faces.
Hope
Posted by Cindy | Filed under Photographs, Stories
I have a thing for words. If you were to come to my house you would find “hope” above the door and “love” and “dream” waiting for their places on the wall. You would see pictures of the words grace, smile, love and dream in my bedroom. Words paint a picture to me.
When I think of kids, I think of hope. Hope for their future. Hope for their today. I anticipate what they are bringing to the table of life. Hope is also something that comes to mind when I think of families. (Not to mention Tonni’s blog is Hope Has Returned).
So posing the family with the word hope just seemed fitting.
