New Blog

We have a new blog!  The site is www.sbphotoblog.com and this one will no longer be updated!  Check out the new digs!

Happy Birthday G Man

3 years ago Grant Stephen Bender entered our lives…and rocked our world!  Yes, he’s our sweet little Valentine but he’s also a little wild man that is always full of energy and excitement…this little kiddo lights up every room he enters.  We are blessed to have him be part of our lives…I never knew my heart could love someone so much, without reservation, until I met him.

And here’s Mason…just a quick shot from his 9 month photos:

Lovebirds: Dan & Emily

Ok, back to real blogging! We did Dan and Emily’s engagement photos a few weeks ago and had a blast. Dan is Stephen’s cousin and it’s always fun working with people we know! These two make such a cute couple….whenever I work with engaged couples they’re always so in love and adorable. I come home from the shoot wanting Stephen and I to go on a romantic date! 🙂
Anyway, check out some fav’s!

My favorite:

All Booked Up!

You might have noticed on our new weddings site that it says we’re all booked for ’08.  The year just started and we’re already booked up – how exciting!  We’re so super excited to work with the wonderful couples who have chosen us to be part of their big day!

If you happen to be looking at us to photograph your wedding this year, please don’t be bummed…if it’s on a weekday or Friday we might still be available!  So, just contact us.  Otherwise, feel free to still drop us a line and we’d be happy to refer you to one of our other fantastic photographer friends!

Finally, we’ve just started booking for ’09!  Drop us a line or give us a call if you like what you see!

Woo Hoo!

You may have noticed that our new websites are live!  We’re so excited.  Lots of new things right now with us!

First of all, the sites….we now have a site devoted to weddings and one devoted to seniors as well as one more devoted to families and kids (the last one is still under a little bit of renovation but it’ll get there!)

Weddings and seniors really are our specialties and we felt like we needed separate websites to fully show off our work in those areas.  Enjoy!

Also, did you notice the new logo?  We’ve changed our logo to be Sb Photography.  Stephen is fully part of the business now and we wanted to show that he’s here too!  He handles all of our finances and organization (and boy I needed help in this department!)

The nice thing about this logo is it can be short for Samantha Bender Photography…so we aren’t completely departing from our past identity…we’re even keeping http://www.samanthabender.com as our web address!

Finally, we’ve added a little tagline to our logo – fresh . modern . real.  We want people to know right away by seeing our logo the type of work we do!  Woo hoo!  I can barely sit still…so excited!  Ok – back to work!

Sam & Stephen

Just for fun…

Here are some photos of Grant and Mason from yesterday morning. These two little guys are so much fun – they light up my life! Here’s “G” right after breakfast…he ate bread with jelly and milk and as you can see he was savin’ some for later…

Mason’s just a little pumpkin. He army crawls all over the place and is into all kinds of mischief!

Here Mason was chewing on a sock and G was trying to get it away from him. Check out the look in Mason’s eyes…he did not want to give it up!

Army crawling race:

Calling All Models!

The search is on for our senior spokesmodels for the ’08 – ’09 school year! This past year we had some wonderful girls represent us at local schools and now we’re looking for more.

The girls we’re looking for must be:

1.  Seniors during the ’08 – ’09 school year

2. Outgoing (so they can tell all their friends about their photos!)

3. Comfortable in front of the camera.

4. Willing to pass out some cards to friends with their photos on them that give their friends some great deals!

We’d like to have spokesmodels from all of the local area high schools. The schools we’re specifically looking for are: West, City, Regina, West Branch and any other local area schools that have some fun outgoing girls in them!

We also have some awesome bonuses for our spokesmodels!!! If you’re interested in this opportunity, send me an email at info@samanthabender.com and I’ll send some more details your way!

Thanks!
Sam

Merry Christmas

Merry belated Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a happy, healthy, relaxing day! Just for fun, here are a few snapshots of our kiddos opening their presents last night:

Here’s Stephen helping Grant try on his new penguin slippers:

Grant took his new slippers for a quick test run around the house:

Mason’s 8 months old so he pretty much likes the wrapping paper more than the presents…but here’s a cute shot of him hanging out….yes I think he has his mama’s eyes!

Carly and family

I felt honored when Carly, the Gazette journalist who wrote about our Dress Trashing and Gown Drowning asked me to photograph her!  She’s due to have a baby girl, Norah, in a few weeks and wanted some maternity photos and some shots of her current family.

I was so happy with how these turned out!  She has that pregnant woman “glow” (which seemed to bypass me in BOTH of my pregnancies!) Isn’t she beautiful?!

I won!!!

Oh my stars, I never win ANYTHING…but, this time I guess I won!!! My amazing website company, Blu Domain, selected me last week to be 1 of 5 contestants (picked from 500 entries) to compete in a Holiday scavenger hunt this past week. Everyday I had an assignment to be completed as fast as I could and the final assignment was given to us over the weekend. Today they announced their winner, and I won!!! I am so excited!

Here’s one of my images that won the contest for me…it’s representing the 12 Days of Christmas! To check out their blog and the rest of my winning images, click here!