heart warming

I just thought you all needed something to warm your heart on a cold day.  Isn't she just adorable? 

Family Photography

Here are a couple more sneak peeks for you.  I'm almost caught up so I'll have those blogs coming out soon, maybe I'll do "the 12 blogs before Christmas" or something like that.  Enjoy!

Fall Portraits

Thank you to my wonderful clients waiting so patiently for their images to show up on the blog and facebook.
Full blog posts and more to come soon, I am totally swamped and I now see why some places are creating a job position just to manage their social media networking.  Here's just a sneak peek of what I've been up too.

Black Friday/Cyber Monday Gift certificate sale.

Happy Thanksgiving.  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday spent with family and friends. 

Well tomorrow is that crazy shopping day of the year.  What type of product are you willing to stand in line for hours on end to get?  For me, quite honestly it would have to be some kind of insane sale on Canon pro cameras or L series lenses. 

Stigman Photography is having a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale.   Buy $100 gift certificate and we'll give you an extra $50.  That's right......for $100 you will get $150 gift certificate.  No need to wake up before dawn or stand in line for hours to get in on this sale.  All you have to do is call me or go online to purchase your gift certificate.  To purchase online go to www.stigmanphotography.com  click on the "clients" section and enter in bf as the password.   Or  call me at 270-925-9311 to purchase your gift certificate.  Gift certificates will be mailed to you.    Gift certificates may be used for portrait sessions, prints, albums and portrait products.  ***Restrictions- these gift certificates may not be used for orders already placed or in process. 

Photography is a great gift to give to someone, you are giving them a gift of preserved memories of their loved ones.  Make sure you put Stigman Photography on your shopping list, this special sale ends Nov. 29th.   HAPPY SHOPPING!

"A day in the death of Joe Egg"

Meet the cast of "A Day In The Death of Joe Egg"  I did a quick session with these witty characters for the printed advertisement of this production put on by Theatre Workshop of Owensboro.  You may recognize Katie, I did her senior session back in August.
Here's the image they chose

and here is the poster the TWO graphic artist designed.  Looks great!

You can get your tickets for this show here.  Don't delay, I hear these tickets are selling pretty quickly.  I can't wait to see it!

50 years!

I slacked off on the blogging.  I've been busy with school work with the kids, and quite honestly figuring out if I should continue blogging.  It seems I have more communication through facebook than with my blog.  I still have not made my decision....... so for now the blog will continue. I have made some changes as far as when images get blogged and tagged on facebook.  Tagging and blogging of images will occur after clients have placed their orders.  So if you haven't seen your images tagged on facebook yet, get your orders in. :0)

Anyways....on with today's post.  I can't believe I took this long to blog this.  My apologies to the in-laws.  In May, we traveled to MN to celebrate my Mother & Father in-law's 50th wedding anniversary.  Quite the accomplishment, 50 years of marriage.  They had a wonderful party with family and friends celebrating their marriage.  Al and Bev gave me about 2 minutes to take some portraits of them.  Really! 2 minutes is all I got, but I still got the shots I was after.   They have a picture of them on their wedding day, on the front steps of this church, so we had to re-create that...50 years later.

Here's a few more of my favorite.......

awwww 50 years and still in love!

The youngest grandchildren put on a little skit of Bev and Al's years together.  The skit was written by Bev's cousin, Fuzz, who always has everybody laughing.  It highlighted Bev's love for shopping and Al's love for hunting, fishing, wild rice harvesting, wine making, and of course, baseball.  Al is quite the baseball legend.  I think he played the "old timers" league up until just a few years ago.  He still plays ball with all his grand-kids.  My son Sawyer, enjoys getting pitching advice from Grandpa when ever he can.

 

Bev and Al have 4 children of which my husband Sam, is the baby by 8 years.  He was their "bonus" as they call it.  They are also the proud grandparents of 14 almost 15 grandchildren.  #15 will be born sometime in February. 

 Here's a few shots with some of their closest friends.

 and of course I had to get some details.....beautiful flowers.

I think it's awesome to be able to celebrate 50 years of marriage.  Sam and I have 13 down, only 37 years to go until we hit that milestone.  I say we celebrate our 50th somewhere warm and tropical; Hawaii sounds good to me!

Wedding Featured!

I am thrilled that Matt & Emily's wedding is featured on the OneWed blog.  I loved everything about that wedding, especially the pink '69 Chevy.  You can check out the full post by clicking here.

Timeless Kentucky Wedding with a ‘69 Chevy: Matt and Emily

Featured Wedding by Stigman Photography

Photo: Stigman Photography

We have a winner!

After my week long family portrait contest, we have a winner.  Congratulations to Angie Wathen who won a family portrait session along with 25 press printed Christmas cards.  Here was Angie's idea for her session:

"The location would be my parents farm. We could make picture by the lake of us just having fun. Us riding on the ranger in the the woods. Would love pictures of us in the woods. There is also some old barns on the property. Mom and Dad's porch would make wonderful pictures, and there fountain area in the front. There is so many places on there farm that would be great for making outside family pictures."

I'm looking forward to your session Angie.  Thank you to everyone who participated and who voted for their favorite session idea. Everyone who posted had great ideas, I would love to see you put those into action.  Watch for Angie's session on the blog in the next 2 months!

Maternity session 70's style

Remember when I posted about the VW bus and how I had the perfect couple for the session idea I had in my head?  Well here they are.... Andrew, Rachel and baby bump.  Turns out Andrew's first vehicle was a  VW bus.....close to the same year as this one, but in orange.  YES! I knew I had the right couple!

I also had to incorporate my sunflowers as well.

Thanks Drew & Rachel, you rocked it out as usual!  Thanks Steve for letting me use that beautiful bus!


In other news, 2 days left to enter the family portrait session giveaway.  You still have time to post an entry and get your friends to vote for you.  See the previous posts for contest details.  So far there are 9 entries and they have come up with great ideas that fit their families.  I'm so glad it's not up to me to pick one, I'd have a very difficult time choosing the winner.  If you don't want to enter, that's cool, but go read through  some of the ideas and help them out and "like" your favorite.  The entry with the most "likes" wins!  Click here to read through the posts.

bad kitten

I walked into the bathroom yesterday and caught this kitten in this act of mischief.  I turned around and went and got my camera.  I had to take a picture, because really how can I be mad at him when he's so darn cute.  This little stinker had unrolled the entire roll of toilet paper after I had just put it in the bathroom.

 If you're looking for a kitten, I have 3 for you.....yes once again. No wait, 4. The momma cat needs a home too. Another momma cat showed up on our doorstep pregnant.  I think it has something to do with my daughter the cat whisperer.  The cats seem to flock to her, she can tame the wildest of cats.  They must know she wants to be a vet when she grows up.  The kittens will be ready to go home with you in 2 weeks.

Family Portrait Session Giveaway!

Alright, fall is here.....I think........well soon anyway.  Fall is the perfect time to have your family portraits made.  SO.....I figured I would have a fun contest and give away a family portrait session and 25 press printed Christmas Cards with images from your session.  Let me warn you, you will be the envy of all your friends when they receive those cards in the mail come December.  I can make some pretty rad cards.......jus' saying. :0P 


Here's some info about me; I shoot only on location, I do a little bit of posing and direction but I also capture families interacting with each other and having fun. I want to see my clients have family portraits that show the bond you have with one another, at a location that means something to you, doing an activity that you enjoy as a family.  That may be as simple as playing baseball together, or going out for ice cream. It could also be about your family's style.....do you like vintage cars or clothes,  are you into fashion, are you a little bit country? Whatever it is, I want it to be about your family.


This is how to enter the contest........it's just 3 things and it's really simple.
1. Be a "fan" or "like" Stigman Photography on Facebook (click here)

2. You must post your most creative idea for your family portrait session on the Stigman Photography Facebook page.  Now this idea has to be something you are willing to do, because if you win that's exactly what we are going to do for your session.  So if you don't like getting muddy on a 4 wheeler, don't post that idea for your session.  If you want to go to a tropical island somewhere for your session, I'm cool with that, you just have to pay for the trip and mine. :0)  I'm willing to travel up to 60 miles outside the Owensboro area for this session so keep that in mind when thinking about what you want to do.

3. Get everyone you know to "like" your session idea......that's how you're gonna win.  The family with the most "likes" under their post is the winner.  The best way to do that is post it on your FB status . You can post something like "please help us win a family portrait session by "liking" our session idea, just click here and give us the thumbs up on our post".  Contest ends Friday, September 10th at 8am.  I will count all the "likes" at 8am and announce the winner that day.




The fine print......you are winning a family portrait session and 25 press printed cards, a value of $270. Not redeemable for cash.   This session will need to take place by the end of October 2010.  You can enter to win if you live out of state, but you would need to travel to the Owensboro, KY area, or you can always fly me to where you live :0)


Here's a few images just to get those creative minds thinking outside of the traditional photography box.

What are you waiting for?  Start posting and get those "thumbs up" to win.  Good luck!