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.

Sweet, funny, smart, beautiful…..

::sigh::

Clients make my job TOO easy!!

Steve had one of the nicest fall days we have had all season for his session. It was a great afternoon spent at two very different locations. He even played his guitar for me while I was shooting!! THAT was a session highlight!! He is a VERY talented guitar player!! Thanks for a wonderful session!

**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 

Hi there!!!!!!!    It’s been a LONG TIME since I’ve blogged!  I decided to take some time off from the blog to catch up on life in general, enjoy summer, and just try not to be SO consumed by the business.  However, the busy fall season is quickly approaching, and my down time is now officially O-V-E-R!  I hope everyone had a chance to enjoy the summer.  It is certainly time to book for Christmas sessions, as there are only a few weekend dates left this fall!  All orders must be placed by the second week in November in order to be guaranteed for Christmas delivery.  So, give me a call (219.405.5117) or shoot me an email via the contact spot at the top to book your session.

This is a regular family of mine, and I love every time I get to photograph them.  Boy, do they make some CUTE babies!!  Check out the last picture in the post.  That is one of my favorite places to shoot family images.  The rolling green hills and perfect blue sky is such an ideal, simple background for any photo.  I’ve shot there so much.  Little Pauly had the *cutest* most unique reaction to the place.  As soon as he saw the hills, with the most serious excitement, he exclaimed “Mommy!  The Teletubbies are coming!  The Teletubbies are coming!!!!!”  While I have never actually watched the show, I instantly had to agree – it DID look just like that strange place they all kind of appeared into (Is that what happens?  How do I even know this when I haven’t watched the show? idk).  He loved it, and wanted to wait for them to come out after we were finished with the session.  We had to convince him they had gone to bed for the night.  Precious!

This brother and sister pair may have been the sweetest, most cooperative children I have ever worked with. They were so loving to one another – it was wonderful to witness.  They traveled up to Valpo to meet me for their photo session, and thankfully the day was perfect.  I had a great time with these two, and it was so fun to work with twins!!!

OMG, you guys….you have no idea how much *fun* this family was to shoot.  By the end of the session they had me ROLLING.  They made me walk away from the session wishing I had 3 teenagers and a 5 year old at home – NOT an easy task to do!    I know you guys have been dying to see these.  I LOVE them!!  Thanks for an amazing session!

Oh, and did they ever!  These girls are my senior rockstars.  They have opted for the 4 seasons senior shoot (see details on my website), so this is now our 3rd shoot since August.  This time they opted to have their session together, and while it was *frigid*, we managed to have a lot of fun and rock out photos like these below.  I used some flash during this session (gasp! lol).  I am primarily a natural light photographer, but with seniors and newborns it is often really fun to break out some cool lighting tricks – and this was the perfect session to do that.  I present – Jess and Jess, Winter 09.  

If you know you would like a 2009 session, NOW is the time to buy a gift certificate for a session fee!!  For 1 Day, you can get a full session ($175) for only $100!!  Please contact me by midnight to purchase this gift certificate!! Sale ends 1/24/08 at 12:00 a.m.  Emails would be appreciated if it is getting down to the wire.  ;)

samantha@samanthauphold.com

or 

405-5117