Louise Stidham

About Louise Stidham Photography

Hi there! Welcome to my official blog! Louise Stidham Photography started because of my interest in capturing everything that is special in life.

A simple smile, a relationship blooming, a wedding ceremony and reception, a pregnancy, a child being born, the laughter and tears of holding that tinny little person for the first time, the family photos, birthday parties and celebrations, my life, your life, anything that matters to us. All of those things keep me inspired to create works of art that you will enjoy for years to come.

I believe that {Life is Sweet} and I enjoy being able to go through my photographs and experience my best moments over and over again.

Enjoy your visit to my blog! While here, leave me some comments in your favorite images. If you want to book a session, please contact me. My information is in the About tab. Come back often to view my recent work and stay in touch!

Talk to you soon!

Louise :)

Archive: ‘Portraits’



Lauren and Aaron’s Kona Grill Photoshoot | 202 Magazine Featured Couple

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

This was yet another super sweet couple’s photoshoot I did for the 202 Magazine February featured date stories. I loved that we had the chance to do something different. It is not everyday I get to photograph couples at a sushi restaurant. What a great experience we’ve had! Many thanks to Kona Grill for being so welcoming to us and for preparing some fabulous dishes for our session. Everything was so perfect – AMAZING FOOD – and of course, we cannot go wrong when we have this combination: sushi + great looking couple in Love = fun & fabulous photos. Seriously, if you haven’t read Lauren and Aaron’s story, you can click this link to read it. Why, not? Love is in the air, embrace it! For them, “Wonderful Tonight” Eric Clapton, inspired by my playlist of oldies but always goodies type of songs. Enjoy.

“We go to a party

And everyone turns to see

This beautiful lady

That’s walking around with me”

“I feel wonderful

Because I see the love light in your eyes”

“And the wonder of it all

Is that you just don’t realize 

How much I love you”

“As I turn out the light,

I say my darling, you were wonderful tonight”

I still have one more couple to feature. So, come back for more. If you want to book an engagement or couple’s celebration session, please email: info@louisestidham.com or just visit my website “contact” section: www.louisestidham.com .

XOXO

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Claire and Ryan | 202 Magazine Featured Couple

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Claire and Ryan’s story is so touching and real proof that sometimes we look for love everywhere while it has been right in front of us. If you haven’t read about them in the 202 Magazine, please take a moment to check out all of the sweet details of their love connection. My favorite part about meeting them was being able to witness the strong bond this couple has and how much fun they have together.

With the information I had about them provided by Editor-Sondra Bar- 202 Magazine, my goal in designing the concept for their photo shoot was to capture that candid connection in more structure way, incorporating some vintage elements and of course, the “old” photograph of them hugging each other. Since I’ve had Lady Antebellum’s songs playing as I typed this, I felt like “Just a Kiss” would make a perfect background song for these pictures.

“Lyin’ here with you so close to me
It’s hard to fight these feelings when it feels so hard to breathe
Caught up in this moment
Caught up in your smile”

“I’ve never opened up to anyone
So hard to hold back when I’m holding you in my arms
We don’t need to rush this
Let’s just take it slow”

“Just a shot in the dark that you just might
Be the one I’ve been waiting for my whole life“

“I know that if we give this a little time
It’ll only bring us closer to the love we wanna find
It’s never felt so real, no it’s never felt so right”

“Just a kiss on your lips in the moonlight
Just a touch of the fire burning so bright
No I don’t want to mess this thing up”

“I know it’s time to leave, but you’ll be in my dreams tonight”

So glad I’ve met this beautiful couple, Ryan and Claire. Wishing them many, many years of happiness together. Tomorrow I will be featuring yet another couple, Ryan and Amanda because we need to continue sharing the LOVE this month, so come back for more.

I hope you are finding good inspiration in these sessions for an annual couples photo shoot or engagement session. If you would like, feel free to comment, share or pin it but as a reminder, my logo and full credits must always be given as well as a link back to my blog. See you tomorrow!

XOXO

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Sharing the Love | 202 Magazine Featured Couple

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

I had been wanting to go to Josh Groban’s concert for a loooonnnng time. Finally, last year David (my sweet husband) surprised me with tickets in one of our date nights. I absolutely loved his concert despite all of the grobanites screaming for him..ahah, I was NOT one of them, I was there purely for the music and the concert experience, I enjoyed it. I especially enjoyed when he sang one of my favorite songs “When you say you love me” that I will be quoting throughout this post.  Love is sooo in the air this month so why not spread that amazing feeling!

This month in particular, I have had the opportunity to meet 5 fabulous couple from the East Valley that have some amazing love stories. They are the reason why I have been anxiously waiting for the February issue of the 202 Magazine to come out so that I could grab my copy and read their date stories. I met with each one of the featured couples with a brief background information  in order to create images that were a good representation of their first date. Since we’ve had some “bonus” images, I decided that I will be blogging about them separately. Perfect, since Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and these series of postings I will be doing can also serve as a good inspiration for a couples/engagement photoshoot! So, let’s begin with this adorable couple Janee and Dan Pousson (to read more about them visit the 202 Magazine website). If you have some favorites, you can “PIN IT” for inspiration.

“When you say you love me
The world goes still so still inside “

Janee and Dan Pousson

“And this journey that we’re on
How far we’ve come and I
Celebrate every moment
When you say you love me
That’s all you have to say
I’ll always feel this way”

“When you say you love me
The world goes still, so still inside
When you say you love me
For a moment, there’s no one else alive”

“Like the sound of silence calling
I hear your voice and suddenly I’m falling
Lost in a dream
Like the echoes of our souls are meeting”

“You say those words, my heart stops beating
I wonder what it means
What could it be that comes over me
At times I can’t move
At times I can’t hardly breathe”

Did you know we have a Valentine’s Day giveaway going on right now? There’s no cost to enter and you can win 4 fabulous prizes from Pumpernickel and Wry boutique. Click here to Enter Our giveaway! Come back tomorrow to get to know another couple, Claire and Ryan Holland! 

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Happy Looks Good on This Little Guy! Gilbert Child Photographer

Friday, January 20th, 2012

A couple of days ago met with this adorable little man, Cooper, to celebrate his 9-month old milestone with a photo shoot.  I brought some accent props to our session including my “famous” flags and balloons to create a little set that would be entertaining for him. And what a fabulous time we had! Cooper absolutely loved the balloons as you can see by the cutest expressions he had in these photos.

 

If you think this post won’t get any more adorable than this, wait until you see the next photos of this cutie. Grab, grab, grab the red balloon!

I have always loved photographing babies and children. One thing I always try to do is let them have fun during the session even if we are doing a more formal session. We basically have one hour of playtime while the props and the location are just the foundation for the fun. I adore the photos of Cooper exploring his surroundings like the ones below.

What a cute smile he had when he spotted his mommy singing for him!

Seriously, happy looks good on this little guy. So glad I got to capture these moments for his proud parents. When I look at these images I think they would look amazing on a canvas gallery wrap collection. Gotta display this sweet boy’s photos because he is simply adorable!

 

 

 

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Personal Branding: Managing Your Image

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Over the weekend, I came across a very useful article about personal branding by Marc Cenedella, CEO  & Founder of one of my favorite career website, The Ladders.  He explained that “building your personal brand is about understanding how you want your professional life to be seen by others.” He added that after that you have to begin“managing your presence in both offline and online worlds towards that end.” This is a fantastic reason to take a closer look at the pictures you have online  and add a professional headshot to your personal portfolio.

Adding a professionally done photo to social network sites is just another great way to showcase your own style in a more structured way.  This is considerably important now that so many employers are connecting with candidates through those sites. It pays off to invest in professional photos but that is not all.

Other things that you can do improve your online presentation besides professional headshots:

  • Search Engine: Have you ever tried running a name search of your own name? Try this and you will be surprise at what you may or may not find.
  • Once you find your information on the Web, you will need to manage what is out there. That will require setting privacy filters in websites you visit frequently and removing information you don’t want to be viewed. There are even a number of companies that can help you removing unwanted online information.
  • What if I can find anything? That’s a question that has been lingering with me. I don’t know the right answer but my personal opinion is that nowadays having some online presence is helpful depending on what you make available to the public eye and the type of career you have.  I would be curious to hear what my readers have to say about this topic.

So, the key action word for you to begin boosting your presence on the Web is “managing.” Take a moment to manage your information and take control of your online life. Don’t forget to update those headshots! To book a session, please call (480) 235-8569 or email info@louisestidham.com.

If you want to read the full article from The Ladders, here is the link:  http://www.theladders.com/career-newsletters/may-i-have-a-word-with-you-about-your-reputation

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Father & Daughter Super Sweet Portraits | Gilbert Family Photographer

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Emma’s dad, Matt, contacted me to do a father & daughter portrait session and some exclusive portraits of his sweet little darling as well. When we met for our shoot I had a fabulous time with this family. At the end of our session,  Matt  was so kind to tell me that “it was fun” and that I would be seeing him again next year. He absolutely made my day with such nice words even before he saw his photos. Well, it didn’t stop there, once he received his digital files, he sent me a text with a picture of the collage he had put together with the images I captured. Wow, again another smile on my face.

I absolutely love these super sweet moments. I hope you will enjoy them too.

“A daughter may outgrow your lap but she will never outgrow your heart.”

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Adorable Newborn Photos & Free Printable Goal List

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

Last November and December were extremely busy months for me. I missed having the chance to blog about the wonderful people I’ve had the opportunity to photograph. This little darling was one of my newborn sessions from December. I absolutely loved all of the sweet expressions she had on the day we met.

One of my goals for this year is to blog more often. As I thought about this topic, a little quote I read the other day came to my mind “People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.” I really like that, I would only add that those goals should be written. I think it is just so exciting to go back to a goal list to cross off some items once you achieve them. That’s why I  am sharing a custom designed 12-month goal list so that you can print and write down your goals if you haven’t done so yet. Use this for your short-term goals so that you can celebrate monthly achievements. Little by little you can make your dreams a reality. This will print in any 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper and you don’t need photoshop to open it. Here is the link for the pdf file download: http://www.scribd.com/doc/76922361 

 

 

 

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Free 2012 Calendar | Happy New Year!

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

With only one day left of 2011, I began to reflect on the experiences I have had throughout this year. One of the things I wanted to take a moment to do is to share my gratitude with all of my clients, friends and family.

* To my clients: Thank you for allowing me to do what I love and being able to work with you creating and preserving moments. I really appreciate the friendship I have developed with you and the loyalty and respect you have given me. There’s nothing more gratifying to me than reading through the emails you have sent me thus far with so many wonderful comments and appreciation. Many thanks!

* To my family and friends:  thank you for believing in my talent and for encouraging me to continue my photographic journey. Special thanks to my husband, David for being so understanding when I am busy and deeply involved with my art and for giving me feedback about my work. I love that I can have someone to give me ideas 24/7. You are the best, David. My little son, Ethan also deserves a a little note of gratitude for keeping me inspired. Motherhood has really been a blessing in my life and I cannot put into words how much joy my son brings me.

In summary, 2011 has been a fantastic year and I am looking forward to my first photo shoot of 2012 that will be coming up already so soon. For now, I wish to everyone a very Happy New Year!

Just as a token of my appreciation, I have free printable 8×10 calendar for clients that have had session with me in 2011. If you want one, just send me an email at info@louisestidham.com or through facebook.com/louisestidhamphotography so that I can get your file ready and emailed. These 2012 calendars are for your personal use and will come ready for you to print featuring images I’ll select from your session, similar to the sample below. You can print it with your own home printer in glossy or heavyweight card stock paper, or take it to your favorite consumer printing lab and request them to print it for you.  It is a JPEG file, size 8×10. The last day to request this calendar will be on January 9, 2012.

Again, Happy New Year!

The images featured in the calendar above are from the photo shoot I did for the Jones Family. I absolutely love meeting them and  helping them capture these fabulous moments. Here are some of them at a larger size:

This photo (below) was included in the Inspire Me Baby Best of 2011 inspiremebaby.com

 

 

 

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The Hargis Family| Gilbert Family Photographer

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

The Hargis family heard about me through one of my clients so, when the saw my Living Social feature they took the opportunity to book a family session. I really appreciate the Solidays’ for the referral; it is very gratifying when a client refers someone to me. Meeting the Hargis’ was fun, I had such a wonderful time photographing them and am excited to hear that they loved their portraits as well.

What a lovely family, the best thing about photographing them was getting to experience how sweet and kind they are & were to each other. I am so glad I was able to capture these moments. Wait, there’s more, one of my favorites….I think this one belongs in a canvas wall art…breathtaking!

And here are a few more featuring TRUE LOVE:

This setting was so perfect, I absolutely enjoyed everything about this photoshoot. Here is a final one of the Hargis Family.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. See you next time!


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Newborn- Ilaria | Gilbert Newborn Photographer | Louise Stidham

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

If you have been following my blog you might remember Gia, from the maternity photo shoots. Well, her adorable newborn arrived and I am so glad I was able to capture this beautiful baby girl. This entire process of documenting a full pregnancy and newborn has been lovely and I felt like I could really build a relationship with the family and then, what a joy, I was able to meet their newborn and create images they will treasure forever.

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