Beautiful Life

I am so excited about the new song on my website!! Those of you who have a tv might recognize it already...I understand that it's currently being used in a Toyota commercial and on the show Jon & Kate Plus 8. However, I just heard it online for the first time yesterday, and I immediately fell in love with it, and thought it would be the perfect song for my website. So I emailed the band, giving them the link to my site, and asking them how I could get the rights to play the song. I figured I'd have to pay royalties or a licensing fee or something, and that it would probably be totally out of my league, but I thought it was worth a try anyhow.

Within half an hour, I had an answer:

Chandra,

Your work is great. Feel free 2 use the song.
Please wait until after the 30th if you have any questions. I'm out of the country until then.

Ron Wasserman
Fisher Music, Inc.

How sweet is that?!!

So take a stroll over to my site to listen to the new song and peruse my updated galleries. And before you go, take a quick look at the lyrics, and you'll see how well they fit my site:

Hey child- up & go...
A big world is out there
Waiting for us to
Live in every day

Outside you will find
There is love all around you
Takes you- makes you wanna say

That it's a beautiful life
And it's a beautiful world
And it's a beautiful time
To be here- to be here- to be here

Yeah, the sky's blue-
Just us two
Side by side
We'll see the world
That surrounds us
Hey- seize the day
Each road- every mile's
A photograph in motion to astound us-
Carry us away

Into a beautiful life
'Cause it's a beautiful world
And it's a beautiful time
To be here- to be here

Leave all your cares behind you
The sun is rising- turn around
It's right in front of you
And it's a beautiful life-
It's a beautiful life

A busy life

This little family has been blessed with a very busy life...with 2.5 year old twins, and a 1.5 year old little girl, you can bet mom and dad are kept hopping!

New Collections

Over the last several weeks, I've been hard at work determining my new pricing structure, and building collections. I used to charge a session fee up front, then prints and boutique items were ordered a la carte in addition to the session fee. Digital files were only available as a complete set for $500.

Since I had a lot of requests for individual digital files, I decided to rework my pricing structure, so that I could offer collections that include both prints and digital files. I analyzed the orders I received over the last year, determined which sizes were the most popular, and calculated the average number of prints that were ordered in each size. Then I added in some digital files and a few boutique goodies, deducted anywhere from 15% to 40% off of the full retail value of the package components, and voila, my new packages were born! I am still offering straight forward a la carte ordering as well, if a client prefers not to purchase a full collection, but have set a $200 minimum print order in place, to cover my time and expenses for each session.

You can download the PDF file of my collection prices here, then go to my Facebook fan page (link under the blog header) to read about a special limited offer with these new prices!