Jamison was here

This is how I can tell Jamison has been on the table in the recent past:

Of course, this is a pretty good indication as well:

Jamison loves mommy

Through my lens

To cleanse my palate from the bad taste left by the last posts, I'm going back to what I do the best:  posting pictures of Jamison!

Yesterday and today felt like Christmas because I got my new camera bag, my new lens, and my flash transmitters in the mail yesterday.  Yay!  So today after a walk around the block I busted out the new lens and let my baby run wild in the backyard.  Here are the un-photoshopped results!

And these next two pictures would have been great, had it not been for....

thanks Duncan.  Thanks a million.

So the lens gets a thumbs up...though it really couldn't go wrong with the subject matter.
Except for, you know, Duncan's tinkle time.

Well I never...the finale

crystal

we have decided that though we really like your shoots that they would
need to be featured in another season. we are going to file them away in
our fall files to be posted in the summer time in prep for fall planning
brides. please read our news post again to understand and let me know if
you have any questions. should we decide to use it when the time comes we
will notify you of our intentions and seek permission. in the meantime,
please continue to submit your best work.

thanks
warm regards
audrey
UBB

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Dear Audrey

Thanks but no thanks.

warm regards
Crystal


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Just kidding, I didn't write that.
But yeah.  Ain't gonna happen.

~THE END~

Well I never...part 2

So I did buck up and resubmit the pictures last night.  Keaton thought I was overreacting (I'm a girl.  Its allowed). And I figured, if she didn't look at them then I'd include them in the email so she could at least see them first. Besides, I've already been humbled...not gonna hurt me much to be humbled again, right?

So this is what I wrote.  I thought I was being quite nice.

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Aubrey-

I have been featured on UBB before, and all I did was submit a link. If its easier, I can for sure just send a few samples in the body of the email or a zip file (though before I didn't go to the trouble of resizing and zipping the pictures until I knew they were going to be featured).  I figure the easiest way for you to see them (without having to slog through the blog, lol) is to copy and paste into this email.  I will put the individual links to each post at the end just in case.  Sorry for the inconvenience, I hope you don't mind my resending these. (I thought you might be particularly interested in the "first look" part of the groomal session, since I hadn't seen anything like that on your site.)

Thanks again.

Crystal Smith
Envision Image Photography
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This is the reply I got this morning (she must have realized she sounded like a moron in the last one)

Crystal

how you submitted them before is fine too. i didnt mean to deter any way
that you want to submit. its just that the busier we get the more efficient
we need to be and so we have concluded that we really like images being
sent ready to go, but they certainly dont have to be, and sometimes we
really like just a few images sent and if we want to pick it up for a post
then we want the rest. thanks for pbeing patient with us as we work out the
kinks of how to best get the job done. so no worries on that if its not
convenient for you. sending us a link to your blog is just fine.

i really appreciate you taking the time to put these into an email. But i
still feel like its not right for the blog at this time like i said in the
earlier email. the first look thing was so fabulously caught but its not
quiet the caliber of imaging we typically look for. but the concept is
something that i think we would like to feature on the blog, the whole
first look thing. let me sit on this and run it by megan when she comes
back to the office.

warm regards
AUDREY
UBB

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Thanks Audrey.  By all means, sit on my sub-par imaging until Megan comes back.  (I'd like to link to the UBB and show you some of the recent photography posted....not quite the caliber? Or quiet the caliber...some one needs to teach this girl to proof read. :) Okay found one from not too long ago on their "new photographer feature"  Not bad...but certainly I'm just as good.  I know it.  Maybe because my shoots didn't take place in Hawaii.  Or is it because my clientele don't wear couture wedding gowns? (That would not surprise me one bit)

And, Aubrey?  You didn't say it wasn't the right fit in the last email.  You said "I ain't got time to look at y'all's blogs."  A "sorry, I don't think these are quite the right fit."  would have been fine.   I'd have shrugged my shoulders, thought "hey...your loss" and moved on.

Megan was the one I worked with the last two times. She's probably human.  Not sure about Audrey.

Yep.  Definitely not the caliber...

Sorry. :) hehe

Well I never

So I guess since this blog is private again I can vent freely. :)

A couple days ago I submitted some of my most recent work to the Utah Bride blog.  I've been featured on their site 2 times before, so I thought I'd just email them a link of my new faves and they could maybe decide if there was one they might not mind featuring.  This was the response I got today, letter for letter:
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crystal

i love how you have made us aware of your work and your recent stuff. we
love and adore that, we cant stay on top and look at all y'alls blogs. so
thank you. at this time we arent interested but please continue to submit.

warm regards
audrey
UBB
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This is how I read it:

crystal-
It is so cute how you think we might like your stuff.  But the truth is, we are way too awesome to take the time to click on your link.  We didn't see any of your work, but we'd like to reject it anyways. Thanks for thinking we're amazing.

warm regards
audrey
UBB
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I am pretty sure, since the girl who posted my sessions the last two times I was featured (Clay and Clarissa's engagements and Melinda and Brandon's groomals) was a different girl, Megan (they run the site together) that she didn't even remember I'd been on there before.

The really frustrating thing is that I'm doing the best work of my life.  And the pictures speak for themselves...it galls me that she didn't look at them because as she elegantly stated, "we can't keep up with y'alls blogs." I was really excited at the possibility of sharing it with a larger audience.

So, guys, what should I do?  Admit defeat with my tail between my legs?  Email them back with attached pictures and see if they'd reconsider? (albeit I'd have to do so without being snippy) Or should I get my version of revenge (which is to tear it up on every other shoot I ever do and be super successful without their approval.) lol

I feel a little better now.  Venting always works wonders. :)

Because I promised

Well, because I promised a certain grandma a steady stream of Jamison pics while she was away visiting foreign lands....and because who could possibly get tired of an endless cavalcade of Jamison pictures?

Surprises are Awesome

Yesterday we found an unexpected package in our mailbox from Keaton's aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania...A beautiful hand-knitted sweater for Jamison.  Completely out of the blue!  Aunt Janet is the queen of all things handmade. And doesn't he look dashing? Makes me just want to kiss him!

Which, of course, I probably will. :)