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Baretta & Boudreaux | East Texas Dog Photographer

christina — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:17:31 +0000

Slowly catching up on sharing some favorites from my fall 2010 pet sessions … if you’ve visited the Sit.Stay.Snap. website, you’ve probably already seen a few of these over there!

Meet Baretta … sweet sweet soul (and, yes, dad’s a cop, thus the name inspiration!).

… and Boudreaux, who, despite being super protective of his momma, is quite the ham!

For those who consider their fur babies as much a part of their family as the human members, why not book a session just for them. Full detail and current pricing are available via our pet subdivision, Sit.Stay.Snap. Pet Photography.

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Week 8 | Athens Texas Photographer

christina — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:08:48 +0000

Saw them abandoned alongside the barn with the grass starting to grow up through the holes … none of the other images I took over the last week appealed to me enough for the weekly image as this one did.

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Week 7 | Athens Texas Photographer

christina — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:59:06 +0000

I tried to pick only one image this week … the top one is my artsy image, the second one is a behind the scenes look at other things/hobbies/activities I spend time on besides photography. First time in … *counting in my head* nearly 19 years I’ve attempted to use that sewing machine. Last time I used it it rebelled and I conceded defeat at attempting to sew with anything other than just a needle and thread by hand!

In addition to the mini site launch on Saturday, the ‘howdy’ section that’s on the homepage of this blog site was updated over the last few days to reflect some of the changes in progress at CMP. Since I own both christinamccall.com and christinamccallphotography.com, my portrait portfolios are migrating to the latter domain name, so I will be using the former (aka this domain) primarily for my personal and travel photographic work in the future. I will continue to feature portrait sessions periodically here on the blog and all the information pages linked on the menu above will still be accessible here as well as business announcements. Too much time and energy putting all of it together (as well as the fact I don’t want to update marketing materials until my stockpile is depleted!) to spend hours or days copying and pasting text over to a new site doesn’t appeal to me ;-) Just thought I’d explain so new visitors looking for client sneak peek debuts or recent work won’t wonder why I’m not sharing them as often as in the past!

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Week 6 | Athens Texas Photographer

christina — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:49:39 +0000

sticking with the heart theme (see Saturday’s post) … since plan A didn’t pan out image-wise over the weekend due to the wind!

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Week 5 | Athens Texas Photographer

christina — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:41:59 +0000

8 days shy of a year from our last *good* snow here in East Texas (the last one of 2010 was the first day of spring) … spotted this feather left behind while I was out photographing details on my snow day off work.

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Its that time … | Athens, East Texas, and DFW Senior Photographer

christina — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:40:13 +0000

Attention Athens, East Texas, and DFW area seniors (and their parents)!

Graduation is just around the corner and before you know it, it’ll be time to send out graduation announcements and to swap wallets of your awesome senior portraits with your friends and classmates. Don’t wait until the last minute to book & shoot your senior portraits … Christina McCall Photography has Class of 2011 special collection options (which include your session fee) available for booking right now!

As of today … only seven more full custom senior portrait appointment times are available this spring!

Want more details? Email CMP at christina [at] christinamccall [dot] com, call 903.477.9069, or use the contact form!

The last day to schedule a senior session this spring is April 22nd — all sessions held after this date aren’t guaranteed to have your print/custom portrait art order in your hands before your graduation date!

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Week 4 | Athens Texas Photographer

christina — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:38:30 +0000

For lack of a better theme on my part this past week, I decided to borrow Marta Locklear’s Hue & Texture theme for the week! Thus … hue: yellow, texture: unlimited

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Mr H | Athens Texas Dog Photography

christina — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:00:09 +0000

Another session awaiting its blog debut … meet Mr. H.

We were a bit close to one another right here … but he was so well behaved!

He’s quite the handsome guy, wouldn’t you agree?

… and here he’s waiting for his mom to arrive back …

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Week 3 | Athens Texas Photographer

christina — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:37:11 +0000

Decided (due to lack of daylight and illness) to do this week’s image in late evening and embrace the grain that comes with shooting at 3200 ISO. I finally got around to purchasing the 100 mm f/2.8 macro lens (original, not the newer L series version) about two months ago but really haven’t put it to good use yet … thus a detail shot of one of my newest vintage cameras. One of these days I’ll get around to photographing the entire collection … which is numbering in the neighborhood of 22 as of now. That number could change if I venture onto Ebay or to First Monday in the next couple weeks

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Chipper | Athens Texas Photographer

christina — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:59:45 +0000

Feeling significantly better than I was earlier this week … just not quite as chipper as this little guy! Slowly catching up on all things business and personal … and hoping to make a huge dent this weekend on the to-do list I’m now behind on.

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Only a few words can describe … | Athens Texas Photographer

christina — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:46:20 +0000

… my weekend in San Antonio for the Imaging USA conference:

… rainy & foggy …

… and food poisoning.

No photo of that last one … but my wrap up of the conference will be delayed until next week when I feel a bit more human …

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Week 2 | Athens Texas Photographer

christina — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:15:12 +0000

This past week has been one of the coldest here in East Texas in quite a while (shoot, every state other than Florida got snow this week!) … while the snow that fell on Sunday melted by nightfall at the house, in Tyler there was still snow on the ground as well as the roof of the parking garage adjoining my office building when I left work on Thursday afternoon due to the fact temperatures didn’t surpass 32 F from Sunday until Thursday afternoon!

I was more than thrilled to escape the chill on Friday (I’ve been in San Antonio this weekend for the Imaging USA conference held by Professional Photographers of America). I’ll try to share more about the pre-con class I attended on Saturday as well as the Expo here on the blog on Wednesday … for now though, just a photo of the two icicles (taken last Thursday morning) that hung around most of the week on the back porch eaves …

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