We are quacking up at the studio!

We're having so much fun with our spring duckling sessions right now! In-between all the laughing and giggling, today was another AMAZING day with duckling portraits. I must be blessed to have such terrific kids (and mommies!! The wardrobes have been perfect!) coming in for pictures. They've been patient and quiet with our flock of babies and very gentle when petting the ducks.

If you're thinking about doing this, or already telling yourself to remember for next year, you actually still have a chance this year. We'll have the ducks for another week and we do still have some openings here and there on the schedule for next week.

You can schedule a duckie portrait session if:

You have children that are old enough to be able to sit up on their own.

And yeah, that's really the only requirement!! :) We've photographed children as old as 12-14 years old, we've had a couple of dogs, we've even had a family in!

Of course, there's the whole procrastination thing about calling and scheduling a session...don't! I kid you not, our duckies were hatched on Monday, arrived on Tuesday and they've doubled in size since then. Just imagine how big they'll be in another week! Pin feathers will start sprouting in about 10 days I think.

Clients always ask what we do with the ducks after our sessions are done. There's the fun answers and there's the realistic ones. :) As much as I love using the fun answers, the reality is that there are a number of families who live here in the valley that are more than excited to adopt our Serendipity ducks from us when we're done.

Keep Quacking!!
Kaela at Serendipity

Quack, Quack!!

It's that time again!! Time for ducklings and loads of fun!

We'll have our duckies available from March 11th-20th and two different choices of scenes to choose from. Our Saturday sessions will be the absolutely wonderful Spring Forest scene with plenty of pretty greens, flowers and things for the kiddos to use to interact with the ducklings. Our weekday sessions will have the Classic scene and you can choose from three different colors or we'll pull a background that will match your child's clothing.

Plan early and book asap! Those duckies grow fast and they'll be much smaller and cuter the earlier you book in the week.

Sessions last 30 minutes and are $99 and include 1 8x10, 6 wallets and a Facebook image (all one pose). You can add additional children for $10 each.

You can call the studio at 206-947-4686 to book your session or email: kaela@serendipitypics.com. A credit card is required to reserve your time.

Quack, Quack!

It's that time of year again! The 2009 Flock of Ducks will be available for portraits starting on April 10th. They'll be at the studio until the 14th. As always, these are very popular sessions and I've already pre-booked a number of them with those in the know. :) (you know who you are!)

I'll have two choices for backgrounds. One is the pond scene, which is always in demand. The portraits from this scene are timeless and the amount of depth in the scene is amazing. You'd swear you stumbled across a tiny little pond in a meadow that a flock of ducks were living in. This is a popular choice for boys, they really enjoy the water feature of this scene.

Your other option is a simple classic style of background. You bring in the cute outfits, we'll help choose the perfect scene for the portraits. There's minimal props, the focus is on your child.

Sessions are $45, Portrait Collections start at $295. These sessions are perfect for babies who can sit up or who stay on their tummies and can push up, children of any age, and VERY well-behaved pets.

Bring a friend and get a bonus gift!!

Ducks are Back

That's right, the duckies are here!! We're photographing for a full week with the duckies, any kind of background you want and then on Friday and Saturday we'll have our awesome pond scene available again. There's still some openings for Tuesday-Thursday the 8th, 9th and 10th of April for any scene and some on April 11th and 12th for the pond. There's a gallery of duck images in the family website under Limited Editions. Call or email! 206-947-4686

Make way for the Duckies!!

The duckies are coming!! I think this is my favorite time of year, I LOVE the duckies! :) This year I will have the little quackers for a full week before our pond scene goes up and takes over the camera room. Not so crazy in love with the pond scene? No problems, give us a call or email to set up a time to come in earlier for any background or scene you want with the duckies. We've got all sorts of fun possibilities.

Official dates (I originally had them for March this year, moving them to April now!):

Day with the Ducklings (pond scene)
April 11th and 12th

Week with the Ducklings (name your scene!)
April 4th thru the 10th

Hmm...I am also considering going out to UW for the Cherry Blossoms. There's thirty huge old cherry trees that are covered with white and pink blossoms for a short window of time. They should be blooming the the last weekend of March, the 29th and 30th. Anyone, anyone? Send me an email if you're interested, don't forget to let your friends know as well!

Confessions of a Bad Blogger

Hi!! My name is Kaela and I'm a bad blogger! :) Whew, now that I've got that out of the way, let me tell you why I've been so quiet.

Christmas was insane!! Everyone was so awesome with coming to the new studio and more people found us and we were buried in designing Christmas cards! Did we do your cards? Did you get someone's card who we did design it for them? Ever since we changed to the new card styles, I've never had so many clients come back and tell me how much they loved their cards and how many comments they got back from their friends and family that they sent them to. I'm guessing that we're going to even more swamped this coming year with all the holiday cards for everyone. That said...there'll be a special for you early birds in September for family portraits and holiday cards. Feel free to call the studio and get on that list quick, I guarantee they will all be filled and then when you call in August, we'll have to put you on the waiting list. September 27th...Christmas in September!

I've been working like crazy finishing up the studio. We moved in at the beginning of October and never once really had a chance to organize it! It was just an immediate jump into work! Now, though, we've got more displays up, we're working on changing out the older ones (btw, if you're on our wall and we're going to change it out and you'd like to have the wall portrait, it's yours for 50% off). We've been working hard at setting up new scenes to photograph with and fun walls and props.

We've got two Limited Edition specials coming up in March. The Ducklings are back of course! We'll be photographing the ducklings in the pond on March 21st and 22nd. New this year are Springtime Bunny sessions. These are being scheduled on March 7th and 8th. I've got samples being photographed this weekend, so watch for some seriously cute images of kids with the bunny!

Coming soon online...the website will have a bit of a hiccup...we're going to change things around a bit and do some shuffling to accommodate a new splash page and a whole new website geared just for high school seniors. I'm really excited about this site, it's got a whole different feel to it and I'm pretty excited about the coming summer for seniors.

Pretty soon when you call in to ask a question or book an appointment you might be hearing a couple of different voices on the phone. One of which might be Kathy (aka my mom!). She's been working part-time with me for the past year but at the beginning of January she said adios to her old job and has been working with me full-time. Kathy is in charge of framing your portraits and assembling your orders. Another new voice will be Laurie! A past client (she's got awesome duckling portraits on her wall too!), she has come on board to help us out! Laurie will soon be taking care of setting up appointments, helping you out during sales sessions and being a photoshop wiz in the office.

See!! I've been busy!!! :) Although there's one other thing that Laurie will do and that's crack that whip over me when I've been a bad blogger...

Ducks, Ducks, Ducks EVERYWHERE!!

This past weekend was our Duckling weekend and WOW, it was popular! I had only meant this to be Saturday only, but with call after call I had to open up times on Sunday! I'm very glad I did too, we got lots of familiar faces through as well as lots of brand new clients to Serendipity Photography. Welcome!! I was very happy to meet you and your little ones and I had so much fun photographing them with our ducklings! I can't resist and have to show off some teasers before the official viewing sessions start, enjoy them!