It's That Time of Year Again!! 30% Off Gallery Wraps!

With all of the fall photoshoots, weddings, and engagement sessions, it's time to figure out "where from here."

I'm seeing a lot of our images floating around on myspace and facebook, hearing about them sitting on your desks at work or in your living rooms (do any of you guys ACTUALLY put them in the bathroom? I find a photograph in the bathroom a little... discouraging). Anyhow, so you LOVE that one particular shot? Or maybe Mom and Dad love it? Christmas is now two months away and that gives you plenty of time to either schedule your photo session with Frozen Exposure ($350.00) or use an image from your recent photo session with Frozen Exposure, and be everyone's favorite person by giving them the most perfect gift ever- a GREAT. BIG. 20 x30 gallery wrap canvas print of your mug- that's right, your big smiley, happy, I-LOVE-YOU-THIS-MUCH face! Or you know, you could give them one of the kids, too. Or you could be a total Scrooge and get a couple for yourself- all the cool kids are doin it!

Regardless of who the gift is for, Frozen Exposure is offering 30% off of gallery wrapped canvas prints if your order is placed before the last week of December. Below are the promo prices:

8X8 $150.

8X10 $150.

8x12 $150.

10x20 $175.

16x20 $200.

16X24 $200.

20X24 $250.

20X30 $300.

Call 615.596.0687 or email tanya@frozenexposure.com to plan your photo session or discuss ordering an album (I have on hand 4 sample albums. Albums start at $250. and there are tons of designs to choose from) or ordering your gallery wrap canvas print.

Love,

Tanya: Frozen Exposure

I Just Can't Wait to Be King =)

To everyone who would like to get a glimpse of the King family (and I apologize for anyone who, due to my blog title, now will be signing Lion King songs in an adult environment throughout the work day):

Meet the beautiful E-Man (Like He-Man with a silent "H" like the word "herb"...why are there words like that anyway? Today, my friend Beth and I have fought over the word "salmon." I fully intend to bring the "L" back!)...end side note.

My first portrait shoot of E-Man, aka Ethan, was last year. He was dressed as a puppy and I kid you not, holding a warm, puppy baby cures all ailments.

See Puppy Baby picture of Baby Ethan below:

This Halloween, Ethan has traded his puppy costume in and will be going out as:

JT!!! (JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE)

You can't tell me this handsome fella doesn't look like Mini-JT (refer to the hair, esp.). I'm pretty sure he's not actually celebrating Halloween as JT, though.

Ethan is at that age where things are getting interesting. He's pointing and distracted and psyched about the world. It's absolutely inspiring to watch. Seeing him look at things as if, and possibly may be, seeing things for the first time, stopped me in my tracks. At one point, I lowered my camera and just watched in curiousity- instead of snapping my fingers and hopping up and down to get him to do what I wanted and smile and look at me, I realized the better picture would be for me to capture him doing what he wanted to do- to capture the world through his eyes, his excitement and his expressions as he saw the leaves and wind chimes. It seemed almost WRONG to interrupt him and try to recreate his moments, instead of capturing them as they actually were- beautiful. And then there was the moment where we had him stop playing with the wind chimes so that we could move on to a different setting. Ha. You see how that worked out (see below):

To the King Family:

Thank you so much for having Frozen Exposure Photography capture your fall memories and Ethan's life full of wonder at the fun age of 18 months. It's so special to watch him as he grows up.

Love,

Frozen Exposure Photography

Waiting for Baby O'Dell To Arrive

Kristine and Matt are having a baby! I love the collage above: the left shot shows how affectionate Kristine and Matt are towards one another, and then the top right shot shows how excited they are for the baby, and the bottom right shot shows how playful they are. Of course we had to include the White Pumpkin of 2009- I am glad to hear that I am not the only person who didn't know they even existed until this year...would've been much cooler if I'd known prior to embarrassing myself while photographing a wedding by saying "Wow, you guys painted pumpkins!" Luckily, by the time Kristine and Matt met me for their maternity session, I had wised up and was now a pro at staging white pumpkin photo greatness!

I honestly don't think Kristine could have picked a more perfect sweater for this photograph. And good job on making the hand-heart, Matt! These blocks are the coolest thing since...okay, they're just the coolest thing period. Matt's family had them and so having them in the shot wasn't just rad, but also sentimental! =) *sigh* I do want my own set now. I could run around spelling all sorts of things and taking photographs of it!!! Wonder if I could find enough blocks to spell out: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING FROZEN EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPH YOUR MATERNITY SESSION, KRISTINE AND MATT!!!
You guys are beautiful and I hope to meet Baby O'Dell in the near future!

Love,

Frozen Exposure

Photography

(Sort of) Trash the Dress!

So you had the big wedding day. Everything was perfect. And now all that's left is the perfect guy, the wedding album, and the dress hanging in the closet. And you were so enamored with keeping everything perfect, that maybe you didn't cut loose and really pose in your gorgeous wedding dress because you didn't want to get it dirty. So?

This past weekend, a few brides and I decided it was time to get the gown outta the closet and go have some fun with it!

We did a trash the dress session and although the dresses did get dirty from crawling around in abandoned buildings and fields, etc., we didn't really trash them...however, a couple girls want to do a shoot in the near future walking through the creek and maybe using paint, etc, and REALLY trash the dresses! So here are some shots from the "Sorta" trash the dress shoot! We had a GREAT time! Thanks to all the brave, beautiful brides/models (Alli, Jessica, Beth, Angel, JR) for making the shoot such a success! And a special thanks to our amazing, talented make-up artist Kathryn Kimble of Visage Bella and to Roger at Julia's Homestyle Bakery in Murfreesboro for the gorgeous and delicious cupcakes and wedding cake!

Upcoming: Look for the uber Trash the Dress shoot to happen soon!

♥

Tanya: Frozen Exposure

Sneak Peek for The Hero Brings Revenge: PROMO SHOOT

To state the obvious, you're gonna have fun anytime you get five crazy guys in a band together for a photoshoot...forget the fact that I was standing in the middle of the road for half the shots and the guys had to, with sincere panic, yell "CAR!!!!" everytime they saw one approaching in the distance. Awww.
Great shoot, guys. Thanks for being so spontaneous.

The Hero Brings Revenge played a show at The Muse in Nashville last night that rocked everyone's face off. Frozen Exposure Photography was there to get some live action shots for them (look for the live shots to be posted soon).

Check out their music by clicking HERE. But be warned- they are LOUD.

♥ Tanya

KATIE'S 27 DRESSES THEMED BACHELORETTE PARTY

FUN: INSANELY FUN.

Love the movie 27 Dresses? Remember the scene where Kevin sees Jane's private collection of bridesmaids dresses?:

"Kevin: [snickering] Right. Well, that makes complete sense because they're... *beautiful*.

Jane: Some of them are not that bad.

Kevin: Not that bad? I'd like to see one of them that's not that bad. "

So all of Katie's girls decided not to keep their dresses in the closet and dressed up for her surprise 27 Dresses themed bachelorette party. They held the "tacky" peach ruffly dress out especially for Katie to wear once she walked in and saw them all in their dresses....somehow though, everyone (but Katie) ended up ooh-ing and ahh-ing over how pretty the dress actually looked once Katie put it on....

CALLING FOR TRASH THE DRESS PHOTOSHOOT

NEEDED FOR PHOTOSHOOT:

• One or two make-up artists- we will have 4-5 girls and need bold colors on a couple of their faces and a couple to have a dark smokey look. I do not currently promote a make-up artist on my Vendor tab of www.frozenexposure.com so this will be a great opportunity for me to find a make-up artist to refer clients to. Once I have a definite on the girls, I will send you a headshot of each girl.
• Four to Five girls with wedding dresses- your dress WILL get ruined. The idea of the session is NOT to maim anyone's dresses, (except for the one or two that we'll be getting paint on), but to have fun, walk through creeks, lay in the grass, etc., etc., and to pretty much have a carefree shoot and NOT be concerned about the dress getting dirty, but to almost encourage it). So please only respond, preferably by email to tanya@frozenexposure.com, if you are serious about the shoot, love the idea of being featured in the Trash the Dress photoshoot, can't be shaken from the idea by your friends and family who will be trying to convince you that your dress belongs in your closet untouched for the next 80 years, and have the dress (even if it is not your actually wedding dress, but is secondhand). NOTE: If you are using a secondhand dress or one from a dissolved marriage, then let me know if you're willing and your dress will probably be the one getting the most grunge and paint, and we will try to spare the dresses that are more sentimental and that the other girls are more apprehensive in messing up (those dresses, however, will still be exposed to water and mud).
• Three to Four guys in tuxes, one or two can be in jeans and a tuxedo shirt for fun. At least one guy's tux will be covered in paint. After pouring over some internet images, I think also if the guys just wear black shirts and black pants, that would look good, too.
• Florist to provide three to four bouquets. This will also give me the opportunity to find a florist to list as a vendor on the Frozen Exposure Photography website.
• Cake decorator to provide wedding cake. Same deal as the Make Up Artist and Florist, although I currently have one decorator listed.

I have set up an event on facebook for this photoshoot to keep all that will be involved informed and in contact with one another. Add me on facebook and send a message letting me know that you're interested and I'll add you to the guestlist of the event: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Franklin-TN/Frozen-Exposure/138021519198

I will post sample images from the internet on the facebook event page I've created so that you have an idea of what you are getting into.

This shoot is going to be SO MUCH FUN! It's currently set for Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. and will possibly run to 2:00 p.m.

Because this is a project that I am organizing on my own, I am, of course, waiving my $350.00 portrait session fee and each participant will get a disc of the images to use as they please and the make-up artists can definitely use the images for their portfolio.

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