new logo, new cards

I received my brand new business cards that have the new logo on them! YAY! Pretty darn excited about the new look! It's all about branding baby.

NYC- Sneak Peak

Here is one of my favorite pictures from walking down 5th Avenue in NYC last week. I'll be posting a lot more later this month.

Harpist

A few months ago, I shot a wedding at Oak Alley Plantation (which is a gorgeous place to get married! Highly recommend it!). Ashley Toman was the harpist for the wedding and she did a great job! If you're a bride looking for a harpist, be sure to look her up, you won't be disappointed! I snapped these shots of her playing...









The flower girl twins were in awe of her. :) It was so cute.

la familia

I'm working hard right now and wanted to take a break to say... I love my brothers and sister. :) I'm truly the luckiest girl in the world to have such a wonderful family. I am so blessed.

New logo!

I've been thinking about changing my logo recently. I finally did it! It's still a lot like the other one but instead of it being "arte*dellafiora" it will now just be my name. :) Arte Dellafiora was hard for a lot of people to say so I made it simpler.

Here is the new logo! I might still change it up a bit in the future, but for now this will be it! What do you think?





By the way, had an amazing time in NYC! VERY cool place! I want to go again... but when it's not 0 degrees outside! It was FREEZING! It snowed all day the first day we were there, which was beautiful. I took a lot of cool pictures that I will be sure to post once I get caught up on some work!

Happy New Year

In 13 hours I will be boarding a plane out of Atlanta headed to New York City to celebrate the new year in Time Square! YAY!!! I'm sooooo excited!! I'll be there for 3 days experiencing the big apple!

I wanted to write this last blog post of the year since I won't be able to blog in NYC. I'm pretty excited because I started this blog last year on New Years Eve 2007. That means the blog is officially one year old tomorrow! When I started it, I never realized the huge role it would play in my world of photography. It's been fun!

Now that I've completed my new website, my next project is redesigning this blog. It will be SO MUCH BETTER. It will have a fabulous new look, be more user friendly, and be much more organized. I just know you will all love it! It should be complete in early 2009!

As this year ends, and the new one begins... I'd like to wish you all a wonderful new year. Never give up on your dreams... they CAN all come true! :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

PS- I'll have LOTS of NYC pictures for the blog when I get back!

Nothing like family

My family is in town for the holidays and we decided to update the family photo... which is always interesting! The pictures came out really cute...

Here is one of my favorites of my three siblings left to right: Stephen, Hanna and Michael. It truly captures all of their personalities to a T!




My fabulous parents with their 4 children, me included!!




The whole clan. I love my family! They are the best!!

Merry Christmas!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful one filled with love and happiness! I know I will!!

Here's a picture from when I had my well behaved dog sit her tush in snow the other day. :) She is such a good girl.

Goofballs

At every photoshoot, there are ALWAYS those hilarious shots that I snap in between the "good" shots. The ones where because of the awkwardness of being photographed, the subjects in front of the lens feel the need to act like a total goober by doing the craziest things. I LOVE IT!!! The next 3 photos are some examples of what I am talking about from 2 different sessions.

The first 2 are from one of my favorite families in the world! The Guffey fam! I'll be posting their session soon, but for now...

These four brothers are so silly!




Jeff loves to be the center of attention 24/7. You can see that here as he hops in and ruins a perfectly intimate family portrait. ;)




There are plenty more of those goofy ones to come!! I had such a good time shooting their pictures! They crack me up non-stop!

The next one is from Ashi's photoshoot, lots more to come on hers as well.

This is just classic Ashleigh... classic. I love you bee-you-tea-full!

I heart shoes!!

I'm organizing and cleaning out my closet today and I came to realize I have a true obsession! SHOES!! I decided to count every pair that I have. I refuse to tell you the number... just know that it's a whole lot! (I'm not as bad as Carrie Bradshaw though!) I just love shoes! They make you feel so good everytime you get a new pair! I know most women can truly relate to me on this. Men don't get it... it's just part of our DNA! We can't help it! :)

I need a bigger closet. This is one of my favorite pairs!