Half-price sessions until May 31st!!

What better way to cure the winter doldrums than to get some new portraits to decorate your walls! From now through May 31st, all of my fabulous clients (and new clients too!) will enjoy half-price sittings for babies, children, and families! (excludes newborn shoots)

Newborn shoots now come with a complimentary (1 hour max) maternity shoot if you'd like to document your beautiful belly forever with artful photographs!

This is a Blog Special, so you must mention the special at the time of booking in order to get the discount code!
($300 print order minimum still applies to free maternity sessions and half-price sessions)

Email me today with the type of session you're interested in and some dates you can come - happy spring!!

I'm a Rochester Woman, how 'bout you?

Watch for the next issue of Rochester Women Magazine (the Jan-Feb issue). Q Photography has a full-page ad, baby!! I'm excited to be advertising this way and can't wait to see it in print!


I'll be posting more often now that things have cooled off a bit! I'll be working on some new ideas and announcing a baby year discount after the first of the year - stay tuned!

Aack! What happened to 2007?!

There's a reason I haven't posted in so long! I have been swamped with all of the fall and holiday shoots and cranking out Christmas card designs! I love designing Christmas cards, so this time of year is always fun for me... frantic at times, but fun! I'm relieved to have the big rush mostly over now and am looking forward to a relaxing Christmas - all of my recent clients should be receiving their Christmas card from me in the mail any day now, hope you enjoy it! My girls are pretty cute, don't you think?


Here's a sampling of some of my 2007 holiday cards, all custom designed of course!


for this card I photographed their scarves and used that as the background for the card - doesn't get much more custom than that! One of my favorite families to photograph, I love you guys - Kari, Kenzie & Nick! :)





This last one is my parents, aren't they cute??

I love fall pictures!

Here's just a couple shots from the Price shoot! The fall shoots I've been doing in the studio yard have been fantastic this year, the color is to die for! I'm guessing the color will stick around maybe another week or so (I can take two more sessions next week, by the way, so come and get it while the gettin's good!)

What clients are saying...

Here's an email from an awesome family that I had the pleasure of photographing recently: (Such great clients I have!!!)

Hi Natalie,

We just wanted to thank you for the wonderful pictures that you took of Kate. And you were just so great with her, it makes all the difference.

And we LOVE the little book of photos you included for us. What a fun surprise. It will be a very treasured momento. She means the world to us and we love that you captured a time in her life for us.

We hung a few of the photos and I had to share it with you. (I have attached a photo) It is the first wall we see when we walk in the house and we both just love how it looks.

Thank you again, you're the best!
Faith and Steve

Jumping into their new life together...

Meet Sara and Mike! Sara was one of my first high school senior clients, and her picture still graces my website's homepage, she's the knockout in the red dress. It's still one of my all-time favorite shots, as are many from her senior session two years ago. She even had a few of her senior pics done with her boyfriend, Mike. Well, now Mike and Sara are engaged, and getting married in June '08, and I'm thrilled to be shooting their wedding. I shot their engagement pics this past weekend, and of course we had to do something wild and different... when they arrived at the studio, I suggested jumping off a dock into a lake holding hands as something both symbolic and way cool, and they gave me a crazy look, then looked at each other, smiled huge, and said "let's do it!!!"

I only had one shot at it, and luckilly I clicked that shutter just at the right second! Enjoy your sneak preview, Sara & Mike! Many more images to follow when I get all of them proofed and your gallery up!!

Props like you've never seen...

Cortney is adorably quirky and totally fun, as well as her best bud and mom who came along. We had a blast at her session, and what an event it was! I just uploaded her finished proofs... I counted, and there were TWELVE different outfits! And we didn't even use everything she brought! Talk about coming well-prepared to her session.. we love having options! Cortney was pretty in love with my studio decor, so much so that she wanted to pose on it. She wanted to swing from the chandelier, but I told her she's not allowed to even touch it for thinking such a thing. (my prized multicolored chandelier all the way from London!) So I put her to work and we carried some of the stuff from my waiting room into the shooting room and 'Voila!' we had props with SPUNK! She also wanted to pose in the dressing room against the bright blue wall. I talked her out of posing against the wall that is dotted with round mirrors, since I didn't feel like having my reflection show up in her senior portraits.
Cortney, thanks for a fabulous session - hope you love your shots!

Why stash it when you can TRASH it??

Nikki wanted something unique at her session, so I asked if she had an old prom dress. She loved my idea, (yay!) and it's something I've been wanting to try for a while now! It's inspired by this website. I'd love to start doing some post-wedding shoots with a "trash the dress" theme, so if anyone's interested, call me, I'd love to discuss it further!
Click here to see the rest of Nikki's amazing session!