Black Friday Specials!

Two Ways to Save!
One day only, Friday November 25!!
Purchase either option with a credit card right on www.jeanwozniakphotography.com by clicking on “Black Friday”
Go there now to enter your info and be alerted when the posting is ready for purchase on Friday!

Gift Certificate - 60% Off!
Purchase a gift certificate valued at $240 for only $95! That’s a 60% savings!! Give the gift of custom portraits this season. Entitles the recipient to receive a custom, on location session ($175 value) and 8X10 print ($65 value) from that session, or apply the print value towards a larger wall portrait! Purchase it as a gift for friends or family, or buy one for your own family portrait and save!



4X8 Holiday Cards
If you already had a portrait session (or got married!) this year, use one of your images on cards to send to friends and family. These cards are normally $1.75/ea. The more you purchase, the more you save! Lots of designs to choose from. Go to either http://www.studiosamples.net/ or http://christmascardworld.com/index.html to view the 4X8 designs. Note the card number of your choice. Text can be added to the side under the design (keep it brief). When checking out, indicate image choice from your prior session, card number and text. Black Friday pricing available on new purchases only.

Here's what you'll see when clicking on Black Friday at www.jeanwozniakphotography.com



Interested in holiday cards but didn’t already have a portrait taken?
December 3 is holiday portrait day! Special holiday event pricing applies. Save off normal custom prices!! See details under the Promotions tab at www.jeanwozniakphotography.com!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Holiday Portrait Day 12/3 & Reduced Gift Certificates!

Jean Wozniak Photography is offering several ways to give unique gifts to friends and family this holiday season. See below for details!

Holiday Portrait Day - Saturday, December 3!
Have holiday portraits taken of your immediate family or just the kids. Although normally on location, this will be at my home in Auburn. Choose from a Christmas setting, classic winter setting, or traditional background with no holiday theme. Dedicating 20 minutes to each session; enjoy no lines, no crowds! Reservations required; your $15 pre-paid session fee will reserve your time and be donated to the State Employee’s Association Operation Santa Claus charity. Call or email to reserve your time and receive full pricing information on packages, holiday cards or a-la-carte prints. In order to ensure delivery in plenty of time for Christmas, orders need to be placed at the end of your session.

Grow your Dollars with Gift Certificates!
Don’t know what to give that special someone? How about the gift of portraits!? For every dollar you spend, you’ll receive a $1.50 credit towards a gift certificate. For example, spend $50 and receive a $75 gift certificate; spend $100 and receive a $150 gift certificate. $25 minimum purchase! Gift certificates can be applied towards Creation Fees and/or prints!

There may not be a perfect time to have portraits taken, but there may come a time when you regret not having one! Give the gift of love for generations to come!!

Wishing you the peace and joy of the season as we enter the 2011 holidays!

Fall Family Portrait Day Event

Don't miss this special fall family portrait day event in Auburn, NH! Click on the picture below to view at full page and read the details! Only a few times available before the sun sets that day!! Pre-registration required.

AUGUST PROMOTIONS

HELLO EVERYONE!

Sure hope you’re enjoying your summer! Thank you all so much for keeping me busy with some beautiful weddings and fun family portraits! Since I keep these announcements to a minimum, be sure to check out www.jeanwozniakphotography.com from time to time to make sure you're up to date on the latest promotions!

WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY?
I’m putting together a newsletter to be mailed out soon and it will have a column on tips and tricks of photography. I’d like to hear from you to find out what questions you might want answered about taking photographs!! I will address what I can as space permits in the newsletter!

AUGUST SPECIALS
For more details on all of these specials visit the promotions page at www.jeanwozniakphotography.com.

HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
Hold Your Session in August and Save 25% off your Pre-Paid Creation Fee! Last Month to Save on the Creation Fee!
$25 Cash Back on Each Referral! Visit website for more details.

FAMILY PORTRAITS - CREATION FEE APPLIED TO ORDER!
Hold your family portrait in August, place a minimum order on prints and the value of your Creation Fee will be applied to any additional prints over the minimum order. Visit website for full details.

WEDDINGS
Keep them coming! Oh how I love to get to know each couple's story, capture their traditions and all the details that make the day their own!
For a Limited Time, DVD is included with 2 or more hours of coverage - choose one to meet your budget!

JOIN ME ON FACEBOOK!
Like the Jean Wozniak Photography page and you'll be put in the running for a complimentary family portrait session to be drawn on August 31! http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Jean-Wozniak-Photography/104201089668327

Until next month remember... there may not be a "perfect" time to have a family portrait created, but there may come a time when you regret not having one!

First Communion Portraits

Provided first communion portraits to our parish this past weekend. How adorable the kids looked! They were fortunate to have some beautiful weather to help celebrate this special event! And I was fortnuate to be able to help them capture this special day and those handsome/beautiful outfits! Here are a couple images.

Finally on Facebook!

Hey there:

Yes, I'm probably one of the last handful of people who wasn't on facebook. Well, not any longer. You can follow Jean Wozniak Photography on facebook! Click directly on the link in the Links of Interest in the right hand column and it will bring you right there! Once "the dust settles" from setting it up, there will be posts on what's happening in the business! Can't wait!

Next on the slate...first communion portraits this weekend!

In Business Full Time!

Photography Available Full Time!
It is with much excitement that I announce that Jean Wozniak Photography is now available full time! It has been a dream to be able to make my photography my career and that dream is now within reach!

What does this mean for you?
I am available to help you with many photographic needs!

- Family Lifestyle Portraits (incorporating places or things that are unique to each family)
- Child/Infant/Maternity Portraits
- Weddings
- High School Seniors
- Commercial and Family Events
- Commercial Project Photographs
- Executive Portaits
- Fine Art Wall Hangings

For samples of these services, check out the gallery pages at www.jeanwozniakphotography.com

Why Choose Jean Wozniak Photography?
- Custom, on-location service brought to you
- Dedicated to creating artful images, not just “pictures”
- Takes time to get to know you the client and your specific needs
- Sessions are fun and relaxed
- Caring, thoughtful, friendly personality
- Truly passionate about photography
- 26 years capturing the world around me
- Award Winning images
- Proud six-year member and current 2nd Vice President of Professional
Photographer’s Association

Watch for special photographic events to come!

Anyone can take your picture, I want to become your family photographer! How can I help you!!

Print Competition Results and Latest Happenings

I attended the annual New Hampshire Professional Photographer's Association(NHPPA) conference and state print competition. Always fun and filled with educational classes to continue to grow my skills. And the results are in... Turns out I entered three prints in competition and if you look at my previous blog when I was deciding what to enter, a couple of these are different versions. I am proud to announce that I received a blue ribbon (deserving of merit category) for the spiral staircase, and a red ribbon (above average professional) for the other two images. Always a great learning experience!

I am also proud to announce that I was sworn in as NHPPA's 1st Vice President. My current term as 2nd Vice President will finish the end of May and this 1st VP role starts the first of June! It comes with the task of finding a winter seminar speaker for winter 2012, and finding a great line up of conference speakers for next year's conference. I'll be busy, but it will be a fun journey!







LATEST HAPPENINGS!

What a treat to do a high school senior session in the winter! Typically they are all done by fall due to the school deadlines. This was fun and we even went out in the snow at her suggestion to take photos by a rock wall in their yard! Not only did we have a fun session doing her senior portraits, but the whole family got involved with a family portrait!






LOCAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE

I photographed the local basketball league this winter. What fun! Always good to see all the kids and get them to smile. The ones I know real well I don't cut any slack because I know what great smiles they're capable of! It was even more of a thrill because in between photographing the teams, I got to watch all the games. Our teams worked hard all season and looked great out there on the court! Kudos to the coaches for all the guidance and skills they gave these kids!

Print Competition Time

The state print competition at the annual convention is right around the corner! The convention is one month earlier so everything has to be ready to go asap! I'm excited to be considering entering portraits this year. In years past, I've stuck to my favorite landscape and nature images. We'll see what the judges think of them! If anyone has any feedback on names for the images, I'm all ears! A name can make or break a print and has to assist with the "story" in the image. The judges will hear the name first and then seconds later see the image, so it has to have impact and make sense when they get the visual. Here are this year's candidates.


"Storm Watch"


"Staring Contest" or "It Wasn't Me"


"Stairway to Heaven... or Hell?"


"Intrigued with Daddy" or "Daddy's Little Princess"


"Best Gift Ever!"

Busy Summer Sessions

I can't believe the new school year is already upon us! My kids start on August 30th. The weather this summer has certainly been accomodating, at least for the activities we had scheduled. I'm a fan of hot, summer weather, so I have no complaints at all! Love when you can walk outside and have no temperature jolt from indoors, and when you can be outside by a campfire and the air is still warm enough to be in a sleeveless shirt!!

Specializing in outdoor, on location sessions can be a challenge, but not this summer! It was the busiest season thus far! I've had the pleasure of photographing family portraits, engagement sessions, high school seniors and am getting ready for several upcoming weddings this fall! Here are some of my favorite pix of the summer.




This is actually my hair stylist and her family! If you visit her salon, you'll see this portrait on display. See the links page of my website to view her Signature Style Salon website! If you mention this portrait and hold a session, you can receive a $25 gift certificate to the salon!



This family wanted a portrait taken to give to their Grandmother for her 80th birthday! I'm told she was quite thrilled when she saw it!! This was one of my favorites from the session.



Part of what I enjoy about being a photographer and doing these sessions and weddings is getting to know the people. It's fun to see families and couples interact, have fun, and be able to help them capture this time in their lives in portrait keepsakes.







And High School Seniors are always fun! We were having so much fun on this session, we spent 3 hours walking around the City! Not all sessions are that long, but this was very fun and she's such a great young lady.



I also fulfilled my first responsibility as 2nd Vice President for the Professional Photographer's Association, a role I officially entered this past June, having coordinated/chaired the Association's annual Summer Seminar. Elizabeth and Trey Homan were the guest speakers and had a lot to offer those in attendance including a live demonstration with a Mom with triplets! The topic of the day was ...from maternity, to children and beyond.



Me with the Homans as they accept their speaking certificates.


I truly hope you had a fulfilling summer and enjoy the next few weeks as the leaves start to change! Get out and enjoy the scenary!

My Son's First Communion

I must share a happy event that happened in our family this month. My youngest son received his First Communion. We're so proud of him for this accomplishment, not only for his respect for the event, but also for proudly wearing such a handsome outfit! Congratulations!

Print Competition Results and Entering the Executive Board!

Another NHPPA annual conference draws to a close. Always a great time. As you can see from the images below, they're a crazy, fun bunch. Each banquet has a costume theme and this year's was "Howling Nights". It was intended to be "your scariest costume". Not sure I was a scary as I could be, but with the help of a friend's hand-made red cloak, I went as a vampiress. We had a great time!

In my last post, you'll see the four images I entered in the state print competition. The judges were tough, holding us all to the list of 12 criteria items that make an exceptional print. This year, all four of my images were judged in the "above average professional" category - receiving red ribbons. Overall, there were far more red ribbons than the sought after blue which puts you in the "deserving of merit" category and is a step above a red ribbon; in fact they ran out of red ribbons there were so many! Although it is blue that we strive for, being scored "above average professional" is an honor in itself! Now is time to move forward and plan next year's entries! Such a wonderful learning experience!

Lastly, as is customary at the conference banquet, the year comes to a close for the existing board of directors and the new slate is sworn in. I am excited to now officially be a part of the executive board as the organization's 2nd Vice President. This is an automatic rotating position which means in two years I will become the president. I am looking forward to this journey and proud to be part of this wonderful organization!

Print Competition Time Again!

This year I played with a macro lens and had fun photographing flowers. The result? Three prints for competition this year of flowers! In state competitions, flowers tend to be very popular, and therefore tough to score high. We'll see how these fair! Then I'll be "throwing in" a fall scene from the mountains. Hopefully this will do well?! The limit is five prints and here I have four. Time is running out, but it would be great to put in five! Realistically, it may just stay at four, though.

LINKS OF INTEREST

Keep an eye to the bottom right corner of this blog. I'll be adding links to offer suggestions for wedding vendors or other links of interest! Already in the links list is Birds of Peace White Doves which is a family owned business that provides white dove releases for many occassions, as well as Signature Style Salon, owned by one of the most creative and enthusiastic styles in the area who really cares about her clients! Click on the links to find out more!

Flowers and Herbs - Close Up!

Well, if you look at the last few images from my previous blog entry, I took some flower images after a portrait shoot. I took those images with a very long lens - not one that was condusive of close-ups. So I was itchin' to get closer!! With the help of a 60mm macro lens, I went to this beautiful herb garden and had some fun in the rain! The water droplets added an extra element of beauty to the flowers. Oh what fun...

Not sure what this was. Although a lot of the flowers and herbs were labelled, this was not. I loved how the rain drops outlined the edges of the leaves.



There were several areas where the stalks were braided - interesting.



Had some fun with these Foxglove stalks.





There's a beautiful dirt road lined with lavender and various flowering herbs that I had to capture.







This image doesn't do the size of this spider's web justice!