We will be displaying our wedding photography this Friday, April 20th, at Quality Inn & Suites in Madison for their ballroom showing. From 6:00pm-7:30pm, brides and grooms that are interested in having their wedding receptions at Quality Inn & Suites may come and see the ballroom, as well as meet with select wedding professionals.
Author: Becky
Baby Reagan
Amy brought her new baby in for Reagan’s first session. She was just one week old! We captured lots of cute little “bits & pieces”, and we made some really cute birth announcements.
Jocelyn’s session
Jocelyn was a fun almost-three year old. She had so much personality that showed through in her session. Here are a few of our favorites.
Lydia’s One Year session
For Lydia’s One Year session, we had to start with “the blue dress”, as we call it in our family. Becky’s mother, all of her sister’s and our oldest daughter have all worn this dress for their One Year sessions, so it’s been a tradition for a while. We also chose a fun dress, as a change from the tradtional look of the blue velvet.
Meeting Ida
Today, Appleby Photography had the honor of photographing Ida Wyman. Ida is a photographer, herself, having started in the craft when she was a teenager back in the 1940’s. I think she could be described as a photojournalist, as many of her images captured Americana. Ida shared some of her fantastic black & white photographs with me today, including many that dated to the beginning of her career in the 40’s and 50’s. At our session today, we captured Ida with her daughter, Nancy, and her granddaughter, Heather. I’m sure Ida has many wonderful stories that I hope to hear someday!
Lydia is Walking!
Finally! Lydia started pulling up and cruising on furniture when she was 6 1/2 months old. We thought for sure that she would be an early walker. This just goes to prove that children do not care about impressing their parents or about bragging rights. Now that she turned a year old yesterday, Lydia took 11 steps. I wish I could share the video clip for proof! Our peanut weighed in at 17 pounds and 7 ounces (4thth percentile) at her one year well-check today, but she is 29.25 inches tall (50th percentile), so she is “long and lean”. We will be doing her birthday portrait session soon, but we wanted to share a couple of images from her February session. Look how big she is getting!
Continued Learning
We like to continue our education when the opportunities are available. Becky was able to attend the Wisconsin Professional Photographer’s Association’s annual convention, which was February 22-27th in Madison. It was a great chance to see and hear new ideas, as well as get “refreshed” for the year ahead. Watch for new portrait and wedding offerings, including a new line of albums, coming to Appleby Photography this spring!
Busy, Busy, Busy!
The past month has had a lot going on, both professionally and personally. We had a great weekend at the Bridal Show. We met a lot of great people, who were there planning weddings. We even had three couples book their wedding date with us at the show. Since then, we have added some more 2007 wedding dates to our calendar and have couples starting to meet with us about 2008 wedding dates. We are almost filled for 2007 Saturday weddings, with only a few random weekends open yet. Over the past month, we have also met a few new babies, which is always fun! On a personal note, we have been saddened by the passing of Becky’s grandfather. It is always hard to say good bye to a loved one. We really appreciate all those that have expressed concern. Thank you!
Wedding Planner & Guide bridal show
The annual bridal show, put on by the Wedding Planner & Guide, is this weekend, January 13 and 14th, at the Alliant Energy Center. We have been displaying at the bridal show since 2002 and love to meet with brides and grooms about their Big Day! Our booth is #1606, near the fashion show. Please stop by our booth to say hello and introduce yourself.
The new 2007 Wedding Planner and Guide book is now available. Our ad is on page 230.
See our Ad
The January issue of Brava Magazine (formally ANEW magazine), a local Madison magazine, will be hitting the newsstands in a few days. See our ad on page 69. We were very pleased to see our client, Erica Meier, featured in an article on page 94. We were also pleasantly surprised to see the great shot of her livingroom wall with all the fun photographs we took of baby Lauren on page 96!