Engagement Session Winner

The Bridal Show that was held at The Salisbury Civic Center Saturday had a drawing for a free engagement session. The winner was Lisa Morris. I also pulled a winner that person is Heather Johnston. Congratulations! If a winner does not claim their prize, I will select a new winner. Thanks to everyone that attended, it was a great show. I enjoyed meeting all of you.

Win Free Pictures!

I have decided to have a contest. I am looking for some neat places to shoot pictures. My favorite graffiti wall was torn down! So, if you know of any cool spots shoot me an email at; elaine@elainemcdonaldphotography.com describing the location or even better include a picture showing the location! If your location is chosen, I will do a location session there for you, FREE. It can be an engagement session, bridal session, or even a family session. You decide. I will also include in that session a portrait package which will include an 8x10, 2 5x7's and 8 wallets.

Bridal Show in Salisbury

The bridal show in Salisbury is in the morning! It is in the Civic Center. If you can make it come and join me! I made a slide show of all of our weddings in the last year. Here is a picture I was playing with today. It is a part of the slide show, and I have to admit I really like this effect. What do you think? You do know that you can leave comments below this post, right? (like it or hate it?) I think it makes the plants look much more lush. Ashley was beautiful in the original picture, but I think she looks even more stunning in my secret formula. I will probably posting some pictures with some "magic" added in the next few weeks. I hope you have had a chance to visit the new website. I am sure there are many people you will recognize. I also love the new splash page with Kim and Courtney's pictures.

Website is Live!!!

I am so excited about my new website! The pictures are much larger, and the navigation is wonderful. I have finally posted new images to my website. I am still working on adding more images and tweaking some items. The galleries will eventually be more organized. I am working on the engagement section right now. As I was manipulating one of the pictures, I liked the after so much better, I decided I would post the before and after so that you could see the difference. Notice how I blurred John out a little more where the focus is on Crystal.

Bridal Show Special

For the January Bridal Show, I will be adding a $300 product credit to wedding packages booked in January. This product credit can be used toward any products we offer. I would like to give blog readers and their friends an opportunity to take advantage of this special before the bridal show on the 26th.

Lori's Wedding Album

I decided to post a couple of pages from Lori's Album. I thought I had forgotten my password to go on my website, so I saved a couple of pages to put on my blog. I guess I was having a blonde moment because I can't post pictures to my blog without it either. Anyway, I remembered I had to change it so the new website company could upload my website!

Wedding Albums

I think I was better at keeping the blog updated when we were doing weddings every weekend! After a wedding I can't wait to pick out my favorites for my blog. We have been designing wedding albums for all of the weddings we did the past 6 months!

Ok, I don't know why the link won't work but all you have to do is highlight the link, control c or if on an apple, apple c to copy the link and control v or apple v to post it in your browser window. It is really easy I promise! And I know most of you know how to do that!

We have started offering bridal albums as well. We usually spend 2 or more hours taking pictures for bridal portraits and it is so hard to choose between the portraits for the bride. The bridal album is like our guest signature albums but with the brides favorite pictures from her bridal session. Here is a link to Crystal's Bridal Album so you can see how neat they are! I will also try to post a couple of pages in a few days so you can see them on my blog.
Here is an image of Crystal's cover front and back and a page from her album.

http://www.elainemcdonaldphotography.com/crystalbridalalbum

Lori's album is one of the most georgeous, but I will have to find the link to that one! I will try to post it tomorrow.

New Website

I was going to start updating the old website, but after just a couple of pictures, I started shopping around for a new one. I am excited about the new website I found. It actually has a gallery and shopping cart incorporated in the website. What that means to me is less aggravation trying to load galleries for your viewing. The current one that I use had a couple of upgrades that really weren't good upgrades. I can't count the times I have had to rebuild galleries two and three times. What that means for you is an easier to navigate site. Larger pictures for you to view and a much better (I hope) way to order pictures! I hope to have the gallery built and up in the next 6-8 weeks. Earlier if I can.