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EW COUTURE COLLECTION

Thursday
May272010

Marketing Materials for Photographers :: Rep Cards :: May's free templates

And here is May's free EW Couture Collection template download: two beautiful plaid sets of rep card templates.  

I first created the regular business card size rep cards and decided to add as a little bonus to this month's download the Miller's cool version of the rep cards. Their Rep Cards are a fresh, pretty sweet take on senior rep and studio business cards. I wonder which ones you'll like best.

You can download them through the EW Couture Facebook page, or on the Maternal Lens (as of tomorrow).

Enjoy them and pay it forward! :)


Saturday
May152010

A little sneak peek

SO behind with posting to the blog sessions and the 365 personal project as well. Well with the 365 I am just as behind with the editing of the images. I will be catching up. When? That's a mystery... Definitely before the end of this year ;) Such is life when you have too many exciting things going on :)

Well, enough about that.
Here are a few of Greg from a while back. I had such a great time getting together and taking pictures of him. He had this perfect mix going on of shyness, feeling put on the spot at times and then just confidence and feeling at ease.

You made it really hard Greg to choose only a handful of images to post. There are a whole lot more great ones where these came from :) 

Sunday
Apr252010

Creations by Ly team and on wish granting... :: Portland, Oregon

I've first met and worked with Nadia as a graphic designer, creating the logo and the identity for her company, about a year and a half ago. A lovely person, and a great client to work with. Recently, we met again to get head shots for the entire Creations by Ly team. 

Nadia was recently selected as the Portland Chapter President for Wish Upon a Wedding. As the World’s first nonprofit wedding wish granting organization, Wish Upon a Wedding provides weddings at destinations across the United States to couples facing life-threatening medical conditions, celebrating the courage & spirit of these couples.

Here is a recent article in the news, about the work that Wish Upon a Wedding does: "...Dream Weddings to Terminally Ill"  Learn more about the Portland chapter and how you might get involved, on their Facebook page.

Sunday
Apr252010

Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival, Portland :: a few of my own :)

We really wanted to go to the tulip festival this year as well, but waited a little too long. I guess you can expect rather 'tired' blooms in the last week of a month long flower festival. Regardless it was beautiful and we had a lot of fun. Audrey had a blast trying her best to get her rubber duckies aster than daddy over the finish line, enjoyed the slides and making new friends.

She wasn't quite sure about the tractor ride in the beginning, even though she asked for it. By the end she was ready to go around a few more times, though. :))

(I am not sure what made me not set the camera to one of the automatic modes when mom asked to take a picture of us, but I love this regardless ;). Besides I believe she has a few good ones on her camera.)

... She loves her 'ica'. (that's what she calls grandma - short for 'bunica')

...and here is one of me, taken by my sweetie :)

Sunday
Apr252010

EW Couture Collection :: A Photographer's Boutique :: April 2010 Free Download

It's been a couple of weeks already since I sent out the email with April's free download from the collection of free marketing templates for photographers, just haven't found the time and blog about it.

A really cute template for a wallet size accordion mini book (mini "purse size" brag book).
For the photographers that would like the template - you can download it on the EW Couture Collection Facebook page.

Also, wanted to say thank you to Sarah Siripoke for sharing images of the cute mini album she printed using this month's download. I love the cover image. So adorable!
Thanks for sharing Sarah! I love being able to see how the templates are being used :) 

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