BOSTON CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHER, BOSTON FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER, BOSTON NEWBORN PHOTOGRAPHER

$350
20 minute mini-session
10-15 image gallery
3 5X7 prints
1 8X10 print
1 set wallets (8)
$100 credit towards custom designed holiday cards OR 1 digital file (color & BW printable to 11X14)

Details:

On-location sessions (i.e. at your home) are available in towns that touch Topsfield, MA (Topsfield, Boxford, Middleton, Danvers, Hamilton, Wenham, and Ipswich).

If you live outside this immediate area, you are welcome to schedule a session here in town at one of our beautiful outdoor locations such as River Road or Wheatlands Hill. If you have two friends that are interested in sessions, I will travel to other locations, but I require a $75 deposit in advance from three families for back-to-back time slots to make traveling mini-sessions happen.

Sessions will be scheduled from October 4 – November 12, 2010. Many weekend time slots are already filled up, so if you need a Saturday or Sunday time, please contact me immediately.

Holiday card templates will be available in early October (with a really neat theme this year!). Text changes and greetings may be made at no additional charge.  Additional customizations may be made for $25/change. All digital proofs must be signed off on prior to print.  Balance must be paid in full at the time of ordering additional prints.

Holiday cards begin at a minimum order of 25 and cost $2.50-$3.50 per card depending on the design and envelope printing choices.

In lieu of ordering holiday cards with a $100 credit, you may receive one (1) digital JPEG file for use in your own holiday card template (i.e. Tiny Prints, Shutterfly, etc.).   Up to 3 additional files may be purchased at a discounted rate of $75 file. Digital files come in Color and BW with print rights to print to 11X14.

Additional prints, albums and cards available at a la carte or package pricing.

Mini-sessions must be paid in full at the time of the session.   Please, no exceptions. Your gallery will be available within 10-12 days of your session. You will have 7 days to finalize your print order (including additional prints). Prints will be delivered within 10 days of your order and cards will be delivered within an agreed upon time frame.

Due to the busy holiday season and the discount provided with this session, it is not possible for Kristina Young Photography to “unbundle” or swap out print options. If you would like a more flexible package, please reserve a full session.

After a few weeks that have sort of had me in a tailspin (of which I will bore you with details in another post), I woke up thinking “I need to do what I love and remember why I love it.”  I’d spent a few too many days focusing on challenges and not what makes me happy.  And although that’s necessary sometimes, (as Terri Lee says “they are called growing pains for a reason”) too much obsessing can be a bad thing.  So after “releasing some negativity” to two of my three favorite sounding boards, I went to my session feeling really positive, thinking “I am going to shoot this the way I love to shoot.” And based on my client’s session objectives, I knew we were on the same page with that.

My gallery delivery is slipping from 2 weeks to 2.5 weeks, sometimes to 3.  And though that makes me cringe a little bit, I believe last year it was more like 4-6 weeks as I battled it out with a full time job and my babies… but now I seem to have it much more together.  I wanted to throw it out there because sometimes my timelines do slip.  And I want you to know that I am painfully aware of it.  If you have booked a session, or you have placed an order, your name is on a list that I stare at, ALL DAY LONG.  That said, other than one person, who is receiving a special treat from me, and my lovely Stacey (whose images make my heart sing and weep at the same time and will be blogged this week), and one commercial account… after I send out this gallery I will be CAUGHT UP.  Of course there is still work to do, but no one will be making voo-doo dolls in my likeness.

So things to come on the blog this week and early next are: Stacey and the twins, perhaps a catch up blog post with a few images from galleries that have already gone out, a session with another photographer (I am so excited to shoot this!), and four sessions over the course of the weekend and next week.  Somewhere in there will be another gorgeous Senior girl.  And I’m wrapping up two wedding galleries of which I have blogged, but would love to show some longer slideshows.

From a business/housekeeping perspective: I am changing up my packages starting October 1.  I am offering a wider variety of products within each package so that you have more to display and hold in your hands.  I am also changing up some business policies, so if you book a session with me, I’ll stress to you that you have to read them… and I do that because I know that I rarely read the fine print myself.  I’ll be announcing mini-sessions Friday.  And I am out of town shooting in Erie Friday September 25th – September 30th.  You will hear my husband breathe a sigh of relief as he gets to experience a silent home for SIX NIGHTS.  Then it’s home to kick off the Topsfield Fair and begin the crazy holiday rush!

Here are a few from 2.5 weeks ago. This slideshow will go out tonight!  This very awesome client was a referral from my friend Amber and I am so thankful for her sending them my way.  I simply love it when I connect with a client, the session flies by, and I feel like I have made a new friend!

Sarah is quite possibly the friend in my life I have known the longest.  My guess is that outside of my sister and cousins, she is the baby my mom lay me down next to first.  We have known each other “forever,” [because we are both approaching the age when you stop telling people your age].  And now we are both moms, with our children somewhat close in years as well.  I spent an hour with her Monday, the first time in years.  It was so nice.  Not a lot of explanation or reference needed, just catching up. [see similar explanation of our relationship here]

Growing up, her parents had a study in which hung the most beautiful black and white photographs I’d seen.  The were dark and grainy, faces shot in shadow, highlights just right.  Before I decided this would become my life, I knew it was how I wanted to shoot.  When I entered their home on Monday, my first stop was to walk down the hall and study each one.  Still lovely as ever, timeless, beautiful.

It made me very happy to photograph Sarah’s beautiful baby girl and to try to meet those the standards those images set so long ago.  I am not sure that I was able to, but that’s what I’ll keep working towards and keep hoping for.  So here is one…

Just one.