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Posted on January 14, 2010
Now’s the time to be planning for Valentine’s Day, and Sparrow Photography is here to help! Sunday, January 31, we will be doing boudoir shoots at the amazing new Aloft Hotel in Leawood.
We’re offering a special package for the Valentine’s Boudoir session. $295 includes makeup and hair, a one hour session in our suite at Aloft, and a special boxed 5×5″ ten-page gift book for you to give to that special someone.
Openings are very limited, so please book soon. We promise a gift he won’t forget!
Posted on January 11, 2010
Boy, it seems like we just got done throwing away the wrapping paper from Christmas, but one of my favorite holidays is only a month away: Valentine’s Day! I really enjoy this holiday because clients often come in looking for sexy photos for their boyfriends, girlfriends or spouses, and this allows us to exercise our creativity in all sorts of fun ways!
We absolutely love taking photographs on location, whether it be your home, a fancy hotel or some other place you find special. No cookie-cutter photos with generic backdrops here!
These photos are from Saturday evening. The client is from out of town, so little danger these will be seen by the wrong eyes before the big day! 
Posted on January 10, 2010
Back in the day, before I ventured from my “real” job in accounting into my true calling, photography, we went to chain stores for baby pictures.
I’m sure you know the process… You make an appointment (if you’re lucky), which by the way you usually share the time slot with a few other customers, and hope that you get a photographer that knows what they’re doing. You get there and wait (and wait and wait) in a germy, hot, crowded waiting area. The baby wants to eat and you either have to nurse right there or find somewhere suitable… or, shake up a bottle and serve it ever-so-carefully. You get called in and you are asked to place your tiny, gorgeous baby into a funny looking baby holder. The photographer squeaks a puppet and hollers at your little one, flashes lights in his or her face. Baby spits up and/or fills diaper, mom&dad scramble to adress the issue, meanwhile photographer gets crabby and impatient. Place baby back on table and repeat. The pictures are okay at best, but look the same as everyone else’s. Hmm.
Tiny babies are most comfortable at home. You already know that. Familiar faces & smells and an easy, relaxed approach to portraits is definitely the way to go.
No one likes being forced to perform.. which is kind of the feeling you get if you’re placed on a table with lights pointed at you, right?
Custom portrait sessions with new babies are often 2 hours long, allowing for lots of breaks. Custom photography is about having a photographer experienced in all types of lighting situations come in and document your child in his or her own environment. In the crib snuggled against the bedding that you so carefully chose. Wrapped up in a vintage baby blanket or one handmade by a close friend. And even something out of the ordinary, baby in his armoire. 
“Here I am… I hope you realize that I’m in charge here.
Now be gentle with me and I’ll be sweet to you.”
He found his toes here.. soo sweet!
Can you remember the sweet smell of your baby?
Do you want images that will stir that memory?
Posted on January 9, 2010
Still catching up on posting 2009 sessions The City Market was nice & quiet on the day we got together for L&M’s engagement session! The weather late in the season was still pretty good to us. Love the colors and the sunlight that we caught. Can’t wait for your wedding; you two are so much fun.
Posted on January 9, 2010
My brother Chris and my sister in law Ashley are such a cool, laid back couple. When we learned that a little girl was on the way, my heart immediately grew to love this baby girl (with the secret name) so very much. We waited and waited, and Ashley was all belly!
Can’t have a baby belly without ice cream…
Finally the day arrived.. our beautiful Roxy Pearl. I went over to Chris & Ashley’s house to take Roxy’s newborn portraits, and their house was a little dark that day due to the weather. Their hall bath, however, has a cool glass block window and plenty of light! I took most of these portraits in there and am glad I did. Here’s Roxy with her daddy.
