P.S. I was amazed how well they took directions for different things I wanted them to do…. if only I could get my adult wedding clients to do that well! ;)

Cayleigh loved making funny faces at Tyler’s expense, lol.

“pretend like the fence is a train………”

How do you like them apples!?

-a fancy flash intro (which you can choose to skip if you like)
-easier navigation through menus and pages to browse and find the information you want
-larger image galleries and the slideshow options to browse through images easier with
-an interactive calendar with automatic links to sunset times, online viewing & ordering sites, blog entries & even status updates for your event-added product & album pages with information & photos to help educate of various styles and options
-a new gift and registry page that allows couples to easily add us to their bridal registry for various options
-easy access to make payments online, find online viewing & ordering events, facebook, etc

I hope you’ll enjoy the new site… I want to give some props to Stephen of www.equali.com for doing an amazing job as well as www.overit.com for their fancy intro presentation.  Ok, enough telling you how cool it is, click here to check it out for yourself! :)

I have a few plugs I need to give to some of the fantastic professionals that helped put this event together and are always so awesome to work with.  I’ll start by mentioning Christine Wheat, who did an amazing job of planning the entire event and running the show to ensure all went smooth!  Next, I need to mention what a great job Make Me Fabulous did in making Gabby look like a rockstar for her birthday – I’m sure her friends were blown away at how incredible she looked!  Party decorations and flowers were done by the amazing floral artist herself, Kris Ann of Fleurtatious Designs, and the party would not have been the party it was without Nick rockin’ the mic from Cool Cat DJ!  An all around “dream team” of professionals helping to make this a very special day for Gabby, and think it was awesome…. a girl could only be so lucky to have such a killer party (I should have had one of these in high school, I would have been popular the rest of the way through High School, haha!)

We are still going through images from the day and look forward to putting together a killer album for Gabby to share this wonderful memory with someday.  I wanted to quickly share a few samples from the day!

P.S. Photos will be made available online for viewing & ordering for those interested, and you can pre-register your email at the link below to receive automatic notification of when images go live:

http://mattramosphotography.instaproofs.com/enterEvent.php?id=111755

(some birthday flowers that arrived at the house for Gabby)

(you can see where Gabby get’s the good looks from)

(awesome decor and floral arrangements gave the room great atmosphere)

(this look familiar?)

(Dad giving a little slideshow presentation of the younger years & Gabby’s reaction)

(a special dance between Dad & his little girl – well, not so little anymore)

(Gabby rockin’ a little numba on the mic for her friends)

(the cake waiting for Gabby to blow out the candles!)

(can she do it?)

(she nails it!)

(Gabby leading the pack of festivities)

A few days ago, I had the opportunity to shoot an amazing maternity session with a bit of a local celebrity here, in the Capital Region.  (So that I can attempt to give her a bit of privacy, I’m not going to mention any names in this blog post).  I’ll admit, I don’t shoot a million of these a year, however had a blast capturing some great images in the studio together.  These are meant to be a gift for her husband for their upcoming anniversary, which I’m sure he will love – more importantly, I think maternity images will someday be so important to the child (or in this case twins, which are due in about 5 or 6 weeks).  It means a lot to me as an artist to be able to capture such special moments in a person or family’s life and look forward to hopefully photographing the babies once they are born (you’ll have to stay tuned for an update).

I can’t even begin to tell you how many amazing images we captured from this session, however even though I’m going nuts wanting to show you some of the other awesome stuff, I’m going to hold off on posting anything further to respect privacy, unless I got permission to do so – I’ll update this later if that ends up being the case.Here are a few of my favorites from the day!

Corina always likes to take the edge off before going into one her of model shoots – it helps her to relax and just be herself?  By the way, Dave is up for father of the year, and would really appreciate your votes – LOL!

So…… A few years ago, I received a call from Angela and her husband Bill, who had just moved to the area from St. Louis, and were looking to find somewhat of a “family photographer.”  Our first shoot together was in the park together just to get some fun photos of the two of them.  Little did I know after that day that I would play a bigger role in helping to document their family.  Several months later, we received another call from Ang & Bill letting us know they were pregnant and we had the opportunity to shoot some maternity photos with them.  Upon giving birth to their beautiful little girl, Madeline, they called us from the hospital to ask if they could bring her by to have us photograph her…. at this point, she was literally 2 days old I think (who calls their photographer from the hospital by the way, that’s nuts - lol!)  Again, we were able to shoot with them & capture some amazing shots of Madeline (Maddy) and without a doubt one of my all-time favorite photos of Bill holding his little girl in the palm of his hand (see photo below).

A few years passed, and while we always wondered how they were doing, lost contact with each other.  A few weeks ago, Tonya and I were shopping in our local Home Depot and much to our surprise stumbled into a couple of familiar faces…. it was Bill & Angela….. and along with them a beautiful little girl who I had literally not seen since she was 2 days old.  It was truly a surreal moment for me to see a living, walking, talking little person with a personality and smile when the last I’d seen her she was an infant - it’s amazing how things like this happen sometimes.  It was exciting to have Bill, Angela & Maddy come over last night for some updated holiday portraits and to have dinner (and play guitar hero!) and was so great to see them after all this time and our given history with them.  They are truly an awesome couple and now great friends of ours….. I wanted to share this story since I thought it was pretty cool how things have unfolded!

Here are a few shots to document their lives with….. Bill & Ang, (didn’t post the maternity shots for privacy reasons), Maddy on that day she came right from the hospital, and a few updated photos of Madeline now, who is now 3 years old.  Thanks for a fun time together guys….. it was so great to see you and hang out!

P.S. Bill is one of the top Chiropractors in the Capital Region if anyone is looking for one or needs one in the future….. you can check out their website at www.newloudonchiropractic.com.

(2 day old Madeline)

(man they grow up quick!)

(check out these funny lookin’ reindeer)