http://shutter-happy.com/blog Photography blog for Shutter-Happy Photography Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:16:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://shutter-happy.com/blog/2011/12/18/the-2012-national-model-search-is-almost-here/ 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!   ;)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 http://shutter-happy.com/blog/2011/12/14/what-to-wear/ 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 ... http://shutter-happy.com/blog/2011/12/06/another-5k-2/ 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 ... http://shutter-happy.com/blog/2011/11/14/our-newest-employee/ 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 ... http://shutter-happy.com/blog/2011/10/28/image-competition/ 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 ... http://shutter-happy.com/blog/2011/10/16/another-5k/ 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 ... http://shutter-happy.com/blog/2011/10/05/client-photo-contest-winners/ 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 ... http://shutter-happy.com/blog/2011/10/04/supporting-the-community-7/ 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 ... http://shutter-happy.com/blog/2011/10/01/our-practice-5k/ 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 ... http://shutter-happy.com/blog/2011/09/18/1st-annual-ladies-night-2/