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Feb 12, 2011

Senior in the city: Class of 2011 Austin Senior Portraits

How’s this for “not your typical senior portrait?” I was so thrilled when her and her mommy drove in to Austin for a “girls’ date” — a night on the town and then photo session with me in the morning, followed by a shopping trip to Anthropologie (bummer I couldn’t go on that one!). Anthro is SO her style and all throughout the shoot, images from my favorite catalogs were running through my head.

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If you are a senior in the Austin area about to graduate (high school or college) in 2011, it’s not too late to schedule your senior portraits to commemorate the end of an incredible journey and the beginning of a new one. OR, if you are going to be in the Class of 2012, you have an opportunity to serve as a senior model for Pinkle Toes Photography. See HERE for details.

Feb 05, 2011

hippest family on the block.

I’ve used this location before, but on this day, we just kept finding gem after gem after gem. Little miss wasn’t too keen on being there at first, but after she warmed up…just look at those grins. Little man, however, may very well be destined to be a model. He’s so young, but he can totally turn on the charm for the camera. I so enjoy photographing this family.

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I first met them when baby girl was still in mommy’s tummy. I was so excited for them because they were having a girl. At the time, I was just a few months pregnant behind her and didn’t know what I was having. (I think she did an excellent job of sending those pink vibes my way.) And then, I got to watch her grow up: newborn, 4 months, 7 months, and one year…and see my future a few months before my own little girl reached those milestones. I just love looking back on all of these images and I try to imagine what kinds of memories we preserved for this family.

[“Sweet” tidbit of info: a few months ago I was contacted by the owner of Hey Cupcake! looking for a family to serve as the models for a new print ad campaign and THIS family was the one they chose! I can’t wait to see how the ads turned out!!!]

Jan 30, 2011

Trampolines and family walks.

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This family, near and dear to my heart, is no stranger to this blog. I have had the honor of photographing babies #2 and #3 as newborns with several wonderful family sessions woven throughout. This time, we wanted to do something different. Something more lifestyle. How are they when they’re just hanging out together? What do they do as a family? It was such a fun afternoon, although I will admit that bouncing around on the trampoline made me the teensiest bit woosey ;-). This kind of love and connection cannot be forced. These kids could not be happier. Their mama could not be a better example of what a mommy/wife should be. Their dad could not be funnier.

Their holiday card proved to be quite a challenge for me, though. There were so many images we wanted to feature, but short of sending out a poster-sized card, we had to come up with some way to tell the story of their session. So, we ended up with this tri-fold:

I LOVED how it turned out. In fact, I decided to turn the JOY, HOPE, LOVE lines into a 12×12 storyboard AND it was used as the title page of their album:

[Don’t forget, voting ends TONIGHT at midnight central for Pinkle Toes Photography’s 2010 Pic of the Year]

Jan 30, 2011

Newborn session in studio

Okay, I’m going to go a bit out of order here because I’ve been *dying* the share the images from my first newborn studio session! This was from the demonstration I did for the FIRST Pinkle Toes 4 Photographers workshop earlier this month. So much was going wrong for me that day (my mom/assistant was sick, my camera broke, the weather was yuck), but this little baby girl and her family were oh so right! After a bottle and a few minutes of rocking and shhhhhhing, she was putty in my hands.

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Just look at that smile while looking up at her daddy! She seriously has me thinking I could start offering newborn sessions in studio….just maybe…

Jan 09, 2011

Those eyes!

You might recognize this cutie pie and her AMAZING nursery from L’s blog, but I had the honor of filling in a little bit this summer while Lynds was focusing on her sweet little boy. The very first thing that struck me that day when mom opened the door were her EYES (you’ll see what I mean towards the middle of the slides)! My word! I had never seen such brilliant green eyes before! And then I got to meet her precious baby girl who had eyes that were just as bright and sparkly…

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Jan 01, 2011

2010 Pinkle’s Pic of the Year – Vote NOW!

QUICK LINK TO VOTE HERE!

[Also, don’t miss the annual “Year in Review” slideshow at the end of this post]

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Let’s kick off 2011 the best way I can imagine with a recap of 2010 and determining our 2nd Annual Pinkle’s Pic of the Year Winner! Each month in 2010, I selected an image (or images) that moved me, but now (as before) it’s YOUR job as the Pinkle Toes Blogstalkers to decide
which of these was the best image of 2010.

M’kay, let’s vote! You can click on the images in the poll to view larger:

2010 Pinkle’s Pic of the Yearonline surveys

[Poll not showing properly? You can also vote via THIS LINK.]

The winner will receive an 11×14 canvas of their winning image AND a $500 Pinkle Toes gift card to be used
on a Premium session in 2011. Two runners-up will each receive
a $100 gift card and the Grand Prize winner gets to choose a 3rd
runner-up, also to receive a $100 gift card!

The fine print:

Voting will run January 1st-31st (ending at midnight central time)
Voting is monitored by IP address, so no multiple voting.
Results will not be shown, but I will announce winners on the blog Tuesday, Feb 1st.
I reserve the right to disqualify entries or terminate/modify the contest if necessary.
No purchase necessary to win.

Just like last year, I have absolutely NO clue who is going to take this prize. I’m just as excited as these families are to find out what will happen. (Did you know we had more than 1,400 votes last year??? Craziness!)

And of course, I can’t start a new year without taking a look back at all of the amazing people I’ve had the fortune of working with last year. I love making this slideshow every year…I love remembering each and every session. Be warned, though, this slideshow had to go pretty fast so I could fit all of the images in. Be sure to watch because it’s full of my favs from the year and many, many images that I haven’t even blogged yet:

I’ve said it many times before, but thank you…a million thank you’s to all of my clients. I truly feel blessed to have met each of you. Thank you for inviting me into your homes, to the births of your children, to glimpse into your lives and for trusting me to capture what makes your family so special and beautiful.

Much love,

Michele

Dec 19, 2010

Joy = Jove.

I can’t imagine a better way to spend this Sunday. Welcome to the world, little Jove. There were many people who were very excited to meet you…especially your big brother. As you can see, you’ve made it to the “Friend Wall” as his new best friend. Such a beautiful entrance this afternoon. Congratulations on this precious bundle!

Dec 17, 2010

Another newborn model call!

We need even more newborn models to be on call for our Feb professional photographer workshops (held in the Pinkle Toes studio in Austin, TX).

If your due date falls between Jan 20th-Feb 20th, we’d love to put you on our call list. If you want to be on call, please fill out THIS FORM. Only submissions via this form will be accepted (not phone calls, not e-mails, not comments, not facebook). If you’ve already submitted this form for the first round, there’s no need to send again.

Newborn models (and their mommies and daddies if possible), must be available in the afternoon on at least one of these dates:

Thu Feb 10th

Thu Feb 24th

Signed model release is required. If selected, models
will receive several images from their session (digital files) as
compensation for their participation. This is an amazing opportunity to
have your newborn portraits done by professional
photographers!

Wanna see more of one of the MOST adorable newborn babies I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with? Okay. You twisted my arm…

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Nov 28, 2010

fall.

Fall always has been and always will be my most favorite time of the year. Driving home from my session tonight, there was the most incredible purple and gold and auburn sunset (too bad the session was over) and I thought before we get swept away into the winter holiday season, perhaps we could appreciate the beauty of fall for a second. I decided to put together a collection of my favorite images from this fall so that maybe when we’re all sweltering in the summer next year, we can look back here and feel fresh, and crisp, and warm, and cool, and fuzzy, and hopeful, and thankful all over again…

[Want to see the show bigger?]

Nov 03, 2010

Because it was everything

that a family photo session should be…

And I feel very blessed to have been able to capture their beauty. As they are.

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