Alison Waring: Photography Graphic Design

A little George Michael for ya. Why you ask? Because I checked my mail on Saturday and what did I see!?!  A supercoolawesomefunky camera neck strap from My Funky Camera.  Two birds makin’ out hot off the sewing machine.  I won mine in a contest that she had on Twitter.  Haven’t signed up yet? You totally should, nothing relieves stress like reading other people’s rants and snarky comments. 

You should go and check out what Gabriela has in her store, everything is handmade with lurve by her.  She will pimp your gear. Wurd!!

I’m trying something new.  Portraits that I’ve taken that have had a bit of…um..ahem…*work* done on them, I’m going to hold a contest.  A contest to figure out what I’ve done to enhance them. 

I’ll take up to 5 winners.  The winners will be awarded with $100 off their session fee and 25% off additional purchases.  So get your eyeballs ready and keep your chin up! There are 2 adjustments done to the following image.  I’ll give 2 clues, it’s only the mom in the picture and nothing to do with color.

Please email me your answers: awaring@bellsouth.net
Winners will be announced in 2 weeks.
*Restrictions apply, discount cannot be applied with other offers, winners/contestants must be within 50 miles of Sanford.

This is actually a shameless plug for one of my favorite clients.  She has entered her superduper cutie into the most huggable baby contest.  So head on over to http://magic107.com/pages/hb_vote2.html to vote for little Landon.  PS he’s the 3rd Landon on that page and looks like this:

I rawked out another senior session this weekend.  It was soooo much fun, of course Grace prolly thinks I’m a total dork and directionally challenged.   I really let my true colors shine through.  She’s a dancer (yay!) and an NYU hopeful, so cross your fingers for her.

Of course being a dancer I had to make her jump around.  The local bikers were entertained and a bit impressed too.

As in Boston, MA.  I had the AWESOME experience of taking a workshop by Austin photographer Cheryl Muhr.  She had a gaggle of kiddos/models for us to snap pictures of.  I’m super tired so I hope you don’t mind my post being short on words and heavy on images.

Landon that is.  I’m sure it’s because my face was hidden behind the “Big Black Box that Clicks”.  He’s too stinkin’ cute that’s for sure.  I had the pleasure of snapping his 3 month old pictures this past weekend.  Hard to believe seeing as how it seems like yesterday I was visiting him in the hospital!

 35 second naps RAWK!

He’s got the cutest rubberband wrists

And yes he did smile for me…well for mommy & daddy

I cannot wait for September to get here!!! The 12th I’ll be leaving for Boston. I’m lucky enough to have a seat with The Secret Workshop, hosted by Cheryl Muhr. She’s awesome and taken all kinds of pics for various magazines. You should see a dramatic change in my style when I get back. Don’t worry it’ll still be me but better. I got my shirt today that I designed for the workshop. I’m meeting a bunch of other ladies at the airport, we’re going to try and find our way to the hotel- we have to take a bus then a shuttle. Hopefully we make it in one piece and hopefully they won’t see this picture and be horrified by my extreme dorkiness.

I’ll be back on the 14th (after a day trip in NY, IM me with ideas where to go, or not to go in NY) and will resume business as normal. I’ll have limited access to email but I will be checking periodically so don’t fret if you have a problem you can still reach me.

I ran into this on the way to drop HP off at school

Originally that was the street leading out of our neighborhood. Now it’s the canal leading out of our neighborhood. We’re expecting 10 more inches of rain today, not total just today, as in addition to what we’ve already gotten. I’m calling the school now to let them know that HP will be a “Swimmer” today instead of a “Car Rider”.

Excuse the quality it was taken with my phone.
 

I do believe my eyeballs are melting from staring at the monitor for so long.  Been trying to think up some new ideas for my senior reps.  I still have a few spots open (especially for guys, what’s with that?) so contact me if you’re interested in being a Senior High School Representative for my work.  It’s not hard work and I promise not to schedule anything before 2pm in the afternoon, so you don’t even have to get up early.  Here’s design one, lemme know your thoughts or wants!

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