Oh my... what a happy and sweet baby! I LOVE all his hair and chubby little arms and legs. This age is such a fun time to photograph babies. They usually love to play with their feet, and this guy LOVES his toes. Truely a sweet baby James!
Rock-a-bye Sweet Baby James...
Kelly
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July 6th, 2010
James is the most adorable little guy ever, what an angel!
Great Gram and Great Pap Fedorka
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July 10th, 2010
Pam, You capture the feelings in the heart of everyone that you photograph. You are the best. James simply adorable.
Cindy Hartzel
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July 17th, 2010
Pam, you're amazing! We just can't stop looking at these fabulous images of our grandson. Look for our order today. We may need a bigger condo in SF to hold our gallery of baby James.
Marcia Calise (friend of grandparents)
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July 26th, 2010
Just seeing that the photographer did a special on her page of James and seeing him in person and on film,lets you know how really special he really is. The smile the eyes, the flirt!!! SSSOOOO CCUUTTEE, you just want to hold him all the time.
I came across this article written by Marianne Drenthe for Professional Child Photographer website (see link below) and decided it was worth sharing (with permission). I have always prided myself on the care and service I provide to all my clients (along with quality images of course), and want to thank those of you who have used my services over the years for understanding all the time and effort that goes into creating your images. I also appreciate all the effort you put into making the sessions successful too! It is a true partnership. I hope you enjoy the Spicer Photography experience as much as I enjoy creating it for you!
Custom photography is more of a luxury than your entry level cookie cutter chain experience.Custom photography truly is not for everyone, it requires a level of commitment, investment in time and money, forethought and planning on the part of the client and requires a larger time commitment for the photographer as well.
Clients who enjoy taking a more active role in the creation of their families’ memories have the desire to have portrait art that is truly personalized. These more discerning clients have been known to budget and allot time for a custom photography session.
There is a great deal of time involved in creating high end custom photography sessions for a client. The luxury of great service, better choices and a superb end product. The result of all this are heirloom quality images. The time invested at the session is only a small portion of time involved in this process.
Custom photography has been likened to purchasing a fine vehicle. To get to point B from A let’s face it, even a bus ride would suffice. If you want to luxuriate in a finely appointed vehicle, customizing your own experience by listening to smooth jazz while sitting in a climate controlled setting adjusted purely for your comfort in a body hugging leather interior, perhaps that Lexus you so desire is your cup of tea.Custom photography is much the same cup of tea. It is the Lexus of the photography world. It is where the intangibles make the experience truly wonderful and the images themselves make the investment of money and time truly worthwhile.
Custom photography can be broken down into even more levels. There are on location, studio, mixed studio/on location, specialty location and destination type photographers. The beauty of custom photography is in the choices and in the luxury of those options. The customized service level you are sure to experience will be amazing. The knowledge that your final images are the result of someone caring about those moments so much that they take extra time ensuring that the artwork you receive is good enough to stand by with their name on it. That level of quality and commitment is all but lost in the age of “mass produced,” “mass marketed,” corporate “everyone is a number.” Custom photography is based on being unique to you. How great an experience would be, to be able to sit back and allow a photographer to do this highly custom work for images that you will most likely cherish for a lifetime?
Keep in mind more than anything that the Lexus will never appreciate in value the way your portraits will. The portrait art you become invested in from your custom photographer will no doubt increase in value and become more priceless as the years pass.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and for considering all the time, effort, and care that will go into creating your images.
Congratulations to all the graduating high school seniors!This is the time of year that we get busy with senior portraits.The weather is great for these outdoor sessions, and we really work with the seniors to capture the look they want.I love photographing seniors (what a nice change from photographing two year olds!) and the seniors I work with enjoy the sessions as much as I do! Let me know if I can create a fun high school senior portrait for you (or someone you know).
" You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own... and you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go..."
Dr. Seuss
Good luck to all the seniors! Go do good things...
It is the last day of March already, and I haven't shared too many of my images from my "Photo A Day" project, so here they are (in no particular order) for the entire month of March. It has been a fun project so far... hope you enjoy the images, and then get out there yourself and use your camera to focus in on some details of your day!
Meet Taylor… I first photographed Taylor nine years ago to capture his holy communion, and NOW he is preparing to graduate from – GET THIS – high school AND college next month. Say “WHAT?” Technically his college graduation occurs two weeks before his high school graduation so he may be the first person I have ever known to graduate from college before getting his high school diploma. Obviously smart, and going on to U of A in the fall to continue his studies (hoping to end up at John Hopkins someday in the near future). So I just HAD to dig out this old photo of him from 2001 and post one of the ones from last week and give a big shout out to Taylor (and his Mom too) for doing such a great job! Good luck to Taylor, and all of our grads this year! "Oh the places you'll go..."
I'm not sure what happened nine months ago, but I have been so busy photographing newborns in the last few weeks. I am NOT complaining... babies are a favorite here at Spicer Photography! Throw in a few dogs and I'm lovin' it! We try to capture these images in the first two weeks of life. Here are just a few of the sweet little babies I have had the honor of photographing recently (and a couple of the lucky dogs too!).
Two baby girls getting the love... "I am the baby! Ya gotta love me."
I thought baby "V" had lots of hair (girl on right below), but then along came baby boy "JJ" with the best head of hair I have EVER seen on a newborn.
The first image below is Barkley (from the previous post) featured on the front of the birth announcment... the next one is Lola checking out what all the fuss was about as we were TRYING to set up the pose (I love the looks they are giving each other).
I think this quote from Charles Osgood is appropriate for the parents AND the photographer:
"Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful" Well said...
My husband and I went for a hike today to see if there was water still flowing in Cave Creek today (after all our rain) and found that the creek was in fact flowing (but not as much as we both thought it would be). Anyway, it gave me my photo for the day... there were a couple water crossings during the hike, and at this one I just loved the colors of the rocks under the water (as I crossed the creek in my bare feet - since I didn't want to hike the rest of the trail in wet boots!). I know those of you that live where water is always flowing in the river beds and creeks may think this is pretty lame as creeks go, but in the desert any water is precious and a reason to celebrate. Can't wait for the spring wildflowers!
Hi! I'm Pam Spicer... I am the owner and Photographer for Spicer Photography located in far north Scottsdale, Arizona. My specialty is photographing children, families, high school seniors, pets, and executives. I am married to Jerry and we share our home with our golden retreiver KC. Thanks for checking out my blog! I hope you will check back often to see what's new at Spicer Photography. Oh, and it would be really cool if you tell someone else about my work and help spread the word. Thanks!
Kelly commented on July 6th, 2010
James is the most adorable little guy ever, what an angel!