Shutter-Happy Photography

Is your child the CUTEST KID IN AMERICA?   We want you to prove it!

Call the studio TODAY… and get your cuties signed up for a model session, for a chance to compete for awesome prizes and the title of Cutest Kid in America.

Sessions are $50 off our regular session fees.

Sessions are one hour long, plenty of time for your kids to have several background and clothing changes (bring lots of your favorite fun, colorful, and funky outfits as well as beautiful and formal clothing).

Sessions will focus on your children individually.

If you schedule your child’s session in January or February, part of the session can focus on our Limited Edition Winter Wonderland scene.  If you schedule your child’s session in March, part of the session can focus on our Limited Edition Easter and spring props (and possibly live bunnies!).

After the session, you’ll have a regular ordering appointment to place your print order, choose your favorite image for each child, and to fill out the paperwork to enter the competition.

We’ll have some local voting of our own during the first week of February to choose winners from January’s sessions.  These winning images will be printed and hung in our beautiful new A+ Pediatrics display.

Nationwide voting starts as soon as images are uploaded to the contest website and goes through March 23rd.  These winning images have a chance at some amazing gifts.  (prizes have yet to be announced, but past winners have won cameras, gift cards, savings bonds, vacations, and cars!)

A second wave of local voting will take place in April, with winners receiving free portrait purses from us.  Winners will also receive certificates of their achievement and their picture in the local newspapers.

Excited yet?  Join us!  888-311-5207

Look at these outfits and color combinations and tell me they wouldn’t look amazing in a portrait session….

Jeans or khakis + awesome colors = one happy photographer!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emily, Lindsey, and I signed up for the Bah Humbug 5K on Saturday.  We woke to temps in the los 60’s and drizzle.  Despite the rain, we all got dressed and made our way to the start line.

Lindsey was off and running right at start time; I fumbled with my phone, music, and headphones for a couple of minutes; Emily headed back home. 

Results- Lindsey got 1st place in our women’s age group!  I got a good time- 34:46.  And we had the privilege of being one of the main sponsors of the event.

Welcome, Lindsey!

Lindsey Toth is our new Marketing Director.  And she is going to be in charge of so much around the studio!  She is currently super busy learning about advertising, marketing, photoshop, customer satisfaction, successful portrait studios, press releases, portrait plans, the studio policies, and more!

We are putting a lot on her plate, but I expect she’s going to be an incredible asset to our business.  We can’t wait to see how she puts new life into Shutter-Happy!

I entered images in the NAPCP image competition back in July.  Critiques, scores, and winners were supposed to be announced by mid-September.  As the last days of October are about to squeak by, I finally got an e-mail with all the results!

Am very proud to say that some of my favorites received Above Average and Excellent scores.  Here they are…..

Thank you to all the clients who sign our model release forms to allow me to use their images for advertising and competitions.  I appreciate you letting me show off your beautiful portraits and helping me to learn and grow as a photographer.

Despite a vacation/work trip to the beach, packing up and moving into an apartment and storage unit, aching knees, and getting very little time to run and train for the next 5k, I did it anyway… and so did the girls.

Fabra Elementary’s event yesterday was great!

It started with a family 1-mile Fun Run/Walk.  Ben did great, ran almost the whole way.  And Evan jogged and walked with Nathan.  He’s such a trooper; he did awesome!  Both boys got medals for participation. 

Then, Emily, Beth, and I had our 5k.  Goal was just to do better than two weeks ago.  And we did!

My time two weeks ago was 38:09.  Yesterday was 33:56.  Yay!

Last time we all finished under 42 minutes.  Yesterday, we all came in under the 41 minute mark.

SO proud of us!  And I’d say I’m totally excited about the next one… but it’s in December… and it’s going to be so cold.  Brrrrr! 

Race results

We just wrapped up the latest quarter of our client photo contest.

Images had to be submitted by the client in July, August, and September.

And the pictures had to be of them around town in our Shutter-Happy t-shirts… or pictures of our duck (they took home after their portrait session) having fun with their family.

We had dozens of images submitted.  And we picked our favorite three from each client to upload to facebook.

Once uploaded, the contest heated up as their friends and family “liked” their images, up until the last minutes of this quarter. 

 

 

1st place was a $50 gift card to S-H, Snowflake Donuts, Wackadoo’s, or Boerne Cooking Cottage.
2nd place was a $25 gift card to any of the same businesses.

But we actually had a tie for first place!  The two winning images had 29 “likes” each!

Congrats to the Lloyd/Lara family and Hughes family!!!!

 

 

 

 

We are now official sponsors of:
*Curington’s Walk-a-Thon
*Kendall’s Run the Gauntlet
*Fabra’s 5K
*Cibolo Creek’s Country Fair

We love being able to support our local elementaries!

We also donated a gift certificate to the Race at the Ranch event that went on Saturday night.  They had a 5k, auction, and bbq dinner.  We were unable to attend, but we hope our gift certificate for a portrait session and large art piece (which was worth about $500) helped them raise much-needed money for the Dutton family here in our community.

And Saturday night we supported the Cibolo Nature Center.  I purchased tickets for all the staff and husbands to attend their gala.  And we donated a gift certificate for a free portrait session and any size art piece (worth about $1000).  We all had a wonderful time at the event and hope our donation was able to raise funds for the preserve.

(Attached it the pic of us girls all “prettied” up for the event) 

The Fabra 5k on October 15th was presented to us a couple of months ago.  Figuring we had plenty of time to train, we decided to go for it.

We all downloaded the Couch to 5K app on our phones.  And we got Pandora rockin’ with our favorite music.

On track to be ready for the 5k on the 15th, another 5k (St. Peter’s) popped up.  It was two weeks before any of us were really scheduled to finish our training, but we decided to do it anyway.

Emily and I were able to jog the whole way.  All three of us finished within 42 minutes.  Really, not bad for our first one.  So proud of us!

Race results 

We did it!  Pulled it off… and are calling it a success!

Ready for name-dropping?

Decor and food…
*The floral bouquet from Artistic Blooms (thanks to an awesome deal from Juice in the City) was beautiful!
*The potted plants donated by Dream Image Tree and Landscape Service were gorgeous!  And we love that we were able to give them away as door prizes!
*The desserts from Sweet Beginnings were fabulous!  Amazing pineapple cupcakes, chocolate truffles, chocolate chip cookies, and snickerdoodles.

It was so much fun to have all of these businesses participate in the event…
Willowhouse- Christina Martinez
31 Gifts- Sarah Martin
Take Shape for Life- Ryalin Hughes
Juice in the City- April Cerda
Cutie Bow Tooty- Mandy Jones
Tomboy Tools- Bonnie Tom
Scentsy- Tonya Vicknair
Pampered Chef- Tracy Adair
Tupperware- Yvette Adair
Premier Designs- Tricia Hotchkiss
Mary Kay- Beth Archilla
All of their tables, displays, and products were amazing, and our guests had so many wonderful things to say about them.

Goody bags…
*Game pieces from us (that gave all ladies the chance to win door prizes)
*Chapsticks from us
*Information from Pet Butler, Boerne Wine Company, and Dream Image Tree and Landscape Service
*Koozies from You Name It Specialties (my son Ben was so excited we were giving away “jacuzzis” to all attendees) 
*Pens from Annie’s Apothecary
*Jelly beans from Candy on Main
*Great coupons from Willowhouse, Take Shape for Life, Snowflake Donuts, Cutie Bow Tooty, Chilito’s Express, Tupperware, Premier Designs, Candy on Main, Tomboy Tools, Soda Pops, and Salon Infusion
*A microwave brownie recipe card from Pampered Chef

And I got a handful of good pics in between all the visiting and snacking.  If you want to view, they’re posted here!

Emily and I attended another seminar a few weeks ago.

To give us a boost and get juices flowing before the Christmas rush, we attended the Turn the Key tour…

ideas on branding, marketing, photography, projecting, sales, customer service, and more!

Love getting to spend time with Emily, love getting new ways to step things up for our clients.

The winners have been announced…

and we’re one of the Best of the Best of Kendall County for the seventh year in a row!

(we got the silver for Best Photographer)

Thanks so much to all of our clients who voted for us and have supported us all these years. 

Thanks to our participation with the Groupigg Deal of the Day, we were featured on SA Living on the 4th of July!!!

 

We will now have a big drawing at the end of every quarter… last day of March, June, September, and December.

Prizes will be gift cards to Shutter-Happy or one of our favorite businesses (Boerne Cooking Cottage, Wackadoo’s, or Snowflake Donuts)!!!

You can earn an entry:
*For every picture you submit of yourself wearing our Shutter-Happy t-shirt around town (up to 3 images).
*And for every “like” you get for those images once they’re uploaded to our facebook page.
*For every picture you submit of our duck out and about, doing things with your family (up to 3 images).
*And for every “like” your image receives from fans on our facebook page.

(T-shirts are free with every session and print order.  Or you may purchase one for $10.  Ducks can be “adopted” at the end of your session and kept until your ordering appointment.)

So, get creative!  Get out and get pics!  And good luck!

PS. That’s the duck we took to the beach ———->

After a couple of days of painting surfboards and decorating a trailer, we were ready to add Shutter-Happy t-shirts, hawaiian shirts, leis, grass skirts, beach towels, beach balls, and flowers…. for the Berges Fest parade!

My parents, Beth, and her kids helped us.  We waved; we threw candy; we gave out chapstick to the moms.  There was a great response to our float and our marketing materials.  We had a blast!

After, we had everyone over to our house for lunch.  And then we headed out to enjoy some of the day’s events.