Sweet Babies

We have seen lots and lots of new babies lately! This little bundle of joy is Ella; she is simply breathtakingly beautiful! When her mommy and daddy brought her in for her newborn portraits, she looked so perfect and healthy. What a miracle life is....

The hot weather has kept us to studio portraits during the last two weeks, but hopefully next week we will be back in nature for some high school senior, family, and children's photography sessions. July promises to be another great month at Harper Photography!!!

We are also looking forward to a few wedding consultations coming up, so if you know a bride and groom looking for terrific wedding images and albums - send them our way! We would love to meet them!

c-ya!

It's Time for 2011 Seniors!!!

We are now starting to book our 2011 senior sessions! Here are a few of the 2010 seniors we photographed this year. It has truly been my pleasure getting to know these clients!!! I have a special place in my heart for each one of them, and I wish them all the very best that life can offer. Go get 'em! The world is waiting for you to do great things!

The weather has been good lately and relatively mild, but things are starting to heat up for June. We have several appointments on the calendar; if you are interested in having a beautiful portrait created by Harper Photography, go ahead and give us a call at 615.444.6322! We are also starting to plan for our fair booth at the Wilson County Fair. It seems like 2010 just started, and here we are 1/2 over.

I hope all my clients had a terrific Memorial Day weekend! Congratulations to my sister, Sara, and her new husband, Torrey, as they return home from honeymooning. They just got married on May 22, and I have thoroughly enjoyed being able to assist Sara and mom with the wedding plans during spring. We had no glitches on the wedding day, and I have had several people comment on how gorgeous everything was. I wish them a beautiful, long life together! I love you!

Where in the World is Tara Harper?

What a great question since our poor little blog has been so neglected since last year!

After a very, very busy Fall and Christmas season, we are hoping to turn over a new leaf and keep up with our web presence better so our clients will know what in the world is going on at Harper Photography! Regardless of the blogging downfall, we do feel blessed to have such a terrific clientele and keeping up with our customer service is Goal #1!

It would be waaaayyyy too hard to tell you ALL the things we have done since the last entry, but we will give you a quick glimpse of what we did on top of the baby, children, and family sessions we do each week:

• Wilson County Fair in August


• 2 weddings in September PLUS I completed my professional Certification thru PPA


• Oktoberfest and outdoor fall sessions in October


• November spun out the Christmas Special plus another wedding (the image on this blog is from the 11/21 wedding of Ashley and Shane!)


• December was Christmas Rush fulfilling orders and getting all the loose ends tied together


• January was great with Imaging USA 2010 being right in our back door this year at Opryland Hotel


• Also, I am feeling awesome about being the President this year for the Professional Photographers of Middle TN. It has started off wonderfully, so I am looking forward to another busy, busy year in this career I have chosen!

I will be posting my blog entries to Facebook so everyone can keep up a little better with the entries and new images...so ENJOY! And Happy Valentines Day! LOL!

Summertime...and the Livin' Is Easy!

Does it really get any cuter? How adorable! We just wrapped up the proofing for little Judd's last session, and he really turned on the personality for us while he was here. These babies just make you want to take them home! Check out the sparkle in those baby blues...and the warm golden sun-kissed tone of his sweet smooth skin.

It's SUMMER, and things are still busy with weddings and portraits. We have unfortunately gone too long again without blogging. The studio is staying busy, and we are excited to present two brides with their wedding proofs this week and next. Maybe we will blog next time with some awesome wedding shots, so stay tuned!

What's coming up? A CRAZEEEE August is on the agenda. The TN Professional Photographer's Convention is this weekend and part of next week, then we will start to get ready for our fair display for this year. It is going to rock as always! Look for us in the Turner Evans building again this year...you never know what faces will be there on display! The dates are Aug 21-29...be there!

c-ya!

It's A Busy Season!

Good grief! It has been almost two months since our last blog entry! We promise that we have not been slackers; in fact, just the opposite. We have been so busy trying to keep all of our clients sessions, orders, weddings, family portraits, and baby portraits juggled! It has been a great year for us, and we are very, very thankful...

Above you see Jennifer...our last bride who married Spencer on June 6th. It was a beautiful church wedding followed by a horse and carriage ride to a separate reception location. Both the bride and the groom looked fantastic last Saturday! We wish them nothing but the best in their new lives together.

We promise to do better on all of the blog entries...so stay tuned!

c ya!

Take a look at a rockin' image that we took a few weeks ago of one of our wedding couples - Kristen and Matt! Kristen wanted to go all out and have some images that were true to them and definitely different. We had a fantastic time jaunting around the city while getting some images that are really over the top! You'd never know that Kristen had a sprained ankle and hopped around on crutches the entire session...the girl has some MUSCLE! We are scheduled for a bridal portrait soon so everything will be perfect when the wedding day arrives!!!

Everything is rolling along quickly at the studio. We did our first 2009 family outdoor session last Saturday as part of a 50th Anniversary celebration! Bring on the warm weather!

c ya!

Believe It or Not!

What do you get when you photograph a one-year-old AND a nine-month-old at the same time? You get Carsyn and Cooper! And they were unbelievably fantastic the day their moms brought them in for portraits. When we were told initially that it would be nice to get images of these two cousins together, we have to admit that we really felt like it would be a huge challenge! As you can see, they were super that morning...and they are so, so comfortable with one another. Carsyn walked right over in the middle of Cooper's session and just started posing perfectly...a photographer's dream! We could not have asked for the morning to have gone any better; each mom has ordered a pink or blue mini-album from the sessions! Too much fun!!! We hope they decide to visit Harper Photography again as they continue to grow!

Fun with Bunnies went off so easily last week, and we had the best bunnies - AND kids - on the planet! Everyone looked beautiful in spring attire. As soon as some of the images are ready, we will post a few to the blog!

c ya!