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Family Photo Session : The Beshears Family

January 15, 2016/0 Comments/in Crazybananas Photography /by Megan

I was so excited to work with this fun family, because I’ve worked with them in my past professional life! Sarah and Chris are the team behind the awesome company Floc5 Design, and I have worked with Sarah on branding and marketing projects. However it was a fun change to get to work with the entire family!

I knew that this session was going to be a fun one, because Sarah and Chris are both super creative and love to try new things. Sarah told me they were game for anything, which is what every photographer loves to hear! We met downtown at the World War I Memorial, because we wanted to get some great family shots with the iconic Kansas City skyline. We were lucky to have a perfect, brisk morning and some beautiful light downtown.

Afterward, we headed to Union Station to grab a few more images. There was no plan heading in, but sometimes that’s the best way to shoot! My favorite image is the one of the family riding up the escalator from Science City. It’s not a traditional family portrait, but the reflection, plus the meaning behind the location just make it for me.

I’m so grateful to have fun clients who let me play and trust me to capture their families in all of their unique beauty! If you’re interested in booking a family session with me, send me a note at megan@crazybananas.com.

Blogging for Creatives Workshop : This Week!

January 11, 2016/0 Comments/in bloglife, Crazybananas Photography /by Megan

I’m so excited to be teaching a class for Hive Workshops this week all about blogging! I taught this class last summer and the response was awesome (you can see the recap from that class here). This is a workshop for all creatives, not just photographers and will take the creatives through the benefits and how-to’s of blogging for creative businesses. The end goal is for you to leave the workshop with the tools to either create your own business blog or to enhance your current blog and social media content. I will show real-time demonstrations and techniques for making your blog amazing! Worksheets will be provided for the creatives to keep for their own use. As with all Hive Workshops, open discussion is strongly encouraged!

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

At the end of this workshop, attendees should be able to:

– Understand how blogging helps build their business

– Identify the top blogging platforms for creatives

– Understand simple HTML and CSS tricks and tips to help them create and design their blog

– Know easy methods for building story and interest through blogging

– Describe how to make content shareable on social media

– Identify the best social media platforms to focus on in order to build their brand

– Understand how to promote their blog, including SEO and hashtags

– Describe and explain the “3-and-3 Blogging Rule”

– Be familiar with programs/plugins specific to creatives that make blogging workflow fast and efficient

Event sponsors include J. Lynn Designery, who will be gifting our creatives with 25% anything in her shop! Her blog planners are a must have for bloggers in order to make successful blogging easy and productive. BlogStomp is a returning sponsor and will be gifting our creatives 20% off their products. BlogStomp makes creating image boards for your blog quick and easy, cutting down workflow and making it simple to create beautiful blogs that showcase your best work.

I would LOVE to see you at this workshop on Wednesday, January 13th from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Hive Workshops fantastic space in the West Bottoms in Kansas City! To sign up, click here! And as an exclusive gift from me to you, use the code BLOGGERBEE to get $10 off the cost of the class!

Pregnancy Announcement : KC Photographer

Video Pregnancy Announcement : Kansas City Family Photographer

January 8, 2016/0 Comments/in Crazybananas Photography /by Megan

A few weeks ago I was fortunate to be asked by one of my very best friends to help her create a unique announcement to share the news of her pregnancy with her friends and family. Abbie and her husband Luke were surprised and thrilled to find out they were expecting their third child, and she really wanted to do something that showcased her sweet family and included her two older sons. We decided to put together a video pregnancy announcement, which she shared on her social media to announce her good news! So fun!

We were super lucky, because the day after we shot this, the entire area was COVERED in snow and ice! It was totally nuts to be editing the images and footage of this gorgeous day while the wind was blowing outside and everything was coated in white. The day we shot, it was warm enough to be running around without coats and the boys had a blast wrestling, playing tag and chasing each other through the field. Within twelve hours, it would be a totally different scene!

I’m so excited to announce in 2016 I am officially adding VIDEO to my photography packages! A keepsake video of your family is a beautiful way to capture these precious moments in your life. If you’re interested in learning how to add video to your photography package, please visit my video page for more information, or contact me at megan@crazybananas.com.

Heinz Family : Kansas City Photographer

December 8, 2015/2 Comments/in Crazybananas Photography /by Megan

I am so excited to be able to share this super fun session with you guys! Normally I try to only write one photo post per week, to keep this blog a mix of photography and personal stuff. The blog itself has been around longer than my photography business (I started blogging on Crazy Bananas in 2004!), so I have a good mix of readers and I don’t want to only post photo sessions, but I’m making a little exception with this one. My good friend Lindsey has always been one of my biggest and most vocal supporters, and I’m so grateful she’s chosen me to take her photos the last few years. Linds and I were college roommates, and I think it’s pretty freaking amazing to see how far we’ve come! I mean, who would’ve known the girls who covered their bunk beds in *NSYNC posters would someday be successful, productive members of society? Well, probably no one, but look at us now! Grown ups!

Lindsey and her husband Brad are the most awesome people, and they braved a chilly fall morning in Kansas City to get some images taken at the beautiful Kauffman Center. Can we please talk about Lindsey’s boots? Because, seriously? Amazing. Brad was looking pretty dapper as well, and I loved capturing them as they ran around the Kauffman with their two puppies.

As for these pups…they are two little things with BIG personalities. Larry, the Boston Terrier, sported a handsome bow tie collar, while Hazel, a long-haired Chihuahua, is as delicate and feisty as you’d imagine. They are quite a pair, and every year I have a blast photographing them!

The Heinz’s are HUGE Kansas City Royals fans, so at the end of our session we snapped some quick images of them in their Royals gear, just in case the Royals went on to win the World Series….which they did! I was super excited because Lindsey also asked me to create a unique holiday card for them, which included a fun Royals touch on the back. On the front, we also included a little nod to the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality earlier this year. Lindsey is a lawyer and a huge proponent of marriage equality, so the ruling meant a lot to her and she wanted a symbol of it to be incorporated in to her card. I think it turned out beautiful!

Nothing like opening your mailbox and seeing your work being shared! I love getting cards with images I’ve taken for clients this time of year, and it’s even better when I get to design them as well. That makes a very happy holiday!

Newborn Session : Baby Jack

December 4, 2015/0 Comments/in Crazybananas Photography /by Megan

This season has been full of a ton of amazing and wonderful family sessions, but it was really fun to sneak in a little newborn session a few weeks ago! Sweet Jack was born right before Thanksgiving and I was so honored his family asked me to come photograph him in his amazing nursery. Seriously…this nursery was out of my dreams! They mentioned it was dubbed the “nerdery” by family members because it was full of token nerdy items. Now, some people may call it nerdy…but I was speechless in amazement! It had Doctor Who art, a Millennium Falcon rug, posters from Firefly and Harry Potter playing cards lining the walls! So, yeah, I was in heaven.

Jack’s mama made a few beautiful items for him, such as that amazing green blanket, and I was so excited to include them in our session. Jack was also born into a hockey-loving family, so he had his own special pair of baby bootie ice skates that we incorporated into the session as well. I love using items that are meaningful to the family in sessions, and these certainly didn’t disappoint.

Thanks to the Koranda family for inviting me to document little Jack in his first days at home and for indulging me in a lot of nerd talk! It was a pretty perfect way to spend a morning!

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