As the Thanksgiving dinners end and the work begins, we are reminded how lucky we are to be doing what we love and that people not only like our work but appreciate what we do and how we do it. We have received some wonderful gifts from our family and clients in the past and they all are so appreciated. This year, we were sent some flowers and would like to share their beauty with you in this time of year when we are sometimes saddened by loss of someone, some past time in our lives or some regret. Flowers always speak of hope and new tomorrows for even by their passing, seeds of a new generation of blooms will bring renewed joy. Life is like that, too, so here is a photo of our gift and we hope looking at it brings a smile, a hope and a joy to you as well. Happy Thanksgiving!

Marketing is a funny thing. Here at iZZon we haven’t done a lot of advertising in the past. We have used the “Word of Mouth” advertising and it has worked very well for us. We love our clients with ‘big mouths’! And our clients love us, too.

Last year I built a photo booth, another cool thing iZZon can offer and now we have to let everyone know it ‘s available so we decided to take our photo booth to a couple of bridal fairs this year so that people can see it and play with it. We are going to be at two bridal fairs: one with KG95 and Goingtogetwed.com on November 30 and the Powell Broadcasting’s Bridal Fair on January 11. If you listen to KG95, you probably hear the Bridal Fair ads, and you might have heard our name mentioned at the end of some of these ads. We also are chatting live on Saturday night with Kevin Wolff. Now these ads are a lot of fun because we get to go into the studio and talk about what ever we want, unscripted. If I can get a recording I will try and post them here.

We also have some ads in the Journal and they seem to be working. This is something that I wanted to do sense we opened iZZon back in 1999. We had our ad printed upside down. We have gotten several calls from people letting us know our ad is upside down. I need to create two more ads like these. If anyone would like to be a model, and hang upside down in the Sunday paper, send us an email or call us.

Maternity portraiture can be very artisitc and exciting, perhaps because babies bring us such joy and hope for the future. This young lady had her baby and both are very healthy. We will be doing her baby's photos very soon! Congratulations!

The other day we did a setting of a family. The little girl is about one and a half and she had just awoke from a nap in a great mood but I'm sure she was a little confused about where she was and what was going on. We decided to take some shots outside because the light was getting low in the sky and it would give her an opportunity to stretch her legs and become used to us taking her photo.

While we try not to do too much posing with little ones, you try get your subjects to look in the general direction of the photographer. In this case, we had a little help from the neighbors’ cat. He (we call him Bob because he is a bob tailed cat) happened to wonder into the yard and capture her attention for quite some time. We were able to capture this image with Bob's help. It's a great image because it captures her sense of wide eyed innocence. She looks curious. Bob is hiding behind my back as I capture the image.

This is Bob. Oblivious to how he helped us keep this little one's attention, we appreciate his help, nonetheless. The toddler did a wonderful job getting her portrait taken, with or without Bob, but she sure was interested in that cat!