dog portraits

I would like to share with you one reason why I love my job.  Just a few weeks before Christmas,  I received a call from a man named Tom asking me to created a few portraits as a surprise Christmas gift for his wife.  The images were to include their two grown kids with the family dog, Bailey.  We had a great session and I was very excited to hear how the surprise went.  On Christmas morning I kept thinking about how the handful of clients that were surprising their loved ones that morning with portraits were doing!

The day after Christmas I found this letter in my email box.  It was from Tom conveying the whole story of how it all went at his house Christmas morning!

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Hi Kim:  Merry Christmas.  I hope all your family arrived safely and that you had a wonderful day.

Well my wife was overwhelmed with the portraits.  I framed the large 16×20 as well as the three 8×10′s.  As she was opening her presents she opened one of the 8×10′s which included Bailey first. Her reaction was priceless;   I haven’t seen tears of joy like that since I gave her a nice piece of jewelry a bunch of Christmas’s ago.  And she thought that this one portrait was it.  Then she opened another 8×10 of just Courtney and Greg, and was floored by how good it came out.  Then I had her open the 16×20 that I framed in a very nice mahagony wood frame.  To say she was blown away was an understatement.    And she couldn’t get over how poised Bailey looked in the shots;  it almost seemed as if she was a show dog air brushed into the picture.

Well, I can’t thank you enough for the photographs, and my wife Angela asked me to thank you from the bottom of her heart. These portraits made for a very special Christmas, and they will be proudly displayed on one of our main walls in the house.  I am sure we will receive many compliments as friends and family see them, and I’ll be sure to recommend you to them.

Take care

Tom

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To hear the whole story told by Tom was a gift for me!  I almost felt like I was there!

Here are two of the portraits that I created for them.

I believe that the greatest part of my job as a photographer is preserving the memories of the families that I photograph.  It is a moment in time, preserved for future generations.

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