Carrie Bassett Photography {the smileblog}

I loved working with this family.  I always forget how nice it is to work with children over three!  The cooperation really makes such a difference in the stress level.  From what I understand it has been a very long time since there was a family portrait done.  I am very happy that this image turned out as well as it did AND that they loved it as much as I did.  I love the seriousness of their expression.  I played with it tonight and found a nice black and white with a nice brown almost sepia tone.  Just wanted to share.  They were my last session for 2009.  I am going to now enjoy the rest of the holiday season with my kids and their winter break from school.  I will most likely post again this year but if not.  Happy Holidays to all and a wonderful new decade! ~Carrie

I had such fun today with Miss M.  She brought mom and dad with her today to have her portraits done.  She is a very silly little five year old.  She has the best silly smiles ever.  I think to date, she is the best twirler I have ever had in front of my camera.  She is just super adorable!  Thanks for giving me such a nice afternoon Miss M and family!  Hope you enjoy your proofs.

  I have to admit, Kim is one of my most favorite clients of all times.  She has been coming to work with me since Miss A was just a tiny baby.  I get to see her children grow up, and our relationship has truly become a friendship.  I love having her come in to place orders, it is a blast.  I almost forgot to post these image…it has just been so busy here!  Happy Holidays Kim and family!

Another fun session today, with another great assistant…Master S.  He brought his aunts and his baby cousin Master M to visit me today.  I actually went to school with one of his aunts, let us just say MANY years ago.  I love how doing what I love has brought me back in touch with friends from years ago.  What a great day for me!  Hope that they love the proofs I sent their way!

Miss M brought her mom and dad in for portraits today.  She was quite the assistant, keeping dad from going over the magic line and making sure they were sitting correctly in their poses.  I think I should hire her.  I had so much fun, it is always great to photograph a happy child who is very comfortable with adults…not to mention how easy it is to photograph them when they are as cute as her!  Enjoy going through your proofs mom and dad…good luck picking the perfect ones!

OK, so I spent oodles of time today getting a poll ready for tomorrow’s contest.  I had a ton of facebook windows up.  I actually some how had two business pages.  SO, I went in to delete the one that was not being used.  You guessed it….both GONE.  All fans GONE.  SO sad!  SO mad! 

Have to start from scratch.  Please come be my fan again, or if you were not my fan yet….please become a fan.  I am having a holiday photo card contest starting tomorrow that you have to be my fan to be able to vote in.

My fan page <---- go now….please!!!!

OK all, it is November and I am SO in the mood for all things Christmas.  Santa has his shopping done and I have tons of new holiday designs for this years cards (not that I have done MY cards yet).  I had to update the music today with some Christmas music.  Tori of course.  I am getting very excited because Tori is releasing an album on the 10th called “Midwinter Graces” and I do hope to be getting this as a birthday gift…so I have to wait about a month to actually get to listen to it…but I will get a good ten days of listening to it before the holiday is over.  So that is why I found a nice song from Tori to put on the blog to put you in that holiday mood.  I am sure I will putting more holiday music up now through the holiday…because you just need to get in the mood :)

I have been working on Christmas since August.  Yep, that is what I do come August…I try to scan the internet for card design inspirations.  I find so many I love that I just need to try to replicate.  That being said, I have tons that need new images to put in them.  So, enter my facebook contest!  You just need to be a fan of my business page http://tiny.cc/myfbfanpage <----just click there.  Then you send me an image or images and I will put it in one of my designs or perhaps I will be inspired to create something brand new for your image.  Once I have all the entries set, I will post them in an album on facebook and then they will be voted on by fans of my page…..so you need to get all your friends to become a fan so they can vote for your card.  More detail on the contest is in some of my earlier posts here.

I did want to share some that I have done recently…so you can see just how it works!  Hope you enter!

You know you all have one….the shot you set up, you tried so hard…but it just didn’t turn out as perfectly as you had hoped.  Well, send it to me and I will fix that horrible color and add the umph that it is missing.  When you send that image to carrie@carriebassett.com, I will retouch the image and put it into one of my beautiful card designs and enter it into my facebook contest. 

You need to be a fan of my facebook business page to enter, and anyone who wants to vote needs to also be a fan of my page.  Click here to become a fan of Carrie Bassett Photography on facebook.

When you enter, you decide what you want your greeting to be as well as what text you want (family member names etc).  You can take the option of getting the 25 cards sent to you with envelopes (a $50 value)  OR you can opt to just take the high res digital file and print it where you wish, you then supply your own 5x7 envelopes.  This contest is FREE FREE FREE, no reason to not enter!

Get started now, if you don’t have an image to send me, GO TAKE ONE!  Remember that you don’t have to have yourself or kids in the image…pets work well on this too.   More information will be posted soon!!!

Enter today! 

I had the pleasure to spend the day on Sunday with a friend I had not seen in YEARS.  We became friends while I was pregnant with my second, and she with her first.  Skye was born in Dec of 2002 and Talia in Jan of 2003.  They have not seen each other since they were about one I believe.  They became instant friends which was so awesome to see.  Skylar even told her class about Talia during share time at school, and I hear Talia is telling everyone she went to see her “first” friend.  So sweet.

Anyway….Miss Talia has gotten crazy big since I last saw her.  She still has that beautiful strawberry hair and pretty smile.  Her baby sister (who I just got to meet) reminds me so much of Talia as a baby I can’t even stand it.  Talia was quite the natural behind the camera.  Nola wanted very little to do with the whole event.  I think I managed to get some great shots of her anyway. 

I am sure I will post some family shots as well as some couple shots of mom and dad soon.  For now enjoy my Talia collage and Nola storyboard.

Oh wait….I finally got around to changing the music on here.  I figured that Pretty in Pink was fitting for Talia for sure.  AND I have been listening to more music like this lately…the Cure etc.  I love this song, always have…but thinking back to when I first heard it, it makes me feel crazy old….I guess I am, oh well.

The rain held off!  We had been watching the weather for two days now.  It looked to almost certainly be raining during this shoot…but I prayed, and it worked.  It was beautifully overcast which made conditions good for me, but my poor model got a bit cold toward the end.  Gotta love fall in New England, you just never know what the weather will do from minute to minute.

It was a pretty easy session for me tonight….I mean, I had a great model, not only is she beautiful, but follows direction so well.  I had so many that I loved, and believe it or not, this is NOT all of them.  Miss J, I will get the proofs to you and mom soon.  I am sure this amount on the blog will help hold you till then.  Thanks for a fun evening…oh and I hope mom gave you extra marshmallows in your hot chocolate…you worked hard for them!