Many couples are beginning their wedding plans very early these days so they can be assured of getting their first choice venues and vendors.  They also want to be sure their family and friends from all over the country can make plans to attend the celebration.  It is normally too early to send a formal invitation so  ”Save the Date” cards become the choice.  These cards are unique ways to announce to all they they are engaged and encourage everyone to mark their calendars for the BIG DAY.  Choosing Save the Date cards can be an adventure.  There are so many choices and so many places to get them–online, stationery stores, etc. The big problem normally lies with the photograph.  You either have to have a friend take the image, find a fun snapshot from your archives or buy the usage rights to a copyrighted image from your photographer. Most people do not understand copyright laws and are confused as to why a photographer must charge for the use of an image created by him or her. Photographers can’t stay in business and give away the rights to their created work.

Many of our own clients do not know that we can create your “Save the Date” card for you.  All of our cards are completely customizable.  We can change card colors, font styles, text choice, and paper choice.  If you want, for a small design charge, we can even sit down with you and collaborate to come up with a unique design of your own.

Here are a few options we have come up with.  Remember each of these cards can be altered to suit your colors, text, and font.  Give us a call and we will do it all for you. Our number is 210-492-1418

For all of the blunders the government makes, one thing they still do right is take care of the wonderful cemetery’s that honor our brave men and women who have so valiantly served to make sure our freedoms are secure. American is an exceptional nation. Let us never forget that. We are a nation determined to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. My father was one of those brave men who fought in WWII. I took my mother to The National Cemetery at Ft. Sam Houston today to place flowers on his grave.
Every time I go there I get chills up and down my spine. The sight is so inspirational. Those tombstones are constant reminders as to why this country is the greatest of all. I am proud to be an American.
Pray for our country and our soldiers.

My father's grave.

This is my mother placing flowers at his headstone.

What a natural beauty!  Emily has a look that is extremely natural.  Her beauty matches her compassionate spirit.  The world is hers to conquer.  We all wish her the best.  Enjoy the images.

Check out Rebecca’s video we created from her vast collection of images from her senior portrait session.

I met Rebecca through her sister, Anne. We are photographing Anne’s wedding next month and are really looking forward to that event. Rebecca is a graduating senior from Boerne and wanted to update her senior portraits. I hadn’t photographed a senior in a while and frankly had forgotten how much fun seniors are. Rebecca was a fantastic subject and I think we captured the many versions of her infectious personality. I hope you enjoy her images as much as we do.
I think I would love to start photographing more seniors. Since I do not advertise, if any of you know of a current senior who needs an update or a current junior who is thinking about their senior year and their senior portraits, have them call me.  I would love to tell their senior story too.

I created two renditions of this image. Which one do you like best?

Be ready for some fun!

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Natalie and Chad are getting married soon so we thought it would be a great idea to capture some special images of the two of them prior to their big day. We choose Rio Cibolo as our site since Natalie’s mother had chaired the Cattle Baron’s Gala there this past year. The springtime setting was fabulous and truly fit their personalities. I think we got some great images of them. Enjoy!

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I know Nicole had to be missing Ricky.  He has been in the Middle East helping preserve our freedom.  Nonetheless when you are engaged and in love you want to be with your man.  Ricky was home on leave for a couple of weeks but had to return on Monday, so we took advantage of this time to create portraits of the two of them to mark their engagement.  Nicole wanted do something special on the streets of downtown SA.  She wanted to create a similar image to the famous photograph of  the sailor kissing a girl in Times Square at the end of WWll.  Alfred Eisenstaedt, the photographer, was in the right place at the right time.  We put our own touch to this iconic image.  Enjoy this image and a few others from the session.  Thanks Ricky for your service to all of us.  I for one am grateful to you and the other soldiers who sacrifice so much.

Brittni and Chris are to be married in Mexico this summer but wanted to create some wonderful images together at the McNay.  We had a great time.  They proved to be very relaxed with each other and I think we got some super images for them.  Enjoy!

Mallory is from El Paso and marrying a San Antonio boy, David Berchelman.  They have been a great couple to work with.  Mallory could not make it here early for her bridal portrait so we did it the week of her wedding at Mission San Jose.  It was a blast working with her.  She was very relaxed and just let things happen.  We got some beautiful portraits along with some stunning animated images.  I tried a new painterly technique on a couple of the images. I have been trying to perfect this for a while.  Comments, good or bad, are welcomed.  Enjoy the images.

This is the new painterly look I have been working on.

Here is the "before" and "after" of the painterly look.

This next collection is a group of fun animated images of Mallory as the session ended.  Too cute!!

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The Argyle was the setting for Anne’s bridal portrait. It was a cold day in January, but Anne withstood the elements and looked stunning, don’t you think?  These are a few of my favorites.

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