Once a Year Session Special

Purchase a standard session for $175 and receive a complimentary $100 gift certificate for prints or products. Offer good through 3/12/10

SENIOR MODELS NEEDED

Attention 2011 Seniors – I am looking for Senior Models from the following high schools – Valparaiso, Merrillville, Chesterton, Morgan Township, Andrean, Highland, Lake Central, Crown Point, and Munster. Contact Samantha at samantha@samanthauphold.com to find out how you can receive a FREE session and other complimentary goodies! Rep applications are being accepted through the end of March. Please pass this on to any upcoming 2011 Senior that you think would be interested.

Thanks to 2010 starting with an epic computer crash, this contest is SUPER late.   That just gives me an excuse to make this an even better contest than the past two years.  The winning family will get their choice of the image in a 16×20 or a complimentary session.  The 2nd place winner will receive an 11×14, and the 3rd place winner will receive and 8×10.  Encourage all of you friends and family to vote AND to leave a comment at the bottom of this post.  After the contest is over, I will enter every person who leaves a comment into a drawing.   One person will win a complimentary session!!    Everyone can vote once, and the contest ends on March 3rd at 11:59 pm!

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There may have never been a happier child in front of my camera. I think this session took all of 24.7 minutes. Hello, Blue Eyes!!

I couldn’t have better things to say about this gorgeous girl. When one talks about the “total package” they are referring to girls like this…smart, funny, sweet, beautiful, generous, and on and on. I’ve known Taylor for a few years now, and I am continually impressed by this young woman and her achievements. Taylor is my Senior Model for Valparaiso High School this year, and well….could I have lucked out any more? Taylor is an ACTUAL model!! Jackpot!!

Ahhh….two of my favorite boys + one of my fav locations = AWESOME SESSION!!  Thanks for yet another fantastic photo shoot, K family!  I always leave our sessions with a big smile.  Your little boys are a blast!!    

Take a family that I haven’t seen for a year and add in a TO DIE FOR location in the country, and you have photographer heaven.  Here is a little peek of what that looks like for me……it was SO great to see T, Z, and C after so long!!  Thanks for a WONDERFUL session!

The busy fall season is officially underway!  Please contact me now to book for any fall photos or holiday photos.

**Be prepared for an overload of images!!!!!!**

This session was incredible.  Words cannot describe how much I love this girl. Since she knows, and frankly, you may just not care – I’ll leave the gushing between the two of us and allow the images to speak for themselves.  Kenz and I go way back, and I was honored and beyond excited to get to shoot her senior photos.

Do you ever play that game, where you try to assemble the perfect person with a variety of traits from people?  Like, take Adriana Lima’s eyes, and put them with Scarlett Johansson’s nose, along with Kim Kardashian’s hair, and so on until you have assembled the seemingly uber perfect person?  Well, if you ever play with me, I’ll call Kenzie’s lips. They are perfection.  And, that means game over – I’ve won.  lol 

I. Adore. This. Family.

I’ve known Mom since I can remember, and I feel so blessed to get to watch their family grow and capture these precious memories for them.  The Bryan family just recently welcomed a perfect, gorgeous bundle of joy into their lives.  Today I spent the morning taking B’s newborn photos.  It was so neat to see how big brother and sister had already so effortlessly welcomed little brother into their home and hearts. I decided to do an all b&w blog post this time.  The images are simple, and I couldn’t wait to share them with everyone!  I also wanted Daddy to see before he left. 

He is so cute, he even had to pinch his own cheek in the photo below! 

Those lips!!! AYKM??  Perfection!

The boys of the family.  Look at those LASHES!  I just can’t get enough of this big brother.  I’m amazed by his memory and how he remembered I had a bag of goodies for him to choose from at the end of the session.  He asked me if I had anything “cool” this time.  lol  Love it!  He is such an amazing, loving big brother.  This photo just makes me melt.

Ok, really?  Can’t you just soak in the sweetness that is oozing from those gorgeous eyes.  Big sister has grown so much since fall, and I couldn’t help but stop what I was doing every time she put on her excited face and made some insanely adorable hand gestures to tell me about her swim suit.  Love, love, love.

And, finally, nothing to me is more precious than mom/newborn skin on skin shots.  So simple and so pure.