Jodie Otte, Baltimore Maryland Child and Baby Photographer

I walked down to my home office this morning and see, in my office, I have this thing with sticky  notes… If you look in the background, you can see my customer board… that is a list of current active customers that have not received their final prints yet…. they are all in the ordering/proofing process…. but there was a special sticky note this morning… sitting on a brand new jacket that my husband apparently knew I was eyeing up….

awwwwww….

so in the words of my dear husband, Happy Turkey Day Eve to everyone.  I do want to let you all know, there will be six galleries going out in the next two days, so if you are waiting for a gallery, you are going to most likely be getting it this week :)  We have extended the ordering date for Christmas pictures to November 30th.  Thanks!

Will be announced tomorrow, Sunday, November 18th!  Stay tuned!

Tracey, I cannot thank you enough for being so very patient.  You know this Christmas rush has completely kicked my behind ;)  Guess what?  It’s your turn.  The next blog post will be about your images.

I love to see repeat clients - many many many that I have had this fall have been repeats.  I love to watch children grow and change… remember this brown-eyed beauty?

  Look at her now!   

My friend, Tracey, who lives right down the road from me, wrote this on her blog.  I had to cut and paste it… she’s so right.

You know you live in the country when…

1. Your neighbor’s pet rooster is your alarm clock in the morning.
2. A traffic jam means you are stuck behind some piece of farm equipment on your 2 lane "highway."
3. The worst crime you have is trespassing campers who find it irresistible to pitch their tent on your property.
4. You don’t have a zip code to call your own, you have to borrow one from a town in the neighboring county.
5. Road noise means the combine working late at night during the fall harvest.
6. The livestock population outnumbers the human population.
7. The closest town only has a post office, a bank, and a grocery store. Oh yeah, a barber (with the red and white swirly thing) too.
8. The closest Wal Mart and McDonalds is two towns away.
9. The same kids in your child’s class are the same kids on his/her sports teams, who are the same exact kids at everyone’s birthday parties.
10. There is no pizza delivery service. *sniff*
11. You have to drive over 1/2 hour to play another recreation council in Little League.
12. Stoplights? What are stoplights?
13. The talk of the town is the neighbor’s kid’s 4H pig that didn’t make weight for slaughter. And no one blinks during this conversation.

Hope you don’t mind me copying and pasting this from your blog, Tracey… I just found it absolutely right on!!!!

but don’t forget the Starbucks… I have to drive 20 minutes to the nearest Starbucks!!! Imagine THAT! We JUST got this Starbucks too!   Thankfully I can get my fix at the Harmony Cafe below my studio most of the time

I should accompany this with pictures… here’s some pictures I took at the riding stables that my kids go to (yes, one of these days, we will have our own stables…. and….. chickens…. yeah, chickens… and probably goats too cause my kids love to play with goats… lolol… no rooster though… that would probably irritate me….

and this is the road that leads from my house to Tracey’s house…. when I say "living in the cornfields", I really mean it…..    

This post is in response to a comment below about how much PhotoShop is used on my images.  To be honest with you, not much - unless I am planning on creating an image that I purposely want to look digital and photoshopped to death - but I really don’t have time to tinker too much.  It’s just about a little pop which I share at workshops.  Here’s a before and after.  It’s not magic (okay, whoops, didn’t mean to contradict myself, maybe it is just a wee bit of magic… lolol), just a teeny bit of pop.  I will admit, my black and white conversions take a little more thought and light touch - but I sell that as an action.

We are now booking only a few slots left for December and then into January.  If you are expecting a baby and desire either a maternity or newborn photo session, please contact immediately to obtain a session time.

Thank you!