Hey Everyone!
My new BLOG is now LIVE and open for business. So please hop on over to say hello!
The new address is: www.chantalstone.com
There are a lot of new features I’m excited about, including a photo gallery and a FAQ page. This blog will remain for archival purposes, but all new posts will be on chantalstone.com. Please take a moment to Bookmark my new blog, and I’ll see you there!
Thanks for your patience…
~Chantal 
There’s a reason for the lack of updates, I promise!
I’m in the process of building a new blog… I know, I know, it will be my 4th new blog in 3 years, but as I evolve as a person and photographer, and as my business changes and grows, so do my needs. And unfortunately this new WordPress update just isn’t working for me. I’ve actually been considering making a switch for a while now, and this new update was the nail in the coffin.
So please bear with me during this transition. I’m really excited about my new blog home and I think it will serve me well as my photo-business and I continue to evolve and grow! I will post a link to the New Blog in just a few days, as soon as I iron out a few odds and ends….
Thanks for your patience!!
~Chantal
Happy Mother’s Day to all of the fabulous Mom’s out there…and especially to all of the Moms-to-be, including one of my favorite Moms-to-be, Jennifer Tribbie!!
As a mother of three, today is such a special day, even though, really, EVERY day is Mother’s Day, and it should be. Being a Mother is the hardest, most challenging, most stressful job that is also equally the BEST, most rewarding, most satisfying job in the world…I couldn’t imagine my life without Sharif, Chanel, and Cherie in it…they totally make me who I am today!
I’m a little late with posting this, but as of LAST week, Jennifer was 18 weeks along. Her baby is about 8 inches long now, and weighs about 7 ounces. And at this point, Baby Tribbie’s tiny fingerprints are forming! So cute!
Yesterday I also had the privilege of spending a few hours with both Jennifer and Tim for a relaxed photo session, stay tuned for some of those pictures coming soon!
See Jennifer’s baby grow:
Baby Tribbie – 10 weeks
Baby Tribbie – 14 weeks
Happy Mother’s Mom!
If anyone has tried to email me during the last couple of days, I did not receive it! My email was down for a few days, but it appears to now be up and running. I’m not exactly sure how long it was down, I think maybe since Tuesday or Wednesday. I have 3 or 4 email addresses all going to the same place so since I was so busy this week I really didn’t notice the decrease of emails in my collective Inbox until yesterday!
So again, if you tried to reach me via chantal@chantalstonephotography.com, info@ chantalstonephotography.com, or if you made a New Client Inquiry from my website, please email me again…I promise I’m not ignoring you
If you think your email is still not reaching me, please try chantalstonephotography@gmail.com.
Thanks, and I apologize for any inconvenience!
One of the things we did while in Georgia last month visiting my husband’s family, was go to Tybee Island. It was just me and the kids and their little cousin for the afternoon. We only had a little while because the clouds were darkening, and after about 90 minutes or so, it began to rain, but the kids had a great time. Shamon was back in Savannah with his cousin, but there was no way I could be that close to the ocean and not see it.
Below is Cherie with her cousin, Aaliyah. The water was freezing but that didn’t stop anyone (besides me) from getting in it. And it was a treat for the kids to come back to cold Ohio and tell their friends about their day at the beach.
**Note: I’ve been such a bad blogger lately! I really wanted to try to post every day for the month of May, but I had a few days that just got the better of me. Let’s see if I can get a good 30-day post stretch going starting now! Believe me it’s not been for lack of material…if anything I’m almost overwhelmed with all that I want to share! So with a little discipline and a more regular sleep pattern, hopefully, I can be better about the posts. I’ve had some incredible photo sessions over the last couple weeks, and two more scheduled for this weekend that I’m super excited for! Plus I will be posting my finished SOFOBOMO book very soon! Stay tuned!
Have I mentioned before that I LOVE my clients?!? I think that what helps to make great Wedding photography is to have a great relationship with your clients, and I am so happy to say that I LOVE them! It’s such a huge honor to part of their day, to be trusted with their memories. I take my job very seriously, and by investing in the relationship, it makes documenting their Wedding that much more important to me personally. Good or bad, the personal investment I have in my clients is what I love about my job, and they seem to like it too!
So how excited was I to receive an invitation in the mail to one of the Weddings I am photographing next month?!? I was ecstatic! Natalie & Michael are getting married soon and they sent me an invitation!! I have been looking forward to this wedding since our fantabulous engagement session last year, so to receive an invitation makes me feel like so much more than just a vendor, it makes me feel like a friend and I am so honored to spend the day with them!
But not only was the fact that sent me an invitation so great, the actual invitation is the most amazing thing! They purchased their invitations from Botanical Paperworks, a company that makes stationary that is “plantable paper”. The papers are made with post-consumer waste and has real seeds in the paper, so that once you’re finished, you can PLANT THE PAPER and grow real flowers! Isn’t that cool?!?
I know there are plenty of people who are looking for GREEN alternatives when planning their Weddings, so I thought this was a fantastic idea and I wanted to pass it along!
Also: Notice the stamp on the envelope? Another great idea for engagement photos. Make your own stamps at Stamps.com!
Thanks Natalie
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