Bella Vita Studios

It's beach time again! Whoohoo!

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Bella Vita is offering a limited number of mini sessions for Valentines Day!  Sessions will be held at the studio (710 North 10th Avenue in Hanford... next to Green Valley Cafe) from 9am -11am.  You will need to pay for your session fee in advance to secure your appointment time.  You may do so by clicking on the "buy now" button next to the time you want reserved.   Session times are first come first served.  Please send me an email at amie@gallerysimages.com when you reserve your space so I can remove the buy now button!  Thanks! 

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9:15am-9:30am

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9:45am-10am

10am-10:15am

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10:30-10:45am

10:45-11am

11am-11:15am

There was fun. There was cake. Where were you?

If you weren't at the Designer Alley last night then you really missed out!  It was the first cake sampling party at the shop and boy was it tasty!  I think the peanut butter cake had to be the hit of the night and I know it made my knees melt.  We still have cakes in the shop to see... so if you couldn't make it, or just didn't want to brave the rain... stop on by!

UP AND COMING SPECIALS. JUST FOR YOU.

With the holiday season quickly approaching, there are a couple of specials that I'd like to announce to you. Also, be watching the blog for free give aways in the next couple of weeks! (I guess we will find out how many of you actually READ the blog or just skip straight to the pictures!) Here are our upcoming dates for portrait sessions at the beach: September 29th and 30th (only 6 spots left!) October 13th (only 5 spots left!)

Beach sessions will last approximately 45 minutes per family. I will only be taking a limited number of appointments. A non-refundable retainer of $50 is due at the time you book your session. If you are unable to make your session the retainer may be applied to another date/ time within the next year. The remainder of your session fee will be due the day of the shoot. I am also offering the following packages: A. $75 session fee with images online for 7 days. B. $250 session fee and a copy of your high resolution digital negatives. For Halloween, I am holding a Mini Session day at Hidden Valley Park in Hanford. Each session will last approximately 15 minutes. The $30 session fee will include the digital negatives from your session to print your own images. A non-refundable retainer of $15 is due at the time you book your session. If you are unable to make your session the retainer may be applied to another date/ time within the next year.

For more information about these specials, or to schedule your session time, please call the studio @ 559.707.4096.

SALE starts NOW!

Okay everyone... the sale on digital negatives is here!  For one week ONLY your files from the sessions this past year are just $65!  That's a saving of $135, and your probably wondering why the heck I'm being so generous!  We are moving to Oregon in four weeks and I want to be sure you have a chance to own your images before the move.  Any sessions older than 6 mo. will be destroyed after the sale to make room on the hardrive... so don't miss out!  Be sure to include your address in the checkout process and all discs will be mailed out within one week of the close of the sale.  Sale ends December 22nd.

To start shopping go to our online proofing site at:

www.gallerysweddings.com/clients

Choose portraits (click on "choose a section")

The session id is:  sale

I've got a lot on my plate right now with Christmas orders, deliveries, house hunting, packing, and some personal things... so if I missed a session in there that you would like to purchase please email me at amie@gallerysweddings.com  and I'll add it in.   Thank you... and happy shopping!!!

Newsletter and SALE!

First of all I'd like to mention that I will be sending out an email newsletter every so often to annouce dates for California sessions, to let you know what I'm up to, and to give some photo tips here and there.  If you'd like to receive the e-newsletter just sign up in the box on the bottom of the left column here or send an email to newsletter@gallerysimages.com

Now, for the big news!  I'm having a HUGE SALE on digital negative from past sessions.  The regular price is $200, but for next week ONLY they will be $65!  Starting Friday, December the 15th  through Friday, December 22nd.   I'll put up a link on Friday morning with directions on how to order!

New Online Proofing

I'm busy trying to get everyone's proofs moved over to our new proofing system and it is taking some time... but should be up and running at full speed by Sunday!  If your proofs were already online you can still find them on the old site.

NEW Online Proofing Site

You can find the following session now online there.  Please email us for your password  amie@gallerysweddings.com :

Zoey Sturgis
Sullivan Family
Mark Freed
Benbrook Kids
Kristen Jones Maternity
Fredrickson Wedding (coming Sat)
Vandermaarl Maternity
Peasley

Previous Online Proofing Site

NEW Wedding Website Launches today!

We are excited to introduce you to our new wedding website!  www.gallerysimages.com The first page gives you an option of either High Speed Flash (for broadband/ dsl users) or HTML (for dial up users)  There is also a link back here to the blog and a link to our children's portraiture site.  This is what that first page looks like:

The home page plays a short slideshow... be patient while it loads for the first time...it's worth it! 

Home Page:

There are several new things on the site I'd like to tell you about.   The vendor sections has a few basics in it right now and we will be adding more there for your reference.  The CONGRATS section will showcase a few images from our most recent wedding and tell you a little bit about the couple.  The CLIENT PROOFING section is almost done and will be up very soon.  And my favorite part of the new site is the AVAILABILITY section.  It shows you the dates that are currently booked.   If you mouse over the dates it tells you what we are up to on that day.  Pretty cool! 

If you get some time I'd love for you to stop by the new place and check it out! 
www.gallerysimages.com

New albums and products...

We have a few new things in I'd like to share with all of you!  I'm most excited about our new sample wedding albums that arrived recently!