Referral of 2011 winners!

I often say that I wouldn't be where I am if it weren't for all of you telling all your friends and family about how much you love your portraits from Jungling Photograph, but it seems I can't say thank you enough!  Your kind words of praise overwhelm me and I adore being your photographer!  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, I can't wait to meet more new referrals this year!  This family won the referral of the year for 2011 because they referred one of my brides, who referred another bride, who referred a 3rd bride, who referred a 4th!  It was such an unexpected chain reaction that really did make 2011 my best year yet.  So to show my appreciation, in addition to their referral bonus I invited them  to come in for family portraits and Kelly got right to work planning their session.

I love the outfit choices!  Everyone coordinates without being too match-y, nice little punch of color, great texture and patterns.  This is a great example of how to dress a family for portraits!

More images from the session:

My favorite family shot so far:

You may have noticed that I added extra copyright symbols on this post.  This is something that came from a speaker I heard at convention last week.  With the social media explosion and the growing popularity of Pinterest, it is so easy for images to be stolen and used by anyone, anywhere.  If one of your images were to get "pinned" it could potentially be seen by anyone, anywhere and then used for purposes you never intended.  So to protect you, your children and my ownership of the images, I will be watermarking much more prominently on my blog and on Facebook.  I always suggest that EVERYONE watermark all the images they put out on the web, even if they are just personal snap shots, because you just never know where those images could end up.  I will gladly help any of you do that at anytime.  The internet makes the world a much smaller place, which is wonderful when it comes to bringing people together!  But along with the benefits, we can't be too careful about protecting ourselves from the bad!

And along those lines, I love seeing you share the blog and images with your friends and family!  I just ask that the images not be altered in anyway.  After your order is placed, I'll also gladly give you digital images of the ones you choose watermarked and sized for online posting.  Happy sharing!