Christmas portraits 2010

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I would like to thanks all of our customers that made our Christmas portraits such a success and fun.

Beach Sessions

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Fill out the form on the contact us page of the website and include your vacation dates.  The Griggs family will be traveling to Flordia's Destin, Sandestin, Seaside, Water Color and Santa Rosa Beach area throughout the summer.  We would love to meet you during your vacation and capture beautiful portraits of your family. 

flea market

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For many years we have visited the flea market each month. I always seem to come away with some creative idea. I would say that the ideas come from seeing all the antiques and wonderful people we meet. For twenty years I have been doing this and last month was the first time I took my camera. Well I went to get the camera in the car after being there for about a hour and then just walked around visiting the different vendors. Children portraits are my true love but images like these really help get me out of my comfort zone.

My Sophie

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Just had to share this photo, after seeing daddy work for so many years she felt she should give it a try!!!!!! Its moments like this I never want to forget

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Supporting Martha's Orphanage in Africa

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Allen and I have always had a heart for children.  After the adoption of our two girls, the desire to help children in need of forever homes has grown even stronger.  When we heard the story of our friend, Kristi Johnson and her walk through the adoption process and the stories of all the  beautiful children in Africa in such need of loving homes, we knew we had to help!  

When you purchase an 8x10 Portrait Gift Certifcate (valued at $600.00) for only $300.00 then the proceeds wll go to Martha's orphanage.  Please go to our website and fill out the contact us form.  This offer is open from May 1-31, 2009.  Let's see how much we can raise to help these needy children!!  Tell a friend and spread the word!!!!

Thanks for your support,

Jennifer Griggs

By the way, here are some photos of our beautiful girls!  

 

 

2008 Award

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At the 2008 Professional Photographers of America (ppa) annual convention we received a special honor of having a portrait that I entered in competition selected to be in the Loan Book.  This is a high honor because only a few select best are chosen from thousands of entries from around the world.  The title of the portrait is "Beautiful".  I would love to take all the credit but how could a judge resist a beautiful child like the child in this portrait. I would let this honor go to my head but I believe you're only as good as the last portrait you made.  And considering the last portrait I made today was a 2 year old and I had to do everything you can think of to get the expression I wanted, I guess I'm doing ok.  Allen Griggs

Disney Vacation

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These are some images from our trip to Disney World.  Believe it or not, prior to this, I have never been there in my entire life.  I think it was just as magical for me as my children.  I am always behind a camera and I gave my self the challenge of taking some really unique images while on this trip.  There is a very special one that has a unique story...

Jennifer, my wife, wanted a picture of the castle to enlarge and hang in the girl's bathroom.  After questioning me a thousand times if I had a good image I eventually even started questioning myself!  I knew I did, but "what if" kept creeping in my head.  I just knew what would happen if we got home and I didn't have that image of the castle.  On our last day there, she kept on with the questioning and in my frustration I just turned around and snapped a shot and said once again, "yes I have it!".  When we got home and I was viewing some of the images, I came across that last image of the castle and it was the best.  It's so ironic because the time of day was not good lighting for photographing something like that.  The images that I took during early morning and evening (which should have been the best) fell very short to that "last" image.  I was able to create something very magical and totally impressed Jennifer and our friends.  Now, I'd like to share it with you.

Allen Griggs