Doulananda Birth Services and Jennifer Mendoza Photography are happy to announce our new partnership! Because we share a passion for celebrating and supporting families, we are joining forces to provide photography services to Doulananda HypnoBirthing students and doula clients.

With our likeminded approach to creating experiences that honor each of our clients as individuals, we think that our collaboration is a great fit and benefit to Doulananda families. Each family will receive credit for one maternity or newborn session with Jennifer Mendoza Photography. This is a $300 value, but is complimentary to you with the price of tuition, or doula fee.

The phases of pregnancy, birth, and new parenthood are among the most beautiful and fleeting in our lives. Together we are committed to making it a positive and joyful experience that will be captured and cherished for generations.

If you are expecting, or may be in the near future, I encourage you to consider taking a HypnoBirthing class, or consulting with one of their doulas. I did both, with my last pregnancy, and with beautiful results! I’m thrilled at the thought of the families and babies that I will get to meet as a result of this partnership.

This is one of the very first photos of me, T, and baby CA, taken by our friend, doula, and HypnoBirthing teacher, Melissa Johnson (thank you for, on top of everything else, having the presence of mind to grab my camera)!

**Jacksonville sessions are SOLD OUT. If there is enough interest, I will consider opening up a second date at the same location.

Finally, I can share the details I’ve been teasing some of you with!

I’ve had the greatest luck finding two inspiring locations for my first ever mini session days. I am so looking forward to playing and working with your kids and families there! In Jacksonville, we will be on a family farm on the north side of town that provides big open spaces as well as beautiful old trees and landscapes. For Atlanta, we will be at a newly and beautifully landscaped home in Decatur. I am thrilled to get to see so many of your happy faces at once, and to capture your families in time for the holiday season.

ONLY SIX SLOTS AVAILABLE FOR EACH DATE. PLEASE DON’T DELAY IN RESERVING YOURS!

ATLANTA – October 22

JACKSONVILLE – November 6

Basic Mini Session fee of $200 includes

• 20 minute session at a private location

• 3 high resolution digital images

• 25% off print orders, including custom holiday cards

Premium Mini Session Package, $450, includes all of the above, plus

• all images from session (10 to 20) on a disk

• 25 5×7” custom holiday cards

Reservations will be taken on a first come, first serve basis, so please call or email info@jennifermendoza.com as soon as possible. The total session fee will be required in order to confirm your reservation. Upgrading to the Premium Package when you reserve will qualify you for a $50 savings.

Today through November 29, purchase one 2011 session and receive an additional session free. Give both sessions as gifts, give one and keep one, or keep both and plan on a spring AND holiday session! Another great use would be to do one session with your immediate family, and another with extended family – cousins, grandparents, etc. Know anyone who’s expecting a baby in 2011? Go ahead and get them a maternity and/or newborn session!

The fine print:

- The session fee covers the cost of the photographer’s time. This offer includes no prints or digital files. Those will be available to purchase afterward. There is an additional fee for groups larger than 10.

- Weekend rate only, although sessions can be scheduled on any available dates on a first come, first serve basis.

- It is not necessary to schedule sessions at the time of purchase, but clients are strongly encouraged to schedule at least one month in advance of desired dates.

- Valid through December 31, 2011.

- Beautifully wrapped gift certificates are available.

More information on pricing can be found under Details/Services.

Finally, here’s a peek at one of the sessions I am working on this week.

ATLANTA FAMILIES, I will be up your way September 30 – October 3. This is a great time to go ahead and get photos for the holidays! Take advantage of the current early bird offer, and BOOK TODAY as availability is very limited.

This is the last week of summer at my house. I’m parts nostalgic, relieved, content, exhausted, and excited. I’m not kidding myself. Here in Florida, we still have many more days where the weather makes the beach, pool, sprinkler, and an endless supply of popsicles completely appropriate. It’s just that now we’ll have to squeeze that in between school, soccer, gymnastics, holidays, work, etc.  Now that I will regain a few daylight hours to myself, I will be re-focusing more of my attention on work, and encourage you all to take advantage of the $175 savings that is available through the end of August! Please note that there is now an added incentive to book on a weekday, which is especially convenient for those with very little ones not yet in school.

Looking through my personal photos from the summer made abundantly clear what I already knew, that just like most of you, I take the majority of photos of my family in our day to day with my phone! Here’s a collage of what I captured over the last few months. It seems they are all about my girls or food, or my girls with food! The top left image is from the first day of summer break. The bottom right is from this morning. Everything else is in no particular order.

I love those. But, it makes me realize that I need to take more photos for me and my family (the reason I started to take photos, after all).  And it also reinforces how happy I am that I FINALLY got it together and had a fellow professional take family photos of the four of us. More on that soon!

Book ANY type of session for this fall (September through November) with me BEFORE September 1 and get $100 off session fee, PLUS one digital file. I realized after posting the original offer that last year’s holiday sessions included the file. I didn’t want to give something only to take something else away, so I made the change. This is great opportunity to plan ahead for holiday cards, presents, babies getting ready to be born…

In order to qualify, I will ask for a 50% deposit and a  tentative commitment to a date and time. For information on pricing, roll over the Details tab above, then click on Services.

The summer seems to have flown by, and the year’s end will be here just as quickly! I can hardly believe these photos of my “baby” were taken just two months ago, and this weekend we’re getting ready to pack away the crib. Ouch. My chest just tightened a little bit.

As the wise Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.”

Anyone who books a Fall session (September through November) with me BEFORE September 1 will get $100 off their session fee.

Fall has been my busiest season in the past, with so many wanting portraits for holiday presents and cards, not to mention taking advantage of the cooler temperatures. Just like all of you, in addition to work, my time in the fall is FULL with school, sports, holiday and other activities so it is a great idea to plan ahead. In order to qualify, I will ask for a 50% deposit and a  tentative commitment to a date and time.

For those of you who took advantage of my holiday offer in the past, this means you could get a full session for the same price of last year’s mini-session.  Whereas the mini-sessions tend to be geared more towards getting “the” image for the Christmas card or Grandmother’s gift, a full session is an opportunity for us go farther and get a wider variety of images, in addition to that great group shot.

And because I hate to post without an image, here is what my calendar from last October looked like. If you want to get on it for this year, you better claim your spot now! For investment information, scroll over the Details tab above and then click on Services.

I hope you will find it to be more useful and easier to navigate than the previous version. This one does a better job of being a one-stop-shop, as a portfolio site, blog, and proofing/ordering site (coming soon). And the best thing about this site? Bigger pictures! Hooray for that.

…giving them an opportunity to record, preserve, and CELEBRATE themselves and their families.

…giving a gift that they will have and cherish for years to come.

…giving them the experience of a photo session where they get to be themselves and then see how beautiful that really is.

Gift Certificates can be purchased in any denomination and can be sent either to you or directly to the recipient.

This is also something you could register for if you are expecting a baby.

Contact me to register or purchase a gift certificate today!

It’s been such a busy few weeks that I’ve not posted as much as I would have liked. These are from a mini session on the beach that I did recently near Fort Lauderdale. This shoot was late in the morning and it was HOT! We had to hide out under the pier to have any hope of finding shade. Miss E is beautiful, but wasn’t too keen on getting her picture taken by me! Thankfully, Daddy helped me bring out her smile.

So serious…

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JACKSONVILLE – Just a few slots left for Holiday Mini Sessions! See Investment page for details.

ATLANTA – One Day Only – Saturday, October 17 – until 2010! Contact me at jenmen@gmail.com