PORTRAIT PARTY JULY 21!

Check out these uber cool babios, eh?



Good news, folks. After a billion requests, we've finally got a new website address for everyone sick to tears of keying in all the ridiculous letters in my name! And we've probably even settled on a new business name (although we'll probably take some time to morph).

It's new, it's simple, it's easy as pie now to either enter our url--

www.janephoto.ca

--or to write to us--

jane@janephoto.ca
info@janephoto.ca

So get those fingers to typing it in and spreading it 'round!

There's a new portrait party the morning of July 21st!

We're just starting to get the word out now, and we're already half booked. If you want to see the photos from the last shoot, visit my site under Portraits/Menu/Proofing Online/Studio Portrait Party June 16. They'll be up for a sweet short week.

We're also still taking applications for folks who want to host a party at their house (though the waitlist is started)--or in our studio. Fill the day with just your friends and family, and when you're not in having your photographs made, you can be chatting and visiting with all your loved ones. Better still, you can earn valuable print credits! Hosts earn 15% in prints for parties in their own homes, and 10% in prints for parties held in the studio!

Such good news!

I'm delighted to tell everyone that following the launch of our new portrait site at www.janeeatonhamiltonphotography.com/portraits, we have now officially rolled out our new travel site at www.janeeatonhamiltonphotography.com/travel. It'll go live sometime this week. What a bundle of work it was to put together! And now, beyond the showcasing of our favorite travel images, we have added the coolest site for fulfillment.

So all those times I'm overseas and more or less unreachable, you can still go ahead and order the prints or the rights-license you require without even involving the studio. Even if you need a signed giclée, you can go ahead and order it, and the studio will fulfill it when I'm back on terra firma. Make no mistake about who is getting paid here...just as with Pictage, our continuing site for portrait and wedding clients, your funds come right back to us (minus, of course, a cut). Just as with Pictage, we determine our own prices.

The other news is that the studio shut down last Friday December 8 for the holidays. Well, not holidays so much as happy days working in the Bahamas and then in Cuba. We'll be shooting in Nassau for Christmas, and Havana for New Years. Can't beat that with a stick, I say! I can't wait to raise a glass at the Hotel Nacional, and I'll be toasting all of my clients, those I met this year, and those to come next year. You brought me many pleasures, and I appreciate the chance to have come into your lives.

Oh, and while I'm thinking about it...we are only doing 15 weddings per year these days, first come, first served, and only working with clients who fall in love with our photography--for whom hiring us is a special dream come true. We're almost filled up for 2007, so if you're in a hurry, do send an email even though we're away; we'll do our best to pick up periodically. If not, check in again mid-January and if your date is still free, we can facilitate getting you finalized. Sorry for the inconvenience.

While we're gone, both the house and studio are being warmed by colleagues and friends, as usual, and we'll be thinking of them huddling around the strobes/fireplace while we throw off clothes 'cause we're too hot. We'll try hard to blog from location (you know, rubbing it in), but reception could be spotty. If not, we're back mid-January and will catch back up then. Happy holidays to everyone, with hopes that 2007 will see some resolution of world conflicts and a big lightening of loads for the burdened.

Jane