Just a few cutties from our Valentine’s Day event!  I loved so many of them it was tough deciding what to show!

Ok, and shamelessly a few of my cutties too!

Check out this years designs for Valentines Day!  These 2×3.5 inch cards are perfect to trade at school or to send family and friends! These cards are available with our Valentine’s Day Limited edition or with any full session up until February 3rd.  Clients who have had sessions within the past 6 months are welcome to use images from any of those sessions for these adorable cards.

Sessions are extremely limited, and the collections offer tremendous savings.

These sessions are perfect if you have been wanting to see what Alana McClure Photography is all about or if you’ve seen us in the past but just want a few updated images!

My family and I had an absolutely wonderful Christmas holiday.  We visited friends and family, I played with my girls, did a little too much shopping and had an overall fantastic time.

Now there’s less than 2 days left in 2009!  I can’t believe it!  This year has been a whirl wind, an amazing roller coaster that turned one loop after another, and now I am SO excited for 2010.

Everything is expanding, my family, my studio, even my waistline (lol).  I just know 2010 is going to be an amazing year, full of joy and promise.

So I want to kick off 2010 in a big way!  I have 2 brand new packages ready today and many more surprises to follow.

Introducing:

• The Babe Plan.

A baby’s first year is so special, and so unbelievably fleeting.  Every day is a first… first smile, first tooth, first words, and first tentative steps. Be sure to take the time to capture each of these four stages. The $200 Babe Plan is designed for baby’s first year.  Popular stages and milestones are sitting (4-6mths) crawling (6-9mths) and standing (9-12mths). Newborn sessions are not included in this plan but may be added for $75.  Additionally maternity sessions are not included in this plan but may be added for $25! *All family members are encouraged to attend the maternity and newborn sessions.

This plan gives your new baby 5 sessions and a Fine Art 8×10 print from each of the sessions for $300.  Less than a traditional Before and After package!!!!! Less the the cost of 2 traditional sessions!!

• The Time and Talent Series

These sessions are designed to give you the ultimate in flexibility.  If you are someone who knows what you want and likes to save a little (ok alot) these digital only sessions are for you! Pay only for photographer’s time and talent spent creating your images and print your own portraits.  Time and Talent sessions must be pre-purchased.  Traditional sessions may not be converted to Time and Talent sessions after sessions have been photographed.

Time and Talent Digital Session $875

Full length custom portrait sessions with a Minimum 25 high-resolution digital images sent to you along with a reprint release.

Time and Talent Mini Digital Session $400

Half length custom portrait sessions with 10 high-resolution digital images sent to you along with a reprint release. (Not available for newborn sessions)

{Traditional Digital Packages (digital images available with Traditional sessions) are $600 for 5 images, $900 for 8 images and $1300 for all images from your session and include professional 5×7 prints of each ordered image in keepsake box.}

Now…not only do these three new packages give your new freedom and unbelievable savings I’m going to make this introduction even sweeter.

The first 5 past clients to purchase a Time and Talent session will have their session fee waived! That’s a $150 saving!! You can prepurchase your session to get this amazing deal and book any time up to April 2010!!

The first 8 NEW clients to purchase a Time and Talent session will have their session fee reduced by 50%!   You can prepurchase your session to get this amazing deal and book any time up to April 2010!!

The first 10 clients to purchase the Babe Plan (with or without the additional sessions) will receive a beautiful 10 image leather brag album at the end of the plan! These albums retail for $200 each.

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you make 2010 a healthy, prosperous and joy filled year; overflowing with unforgettable moments and memories captured to enjoy for years to come!

Ok I HAD to sneak my girls in at the end of our day at A Stone’s Throw today!  I just couldn’t pass it up.  So I thought I’d share a few with you all.  If you haven’t seen what we’re up to there check out the Specials page. If you missed today, we’re back Sunday the 15th and there are only a couple spaces left!!!

What an amazing day!  Our first annual Halloween Charity Portrait Event at My Bubble was a huge hit!  Not only did we collect bins upon bins of food for the emergency food banks in Durham Region (serviced by Feed The Need Durham), we brought in nearly $1200 from the silent auction and generous cash donations! I have to say I am very moved by the a the kindness of everyone who participated.

The kids were all so fantastic! The costumes were absolutely adorable!

I’d like to thank all the fantastic volunteers and  the following sponsors for making it all possible.

My Bubble Party and Play Place

Fancy Face Parties

Orchid Salon and Medi Spa

A Stone’s Throw

Endless Ideas

Willow Paper Works

Octopus Starts with O

GTA Photo

CTV Olympic Consortium

Party Lite

Eric Novak happens to be the talented author of the “Who’s Your Daddy” Blog on the Yummy Mummy site, among too many other wonderful talents to talk about here. If you are one of the few who haven’t heard of his blog yet, let me tell you it is worth subscribing too. Hilarious, inspiring, and real. He writes about his family and life as a 21st century Dad. Well today his blog entry was about me!

I’ve has a lot of requests to see more holiday pictures and so I though I would share a few more.  These are of friends of ours, their children and ours all playing together. Of course there’s the compulsory pic in front of the Falls too   It was a great trip!

That’s all guys!  A few more quick snaps of our family vacation.  Now really back to work!!

Wait until you see the newborn images I have to show you tomorrow!!

When one of our friends has something to celebrate we tell everyone about it.  Stop by, have some cake and you might just win a  Holiday Session from us!

Congratulations Danielle and Trever!!  You have a wonderful safe place where kids can play and moms can relax and interact with each other.  We wish you many more years of continued success!! Cheers.

I had an incredible day the other day.  I met Jennifer of Papaya Studio and absolutely fell in LOVE with her clothing.  I love her style, the colors, the fabrics, everything.

So not only did I have an amazing session with some amazingly talented little girls I got to play with her gorgeous clothes!

Check out her store…the only place this line is going is up!