Portrait Deadlines for the Holidays - Mark your Calendars - {Maggie Messer Photography - Lago Vista, TX }

Portrait Deadlines for the Holidays - Mark your Calendars

 

Feel a little early for Holiday Deadlines?

The holiday season is here?  What? It's still 90+ degrees outside, but yes, it's that time of year again.

 As  many of you know it takes time to create the custom photography products that we offer.  Here's the deadlines so you can plan ahead for your Christmas and Holiday gifts.

Custom Wedding Albums:

            Submission with image selections - due by Monday, September 30, 2013.

            Final Design Approvals due by Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Custom Portrait Albums:

            Submission with image selections - due by Wednesday, October 16, 2013.

            Final Design Approvals due by Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Session Books:

            Submission with image selections - due by Wednesday, November 13, 2013.

            Final Approvals due by Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Wall Portraits:

            Final Approvals due by Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Gift Prints:

            Final Approvals due by Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Image Boxes & Gift Frames:

            Final Approvals due by Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Holiday Cards:

            Final Approvals due by Wednesday, December 4, 2013      

            { Allow about 2 weeks for design & delivery, if you would like to send your cards                        out sooner, please plan accordingly}

Ready to Schedule your Fall Session - Call 512.563.6209.  www.maggiemesser.com 

Portrait Sessions Half Off during the month of September - {Lago Vista Portrait Photographer}

Beat the Holiday rush and come visit us in September, plus receive half off any portrait session!  Just call to purchase your session for September @ 512-563-6209.  Not sure what type of portraits you want to create, come visit us for a Design Consultation.  www.maggiemesser.com

Fall Specials - Starting in September! {Lago Vista Portrait Photographer}

Each month, from September to November, Maggie Messer Photography will be offering a new Fall Special.  Celebrate the holidays with updated portraits.  These Photography specials are created just for the occasion!

As always - keep in mind holiday gifts and ordering time.  Most orders, like Wall Portraits and Albums, need to be placed by October to enjoy by the holidays. Specialty designs and paintings take even longer, so make sure to schedule by September.

Maggie Messer Photography looks forward to creating your updated portraits this fall! 
Call today - 512.563.6209

Maggie Messer is a Certified Professional Photographer in Lago Vista, Texas - serving the greater Austin area & central Texas. Specialize in fine art portraits to decorate your home.  Let her create a piece of art for you. Visit the website at www.maggiemesser.com to view samples of Maggie's work. 

Kiss & Tell - Children's Special: February 2, 4 & 5

 

Call 512-563-6209 to schedule a mini session with Maggie Messer Photography in Lago Vista, TX, for a Children's Special just in time for Valentine's Day!  www.maggiemesser.com

Sessions are limited and based on availability. Don't wait, call and schedule today!

The newly added Children's Specials are created for all our favorite clients that want to come back for a visit in-between the larger milestones in their children's life.  With special collections starting at $ 85, it's a perfect time for to update your Children's portraits.  Valentine trader cards will also be available, perfect for school age kiddos.

Look forward to seeing some familiar faces and welcome the opportunity to meet some new ones.

October: Family Portrait Month

October is Family Portrait Month.  This is the perfect time to ask yourself, "When was our last family portrait?".  How has your family changed since the last portrait?  How much have your children grown?  That long, really?  

Some people enjoy updating their family portraits once a year, while others like to capture the milestones of childhood.  

Call today and schedule your family portrait: 512-563-6209.

Maggie Messer is a Certified Professional Photographer, located in the beautiful city of Lago Vista, Texas.

Simply Fridays ~ Now Available

Fall Newsletter - Maggie Messer Photography {Lago Vista, TX}

Open publication - Free publishing

Honoring our mothers on Mother's Day { Austin Portrait Photographer}

Mother's Day - a day to honor our mother's.  So, it's only appropriate that today, I honor our own mothers.  Here is one of my mom's recent portraits I created.

   

My mother is a  woman of strength, courage & determination.  Her virtue of patience & understanding is greater in her than anyone I have ever known.  She's gentle and kind and is full of unconditional love.  Her beauty not only shines on the outside, but is even brighter on the inside.

For all of the happy memories you have created, for all you do and mostly who you are, today I honor my mother!  Happy Mother's Day Mom!

Honoring Aaron's Mom - the day I got married (and even before) Aaron's mother became another mom and friend to me.  Here's a beautiful portrait I took of her a few years ago.  Her sense of style & elegance was my inspiration for this portrait.

Mom has a fabulous sense of humor & is one of the most thoughtful people I know. I love laughing with her.  She raised a wonderful gentleman, that I love laughing with just as much! She is known to be a strong willed & very determined woman. Mom, we are so proud of your achievements lately!  Congratulations on your medal!  Happy Mother's Day Mom!

{Austin Children & Family Photographer} Practice makes perfect! I'll be looking for MODELS soon!

Spring Time is here and for me that means Texas School of Professional Photography!  This year I will be spending a week with an amazing photographer - Greg Daniels.

Texas School of Professional Photography is a week long school for Professionals to challenge their skills, check out what's new and what's hot, while receiving intense instruction from some of the best photography minds in the business. www.tppa.org

As intense & fast past as the school is, it's always best when I come home to practice what I have learned.  This year, I'd love to call on some of my VIP clients to come back in for some modeling.  Of course, you'll receive a complimentary session & a $100 studio credit to use as you please.  If I don't call on you this time, don't worry, there is always another time.  

 

It's also print competition season and as I prepare, there will be other opportunities for modeling as well.

If you might be interested in participating, please feel free to send me an email and let me know you'd like to be a model! maggie@photographybymaggie.com

 

 

A SMILE ON MY FACE & IN MY HEART

A family laughing together, the giggle and snicker of a child, the first grins of a tiny baby....

I have to smile thinking how blessed I am.  I have the privilege of creating heirloom portraits for my families.  How amazing is that!   

What I love about my career is all the wonderful people I meet, build a relationship with and get the opportunity to learn their inner beauty.  I have so much fun getting to know everyone and then creating special portraits for them.  I hope all my clients have a fun & fabulous experience with me.


My wish for you all is love and happiness!  Thank you to each and everyone for entrusting me to create your portraits!

Warm regards,
Maggie

Kiss and Tell Valentine's Collection {Austin Children's Photographer}

Remembering Rockwell Series - Halloween Portraits

Thanks to all those who participated and made a $20 donation to Operation Smile.  Just thought I'd share some of the cute portraits.  Here's Tinker Bell and her sister Tinker Bell! :)

Maggie Messer places 3rd in October print competition - Austin Professional Photographer's Association

Holiday Early Birds - September - 1/2 off a studio portrait session

They say, " the early bird gets the worm". The holidays are just around the corner, book your session in September and receive your studio portrait session for half price! Available sessions are limited, give us a call today!

Not quite prepared for your session this month...

Join us next month for Family Portrait Month and our 3rd Annual donation drive to Operation Smile. Maggie Messer Photography will donate $100 to Operation Smile from each and every portrait session!

Local Photographer’s Work Goes to International Exhibition

For Immediate Release

July 6, 2009

Local Photographer’s Work Goes to International Exhibition

Two Prints created by Maggie Messer of Maggie Messer Photography in Leander, Texas has recently been accepted into the GENERAL Collection and LOAN Collection of the 2009 International Print Competition. Messer's work will be on display at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, January 10-12, 2009, in Nashville, Tenn. This exhibition is held in conjunction with Imaging USA, an annual convention of professional photographers and several photographic associations.

A panel of over 40 eminent jurors from across the United States selected the top images from more than 4,300 total submitted entries at Gwinnett Technical College in Georgia. Judged against a standard of excellence, almost 1,700 images were selected for the General Collection and just over 500 (12 percent) were selected for the esteemed Loan Collection—the best of the best. The Loan Collection images will be published in the much-anticipated “Loan Collection” book, and nearly 200 selected General Collection images will be published in the “Showcase” book by Marathon Press.

Titled " A Hidden Moment"(General Collection) and “The Bout”(Loan Collection) Messer's entries will be in Nashville alongside other photographic works from not only PPA’s print competition, but also traveling and special invitational displays. These images constitute the world’s largest annual exhibit of professional photography gathered simultaneously under one roof.

Professional Photographers of America (PPA), an international non-profit association, exists to assist its 22,000 members in achieving their professional, artistic and fraternal goals; to promote public awareness of the profession; and to advance the making of images in all of its disciplines as an art, a science and a visual recorder of history.

Contact:

Maggie Messer, C.P.P.

Maggie Messer Photography

512-986-5988

$50 Mini Pet Portrait Sessions

Julia's Garden

In February, I had the honor of speaking to a class at Julia's Garden about photography. I had so much fun and the kids were such a blast to be with!

There were about 5 kiddos from the age of 3 -7. I brought in some "old" cameras for them to touch and feel and learn the different parts of a camera. We had a fun portrait session too!



I sent them each home with a black and white filmed camera to explore with and be creative. I look forward to one day seeing what these little artists created with their cameras.



Check out Julia's Garden, it is a fun learning environment, based on the principles and methods as defined by Dr. Maria Montessori. Created with the intentions of giving parents helpful tools to aid in their child’s development at the appropriate stages. I know your kids would absoultely LOVE Katherine, and the school!

Julia's Garden
www.welcometojulia'sgarden.com

It's been a while...

It was Christmas just a few moments ago, I blinked, and now we are in March! Time sure flies when we are having fun! 2009 has brought a lot of excitement already, and I look forward to sharing with everyone in the upcoming weeks.

Toys for Tots - Update

I hope everyone had a fabulous holiday with your families and took some time to slow down for a bit and relax!

I wanted to give you an update on what I heard about the Toys for Tots drive. Our efforts help contribute to collection over 13,000 toys!

One reason I choose the Toys for Tots drive, was that all of the toys stayed locally in Central Texas! Imagine ALL the children that got to open up a toy for Christmas! It really warms the heart to know we all helped be a part of it!

I think it goes to show, even in a tough economy, when so many people had to tighten their budgets, it truly is BETTER TO GIVE, THEN RECEIVE!

Toys for Tots - 3 day toy drive

"Jaison's Gifts"
To honor Jaison Braulick

This year, I decided in lieu of holiday gifts for my clients, I would use that budget to purchase toys and donate them to a Toys for Tots drive. Here is what I donated yesterday!

If you received my Dec. newsletter, I hope you had a few moments to to read and think about Jaison's Gifts.

I will be collecting more toys for the Toys for Tots and will deliver them on Friday at 3pm at the Toys R Us at 183 /Lakeline.

If you would like to donate, I'd love to take them for you.

If you are unable to make a donation, I hope you will create your own act of kindness today!