Merry Christmas

New Kitty

This is Maddies new kitty, she got her as an early Christmas present today. Our friend from church found her one night out in the cold and took her in and has now found the perfect home for this little peanut...Maddie was SOOOO excited! The first picture is before the kitty, she was jumping on her bed....love her purple walls!

Winners Annouced!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the email contest! I am so sad that I can't give a free sitting to everyone who entered but stay tuned, we may just do these periodically to spread some love so check back with us from time to time!

The following have won a free Portrait sitting:

Nicole McNeill-one of my brides for 2007

Mandy Sroka- a friend (and an aspiring photographer)

Emily Faukner- Friend

Thank you again for playing! Merry Christmas!

Stacy

Christmas cheer...

Since it is Christmas and I feel as though I have been blessed tremendously in my business this year, I would like to have a little give away to the first 3 people that email me today.

I would like to give away 3 FREE PORTRAIT SITTINGS...that means ANYONE can email me...brides and grooms you can use it as your engagement sitting, or a bridal portrait sitting, families as a family photos sitting, maternity photos, baby photos....dogs...you can email on behalf of a friend and give it away as a Christmas gift...

The only terms is that it must be used in the Annapolis area (sorry Erika cant go to Colorado to do a sitting) and it must be redeemed after Jan 1, 2007 at a time that is convienient for both photographer and the winner.

Emails can be sent to stacyrichardson@msn.com and I will take the first three emails and I will annouce the winners here tommorrow! Please write: Contest Entry in Subject line!

Merry Christmas!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..

I saw another blogsite that was called"Parade of Homes" where people showed their houses decorated for Christmas. Heres mine ! Disclaimer: We have a 2 year old, and she likes to "redecorate the tree" every morning...so it looks a little catti-wonkus...

Growing...

I title this post growing for 2 reasons. One is because I am realizing my baby girl is growing and it is such a joy to watch her grow, my other reason for titling this growing is... I am taking this time during the slow season, and going back to old school and for the next 2 months I will shoot nothing but strickly manual. I am going to play with my camera till I am blue in the face so that manual settings become natural for me. For the photo buffs, I usually shoot Aperture priority and let the camera figure out the compensation, but now I will be doing all the figuring, So call it my own little self challenge...this was my first all manual shot...it was fun...I realized while shooting that the light changes all the time and you have to keep on top of your exposure setting....very fun...I feel like I am in school again :) I see the light :)

The Harmons

These are our friends the Harmons.

They are not only our dear friends,

but our neighbors too...bonus...thanks for the many items

I have already borrowed from you,

the burnt pumkin pie, sugar, the pitcher, the tape! Thanks friend...

Merry Christmas!

Thanks Oma!

Thank you to Garrison's Oma for making Grace this fun stocking (the red and white one) Garrison has the sweetest Oma! Now if I could just get my girl to stop doing the cheesy grin (a photojournalists nightmare) we'd be all set.

Credit Cards

Stacy Richardson Photography now accepts Credit Cards directly.

Christmas Dancin

Grace dancin while decorating the tree

Christmas Tree

Seth and I rode out to a tree farm with some of our friends and cut down our Christmas tree. It was fun.

Notice the candy canes all in a row, that is Grace's handy work. She likes it that way, when we asked her if she wanted to put them all over the tree she said "no right there is fine". So there they are :) I think she likes then there cause of the easy access :)