Alexandrea | Grand Junction Senior Photographer

Another teen. And SUCH a beautiful girl inside and out. She was a dream to work with. What a treat for me to photograph someone that holds still! She knew what she wanted and mom just left us to do our thing. We wandered the allies behind all of the wonderful Main Street shops for a couple of hours, laughing and chatting while we zig-zaged and back tracked for clothing changes and to go back to someplace we had seen that looked like it would work for what we wanted. I think I actually wore her out.

My own Walker.

Some of you know that I use cloth diapers. Some of you also cloth diaper but when many of you hear this you kind of give me a strange look. Cloth diapers have evolved immensely since the days of our parents and grand parents. No longer are they boring and white. And no longer do they require the pins and soaking that many associate with cloth. They are so full of fun prints and colors that I hesitate to cover them up. I'm always on the hunt to increase my stash and eagerly await my fluffy mail. Many can be found quite readily at stores like http://www.cottonbabies.com/ and http://www.nickisdiapers.com/. You hear of brand names like Fuzzy Bunz, BumGenius! or Haute Pockets. Then there's the WHAM brands that you find readily at Etsy or at eBay. Still others are hard to find, selling out within seconds of going up for sale like the diapers at Hyena Cart. My favorite diapers come from my friends at Hyena Cart. I feel very lucky to own a single Stinky Couture diaper as Daphne only sells a very limited number of diapers every month. I was happy to find in my email box I had just earned another. Check out my youngest in his Stinky, the July winner of the Stinky Couture photo contest. www.hyenacart.com/StinkyCouture/

holiday deadlines and mini's at Kairos.

I really need to keep up on this. I've had so many beautiful sessions since my last update and I thank all of you for keeping me so busy.

It's time to talk about the holidays. I know, I know...holiday's already? yeah. It's creeping up on us fast. If you're thinking about portraits for holiday or Christmas gifts for the grandparents it's time to give me a call. The ordering deadline for gift and wall portraits for delivery before December 23 will be the Friday BEFORE Thanksgiving, November 21. Holiday cards should be designed, finalized and ordered by November 14 for a December 1 delivery. Canvases, books and other specialty products will need to be completely designed, finalized and ordered by Thursday, October 30. I will be out of the office and completely unavailable the week following the November 21st deadline and cannot guarantee delivery dates if these dates are missed.

A few weeks ago I did a series of mini sessions at Kairos Children's Boutique, located at 129 South 6th Street, right behind Main Street Bagels. If your looking for something fun and unique for your little one to wear, pop in on her. She carries name brands like Daily Tea and Petunia Picklebottom and See Kai Run. Things you can't find anywhere else in Grand Junction. She also has beautiful, handmade, one of a kind clothing that is just to DIE for. I love her stuff. I could run my hands through the little clothes all day long. Mini sessions like these were a first for me and I found the morning light inside her store AMAZING. So amazing that we're cooking up another day of shooting in the near future. If you're interested in this give Carla a call at 970.241.0460 and she'll put you on the list.

A couple of the images from that day: