fall session dates are here!

christie spencer October 1, 2018

Just like the Pumpkin Spice Latte comes back around at the same time every year, so does my Fall session announcement! If you’re wanting a session before the end of the year, now’s the time to reserve your spot!

My mailing list peeps received advance notice and have already begun filling my calendar. It’s so fun to recognize the familiar names and then see new names in the mix as well! Family and senior sessions are proving most popular right now, with mini sessions following closely behind.

Speaking of mini sessions, this year I’ve reserved three dates at three fun locations for you to choose from:

October 21 - Midtown Sacramento
November 3 – Old Sacramento
November 11 – Capitol Park

Your mini-session fee of $250 includes:

20 minutes of shooting time for immediate families, kids, couples or individuals (this is also a great way to do a super quick senior session).
A private, online gallery where you can choose and immediately download 10 high-res digital files of your choice to use any way you'd like—for your annual holiday card, prints for your home, or maybe as gifts for the grandparents.
The opportunity to also purchase holiday cards, prints, gifts and/or additional digital files.

These limited availability sessions are filled on a first come, first-served basis. The mini session fee of $250 is required to hold your spot, so book yours as soon as you can to get the time you want.

While a mini session can't compare to the completely custom experience of a full session, they are perfect for capturing photos for a holiday card or to mark a milestone.

If you prefer the longer timeframe and custom experience of a full session, I still have some dates remaining for this year. These sessions are so fun and families enjoy choosing new locations every year. I have a whole list of fun location possibilities. Where will yours be?

I hope to work with you this season!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

christie spencer February 12, 2016

I know that somehow it's already the middle of February (whaaaat?), so the year may not feel so new anymore, but because my birthday is in February the year always starts here for me.

This photo sums up the year: crazy, fun and together. (BTW: you can't tell here but more than one child was on the verge of tears from being hungry and/or freezing in this photo. Way to pull it together to get the shot, kids!)

This year was FULL. Full of driving the kids to and from school in a city 30 minutes away, all four kids playing soccer in three different cities, school projects and their inevitable drama, driving lessons, filling out college applications, getting meals on the table and laundry folded (again and again and – again?) all while working an office job as well as doing photography sessions and Isis working a demanding job made for full days and weeks that just whizzed by.

This was also the year of The Great Sewer Backup of 2015. Getting the phone call at work that, "Um, there seems to be a leak? In the bathroom?" turned into sewage flooding our downstairs bathroom/hallway/kitchen and needing to remove the bottom three feet of drywall of our walls and take out all the flooring in the entire downstairs...the flooring we had just put in exactly a year prior. The fridge was in the dining room and we would go on a scavenger hunt to find what box held the kitchen items on a nightly basis. We added a couple of workmen to our family for a few weeks there. I think we saw them more than our kids! Even though things were topsy turvy there for a while, everyone had the best attitude. Our life is crazy, but it is great.

Watching Isis and the girls break into spontaneous song and dance in our kitchen last night after our smoke detector started chirping, you'd never know this room used to be in a shambles. And even when it was, things were still pretty darn great. We are luckier than most people on the planet, and better still, we know it.

I'm excited to see what this year holds. We're excited for more home improvement projects. We have launched a year-long family service project that we are all super inspired by. And we have some things on the calendar to look forward to.

I know I've promised this to myself before, but I'm looking forward to keeping this space more up to date with what what's going on here at Christie Spencer Photography and at home, both for any readers who may have stuck around through this blog drought and for myself, as a record of this life that is speeding by. I have so many sessions from last year that never made the blog, as well as some other photography-related topics that have been on my mind. I also want this space to reflect more of the whole picture around here. I'm excited to share more from our regular life, from DIY house projects to organizing and memory keeping to other things I'm passionate about.

I hope you'll stay tuned! I think 2016 is going to be amazing. : )

LIMITED EDITION MINI SESSIONS BOOKING NOW!

christie spencer October 5, 2015

I am thrilled to announce the return of last year’s wildly popular mini sessions! These limited-availability sessions will be offered on four dates this fall.

The details:
Your mini-session fee of $250 includes 20 minutes of shooting time. These sessions are open to families, kids, couples and individuals (this is a great time to get some new headshots!). A week or two after your session, you’ll be shown 10 images in a private online viewing gallery where you can instantly download all 10 high-res digital files to use any way you'd like—for your annual holiday card, prints for your home, or maybe as gifts for Grandma and Grandpa.

While a mini session can't compare to the completely custom experience of a full session, they are perfect for capturing photos for a holiday card or to mark a milestone. If you prefer the luxury of a full custom session at your home or the outdoor location of your choice, the calendar for the remainder of 2015 is open and dates remain.

I'm looking forward to seeing your family in front of my camera this season!