Susan Braswell Photography - “Simply Put” the blog, Alexandria Photographer, Northern Virginia Photographer, Washington DC photographer

Me+Flopsy+90 plus degree weather=not so great. Isn’t this the sweetest set with beret? If she could only talk she would have told us how crazy this was - alas it lasted maybe 3 minutes. This 9 month old client was seriously one of the *happiest* smiliest babies ever (although she is staring with intent and curiousity here). What a blessing she is to your family, thank you and I truly enjoyed meeting you. 

Pinch me, words can not describe how elated and honored I am to have a feature in such a major publication. I mean not just national but world wide. What an accolade this is. Just to mention the premise of the article is about me, how I started and where I am today in my 4th year of business. I do however want to mention, I honestly believe this career path was in *my* cards, the path has been paved open and easy for me BUT don’t let it fool you, this is extremely hard but rewarding work. Onto the glory - lil snippets. I am by no means a product photographer so I tried my best and may retake a few to permanently put on my website. I can’t wait to share this moment one day with my grandkids and so on. It would be kind of cool to have a custom memory box made with my signage from my former studio in Old Town Alexandria on King Street, the magazine and a lot of little things along his journey, including some pictures of my clients over the years to frame. I truly love what I do and hope this feeling will stay indefinitely.

One last thing, I received a few copies of the magazine itself and some tear sheets. By request I was asked to submit quite a large amount of images so therefore I was not sure which were actually selected (there is one more sibling shot on the last page missing here). For those who were featured here, I will send you the entire article with the image featured as your own personal keepsake. I was so unsure of how these would print in CYMK as I know how they look on my screen and more importantly printed by my pro lab. Some of the copies here have some sort of funky magenta color cast on a few of the pictures, some are just like I thought they should print. 

On my “to-do” list is to make blog posting a priority, maybe not daily but at least give a dose of a sneak peek from my sessions. This preview is a layout I compiled as either a storyboard or even wall display each beside one another. I love how these three “fit”. While this session was weeks ago, I plan on trying to get up to speed and share some of my recent sessions throughout the last few weeks one-at-a-time.

On a side note, it is now after midnight and officially August! I have been waiting impatiently I might add for what feels like forever .. in the next few days a nice big magazine should be hitting my mailbox and inside is a feature article with (I believe) lots of pictures. As soon as I get it and/or the tear sheets - in the next week I will take a bunch of pictures of the spread. It’s an honor, it’s surreal and in my eyes a once in a lifetime opportunity .. more to come soon!