Pear Blossom

In preparation for the Holiday Season I am rewarding those that book early!!  My goal is to get all portrait orders, holiday cards and albums out by December 1st and I’m offering a little incentive for those that plan ahead!

** Once I’m fully booked for the months of October and November this offer will expire.  My current schedule is Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sundays.  

Email me to book a session info@madisonavephotography.com

I thought I’d jump on real quick and let everyone now that I am currently away on a mini vacation with my family!  I’ll post pictures once I get back home, we’ve been having a terrific time and enjoying our time off together.  I’ve got some awesome new pictures to share once I get back!  

I’m so honored and very excited to share that my blog was featured in the current edition of Artful Blogging!   I wrote about my own personal experience about blogging and the process of setting  up and keeping my blog updated on a regular basis.  There are some REALLY GREAT articles featured this month … a must check out in my opinion!  You can find Artful Blogging at any major bookstore or at local craft stores like Michaels and etc.          

I love summer  Especially when I have a month off with my kids, time to sleep in, make goodies, swim, shop and vacation.  LOVE IT!  I’m not ready for it to end, I am however very excited to get back to taking pictures!  I’ve had some awesome ideas for shoots, I’ve purchased a couple really cool props and I’m super excited for the fall season to start!  As a reminder, it’s never to early to start booking your holiday shoots!  It creeps up on you fast and there’s nothing like having your holiday cards ready to be mailed December 1st … so plan early.      

So this dress just keeps popping up!  I plan on using it one more time, I would love to slice and dice it some more and use it on a teenage girl (someone with some spunk) so if you know of anyone that is super skinny (it’s a size 2) have them email me!  I originally bought this dress off of ebay for $24 dollars, it was super scary looking with long lace arms on it and a neckline that was really tall.  I could see the potential in it, I knew with a little cutting it could be something super killer!  After some snips and tucks it really came together, of course having someone like Nancy to model for you really does help make the dress look dynamite!   After our shoot I just hung it up, not ready to get rid of it, so when the concept for Carlin came to light I was really excited to bring out the dress … after some more snips and tucks (well a lot!) it was ready for a pint sized model!   

So it’s amazing that’s it up … not completely done, lots of picture to be added, some music to upload and then some other little tidbits that got overlooked … but all in all I couldn’t stand not having a site up so I worked as hard as I could to get it up.  These sites take forever to get done, someone please remind me of this next time I decide to get a new site!! LOL 

Madison Ave Photography New Site!!!!

I will be featuring some new galleries next week so please make sure you check back!  Oh and check out my new gallery Avant-Garde … here’s a sneak from it  

So I’m still here … just super busy!  I’ve been working on my website (it’s so time consuming!!!) and I’ve been overwhelmed with kid stuff, I think it’s like this every year right before the start of summer.  I will also be on vacation the entire month of July  … I know … A whole month!!  We are doing some family stuff and then I’ve got two weeks of swim lessons and fun days planned for the kids.  I’ll be back to work August 1st, so any new sessions will be booked at the beginning of August.    

I’ve had some amazing sessions lately, I’ve got some special shoots to share when my new website launches and I’ll be doing some sneak peeks this week.   

My website is currently “under construction” and will not be up for at least a week, I’ve got some glitches with a server and I’m in the middle of replacing the site with a new one … so as they say “STAY TUNED” :) 

I have had some awesome sessions that I’ll be blogging about this week …  

Ever since switching to wordpress as my blog provider I have been overwhelmed with spam comments, I get about 30 a day.  Between yesterday and today I had a whopping 161 comments … all spam thank you very much!  It’s so annoying, I have no idea how to make it go away … any ideas?   

For the sake of being bored … weird pictures    

Weird photos courtesy of my iphone

Sometime ago I shot some promotional images for an artist who is based in Texas, he was working on his album in LA and decided to squeeze in a shoot while in town.  I had so much fun and Gabe was awesome, what a great guy he is!!  

I just got a sweet little package today in the mail and I had to share with you all!  His CD is complete and it looks incredible, the entire layout is pretty hot and the music is awesome … Gabe is such a talented musician!  

You have to check out his website, you will not be disappointed!!  I already listened to the CD on our way to dinner and the entire family loved it. GABRIELSONG.COM  

I even got a credit on the album which made me feel SO honored!   Congrats Gabe on an amazing album and cheers to continued success, you totally deserve it!