Saying Goodbye To The Year!

Hey everyone,

Just doing an update for today, and have an announcement to make! On our last day in the studio (Friday December 16th) all of us are rejoicing to celebrate what a wonderfully successful year we've had. We are gonna get some pizza from across the wall (Airport Pizza) and have a really fun afternoon together before we part for the Holidays. Of course this is an open invitation, and if any of our beloved clients want to join us in our celebration, they are all more than welcome! We're hoping for a really fun day together to look back on our successful year together. As you know, this isn't the end of the studio forever, we will be returning on the 10th of January, so if you have any orders you still need to come and pick up, we will be back and happy to serve you :)

This week has been pretty busy, all of us are doing our last minute work in the studio before our break. Desiree is doing processing and contest submitting, as she is glued to her screen working her magic for almost all day. Lunch seems to be the only time we have to really wind down and take a mental break from all the filing, year end taxes, and general tid bits of things to do before we close up shop for the season. Adam and Karen and I are working really hard on processing all the expenses, which seems to be most of the hectic work around here. Boy, am I ever looking forward to when I have to do my own taxes.... (well, not really!). Although, we're pushing through it all, getting all the last phone calls in before people start to go away for the holidays.

Cheers! We hope to see some of you all on Friday to celebrate with us!
Sarah


À mes amis,

Nous avons été très occupés, cette semaine! Nous nous preparons pour les vacances de Noël, et aussi, pour la fermeture du studio vendredi, le 16 Décembre, nous allons fêter nos succès de cette année avec la pizza vendredi. Nous ésperons que vous pourrez être des notres.

À Bientôt,

Sarah

Newest Promotion for January 2012!

Hey everyone!

Just got some great news from Desiree today- we're having a new Tattle Tales Promotion this January for the Starry Night Set! It runs from January 19th-21st, and bookings are available in the new year! Everyone here at Your Eye On Photo are really excited about this promotion!
Check back in later on for our next promotion, following the Starry Night!

Cheers!

Sarah

now.. EN FRANCAIS! It's great I'm doing this French addition- it's really helping me polish up my French! She helps me edit the passages, which is awesome of her considering I'm not totally fluent and I just study French at school. It is definitely coming back fast, I will say that. Anyhow, here we go: attempt numero deux! Written by Sarah, edited and overlooked by the lovely Desiree :)


Salut toutes le monde!

Désirée m'a donné quelques bonnes nouvelles! Notre prochainne promotion Tattle Tales est deja au calendrier.   Le theme: La Nuit Étoilée!  Les dates: du 19 au 21 Janvier 2012.

A bientôt!

Sarah

Recent Happenings At The Studio

Dear Followers, Clients, and Friends,

The Snow Fairy weekend that I talked about in my last post went very well! All the little ones were wonderful, and both the children and I had a real blast with all the props and little adventures! The book in our front window has been changed, finally, since our grand opening of our new location 18 months ago! We have our little Tattle Tales 'Starry Night' scenes as our new "chapter" for the next little while. We're hoping to change it more often, and continue to add pages until we have a beautiful story of all our wonderful clients.

This is an image of a beautiful dancer, lacing her ballet slippers.

Our best dancer! This pose is absolutely perfect! A personal favourite! 

One of our Tattle Tales themed portraits for Children. This one is called Little Snow Elf. Isn't he just angelic in this picture? His expression is really great, and he was amazing to work with!

Just recently, we have a new co-op student here to help out with shoots and do receptionist work- as well as learning the tips and tricks of studio photography. Welcome, Sarah! We hope you enjoy your time here with us!

So, the new year is coming, and so is Christmas Break. Lucky us, we're taking a little more time off to spend with our cherished family and friends, and wish for you all to do the same. We will begin a fresh start to a promising new year, and maybe fulfil some resolutions along the way! Christmas is so important, not just as a religious base, but to really make time to celebrate and give thanks with your family. It gives us a chance to congregate and share laughs. Another way you can see this approaching, is through the beauty of the snow falling. Although that leads to cold, it is always a shared delight by sitting beside the fire with a blanket and a warm beverage to wind down in the evenings. Having a Tassimo Brewer at the studio is really convenient for that! Also having a fantastic fireplace to stand beside on the chillier days is always a favourite.

With everything rolling along, from all of us at Your Eye On Photo, we would like to wish you all a very happy holidays, and a happy and prosperous new year for many years to come!


Chers clients et amis,

La saison de Noël est venue très rapidement, et la neige aussi! Je suis désolée, parce que mon français n`est pas au point. Je m'appelle Sarah, et j'assiste Désirée avec le blog, et j'aimerai écrire pour mes amis français. Sur une autre note, l'hiver est très beau! Je regarde la neige tomber, a côté de la cheminée avec mon chocolat chaud. Cette saison est ma préférée. Je l'aime! Retour sur le sujet, le studio est fantastique, avec le vacances d'hiver à proximité, nous preparons les commandes de notre dernière session, qui seront prêtent pour le ramassage. Les photos sont belles; merci à tous nos clients.

Sarah

Newsletter is out

Hello, a few quick notes
NEWSLETTER
The October newsletter is out. if you would like to subscribe to it please drop me a line here
NOVEMBER
November has gotten pretty full already. it is true that going away for a Mexico wedding makes the month that much shorter but still. There is a snow fairy week end November 17 to 19 and a bunch of new products to get for clients.
We did not get as many Dancers as expected so we shortened the week end. That is next week end.
FAMILY PHOTOS AND GREETING CARDS
We have put a week end aside specifically for family photos. We can do them on location here in beautiful Caledon. We already have a couple of location picked out. If you were thinking of greeting cards, please book your session soon to avoid dessapointment.
If you have already had  a family photo session this year with us, we will gladly order greeting cards for you. Just give us a call 905-584-1999


Wedding News
The new Wedding web site has been launched. We will add more work shortly. here is the link for a visit www.weddingstoriesbydesiree.com

Fashion Edition

Wedding Stories are great. Everyone holds a piece of the story. It might take a long time before the whole day is pieced together. The photography is so important if only to help with the missing pieces.

there is some of the photography that is hard to do on the day of the wedding. Even though I sometimes see the bride that wants to get that GREAT shot done, she is worried about her dress. Especially if it's a chiffon dress... There is no time to wash the dress and certainly no time to mend the dress. And besides, you want to make your entrance and show off your dress...

Here is an example of Fashion Edition shots done on a day other than the wedding day.
If you get the urge... You can get a Fashion Edtition shoot done anytime after your wedding day.  Whether the day after or weeks after your wedding day.

The point of this shoot is not to "trash"  your dress. But think about it, what are you going to do with your dress? Wouldn't you love to see yourself in a fashion type image wearing your fabulous dress? How about lying on the ground or climb a tree or lie down in the woods or even go for a dip with your gorgeous dress on?  the dress might even survive unscathed since the point is not to give it a rough treatment on purpose. 

These are some images we got when the bride had no time constrictions.

Summing up the last few months

I know...   Bad blogger, again!!! Instead of posting every week, I seem to post every month... In a way this also means that we were so busy at the studio (and on location) that there wasn't even one minute to update.

LIVING SOCIAL and TATTLE TALES
So here it is. Since the last post, We have had the Living Social promo wrapping up and we sold 43 "Deals" :)   More than half the participants have now booked their session.  We have opened up the promo to include other Tattle Tales in addition to the Wood Fairy that was planned. As a result, we have planned all the Tattle Tales until the end of 2011 already. It wasn't easy choosing which of our 14 themes would be featured. We have tried to stay within the age appropriate range originally offered. The Baby Girl Bath that is scheduled for June is the exception. This theme had been planned before the LS promo. We have scheduled the Wood's Fairy again in September and opened the following themes: Fishin' Hole, On the Stage, Teddy Bear Picnic, and the Snow Fairy,
For dates, please see the new web site

Also since the last post, I have covered  4 events on location - and one more wedding next week end-  :)  We have also had 3 family shoots, one maternity and a newborn session in the studio . Many of these images are now on our web sites. 

FASHION EDITION
In collaboration with Gown and Glory consignment boutique, a Fashion Edition photo shoot was drawn.  the lucky winner this year was Julia Taylor. We shot at the Albion Orchards here in Caledon. graciously offered by owner Scott Luneau. I will be posting images soon.

WEDDINGS
Jeanette and Troy's big wedding on June 4th all went well considering... It started off with a very wet day. then, a zipper emergency... Nothing stopped us though. All went well and the weather got as good as it gets! After the ceremony here in Caledon East, we posed and had fun with the bridal party and the bride and groom at the gorgeous  "Adamson's  Estate" in Mississauga.  I can't seem to find a web site with photos of the Adamson's So I will make a point to show it here on my blog.
I am looking forward to Gaetana and Stewart's wedding coverage next week end at the beautiful Royal Ambassador in Caledon

YOUR EYE ON PHOTO  - NEWSLETTER
We also published our newsletter.  We want to publish it 4 times a year and send it to you so you can read it over a nice cup of coffe, tea or cocoa... If you wish to be added to the mailing list please email us with "Newletter" in the subject line.

WEB SITES
We are working hard to update the Wedding Stories by Désirée web site. Please be patient. This might have to be done while on vacation.

VACATION
We are planning a big vacation  in July. will keep you posted.

Well, this about wraps it up.
Talk soon,
Desiree

P.S. Personal challenge. I got to get in shape. I always have good intentions but it has been really hard to keep the work outs steady. I want to come up with a motivator that won't fail me.

Off to do my work out!

Promotions worked for Your Eye on Photo

I know I have not written a word here and hardly even visited Facebook lately, but that's because we have been tremendously busy at the studio.  I am so pleased to report that the March Tattle Tales promotion worked beyond my expectations with 32 photo sessions and almost 40 little ones coming to the studio. thanks to all of them and all the moms and dads, we now have a lot of new tattle tales themes and a lot of new images.
The Tattle Tales website is now updated and each of our 14 Tattle Tales are beautifuly illustrated. See them all here ;     http://tattletalesportraits.com/

Thank you all !

Our regularly scheduled designer sessions, among them a maternity session,  were still going as well and thanks to those, we've also added new images to our main web site. You can visit those right here http://www.youreyeonphoto.com/yeophome.htm

Our big news a the studio this week, is that the Wood's fairies Tattle Tales are featured on Living Social Family Edition. To see more details, please click on the following link
http://livingsocial.com/deals/28908-children-s-photo-shoot-39-with-prints-5

This is really exciting ! I will report later on how this promo works out.

Desiree

Sibling Portraits

It is so much "fun" ; - )  when siblings come in and have to get along...
It's fun to get them to loosen up and get their expressions just as they really are. At the viewing session, when the parents say, "This is really him/her" I know I've captured their essence.
Some images from the latest . It was like bada boom, bada bing.
Great job guys!



New Year, New Goals

In the past, Like many people, I felt compelled to re-start my life at the beginning of every year. I made resolutions aimed at cleaning up every area of my life. But this system does not quite work,  does it? It's a get-results-quick scheme...  Two years ago, I realized what does work. "Slow and Consistant" as much as one can handle on a regular basis is more solid than "Quick and Crammed". It's less of a shock for the system, the body, the mind and the emotional balance.  Therefore, there are more chances to keep it up.

So, instead of drastic resolutions, Gentle moving Goals is what has panned out for me. I write down Goals and break them down into little steps that I can take to make it happen. Breaking down one big project into small little projects seems to make goals more attainable and maybe less abstract. The efforts are more consistant and become part of my life. If the goal invloves a habit change, I change only one at the time. It's easier to keep it up.

So far, I have accomplished so much including moving the photo studio out of the house and into a comercial space.  When I look back at my notes, I see how I have progressed. I re-visit my "Goals book" every few months.  This allows me to fine tune some goals and is often a pleasant reminder of my accomplishments.

There is another fun thing to do that I learned at a workshop last year. Write yourself a letter describing where you see yourself in a year form now. Put your letter in a self addressed and stamped envelope and give it to a friend you trust and ask them to mail it to you in one year. I can not wait to receive my letter. it's due in a few months.

Despite all this reasoning, the new year still prompts me to take on new goals. My goals this year include

• Get all my new web sites up and running (already started, one day a week)
• Add  8 to 10 new Tattle Tales   
• Have new and exciting products for my Tattle Tales  and Wedding clients.  Hint: Great images illustrate great tales, great tales make great books

This does not mean everything will be done in the first month of the year, though. Remember, my slow and consistant philosophy... 

Keep an eye on this ost and see the progress.

I wish everyone, a happy, successful and profitable year in 2011 !

Desiree