Digital Dynamics Photography

Scott and Shelly Engert

Scott and Shelly got married the weekend before I did. They had a beautiful day!
I love her bare feet in this one!

Ava

Ava was in for her one year session not that long ago. She was definitely a mover, but very sweet!

The giraffe ones were my favorite!

The Future Laucks

Thank A Soldier!

So, Xerox is doing a really great thing. You can go to the website: Thank a Soldier  and choose from a ton of different designs of cards. You can add one of their pre-written notes, or write your own. Xerox will Print and Mail your card to a soldier, Free! No, you don't get to pick the soldier, but let's face it, they are all working hard for us!

Wouldn't it be great if there was suddenly a few hundred (or thousand) cards coming in from Perryville MO? While I have no way to track this, I challenge all of you to bookmark this site, and send at least one card per day. Show your kids the site and how to use it and challenge them to a greeting card duel to see who can send the most cards!

Even if you can only do this once, it's worth it, and it only takes 2 minutes! So please, Thank a Soldier today!

Christmas Promo 2008

We've been having a great few days with our Christmas Promo! Here's just a few of our little Christmas Cuties!

Snow Babies and Children Too!

Question Answered...

So, I know it's been quite a while since I've written a new blog... I guess weddings kinda take up a good chunk of time and sanity!

For those of you who weren't aware, I married Robert Stell on October 18. We left for St. Louis that night and flew to Tampa the following day to get onto our cruise ship: The Carnival Legend. It was amazing. We were gone for just over a week. It was very relaxing and just what we needed after all the wedding stress! We did get quite a shock when we got back to St. Louis though, a little chilly after a week in the Caribbean!

It's nice to be back though, and fun to be getting settled in our new place... we still have boxes everywhere, but it's so nice to have a place together now!

One of the biggest questions I keep getting asked is if the studio is going to stay where we are or move somewhere else. At this time, we are still in the same location we've been in since we opened. While we have been looking at different buildings inside the city limits for about 6 months now, we still haven't found one that meets our needs! We'll continue to stay put until we find the perfect new location! When that does finally happen, we'll let you all know!

The other question I keep getting asked is "Who did your photography?" This wasn't a hard choice for me. Bobby told me from the start that the photographer was totally my decision. He wanted me to get someone that I could trust, and not feel like I had to be checking their work throughout the day. I've known since before I even met Bobby that I wanted Lem and Marilyn Mauer from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. They are a husband wife team who used to have a studio in Iowa near where I used to work. I always used to hang out with them at photography conventions and consider them to be great friends... plus, I love their work!

See you all for our Christmas Promo!

Children's Christmas Promo

This year we are going to try something a little different with our Children's Christmas Promo.

As we have always taken many shot during our promo, we know from experience that it can be difficult for our clients to choose just one or two for their packages. I think we have a solution.

This year, we will be posting our Christmas Promo sessions online, as we do with all of our full sized sessions. We will take just as many as we always have, whatever we can fit in in our 15 minute slots, and enhance ALL of them for you. You will then be able to shop online at your leisure and purchase exactly what you'd like. I feel that this will be a nice upgrade for our clients who's needs haven't exactly fit our packages in the past.

With all of these changes, we have decided that we will be having a session fee of $10.00 per session. If more than one family would like to do a grouping, a cousins session for example, each family represented will be charged $10.00. This session fee will give each family at $5.00 credit on Pictage. You will also receive Duplicate Prints for Free for the first 30 days.

Our Children's Christmas Promo will be November 20th -November 22nd. 10am-3pm each day. Please call the studio to set up your appointment. Each session will be alloted 15 minutes. Pets are welcome as always!

We have also been kicking around the idea of a Family Christmas Promo. If you'd be interested, please leave a comment on this blog, or drop me an e-mail. If we have enough interest, we'll do it!! Same online procedure, $15.00 session fee.

Christmas is Coming!!!

The Christmas Holidays are just a few short months away! Time to start thinking of Christmas Gifts for the families. If you'd like to order prints or albums to give as gifts from Pictage, the cutoff dates to receive your prints By December 25th are as follows:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Product	Standard	Priority	Overnight
Final Prints	10-Dec	15-Dec	18-Dec
Photo greeting cards
Fine Art Cards	10-Dec
Consumer Albums	06-Nov
Coffee Table Books	04-Dec
DVD Slideshow	04-Dec

Please take these dates into consideration when planning your orders. These are for delivery by the 25th, not much before. If you have to travel, I would recommend either having your portraits shipped to your destination, or ordering at lease 2 weeks before your departure!

The Future Gegg's

I recently photographed Bryan Gegg and Emily Klemp. They will be getting married in the spring of 2009, so now was the perfect time for their engagement session.

Bryan and Emily were a really fun couple to work with... can't wait for the wedding!