New Year and New Changes in Packages

First let me say, I am NOT increasing prices. I just can’t do it right now in this economy. When so many of us have to scrap together what we can for the extra stuff, the last thing I want to do is make a special memory cost more. However, I am changing things up a bit and here are some of the reasons why. The only way I can justify increasing the price of packages is if I do these things: Take classes to improve my skills, have my photos critiqued and to make sure my equipment is able to be kept up (camera cleaned, website cost, printing cost, branding cost and so on). Since I have already established I am NOT increasing prices here are the changes I will be making. See old prices here:

1.         1. The Extraordinary Series will be the only package that has the CD included. 

2.         2. The Basic Package and the Lasting Impressions Package will have more prints added to them in place of    the CD being removed. 

3.         3. There will be no more white bordered pictures (Lasting Impression Prints) vs. black bordered pictures. I hope this will lessen the confusion when choosing a package. 

Some other changes you will see are:

1.         1. Starting in July 2012 I will have my studio up and running and will be able to start to offer in studio and on  location photography.

2      2. You will see a new look coming about the same time the studio opens. I am in the process of re-branding  my business with web designers and sprucing up my blog as well. 

        3. I will be using only professional equipment. This is how I started and this how I will be going. I do not use  off brand flashes or lenses. This is more expensive but I believe it is worth it.

4      4. I do already have 4 new classes booked for the upcoming year. I am addicted to photography!

My dreams for 2012 for my business

  1.  Opening up my studio.

        2. Buy a few more lenses to complete my lens need.

    

        3. Gaining new clients and friends. 

4.        4. Continue to build my craft and refine my style.

5.       5. HAVE FUN!!! I do love what I do after all. This is my passion. I am a Photographer ~ Thanks J*. 

6.       6. Continue to keep my business DEBT FREE BABY!

I know these past few years have been hard on EVERYONE. Everyone in this country has felt the sting of it in some way or another. We have been living in the studio for a year, strangers are renting out our home and life has been HARD. We started taking the Dave Ramsey Financial Freedom Class and slowly but surely we are working our way out of this hole and we will be in our new home next June! Just in time for my daughter to turn 2. She has never spent one night in her room that her Daddy and Uncles worked so hard to decorate for her while I was in the hospital. My biggest dream is to watch her sleep in her own room that was made just for her. 

Merry Christmas everyone and I wish all of you the best New Year ever! Thank you for helping me make my dreams come true. Without you guys, my art is nothing.

XOXO

Kimberlee Peterson

Unity Among Families of Military Heros

I think I have been avoiding writing and posting these pictures. I don’t think the pictures are terrible. I guess it is because it is the first time I saw my dad’s headstone and was able to lay a wreath at his grave. In all honesty, it is the first Christmas function I have been involved in with my dad since I was a little girl. My mom always told me my dad loved me to the best of his ability. I did get to reconnect with him before he passed and did get a half way apology from him about running out on me. He also was able to meet his only grandchild before he passed. You can see those pictures here. He was very proud of her.

The experience was joyful, sad and had a sense of unity. My father was buried in the new section since he passed away a few months ago. My Aunt passed two months after him and she is 7 rows behind him. So, when laying the wreaths down there was a flood of emotions from everyone around me. People were laughing as they reminisced about their loved ones. Others were crying because the pain was just too new. I saw military placing the wreaths and then saluting the graves and children laying down wreaths at their father and mother’s graves. In the misted on all of the emotions there was a sense of peace between us. You could look someone else in the eyes and just know we were all feeling the same thing and we were not alone. Overall there was pride…pride in those who served our country and pride that so many people showed up to help remember our loved ones. 

I am not really sure how to close this blog so I will just show you some of the pictures from that day and of my father. You can see the rest here.