PLEASE REDIRECT TO MY BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW BLOG AT:

http://www.jessicastromblog.com

Check it out!! Tell me what you think by leaving a comment on the blog post CHECK IT (on the new blog!) and be entered to win a $15 iTunes gift card!! Contest ends Saturday night! Random winner! Rock the Tutu will be posted tomorrow night!! SNEAK PEEKS START SATURDAY!

I am SO VERY EXCITED to be debuting this new blog by designer who created my logo for me. She’s wonderful (and when she’s taking on new design clients I’ll plug her so you can check her out!!) and awesome, I got exactly what I wanted! I am still tweaking it and trying to import all these old blog posts from this blog, the new blog is where I will be posting ALL future information EFFECTIVE TODAY. Once this blog is phased out and the posts imported, I will be deleting in the coming months.

Enjoy!! And enter the contest, it’s simple easy and fun!!!

~Jessica

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know that the hubs and I made it back safe and sound to our home in Overland Park. It was a 10 hour drive but 12 hours by the time we picked up an exhausted Duke from Camp Bow Wow in Olathe and ran a couple errands. Long long day. I haven’t even turned on my laptop.

I know everyone is anxiously waiting for sneak peeks! I’m excited to show you! My designer who is designing a fresh new blog for me is almost done and so I am going to wait a few days until it’s ready to post again. The blog address will be moving, but I will of course post the link here. You are going to LOVE IT!!!

ROCK THE TUTU was so much stinkin’ fun!! Oh my gosh, it was a blast! As I am processing the final images for voting (which begins FRIDAY evening and run for one week!), I am already planning the Spring Rock the Tutu 2009 for our Kansas City & Vicinity area. Oh my gosh, it’s going to be AWESOME. Can’t wait to share this first run, you’re going to have some tough decisions!

I’m calling it a night to rest up for work tomorrow and so keep an eye out for the next post, it’s going to be BIG!!!

P.S. Just want to let everyone know that the order in which I post Sneak Peeks is completely random and not in the order I shot over the weekend. So keep checking out the blog!!

Just giving my blog a bit of a fresh look! Excuse any mess while I change things around!

I have ended up taking the summer off and have enjoyed it immensly! I have my first full session here in Kansas this Saturday and I am so excited! I will be sending out information here soon on the trip back to Temple to do fall mini-sessions so keep an eye out for that!

I am taking on a lot of new volunteer oppurtunities here in my new community so my time for full sessions will decrease, however I plan on doing Christmas mini-sessions here in the Overland Park/Olathe area in the fall. Keep an eye out for that or email me to add you to the list of email updates! The most up to date info can be found on my Facebook page first, then into email and the blog.

Thank you all so much who have supported me and loved my work. I have some things in mind that I can’t wait to implement!

Here is another story that should give you chills! Even if it’s not professional photos, when putting your child’s photo online it needs to have protection. ALWAYS put some sort of copyright info on the photo (even if it’s a personal photo, edit the photo with some sort of writing over top that can not be easily erased or altered). When blogging, find a way to prevent right clicking on the blog, this will disable the ability to save a photo to file or to link your photo (as you will see in this video). Don’t let this happen to you! The internet can be a fun place, but there are too many people wanting to take advantage of others out there!! Please protect your photos and ultimately your kids!

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/08/02/wcvb.ma.kid.for.sale.wcvb

Since moving to Kansas, I knew that one of my new rules for sharing photos from our sessions online would be that clients would only be able to share photos with my watermark on them. I haven’t required anyone to do it from Texas, thinking it would just be new with clients June 2009 and onwards. But I wanted to let you know why I am adding this new rule, which will be included in our contracts together. It’s to prevent your Christmas card photo or the photo of your child from showing up unauthorized on ads or any other use from locally, nationally, and internationally. Here in Kansas City, one family had posted their Christmas card photo online to share with family and friends and it ended up on an ad for a grocery store in Prague, Czech Republic. The grocer claimed it “came from the internet”, therefore figured it was not copyrighted. Why only uploading watermarked photos to share online is beneficial to both of us:

- It protects my work as the photographer and protects your photo from unauthorized use. Watermarks are not removable without seriously damaging the digital file, making it unusable.
- It protects your children, as not all people who could steal your photo are honest

If you have photos from our previous sessions that you would like watermarked that you don’t see in my galleries, please contact me and I would happy to send you a copy. Please see the link below to read the full story:

MO. Family Christmas Photo Turns Up in Czech Ad