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Breakfast however was at Sweet Art Bakery in my neighborhood (Shaw, its a great place to live!) I took a few pictures of the wares. I don’t get to shoot food as much as I would like but its always fun, cause you get to eat the models when you get done! if you stop by tell the Bayoc’s we sent you!

Thank you so much for choosing me to document this beautiful new phase in your life! I cannot wait to shoot your next beginning!

I am not as organized as I want to be. I have the best take off and I can get the triple back off with out a flaw but I usually don’t stick the landing in my execution.  I have found that this season, this weakness has been more exposed since I have tightened up so many other areas of my business and has become the thing that I feel the most drive to correct.

Being Pregnant with kid number three has throw some bright lights on the things that will be a hindrance if not corrected, and pose hurdles I don’t think I can over come on the strength of being cute. Giving birth won’t remove as many of the hurdles as I would like to think. Babies, as I recall, make you tired and a bit spacey – pregnancy brain is really just an introduction to Newborn parent brain which morphs itself into oh my god there are three of them now brain.  So, I’ve decided to kick some things into high gear and while on maternity break I’ll be revamping Pinxit Photo, from top to bottom.

Hence why I said maternity break, not leave cause I don’t expect to leave much work undone here.

The first thing I will be implementing will be a scheduled work week, my family needs me to be mom, more consistently. Which means not changing plans at the last minute to accommodate every request my clients call with. Knowing when I am on call and when I am not, when I can take a last minute session and when I can’t,  When I am available for phone calls and when I should be tucking people into bed and paying attention to my husband. You know, the basics.

So introducing my new hours effective immediately

Studio Hours
Tuesday and Thursday noon to 7 p.m. (available for client meetings by appointment and portrait sessions)
Wednesday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (available for client meetings by appointment) and (available for for portrait sessions by appointment til 7p.m.)
Friday noon to 4 p.m
Saturday: Reserved for weddings & sessions. No Office Hours. All calls and emails will be returned on Monday.
Closed Sunday
Mondays are my administrative days, so I won’t be taking client meetings but I will be working on all the fun stuff (i.e administrative stuff -the joy! )

I am hoping that with this new schedule I am leaving enough time for clients who work  9-5 to be able to still come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which have always been my target meeting days anyway for some reason, and with Mondays being my admin days I can get more of the daily grind stuff done early in the week and not feel like I am playing catch up come Wednesday. The beauty of this is nothing is set in stone, and I have the choice to be flexible – which I am hoping to employ with a bit more selection than I have in the past, as what is the point of boundaries and schedules if you throw them out at first sign of any difficulty. Except for Sundays, I feel like I need to place a renewed focus on my faith and making time to pray and worship is paramount for me right now, so I will not be taking any additional Sunday portrait sessions at all. Sunday weddings are available at a price premium.

I’ve also decided to minimize my time in my email box and returning calls. The primary number for all clients is 314 827-4686, if I don’t answer this line, it truly means I am involved with something that requires my full attention, and I will call you back during my scheduled time in the day for call backs and email returns, unless the office is closed. If the office is closed I will return your call or email on our next business day.

My clients truly mean the world to me, I LOVE that they trust me to create such awesome images, and I take that trust very seriously. Which is the number one reason why I feel like I need to make these types of changes to my business. As much as I love what I do – it is a business, and I cannot treat it like I am working for my buddies. Much as I hate to admit it, i do feel like my clients are family by the time we get to the album. I am working for you, and you deserve a business that acts and respects the investment you have made. One that is working to build the value of your investment. It is what I look for in the businesses I choose to patronize. It is what I want for my clients, most of all, I don’t want my businesses business to kill the fun and passion that I have for my work. In talking to other photographers this is the thing that I fear kills more new businesses, when the new car smell of entrepreneurship wears off.  And I want to be prepared to keep the fires burning in my belly.

Alas, I guess This is enough business talk for one day, I think I wanna get on top of this new burst of energy and kick butt for the rest of the day.

Speaking of which I’ve got a new Senior Rep, who I am excited about shooting this week, and I am looking for several more so if you know a high school junior, (i.e. going into 11th grade this fall) please feel free to send them my way, they can earn free sessions, prints and cash! And get great images to boot! And to close out this post I am going to post a shot of St. Francis Xavier that i took with Lance Omar Thurman earlier this year, I’ll be blogging that wedding soon!

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Hey guys.

I could go on about my horrible blogging but the campy acting in the above video is just about all I can muster in the way of admonishment so… work with me.

Things have been happening.. all over the place. First off, I should announce. We are expecting our third child this late summer. We are excited. Hoping for a boy, and that’s has been the primary reason I haven’t been posting. I suck at keeping secrets. And every time I got ready to post I wanted to talk about this baby, and how I was feeling about it, and all the STUFF that goes along with that, but I also wanted to wait until we hit our 2nd trimester. I almost wanted to wait until we knew boy or girl but I really wanted to get back to blogging so that just had to wait.

I may actually start a blog for that particular stuff but I think I may keep the light blend of personal and professional stuff going here for a little while and see how that goes.

I am entertaining the idea of a permanent suite-mate here at the studio, Cammy’s 5 going on 16, Bri is excited about the baby. I am expanding out product offerings for clients. We are preparing for when I have the baby by setting up a little home office for me so I can stay on top of things from home.

I’ve got posts coming up including spring pics from some great kiddos – including my own – here is one of my girls after helping me set up…

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Thanks for being patient with me and to all of you who are sending referrals my way – I see you I love you for the faith you show when you tell people to use me. It is not a responsibility I take lightly.Thank you. So much.

This grooms family restored a pick-up and each of the sons drive it to their wedding. I LOVE pick ups especially classic ones so I could shot with that all day.

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Becky and Ken were the sweetest couple ever, to see more of this wedding head over to Undergrace’s blog. Also I had a blast manning the photobooth, you can take a look at some of the results over there as well – click here. it was really AWESOME time. Thank you SO much Michelle for teaching me and being so open. You are awesome.

2009 has not been with out its faults; I’ve made missteps, faltered as I figure out how to be the photographer I want to be and do the things I want to do and produce the work I want to produce. It has not been an easy year by any means. I want to say a sincere thank you to the clients who have stuck it out with me as I have learned. I know my new-ness to some things hasn’t always made it the easiest walk but I love that you are willing to go with me and YOU are by far my most valued business piece. This has been a year of birth and at times that is what it has felt like to me, giving birth to a third child.

I try not to make resolutions but I personally believe goals are dreams with a deadline so I am working on making things smoother for you, as my clients. Working on communicating my goals as a photographer to those of you who want to use my services so we can make sure we are the right fit. There is nothing worse than taking awesome pictures that you can’t bring home, or having to leave some that your really really loved. I hate that part of my job, and I want to find ways to keep it from happening when it can be avoided.

This upcoming year I am letting go of the reins, accepting what comes and maximizing what I already have. I have so much. My husband who I adore, my kids who keeps me grounded and honest, my dog who slobbers, and our cat, who has cancer but is still the same great cat, and hopefully she’ll do well in treatment.

My husband who I don’t say thank you to enough, who I drive insane with my nerves, and my not doing the dishes, and my completely long list of reason why he should probably divorce and run at this point, he is the reason I keep pushing. He’s sitting across from me right now folding laundry I should be folding we are watching football highlights and trying to keep Bri from being scared of the dog. Shes scared of everything lately – except the cat. She loves the cat. And all I want is to right now be cuddling with sleeping children in the other room.

Alas I can dream.

this is a really short post, Its funny cause I’ve been trying to write this thing for days – alas I have started some others as well so not to fear I will be updating way more often..

A picture before I go…

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