Michelle Wrighton Fine Art and Photography

It seems like only yesterday I was finishing commissions and getting ready for Christmas and here it is almost the end of January already!  I was a bit shocked to realize today that the kids go back to school next week and I am no where near organized for that yet.

The time has probably gone so quickly because so much time and effort has been put into re-designing my photography website South West Photography.  It has been a mammoth undertaking, and there are still a few things that need tweaking here and there, but I am really pleased with the results.  The pricing  and products for both event and portrait  photography have been re-structured with new options added (both prints and digital file downloads), and my photographic art prints and products available for sale through Redbubble and Zazzle can now be easily seen on the website (although the Photography For Sale section is still being added to).

Although the plan is to re-design this website, especially in regards to creating a similar design for my painting and drawing prints on Redbubble and Zazzle, I am really looking forward to being able to focus on re-starting the children and family portrait photography.  My portrait photography has has been on hold since we moved away from the city, so if anyone living in the south west region is interested in having portraits of their children or family, please feel free to contact me for a chat and to find out more about the special offer I currently have for portrait sessions.

This is a screen capture of the new front page – although the images are set to rotate to show a different selection of images every few seconds.  I’d love to know what you think about the new design!

I know it only takes a couple of minutes to add a blog post, but my life has been such a rollercoaster of one crisis after another this years and the last few months have just been torturous, I havn’t even had the chance to post the blog posts that I have as drafts waiting to post!  Fingers crossed that life for my family will remain on an even keel and we can start to have some sort of normal life (or at least as normal as things can be given our situation!).

Anyway, enough of that, I have some photos orders going out this week, and for those people waiting to book portrait sessions, I will be getting through the rest of my emails this week hopefully, and once I catch up with everything, I will be able to book sessions that have been delayed.  I will also be adding posts that I have sitting in my drafts folder, so my apologies to those readers who receive notification when the blog is updated, if I don’t get interrupted this evening a few more older posts are going to appear…theres a sneak peak of my digital paintings which might be of interest to anyone who has been waiting for me to start doing pet portrait commissions again:)

Michelle

Its hard to believe its nearly the middle of the year already, where does the time go?

I have recently decided to expand my photography business to include people portraits – and in particular children’s portraiture. Of course, as with any new endeavour, its a huge learning curve!

I am really enjoying the challenge, not only the technical side of the photography, but the biggest thing is engaging and interacting with the subject, and when they are young toddlers that you have never met before, that can be a really challenging task indeed!

So this week I have had my first two photo session with a gorgeous two year old boy and a lovely little three year old girl. Both were so well behaved and although unrelated both had the most gorgeous blue eyes, and there parents have graciously allowed me to use the photos in my portfolio, so I can post a few here in my blog.

At some stage in the not too distant future, I will have a section for portraits on my http://www.southwestphotography.com.au website as it is significantly different to the event photography that I do, but until then I will just be posting some images here from time to time.

In the meantime, I am still building my portfolio and would love to hear from anyone in the Perth area interested in having a photography session (free session fee for areas 20 minutes from myhome!).