Monthly Archives: February 2009

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It’s official! New Studio is coming!

Posted in News

Ok, so we wanted to wait until we had the paperworked signed, but we finally got through all the negotiations and finally signed our lease at our new location off Indian Street in Stuart. We are SUPER excited, as we have been waiting and planning for over a year for our new studio. After weeks and months of searching, we finally found the perfect location for our new 2000 sq ft studio. Andrea has been patiently awaiting our new location since we began shooting boutique-style newborn, maternity, children portraiture in October of 2007 since our shooting room now is much smaller than optimal. With the new studio, we will have almost 800 sq ft of shooting space with SO many more options for our clients in terms of backgrounds, set options, and much more. Shooting seniors and familes in studio will now be so much easier! You thought Andrea’s portraits were killer now–all I can say is just wait until Andrea steps foot in the new shooting room–she is going to knock the socks off everyone!

Furthermore our wedding clients (and portrait clients as well) will be treated to a state-of-the-art HD theater expierience in our HD theater to preview and view wedding images, albums, and their short films on our new 100″ movie screen. Portrait clients can now see their images life size–and we’ll be able to project the acutal size of the portraits so you can visualize exactly how big they will be!

Other new rooms will include a seperate HD editing suite, break room for our clients and their children/guests, and a seperate dressing room for our clients to prep themselves for their shoots!

We have a lot of work to do as we wait for permits, put up  a few more walls, and begin remodeling of the location, but we are set to open June 1st..in only 90 days! We are so anxious to get in there we will be on the contractor’s behind to speed things up and hopefully have the shooting room ready in May! We will certainly keep you updated!

~Ryan

Jordan and Bonnie’s Album Sneek Peek

Posted in Weddings

 Occasionally I will post an album so that you can see some of my current designs. This was a pre designed/premium design album in which I chose all of the images for the final album. Giving me a little more creative liberties, this option allows me to design the album exactly how I envisioned it when I photographed the event. I hope you love it as much as I do! ~ Andrea

On Location Family Session

Posted in Family, News

Ok, I have been a very bad blogger! Im sorry to those of you who stalk my blog daily, I always tell myself I will be better, and I really do try! This is one of my recent family portrait sessions of Julie and her family. This is my favorite time of day to photograph, such pretty light!

You have to keep an eye on this little munchkin, she doesnt sit still for very long! LOL, I really enjoyed her!

Andy & Chrissy ~ film before the honeymoon!

Posted in Cinematic Films

We may have set a record here with this..but Andy & Chrissy (super cool couple!) have their classic film completed before they head off to LOVELY Italy for their honeymoon. Everything went super smooth on the wedding day and we got some great footage. Hope you guys love the film and love Italy..I know Andrea and I did last summer! Just remember to bring lots of Euro….credit card company nails you with that international fee on top of the conversion charge!

Ryan

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Johanna and Manny’s South Beach Engagement

Posted in Engagement

South Beach is amazing, and any chance to go down there to photograph, I take it! I was thrilled when Johanna and Manny asked us to come down to South Beach to photograph their Engagement Portraits. It was a “little” windy, but I think we got through it just fine! Perhaps a little touch up for the crazy blowing hair is in order, but that’s no problem at all! Can’t wait to see you guys at your wedding!

Azaan’s Newborn Portraits

Posted in Newborn

I LOVE newborns! They are just so cute and cuddly… and I just love to photograph them! There are some rough points of course as well, like getting them to SLEEP, but it truly is one of my favorite sessions! Here is little Azaan, he did fantastic and probably one of my favorite newborns to date!

Jessica and DJ~ married!

Posted in Weddings

What a happy day for Jessica and DJ! We were happy to be a part of the 2nd Dawes Family wedding in the last 18 months! Any more sisters we dont know about?

It was great to see everyone (a lot of our friends too!) having a great time at the wedding. Jessica was a good sport…she wasn’t feeling too well all day but she hung in there and enjoyed the day!

We are all sad to see you move on up to Virginia, but stay in touch!

~Ryan & Andrea

 

This one should go one your wall Anne! I’d be loving this sepia-toned shot on the wall as a lovely gallery wrap! Timeless!

Jessica and Garrett are having a baby!

Posted in Maternity, Portrait

Here are their on location maternity portraits…..they look stunning! Can’t wait to get the little one in the studio for newborn portraits—super nice couple!

Exciting news COMING SOON!

Posted in News

We’ll have a big announcement here at Focused on Forever Studio that will become official in a few days! Stay tuned…….!

Samantha & Steven Recap

Posted in Cinematic Films

Here is Samantha & Steven’s Wedcast! This lovely couple was married on Valentines Day and we enjoyed shooting their classic film!

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