Nikki's Family Portrait

Here are a few pictures from Nikki's family portrait a couple of weeks ago. It's nice not having to rush a family portrait, we had a couple of hours at Sugar Hollow to take pictures and this gave the kids time to warm up for the pictures. At first Kylee was being shy, but it wasn't to long before she was posing for the camera. :)




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There are a "few" more pictures on my website here.

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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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A few spider pictures and a couple Infrared pictures

Well the wedding was a couple of days ago and it was a very nice wedding. :) The ceremony was held at the chapel at Emory and Henry, with the reception and pre wedding pics at the Martha. Ill post a few pictures when I get a chance to process them.

Lately there has been a spider on the porch at night, I believe its an Orb spider.




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And ive been playing around with infrared photography lately. Here are a couple images from today from my back yard. :)




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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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Russell County Fair

Well last week was rather busy. I had a booth at the Russell County Fair to display my photography business. I was there for most days starting at 10 or 11am and up till 8:30 most nights.

It was a great opportunity and I met alot of great people.

Here is a picture I took on the Monday or Tuesday of the fair.



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I entered some pictures into the photography contest, and I guess I can now say that im an award winning photographer. :D Two of my portraits got first place!! A pet portrait and a baby portrait. My black and white flower also got a 2nd place!




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In a way it was sad to see the fair over, but my back was glad that it was over. It doesnt like standing in one place for that many hours. :D

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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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What ive been up to lately - 4 pictures attached

Once again, im sorry about not posting that much on here. Ive been keeping busy the last few weeks with some portraits and getting ready for some things in September!

Lets see what a few things are that I have been up to.

I have a wedding booked in September at E&H with the reception at the Martha Washington Inn, which I am very excited about. I met with the couple to wrap up the details and I am looking forward to photographing their wedding.

I purchased a new camera and lens for this wedding. My existing equipment would have sufficed, but I wanted something a lil more. My new Canon DSLR will do a better job with the low light of the indoor wedding, which is especially good since flash is not allowed. I purchased a new lens that will give me more freedom with the pictures a well, and is also great for low light. It was a bit of an investment but I wont have to switch between my F1.8 primes during the service and let me focus capturing the emotion of the people around me. Now I just need to buy some more hard drives because this thing eats through a 16gb memory card like nothing. :) Before my average portrait might be 500mb, now its closer to 3gb, before there is any edits!

Friends of us hired us to photograph their yearly family portrait in Lebanon, and that was a lot of fun, even though it was very warm that day. They have a couple very sweet and well behaved kids!

I photographed a cute lil 2 week old baby boy, J. The session went on for about an hour and a half and I got a ton of great shots. And a few funny facial expression ones!



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I photographed a family in Castlewood while two of the sons were home, they are both marines. They were fun to work with, even if one of them made me work at getting them to smile. :D All part of being a photographer. I got lots of great pictures out of this. One of which I plan to enter in a photography contest. :D



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I did my first waterfall portrait this weekend gone by, and that was alot of fun. It did take 15 min to drive to the parking lot, half an hour to hike to the falls, then another hour at the falls doing various portraits, then more pictures on the way back to the car. She looks very angelic in her white dress.



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Ive also purchased some new templates for birth announcement cards and for press printed books! Ive been busy plugging pictures from various portrait's into these and I really like how they look.



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Each book is custom designed. I consider the pictures to be used in the book, choose the background design, modify the colors of the background to suite the pictures on each page and finally customize each picture size ane location.

Possible book sizes are 5"x5", 5"x7", 8"x8", 8"x10", 10"x10" and can have between 5 and 30 pages per book. They can have leather covers, photo covers or material covers. Many options to choose from. There are many leather colors to choose from as well, and many material colors. The leather covers can even be stamped with 3 lines of text in gold or silver. This is not your ordinary photo album!

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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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276.415.0025

Been a while

So its been a while, a month to be exact. Ive been busy with portraits, cleaning, holidays, etc. :)

Ive also trying to get ready for some up coming events. I have a wedding at Emory and Henry with the reception at the Martha Washington Inn, in September. Ive purchased some new equipment for this and for some other events and I've been having fun practicing with my new camera and lens.

Eventually Ill get around to posting some of those pictures but for now here are a few pictures.



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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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276.415.0025

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

I discovered this place about 5 or 6 years ago when I was walking along the Rideau Canal one day after a college class. I really liked the play of light between the shadows and highlights on the steps, but at the time I only had a point and shoot slr-like digital camera. So last June I really wanted to go back with my good camera.

Just around the corner is the Canadian Parliament buildings.



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Then just down the path a bit, there is a series of locks. I wish I thought to bring my tripod with me so I could do a long exposure of the water. So I had to rest the camera on a ledge.



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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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276.415.0025

Class of 2011 - Senior Portrait Special

Class of 2011 - Senior Portrait Special - Expires August 30, 2010
8x10 regular prints at near cost!!!!



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This is a limited time offer. I am offering 8x10 regular prints at near cost because I wanted to offer an incredible special, but yet still have control over where the prints are printed. There is a vast difference between a print printed at a consumer lab like walmart or rite-aid to one printed at a professional lab such as the one I use.

4 packages to choose from

Package A - $50.00 plus tax
upto 15 minutes of photography, one location, two processed images
Order as many regular 8x10 prints of these two processed images as you want, for only $4 each, plus shipping and tax. Minimum 4 per order.
Mileage may apply

Package B - $100.00 plus tax
upto 30 minutes of photography, one location, five processed images
Order as many regular 8x10 prints of these five processed images as you want, for only $4 each, plus shipping and tax. Minimum 4 per order.
Mileage may apply

Package C - $150.00 plus tax
upto 30 minutes of photography, upto two locations, eight processed images
Order as many regular 8x10 prints of these eight processed images as you want, for only $4 each, plus shipping and tax. Minimum 4 per order.
Mileage may apply

Package D - $200.00 plus tax
upto 1 hour of photography, upto three location, eleven processed images
Order as many regular 8x10 prints of these eleven processed images as you want, for only $4 each, plus shipping and tax. Minimum 4 per order.
Free mileage to Tazewell, Bristol VA/TN, Kingsport, Wise.

* Additional images can be processed for an additional fee.
* Large prints, albums, metallic prints, name/rep cards are also available at regular pricing.
* Mileage is free with a purchase of $200 or more.
* Earn gifts and/or prints with referrals.
* Possible 8x10 print combination:
(1) 8x10, (2) 5x7's, (4) 3.5x5's, (8) large wallets or (16) small wallets.
* The option to purchase prints at near cost for 6 months!
* This offer expires on August 30, 2010.

Email me at Gerald@GeraldFaganPhotography.com or call me at 276-415-0025 to schedule an appointment!

When you contact me, be sure to let me know about your interests and hobbies. These can really help make the portrait personal to you.

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Gerald Fagan Photography - www.GeraldFaganPhotography.com
Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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276.415.0025

Independence Day - 2010 - Fireworks

Independence Day - 2010 - Fireworks

These were taken in Abingdon, VA up on the mountain.



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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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Nature Scenery

Nature Scenery

We were walking back from my wives grandparents and I seen this red grass, I think its a sort of grass. :) So I had to photograph it. :)



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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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Maternity Portrait - Part 2

Maternity Portrait - Part 2

This is the 2nd part our 4 or 5 part series to create a Maternity Composite. Thats why a lot of the images look similar to the last session.

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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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276.415.0025

Kitten Portrait

Pet portrait - cute lil blue eyed kitten

Heres a portrait I did a few days ago of a kitten. It was a strange lil kitten, very easy to pose. : ) But still a bit playful. However it had no interest in string, which is a first for any kitten ive seen.



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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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Humming Bird Photo

We were visiting Mistys grandparents a few days ago, and thankfully I had my camera with me when this hummingbird started to visit us.




They are quick little things, they do not give you much time to focus on them. :)

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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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276.415.0025

Coleman Family - slide show

Here is an experimental video I just created for the Coleman family. :)



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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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276.415.0025

Salem Red Sox vs Myrtle Beach Pelicans - June 5, 2010

Salem Red Sox vs Myrtle Beach Pelicans - June 5, 2010

Here are a few pictures that I took at the game. Our seat wasn't the best, we thought we were getting some pretty good seats right next to the dugout on the first row, but the dugout was higher than we expected and I had to take pics between the bars. :)

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This was between innings, there were two people dressed up in sumo outfits, but while the one guy was waiting for the 2nd person, the mascot decided to have some fun. :)













































We stopped by the bluefield walmart on our way home and noticed this shopping card, only a few yard's from the shopping cart return area. I wonder what the person was thinking when they decided not to put the cart in the return area. Probably something like "oh man, that's so far away, I cant possibly walk that far to return it, so Ill just leave it here".



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Portrait Studio - 15600 Porterfield Hwy, Abingdon, VA - Carport Entrance
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276.415.0025