Please come and visit us at our new location on the web!!!

http://nightingailphotography.com/blog

And give us your opinions!!!  New logo and colours.

Website will be updated very shortly.

NightinGail Photography is thrilled about our new look that is currently under construction.  As a result, we will not be posting any further information here.  Commenting is temporarily suspended until the blog is transferred to the new site.

And.. here’s our new logo with our new colour scheme… so keep watching…

Well, it’s been a very busy couple of weeks and I’ve been working on albums like crazy.  Just one of our latest Signature Guest Books for our clients, Lorianne & Danny, who will be celebrating their wedding on June 20, 2009.   We had an absolute blast playing outdoors with them at their “Love” session. In this case, Danny and Lori chose to have their engagement session at Belfontaine Conservation Area as they both love the outdoors. 

Lorianne & Danny’s Signature Guest Book

These books are one of our most popular add-ons to NightinGail’s wedding packages as they are all custom-designed by me with a hard photo cover.  Each client can choose up to 15 images from their “Love” session to be included in this 11 x 8.5 book.  They may select their own quotations or special poetry for their book or I can choose something that fits with the images that are included. 

Like to have one?  Call me at 416-721-0541 and I’d be happy to chat with you about photographing a “Love” session just for you.

The Ultimate Wedding Photographer

One of my other photographer friends posted this on our NoBS forum.  It is just too funny not to share– although I have NEVER had clients who made me feel like this!! 

Call us today to make sure that your photographer doesn’t have this attitude towards you and your family.

NightinGail has been most fortunate with all of our wedding couples who have been sweet and wonderful as we worked together to make sure that their wedding day images were beautiful, romantic and captured the esssence of their day. 

Wouldn’t you like to be a part of the NightinGail client family? 

Have a great one!

NightinGail Photography would like to take a moment to wish everyone a safe and prosperous 2009.  Have fun this evening as we celebrate New Year’s Eve.  Remember to enjoy the fun but be careful and most of all, don’t drink and drive.  We want all of our friends, family, collegues, clients and associates to be here with us to start a brand new year.

All the best and we will see you in 2009!!!

Gail, Don & Leo

 We recently had the opportunity to photograph Nicole — who was having her “Little Black Book” session — as a Christmas gift for her husband.  After her session, she said, “I cannot believe that you made me feel so comfortable and that I had so much fun getting my picture taken.”  NightinGail is always discreet and we only want to give you a brief tasteful sample of Nicole’s session. 

And from our client:

NightinGail is now taking bookings for our “Valentine’s Secret” sessions!!  What’s included?

• 2 hour session includes makeup and 1 hour of photography
• Props and other fun stuff
• “Little Black Book” - 20 - 5×7 fully retouched images
• CD of your images in colour & B&W
• On-line Proofing

And the BEST part - If you book a session on January 10 or January 17th - your “Little Black Book” will be $350 plus applicable taxes.   This is a 30% savings and the last time that this price will be offered in 2009!!!  Call us today at 416-721-0541 or 705-792-5105.

Don’t lose out on this fabulous Valentine’s gift opportunity!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

from

Gail, Don & Leo

NightinGail Photography

Processing Client Work and Writing E-mails

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our clients, friends, family and associates who have supported NightinGail Photography during our 2008 season.  We just want to let you know that we appreciate and value all of the trust that you have placed with us.

Every year at this time, we reflect on what has happened over the last year and are grateful for our blessings.  As part of our Christmas celebration, NightinGail Photography contributes to Sleeping Children Around The World along with our NoBS family, members and friends rally together to support SCAW - Sleeping Children Around The World. For more informaton, please visit http://www.scaw.org.

NightinGail has also been pleased to be associated with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (http://www.cbcf.org) and provided some portrait sessions for their on-line auction in October.  We strongly urge all of our friends to support this worthwhile cause in finding a cure for this disease.  Were you aware that men can also get breast cancer? 

As most of you know, it’s been a bit of a trying year with Don’s heart attack; however, we are very blessed to be in full recovery and with all things going as planned, he should be completely recovered by the end of January 2009.  His doctor has already reduced some of his medication and his latest stress test showed remarkable improvement.

The one good thing that has come out of this is that we have both embarked on an exercise and health regime of eating better and I am thrilled to say that we are walking 2 miles at least 4 times per week plus eating our meals on those little side-plates instead of the full-sized dinner ones.  We both feel better and healthier than we have in years.  I’m really excited to be able to be even more acrobatic at our 2009 weddings (hanging upside down out of trees is NOT an option).

Our daughter has moved closer to us and we are thrilled to be able to see our grandson even more often now that she is only a few minutes up the highway.  She is really enjoying her new job in Orillia and Lincoln is adapting nicely to his new home.  We are also thrilled to be expecting Wes home from Alberta later today.  He has been working out there for the last few months and Jenn and Lincoln are anxiously expecting his return.

Our son is still in Brockville.  He has had a very trying year with the workplace injury to his hand.  It is recovering but taking somewhat longer than was expected.  WCIB has been very helpful and he is looking at joining us for Christmas this year when all of the Martins get togther to celebrate our Christmas in January.  What’s really great is that now that most of us are on Facebook so we chat almost every day! 

Make sure that you become a “fan” of NightinGail Photography on Facebook.  We are also on Twitter.

As you may know, Don got the “car” of his dreams this past fall.. “Mean Yellow”.  He has always wanted a convertible and he was able to purchase a 2007 Solstice for “fun”.  That’s right - it’s yellow.  But we had a lot of fun driving and touring around during the fall while we had all of the great weather.

NightinGail is also in the process of changing our blog and portions of our site are still not quite ready so please bear with us.  Our main photography site www.nightingailphotography.com is also undergoing a face-lift in January so stay tuned for our new updated sites.  Our blog is now self-hosted at www.nightingailsales.com/blog  as is our on-line ordering and viewing galleries for our clients.

And for those of you who just want to play around… http://www.the-north-pole.com/ … there are some fun facts, games and recipes for the Christmas Season.

We were thrilled to be able to donate three certificates for a one hour environmental portrait session with an 11×14 wall portrait for the sponsored organization “Grandmothers to Grandmothers” which provides assistance to the grandmothers in Africa who are raising their grandchildren due to the AIDS epidemic held at the Barrie Country Club on March 7, 2008 hosted by WINGS (Women In Networking Growing Strong) and BBWN (Barrie Business Women’s Network)

Congratulations to Barb Kucher who purchased two of our certificates for this excellent cause. We are looking forward to photography the Kucher family shortly at Sunnydale Park in Barrie.

Thanks again, Barb, for supporting the Grandmothers to Grandmothers organization.