Winter Blues

Traditionally the portrait business is the busiest in the Spring and Fall, this is something I've never quite understood, there seems to be whole chunks of the year when people don't want portraits of themselves and their families.

Speaking of my own family, winter is always the time I take more photos of the kids indoors for two reasons, firstly it is obviously cold outside, but secondly you get many more of those cloudy days which when everything is covered in snow, reflects much more light into the house, so you get wonderful natural light in just about any room. This works great for those more playful portraits of the kids in their own environment, especially the crib which so many parents over look as a great place for a baby portrait, or even just in the front room. Also you have the added benefit of being able to get whichever date you prefer as as I mentioned above, traditionally we're less busy, so come on, book today!

JonathanRobsonPhotography on Flickr

Some of you may have clicked the flickr link to the right of this post in the past. If you have you know I post a lot of personal work to flickr. Some of that personal work is made available as FineArt prints. So it was pleasing to see that one of my photos made it to the front page of flickr! For those interested in FineArt you'll be pleased to know the photo is available as a print at my FineArt site. Also thanks to those people who helped get the photo onto the front page with all of the kind comments and tagging the photo as a favorite! Enjoy and happy flickr'ing, click the photo to see a larger view.

Busy Busy Busy

I hope everyone has had a great Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is always a busy time for photography, people getting their Christmas card photos ready. As a result I've been processing client photos like a mad scientist to make sure they're in good shape to send out their photos with their Christmas card list. Below is a couple of shots from one of my most recent new clients, Mark & Sara. We lucked out on a fantastic day at the Arboretum, full of color, slightly overcast skies, which contrary to popular belief is actually the preferred type of weather for photography, anyway enough babbling, enjoy the photos!

FineArt Print Website is now live

I often get asked by people if they could purchase prints of some of my work, to which I always have to answer 'sorry I don't offer prints for sale currently'. Well I have finally fixed that and put together a website to allow people to order prints. Prices start at $6 and sizes range from 4x6 all the way up to 24x36 mounted canvas prints, with a range of sizes in between to fit any blank wall.

I'll be adding new photos to the site all the time, so please stop by, hopefully something will catch your eye enough to put on your wall and brighten your day from then on!

FineArt Prints

Enjoy!
Jonathan

Fun at the Park

This weekend I had the pleasure of partaking an a family portrait of the Girup's. The cold is bearing down on us now, so I was a little concerned at the temperatures when I was checking the location the day before the portrait session, but as luck would have it, Sunday turned out to be great weather for this time of year and had a really nice Fall feel to it. We had plenty of fun and I learn what great props Pumpkins can be for the children, so from now on, I'll be the photographer with the camera bag and a couple of pumpkins hanging off of it!

Made the front cover

Well, maybe not the front cover, but its always nice to wake up to see some of my work featured on a popular photography blog, for the second time I have some photos included in the DIY Photography blog's latest post 'Pool Portraits - A Splash Of People', enjoy!

Perfect Afternoon

Yesterday afternoon was a perfect day in Naperville for a senior photo shoot and luckily thats what Karen, Sarah and myself were up to, the weather was just perfect, the light was excellent also, throw in a couple of nice walls to add some character and off you go. We also provided entertainment on the covered bridge for 10-15 people wondering what the heck we needed umbrellas for when the weather was so perfect, where are my business cards when I need them!