Adrienne + Royce Anniversary Sneak Peek!

Adrienne and Royce celebrated their first wedding anniversary this year! More details later! :)

Just a Post

It seems like it's been ages since I've updated. The truth is that not too much has been going on besides school. This is one of my final semesters before obtaining my B.F.A. in Photographic and Digital Imaging! I'm very excited, but also very busy!
I am really excited about this year, though! Not only am I learning new things in my classes that I can then bring to my business, but I'm also just excited for business in general! I'm now working on building a larger base in Houston - which is where I will be living come the end of December 2010 - so, I am excited to work with couples and families in that area!
I've also redesigned my card (for the near millionth time) and I have to say - I LOVE IT!
I am so excited to meet and work with new and familiar couples and families this year! Soon, I'll be announcing my next special that caters to groups! So, keep an eye out for that :)

For now, I'll leave you with this image shot right outside of my apartment!

Top 5% Nationwide!!!

Press release:

"Austin, TX - 19 January 2010 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Dandy As Lions Photography has been selected to receive the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Wedding Photography!

The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Dandy As Lions Photography is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that Dandy As Lions Photography is among the very best Wedding Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. I would like to thank my past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at http://www.weddingwire.com/dandyaslionsphotography

I am so happy and blessed! Thank you to all of my fantastic clients - past, present, and future!

:Loving Love:

Well, we all know it's a new year.
I hope you're ready for all of the great specials I'm going to be running this year! I have them all planned out, and I think you'll enjoy them! Are you ready? Good!

I'm about to throw the very first Dandy As Lions Photography Session Special at you! It's called:

♥♥♥"Loving Love: Couple's Session Special"!!♥♥♥

Since it's a new year, I've also changed my prices and packages! I think you all will like the changes!

For 2010, standard portrait sessions start at just $275! They include a lot of things like longer shooting times and (my favourite new thing to offer you all) print credits!

Now, back to this couple special! When you book a regular couple's session, you'll get a $30 print credit! That means that you can order $30 of prints at no additional charge!!!

There you have it; the nub of the first photo special of 2010! So, if you'd like more information on booking a session for you and your sweetheart for a little Valentine's gift to one another; or if you want more information on this and any other special I'll announce later this year, just email me at

alyssa{at}dandyaslionsphoto{dot}com!

xoxo

Happy New Year!

Well, it's now officially the second day of 2010. It's 1:02AM as I write this! Can you believe how quickly time flew last year?! It was a great year, and I'll always look fondly back as I remember my first year in starting my career as a wedding photographer! I met my goal of booking six weddings last year, and I think that's pretty dang cool considering it was just little old me doing the marketing at first!

Now, it's a new year, and I am so excited for it! To ring in the new year, James and I decided to go to the Houston Zoo at Hermann Park! That park is exceptionally special to us now, because that is the park where James proposed to me on the 21st of November 2009 (all the way back in last year ha ha ha)! It was such an amazingly beautiful day; I'm glad I took my camera!! Here are just a few images from the zoo and the park! (Sorry if the web presentation of these images isn't up to par, as far as border and logo and such. There's a watermark, but hey! I'm tired here, people!)

Apparently, they love soccer!


I absolutely ADORE elephants! When James and I walked up to the habitat, it looked like they were nowhere to be seen, because the keepers were cleaning! I asked James "Where do they keep them when they're cleaning?" Then, we saw a crowd of people and eventually saw the elephants! Three older ones were "dancing" - swaying back and forth to a beat HA! -
and this little guy was in the back knocking around these giant tree limbs! Everyone was cheering for him going "Yeah! Just a little more and that tree limb is history!"
It was so great! I also love the colours my camera caught in these shots! I shot with my Canon EOS 5D and my trusty nifty 50mm at f/1.8. My camera was in "Faithful" mode, so everything was at 0. It was great! My ISO was between 50 and 200 all day! That's how bright and sunny it was! I loved it!



These monkeys were so fun to watch! I love this picture so much that I'm going to have it printed and framed (^_^)



The sea lions were our last stop on our way out of the extremely crowded zoo! I really love this picture, too! Again, the colours just rule me! The sea lions were really hamming it up later on!

See what I mean? This guy got up on the platform right as I was leaving and started proudly displaying his chest and turning his head for all of the cameras! They were SO CUTE!

Like I said before, as we left the zoo, we went to the Japanese Garden in Hermann Park. That's where James lead me and proposed to me, but because it was drizzly that day, I couldn't take any photos. So, I was so happy and delighted to find out that today was going to be sunny and warmer!

Another winner that I'm just going to have to print off and frame :)
This was on our way out of the zoo and toward the main park area! Hermann Park is absolutely gorgeous! If you're ever in Houston, head over to the Rice University/Medical/Museum district and take a stroll through!



James lead me to this Japanese Garden area and proposed to me with the house behind us, and the pond in front of us. It was so great and Hermann Park will always have a special place in our hearts!

So, I hope all of you had a joyous first day of 2010! I know there this year holds so much for me, and I'm sure it holds a lot for you as well!

Cheers!