Essick Photography Blog

Senior Ambassador Program

2011-05-17T09:09:00.000-05:00

Essick Photography is recruiting Senior Ambassadors for the 2011-2012 school year. If you will be a Senior next year this program may be for you!

Why become a Senior Ambassador?!?!

The Senior Ambassador Program is a great way for current Juniors in high school to qualify for products and free prints for their high school senior portraits. We also award gift cards for reaching at least five referral bookings. As a Senior Model you must have an outgoing personality and the ability to promote Essick Photographys senior portrait business.

What do you get??

Your Senior Photo session FREE

FREE 8x8 BRAG book of your portraits to show your friends

10% off on print orders from your Senior Session

8 Free wallets for every referral, maximum 40 wallets

$25.00 Visa gift card bonus with your 5th referral!

Referrals after the 5th will accumulate $10.00 each towards a VISA gift card

What do you have to do?

Senior Ambassadors must have their first session between January 1 and June 30 to qualify. You will receive referral cards with your image on them to hand out to your friends and encourage them to book their senior session with us. The more you refer the more you can receive in gift cards and prints!

If you are interested please contact Erica at Essick Photography today!! 501-847-8055 We select only the best students to represent us and outgoing personalities are most important. You must have a desire to want to promote and show off your photographs

*Program ends September 10th. $10 Visa credits will accumulate until then and card will be issued September 20th. Only referrals that book sessions and purchase prints will qualify.

Host a Portrait Party and get FREE Print Credit!!!

2011-05-16T13:34:00.002-05:00

Host a portrait party event at the Essick Photography studio and earn FREE prints!!!

How does it work??

You plan the date of the party, then you invite friends, family members, co-workers, etc. to the event.

The event costs $25 per person and includes the photo session and 2 5x7 prints.

Each guest will have a 20 minute photo session at the party.

Within 3 days of the party, Essick Photography will put all the photos taken online in a private gallery for that event and guests will be able to choose their 2 images for the 5x7 prints.

Guests will also be able to purchase additional prints or print packages at a 25% discount at that time.

Hosts will recieve credit for each guest that attends the party and will also recieve a % credit for additional photo sales.

What a great way to earn FREE prints and have those family portraits done that you have been wanting to do for so long!!!

Call Essick Photography at 501-847-8055 or email @ essickphotography.com to schedule your Portrait Party !!!

Spring Portrait Sessions

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Website

2011-02-14T22:19:00.000-06:00

www.essickphotography.com

up and running, but not completely finished yet. check out the new website.

contact Erica to book your portrait session

501-847-8055

Grand Opening Postponed

2011-02-08T10:53:00.001-06:00

Due to the recent snow and the impending weather putting a damper on getting things done, we are moving our Grand Opening back to the beginning of March when hopefully all the snow will be done with us. I will update on more specific times and date as we get a little closer!

Senior Ambassador Program

2011-02-02T19:28:00.001-06:00

What do you get??

Your Senior Photo session FREE
FREE 8x8 BRAG book of your portraits to show your friends
10% off on print orders from your Senior Session
8 Free wallets for every referral, maximum 40 wallets
$25.00 Visa gift card bonus with your 5th referral!
Referrals after the 5th will accumulate $10.00 each towards a VISA gift card

What do you have to do?

Senior Ambassadors must have their first session between January 1 and April 30 to qualify. You will receive referral cards with your image on them to hand out to your friends and encourage them to book their senior session with us. The more you refer the more you can receive in gift cards and prints!

*Program ends September 10th. $10 Visa credits will accumulate until then and card will be issued September 20th. Only referrals that book sessions and purchase prints will qualify.

Mattison

2011-01-25T12:52:00.006-06:00

fun photo shoot with Matti! here is a preview of her shoot. More to come!!

Essick Photography Grand Opening Event

2011-01-19T20:34:00.001-06:00

Essick Photography Grand Opening

Come by Essick Photography during our Grand Opening Event on February 4th from 10am-6pm and receive a coupon good for a FREE Photo Session and 15% off your portrait order!!

Essick Photography is located at 3108 Horizon Ave in Bryant, next to Elite Tanning and Firehouse Subs. Bring a Friend!

501-847-8055

Photo Shoot with Virginia part 2

2011-01-19T20:23:00.002-06:00

Too many photos to put in one blog post!!

Photo Shoot with Virginia

2011-01-19T20:20:00.002-06:00

Virginia's Valentines Photo Shoot

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This is a precious baby girl!! She is so sweet and very very funny!!

Natalee's Valentines Photo Shoot

2011-01-19T19:43:00.002-06:00

Just having some fun today with Natalee while she was in a mood to have her picture taken!

Essick Photography Grand Opening

2011-01-19T12:58:00.002-06:00

Come by Essick Photography during our Grand Opening Event on February 4th from 10am-6pm and receive a coupon good for a FREE Photo Session and 15% off your portrait order!!

Essick Photography is located at 3108 Horizon Ave in Bryant, next to Elite Tanning and Firehouse Subs. Bring a Friend!

501-847-8055

Miller Family Photo Shoot Part 3

2011-01-18T15:23:00.003-06:00

Miller Family Photo Shoot Part 2

2011-01-18T15:19:00.001-06:00

Miller Family Photo Shoot

2011-01-18T15:15:00.001-06:00

You and Your Sweetie Photo Contest!!

2011-01-11T14:34:00.005-06:00

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, Essick Photography is giving one lucky couple a chance to win a complete portrait session and
portrait package.

Grand Prize Winner will recieve a 1 hour photo shoot and a deluxe portrait package that includes 2-8x10, 4-5x7 and 20- wallets.

To enter the contest:

Visit the Essick Photography Facebook Fan Page at www.facebook.com/essickphotography

Become a Fan of the page by clicking LIKE at the top (if you are not already a fan!)

Post a picture of you and your sweetie (your sweetie can be your spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend, dog, cat, child, mother, etc.... ) and in the comments tell me some information about your picture

After you do this, go have your friends and family members become a fan of Essick Photography on Facebook and find your picture and comment on it with the comment "vote"

The picture with the most "votes" at the end of the contest will win the Grand Prize!

Contests starts January 11, 2011 and ends at midnight on January 17, 2011.

Winners must book their photo sessions by February 28, 2011.

Valentine's Portrait Sessions

2010-12-29T00:14:00.002-06:00

Now that the winter holidays are past us, it' time to look ahead to the next great holiday! Valentine's day will be here soon and its time to book your portrait sessions!

Portrait Session and 10 Photo Accordian Book for $50

Book your appointment by calling 501-847-8055 or by emailing Erica at email@essickphotography.com

Christmas Portraits

2010-12-09T19:55:00.001-06:00

Get your Christmas Portraits done before the holidays are over!! Book your appointment for this coming week!!! Contact me for more information! 501-847-8055

Studio Update

2010-12-09T10:29:00.004-06:00

Things are moving right along with getting the new studio up and running. Walls are going up and being painted, fixtures and furnishings are moving in. Its soon to be ready.

Although GRAND OPENING isnt until Feb 1st, 2011 I will start booking portrait appointments very soon!

check out my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/essickphotography and make sure you click LIKE to keep up with the latest going on's!

Attention Class of 2012!!!!

2010-11-29T21:31:00.002-06:00

What do you get??

Your Senior Photo session FREE
FREE 8x8 BRAG book of your portraits to show your friends
10% off on print orders from your Senior Session
8 Free wallets for every referral, maximum 40 wallets
$25.00 Visa gift card bonus with your 5th referral!
Referrals after the 5th will accumulate $10.00 each towards a VISA gift card

What do you have to do?

*Program ends September 10th. $10 Visa credits will accumulate until then and card will be issued September 20th. Only referrals that book sessions and purchase prints will qualify.

Grand Opening Announcement

2010-11-29T10:50:00.002-06:00

Essick Photography GRAND OPENING will be February 1st!!

Be watching for some
awesome contests coming up. Will be having an Awesome Mom make over
contest as well as Cute Kid contests!! Mark your calendars!!! and
suggest Essick Photography to all your friends!

Follow Me

2010-11-22T19:52:00.001-06:00

Follow this blog

More Christmas Photos!

2010-11-22T13:31:00.001-06:00

Here are a few more photos from a recent photo shoot.

Wilkes Family

2010-11-22T12:26:00.002-06:00

Here are a few preview portraits from the Wilkes family photo shoot.

Essick Photography Studio

2010-11-22T12:09:00.003-06:00

I am so proud to announce that Essick Photography will be opening a location at 3108 Horizan Ave Suite# 5 Bryant, AR in the near future!!

Make sure you check out my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/essickphotography to view our contests and grand opening package pricing for great deals and fantastic portraits!

I will be updating this blog as I go along and keep everyone updated on how the studio is coming along!!

Photo Shoot with Mackenzie!

2010-04-29T13:33:00.001-05:00

Georgia

2010-04-20T13:00:00.000-05:00

Had a great time doing a photo shoot with Georgia. She is so beautiful and her photos turned out really awesome!!

Zander and Natalee

2010-03-05T13:43:00.000-06:00

Some quick photos of Zander and Natalee

Here it is, 2010............

2010-01-27T15:52:00.002-06:00

I haven't written in this blog for over a year!! SO much stuff going on last year, didn't devote a whole lot of time to my photography due to many different reasons.

This year is my year for photography!! I have learned so much in the past 2 years about photography and have had fun putting that into practice.

I decided this year instead of doing a photo-a-day blog, I wanted to actually talk more about what I have learned in photography and show case some of my favorite photos.

Christmas 2009

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some of my favorite photos from Christmas 2009

Jett's 1st Birthday!

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January 7th, 2009

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I know I skipped a few days here...

Here is a picture of Zander at his basketball game. He is playing on a non-competitive team this year that is just for fun, but he takes it very seriously as all of his sports.

January 4th, 2009

2009-01-04T21:39:00.002-06:00

Happy Birthday Natalee Grace!!!

I can't believe my baby is 3 years old today! Seems like just yesterday I found out I was pregnant with her. Time just flies watching your babies grow up. We did a "party" for her. She had her cake and ice cream and was embarrassed when we sang Happy Birthday to her. She was so cute, all day she kept asking for her "party".

Natalee's 3rd Birthday

2009-01-04T08:19:00.000-06:00

January 3rd, 2009

2009-01-03T14:37:00.002-06:00

Although Natalee's birthday isn't until tomorrow, I tried getting her birthday pictures today. She really likes to do her own thing instead of what I tell her to do so getting good photos of her usually is a nightmare process. I will post my favorite here and my others will be on my FB account, so you can check them out there.

This is my favorite shot of her. She looks so grown up here!!

January 2nd, 2009

2009-01-02T20:26:00.003-06:00

My kids are so immune to the camera that when I really want to take a picture of them they both decide to either completely ignore me or make some kind of goofy faces or eye rolling thing....

Here is today's pictures. They are both eating their cereal and are watching cartoons so they could have cared less about me in their faces!!

Lumapix Foto Fusion

2008-09-10T20:51:00.002-05:00

I finally discovered FotoFusion and I am loving it. I bought the scrapbook version of it at www.lumapix.com and I really like the functionality of it. Its pretty easy to use and the design possibilities are endless.

Here are a few I did. Of course I have a lot to learn with it yet, but look forward to putting this software to use!

Jaxon!

2008-09-10T20:46:00.002-05:00

This baby is a DOLL! My cousins baby boy. I wish I could spend more time with him, he is just a little snuggle bug. I got to visit with them for a day in Alabama, and I wished I would have had more time, I would have taken 5 million photos of him!

Here are a few that I did of Jaxon.

Merit Award!!

2008-08-17T00:28:00.004-05:00

I am enrolled in the New York Institure of Photography. Recently a few of my photos were chosen for Merit Awards (this is an award given by the dean for outstanding photos). I had photos chosen from 2 different units that I completed.

Sometimes blurry photos can be....

2008-08-16T23:36:00.003-05:00

among your favorites.

My Nattie girl, what can I say... She is the prettiest little thing ever. Here she is wearing her Paw-paw's hat. Her and Aidan had been fighting over who got to wear it. This was a quick capture as it was low light and she was moving fast, so the focus isn't great, but its just such an adorable picture and I had to share it. One of those memory maker photos.

William Dane

2008-08-16T23:28:00.004-05:00

Meet William Dane. My newest baby nephew. Isn't he gorgeous?!?! Such a sweet little baby, I couldn't get enough of him. Lucky me I get to see him again next week and I can't wait! He is getting so big now, his daddy says he is up to about 16 lbs already. Almost as big as my Nattie girl!! Look for more photos of Dane, since I plan to take as many as possible next weekend!

Aidan Ryan

2008-08-16T23:24:00.004-05:00

This is my nephew Aidan. I don't get to see him very much since he lives in a different city. He is the funniest little thing, he is almost 2 and he calls me "Cant Carica" He always wants me to do "monster trucks" when he rides with me (i.e going fast over speed bumps....) This picture was taken while at my moms house. Aidan become quite the camera hog and would ask me to take his picture every few minutes. This one was a cute one!

Sports Photos

2008-08-08T16:52:00.000-05:00

Week 5 (Jan 29-Feb 4)

2008-02-05T22:34:00.000-06:00

Another portrait of my handsome boy. Candid moment. Shot taken outside, natural light... right before the storm hit.

Week 4 (Jan 22-28)

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A portrait of a horse. My 2 yr old asked me to take a picture of my "painted pony" so I did.

Here is the final product.

A few extra portraits

2008-01-30T12:38:00.000-06:00

These are some portraits of my cousins little girl. I did these at Thanksgiving and sent them as Christmas gifts for them.

Week 3 (15-21)

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Another portrait of my son. He was trying to be scary here. Dark room, softbox strobe positioned slightly to the right and behind the camera.

Week 2 (January 8-13)

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Nattie girl. I know the background is dark. I like the low key look here, it was the effect that I was going for.

Shot using black background with 1 softbox strobe to the right of the camera and back a ways from the subject.

Week 1

2008-01-08T22:18:00.000-06:00

This is my 7 year old son. This portrait really fit his mood that day. To me he seems much more like a teenager in this portrait, not a 7 year old.

Essick Photography Blog

Senior Ambassador Program

Host a Portrait Party and get FREE Print Credit!!!

Spring Portrait Sessions

Website

Grand Opening Postponed

Due to the recent snow and the impending weather putting a damper on getting things done, we are moving our Grand Opening back to the beginning of March when hopefully all the snow will be done with us. I will update on more specific times and date as we get a little closer!

Senior Ambassador Program

Mattison

Essick Photography Grand Opening Event

Essick Photography Grand Opening

Come by Essick Photography during our Grand Opening Event on February 4th from 10am-6pm and receive a coupon good for a FREE Photo Session and 15% off your portrait order!!

Photo Shoot with Virginia part 2

Photo Shoot with Virginia

Virginia's Valentines Photo Shoot

Natalee's Valentines Photo Shoot

Essick Photography Grand Opening

Come by Essick Photography during our Grand Opening Event on February 4th from 10am-6pm and receive a coupon good for a FREE Photo Session and 15% off your portrait order!!

Miller Family Photo Shoot Part 3

Miller Family Photo Shoot Part 2

Miller Family Photo Shoot

You and Your Sweetie Photo Contest!!

Valentine's Portrait Sessions

Christmas Portraits

Get your Christmas Portraits done before the holidays are over!! Book your appointment for this coming week!!! Contact me for more information! 501-847-8055

Studio Update

Attention Class of 2012!!!!

Grand Opening Announcement

Essick Photography GRAND OPENING will be February 1st!!

Be watching for someawesome contests coming up. Will be having an Awesome Mom make overcontest as well as Cute Kid contests!! Mark your calendars!!! andsuggest Essick Photography to all your friends!

Follow Me

More Christmas Photos!

Wilkes Family

Essick Photography Studio

Photo Shoot with Mackenzie!

Georgia

Zander and Natalee

Here it is, 2010............

Christmas 2009

Jett's 1st Birthday!

January 7th, 2009

January 4th, 2009

Natalee's 3rd Birthday

January 3rd, 2009

January 2nd, 2009

Lumapix Foto Fusion

Jaxon!

Merit Award!!

Sometimes blurry photos can be....

William Dane

Aidan Ryan

Sports Photos

Week 5 (Jan 29-Feb 4)

Week 4 (Jan 22-28)

A few extra portraits

Week 3 (15-21)

Week 2 (January 8-13)

Week 1

Be watching for some
awesome contests coming up. Will be having an Awesome Mom make over
contest as well as Cute Kid contests!! Mark your calendars!!! and
suggest Essick Photography to all your friends!