Hey Class of 2009…..Last Call!!!  If you still need your portraits done, or if you were not happy with who you went to last year, call or email now for last available sessions.  Spring Break is almost here.  Also, we have great ideas for you for announcements and albums for your graduation parties.  Special gift package BONUS for the first 10 sessions that book from this notice.  Use promo code SENIOR09LASTCALL.  Email bcool@northbayportraitdesign.   Be sure to see our Facebook page. 

We have limited positions available for high school senior model reps for the Class of 2010.  Call today to find out more information.  We bring the studio to YOU!…so you don’t have to haul all of your belongings somewhere else and cram your session in with someone else!  We’re now searching for high school juniors who want really cool photos and to rep us for the upcoming senior photo season.  Openings for Mentor High, Eastlake North, Willoughby South, Notre Dame, Lake Catholic, Chardon, West Geauga, Perry & Mayfield.  Call the office at 440-951-0441.

We just posted our company page on Facebook!    If you have a FB account, log on and become a fan!  We’ll get some images linked to your FB page too.  Just send a friend link and become a fan.

Are you tired of seeing the same old stuff?  Who’s going to create the coolest images of the year? 

We are looking for way cool people to model and rep our studio for the Class of 2009.  There are limited availabilities for your school.  So, if you want something really different and cool, and you want to make some cash this year, let us know and we’ll set up an interview.  We’re looking to create grunge photos, cool car shots, cool sport images…out of the ordinary stuff.  If you want pretty swing sets, cloth backgrounds and backyard park photos that everyone else will get this summer, then there’s plenty of studios around to do that stuff.  But, if you want something that ROCKS, then listen up!!

Want to be a model, a rep, a cool North Bay Senior?  Then we want you!  We are looking for cool students from Mentor High School, Lake Catholic, Notre Dame, West Geauga, Eastlake North, Willoughby South, and other northeast Ohio schools. 

We’re going to give away a FREE on-location Urban Session, a rockin’ Web Slideshow and a Pocket Album to some very lucky, cool 2009 Seniors!  This is a $500 value!!  All you need to do is email bcool@northbayportraitdesign.com and tell us about yourself, attach a snapshot photo if available, and why North Bay rocks and why YOU should picked to be a Cool North Bay Senior model. 

Why North Bay?  Easy….we come to you!!  We photograph YOU in YOUR surroundings, with YOUR interests, using YOUR stuff and showing off YOUR lifestyle.   No more dragging clothes to studios only to be rushed because someone else is hauling their stuff in too.  Nope….we come to you!  But, we only have a very limited number of sessions available during the week.  YOU are the star!

Here’s some quick rules: You must be available for a session as soon as this weather breaks, you’ll need to allow us to suggest clothing etc along with your selections, and you need to be willing to work on referrals and gathering of names and addresses.  That’s it, you help us, we’ll help you.  Call the studio if you have any questions.  And, yes, we’ll do some normal background images for you, no problem. :)  Good Luck!!

We are so thrilled here at the office…our website won the 2008 Ohio Visual Excellence E-Commerce Award for Best Photographer Website in Ohio!!  This award is given out by the Certified Professional Photographers of Ohio.  I had just attended the Professional Photographers of Ohio Mid-East Regional Conference in Dayton, Ohio this past weekend.  This conference brought in some big speakers like David Jay, Parker Pfister, Gary & Pam Box, Doug Box and Rod Evans.  And of course, I was asked to speak on Saturday on the trade show stage about proper lighting on location.  But the highlight of the weekend was the awards ceremony on Saturday night.   I entered the print competition, album competition and the e-commerce competition.  All three prints scored Honorable Mentions, the album missed the blue ribbon merit by one lousy point :(  , but the website took the prize!

Websites were judged on thier originality, content, photographic quality, and consumer ease-of-use.  The only way this can be achieved is with user friendly website design software.  I take care of the photography and content, the web control panel does the rest.  A big thanks goes out to my friends at FlashPalette Web Design for creating the custom template and control panel software that I use.  Lindsay and Yongtong are awesome and just super to work with.  Plus, their sites look so much more different than most of the mass marketed look-alikes out there now.  Thanks guys….FlashPalette Rocks!!

Thanks to the Professional Photographers of Ohio and the Certified Professional Photographers of Ohio for awarding us with the 2008 Visual Excellence E-Commerce Award.

Here’s a few photos of the program I put on.  It was titled “See the Light in Location Photography”.  Thanks to all who attended.  It was so nice to hear all of your comments and speak with you afterwards.  Thanks to my great friend Craig Weiglein of Mansion Hill Studio and Gallery in Newport, KY for taking the photos of the speaking gig.

Now here are some cool Senior Portraits.  Meghan was a blast to photograph.  She wanted her portraits to be cool, different and something that shows her personality.  I spent a few hours at her home and we found all kinds of areas to photograph at.  Check out the Paris decor.  These are truly unique portraits with an artistic flair.  Here are some photos from Meghan’s session…Rock On!!  Crank It Up Loud!!