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Well, I figured it would be kind of fun to document Sydney’s first year here on my blog.  That way, you can get a better idea of what’s included in our “Baby’s First Year” collection — which is basically a series of sessions to document my baby clients as they grow.

A few weeks ago, we had Sydney’s parents into the studio for a maternity portrait session.  Well, Sydney finally arrived, and she is just the most adorable baby girl!  Of course,  I’m a little partial because Sydney is  my “niece” (my cousin’s baby) — but even so… I think you’ll have to agree with me when you see some images from her newborn portrait session.

And here’s a cute “outtake” from the session; when photographing newborns you have to be flexible — in this case, we took a few short breaks throughout the session so Sydney could be fed and held. Being a superstar is hard work, you know!

It’s amazing to see how much babies change during the first 12 months, isn’t it? I’m looking forward to seeing Sydney again for her next baby portrait session in a few months. See you soon!

Well, I don’t know about you, but Steven and I had a great New Year’s Eve + New Year’s Day! As you know, we were without power from Saturday through Wednesday.  Thankfully, the maintenance crews got power back to us before the end of 2008 (to be precise, approximately 9:30pm on Dec. 31st).  So, that in itself was cause for celebration.  Using candles and our gas fireplace kind of lost allure after a few hours… And having to plan shower trips wasn’t too much fun either!

At any rate, we spent most of New Year’s Eve in the company of family… some Wii games were played, as well as pool, and Settlers of Catan (very fun multi player board game, by the way!).

New Year’s day, we spent some time cleaning up the house, doing dishes and laundry, as well as straightening up things that had been misplaced or left out during our power outage.  We also celebrated one of my nephew’s 7th birthday (yes, he was a New Year baby)!

Now that I have power, I’ve been finishing up some backlogged emails, client inquiries, and other office tasks.  And, my printer was busy printing out our “new year’s letter” (you know, holiday letter, but sent post-holidays).  So, hopefully that will go out in the mail today or tomorrow, depending on how long it takes for these letters to be printed, folded, inserted in our portrait card, put into the envelope, stamped, addressed, and delivered to the post office.

Did you make any resolutions for the new year?  One of mine (besides the obvious “getting organized”) is to do more artsy things (I have a few drawings and paintings that have been waiting for someone to finish them… for a few years now).   It’s amazing how much drawing and painting can relax my mind and allow me to de-stress.

Well, baby Sydney arrived before I could get this blog post up, but it’s still worth sharing a few from her mom’s maternity portrait session. Actually, we’re planning on seeing them again soon for Sydney’s newborn portrait session, so I’ll keep you posted!

Well, we are without power at the moment. My guess as to the cause would be the high winds and heavy gusts… anyways, the power went out sometime around 4:15 this morning. We normally don’t lose power unless there’s a bigger outage (very thankful about that… my parents’ house loses power about three times as frequently as ours does).

I tried calling to report the outage, but the lines were all busy. [...] Continue Reading…

Today I was quite surprised to find a package left by the front door. Now, it being the holidays, of course I have some expected deliveries… but I didn’t remember ordering anything requiring a cooler container. Turned out to be a present from my aunt and uncle in Montana (thank you!!). Now, you probably can’t read the label, but once I looked there, no further surprise as to the contents. [...] Continue Reading…

Well, Hanukkah started today, Christmas is in three days, and Kwanzaa is the day after that. So, Happy Holidays! Steven and I finally had the time to schedule our own family portrait for our holiday card (this year, it’s going to be a “New Year” card, as it will go out around the beginning of the year… but one of the images we chose is in front of our Christmas [...] Continue Reading…

Winning Photo Features Pioneer High School Student – Ann Arbor, MI – December 12, 2008 – For the second year in a row, a portrait by local photographer Betsy Finn was named Best of Show at the annual Print Competition held by the Detroit Professional Photographers’ Association (DPPA). Pioneer High School student Leslie Brown was the model for the photo, which Finn called “Soul Shoes.” The announcement was made just before Thanksgiving, giving Finn [...] Continue Reading…

Well, it’s happened. We’ve finally created a twitter account for Betsy’s Photography. If you want to follow Betsy’s Photography on Twitter… you’re more than welcome to do so.

Now, onto the explanation that you knew was coming. What’s Twitter? Twitter is a real-time messaging utility… kind of like instant messaging but also kind of like blogging. The updates are very short (140 characters or less), and you can use your [...] Continue Reading…