My best review yet!

I received this email the other day from my very first bride. I photographed their wedding a long time ago and lost touch. Being that she was our first bride, we held a special place in our heart for her...so after some Facebook searching, she popped up and this is the email I received from her!





"Thank you so much for helping to make my wedding so memorable! The pictures look so awesome and I had so many compliments about how you got down and dirty during the wedding to get the best photos ever! The pictures you took where you were literally crawling around on your hands and knees looked so awesome! Also, I lost my sister shortly after the wedding and those were the most recent pictures we had of her. You captured her in all of her glory during the wedding and at the reception...real classic pictures of her doing the soldier boy and line dancing! Thank you for making her stick with me during these hard times!





Always Grateful,





Pamela Wood"





So can you believe it? I cried for an hour after I read that email! It made me realize that wedding pictures or studio pictures can end up being so much more for some, and that is why I love being a true part of people's lives. It's why I'm working so hard to bring people together. So I'm a photographer, BIG DEAL! Why can't I have a storytime and watch people enjoy space and time together...and know that it's something I helped bring together! What can I say, I really believe in Karma!!





So, for you Pamela and Leigh...I am the one who's FOREVER GRATEFUL and here is one of my favorites of her gettin' her groove on!!

Many, Many Blessings,

Rachel and the team at Thirteenth Moon Photography

We've Come Home

So much has happened for us over the last few months! I contemplated sharing how we ended up getting our great space right next to Dandelion Communitea Cafe, and then I thought..."let's just roll forward." So, all that I need to say is the universe and it's forces, whether you call the power "God" or "Buddha" or whatever brought us to the PERFECT PLACE!!

We're still just before our opening, when I can begin to dedicate the majority of my time to the studio space and my clients! We've been busy designing and building and making backdrops, lights, and props OUR WAY! I have been in search of the perfect person to be my "star" for a weekly story time and I was blessed to meet her last week! Miss Nim will be joining the team when we host our first story time on Thursday September 9th at 10am! The lobby of the building is perfect for children and parents to relax and feel comfy! The walls are filled with color and delight as enchanted giving trees and recycled owls surround you! It really is such a great place with such a beautiful feeling!! Take a look...at this camera phone picture I took of the first day we got into the building...this is where we'll be, this is where Miss Nim will be each Thursday morning at 10:00 am waiting with her storybook, her friends and her treats!! Children make up such an amazing part of our lives as parents...and we want to share that feeling with other local families and kids...we want to bring families together for fun and FREE interaction!! Of course our goal is to sustain ourselves and our lives with our talents and services, so we hope that some of our families will meet us, see what amazing art and photos we can offer to them for amazingly low and affordable prices and blow every other photo studio out of the water!! Art doesn't have to be expensive and it doesn't have to be made from the highest quality products with the highest price tags! It's all in the eye of the beholder and I want people to experience our space, ourselves and all of our goals!! We want to make our life, our "business" something more than just a bottom line...we want it to have meaning and have a solid place in a community of amazing being that are made up of people and pets of all backgrounds, likes, dislikes and interests...if we all just share one common goal, about enjoying life in it's many forms, we could do so much!

So as our movement towards our opening continues forward we attempt to give ourselves more to do and more to photograph! Just recently we contacted "A New Beginnings Pet Rescue" to offer our services to them completely free of charge...and we were welcomed with open arms! We can say that it wasn't as easy as we thought it was going to be! We armed ourselves with one small basket (for the little doggies) and a small background set up in the back hallway of a busy PetSmart on a Sunday afternoon! By the time we left, we were drenched in sweat and covered in dog hair and a few other "doggie treats"! We got a few good photos, but not as many as we hoped for. Some of the staff at the store actually complained about our presence and said that the flash from our set-up was distracting them. We did the best we could, as we were stationed just outside of the employee break room and were often stepped on and over by staff and their visitors. The dogs were extremely distracted by all of the sounds and movements. Our hearts went out to each of them, as we pulled them from their cages and brought them back to our little set-up for their mini photo session. We would've brought them all home with us if we could have! These dogs had some of the sweetest dispositions we had ever encountered, even after all they had been through. They have (thankfully) been rescued by Abby and Jen...the two amazing ladies that put the rescue together and try their hardest to find homes for all of the souls!

Abby and Jen seemed extremely grateful for our presence, when, quite honestly it is WE THAT ARE BLESSED TO HELP! Please visit http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/anewbeginning.html to see how you can help too!!

So with many, many things in process and so many things still floating about over our heads, stay tuned to our Facebook page and our new BLOG for all of the announcements, updates and just random thoughts!!

Until then...Many, Many Blessings!

The Team at Thirteenth Moon