If you or someone you know lives in any of these locations, we're coming and available for sessions! My time in these places extends beyond the dates listed but these are the days I'll be available to shoot with you, your friends or family.
We'll be offering our popular mini sessions. Cost is $250 and PACKAGE INCLUDES:
- 15-20 minute session. (see details below on making your session a 1 hr session)
- online viewing and ordering gallery of 10-12 photos to share with family and friends
- a thumb drive of all your final edited high resolution images from your session
NOTE: if you're interested in our full portrait packages, please request that information from Lily at info @ laurynbyrdy.com!
REFERRAL GIFT! And just for referring us for a session during one of these trips, we'll give you, and the family you referred a $75 studio credit to use toward the purchase of prints/digitals from your current gallery or as a credit toward the cost of your next session (or off the cost of the session they are booking with me in their city).
To book, email lily at info @ laurynbyrdy.com and let her know the date/city you're interested in and we'll work with you on timing, wardrobe styling and location planning. Session payment is due in full in order to reserve your date.
Lauryn, here, writing you from London! Yes, I'm back for round two of adventures:) I'll be shooting a wedding here next weekend (the 18th) and came out a little early for a mix of work and fun. If you're on iPhone, you can follow my live updates on instagram or twitter - both @laurynbyrdy. I arrived this morning, early, and will be arriving back in Columbus oh Feb. 22.
At the same time, we sent Amber (your favorite production manager) over to west coast for a quick site visit for an upcoming commercial job I'll be shooting at the end of feb.
That leaves Lily and Mel (our new-ish newbie we have yet to introduce you to!) to hold the fort down at the studio. They'll be in-and-out this week and next, getting jobs wrapped up, calls scheduled, meetings arranged, calendars updated, clients outfitted, blogs updated, and on and on. Email is definitely the best way to reach any of us right now, and calls are being returned once a day, by lily (for portrait/wedding clients), and mel (for press and commercial clients).
We'll all be back together again at the end of Feb, and then the entire team hops on a plane to Cali for more commercial work. Hey, we're not complaining ;)
So... you can expect *some* delays in:
available shoot times
voicemail return calls
and scheduling consults or meetings with me (I'm all yours after march 2!)
Looking forward to sharing some non-iPhone photos with you at some point too:)
Quick tour for you. And I promise there will be more...
Here's where Matt works. St Thomas' Hospital from the back faces Parliament/Big Ben. That's what he stares at all day...when he's not furiously rushing around, interrupting groups of sweet old ladies (which are discussing the plans for the upcoming royal wedding) to talk about their meds. It's pretty sweet. (I feel like he should be wearing a batman backpack and hold a brown lunch bag with jelly stains on his face in this pic)
After this shot, we walked around back of the hospital to get this shot. We felt all of you really needed to see us rather than the beautiful setting behind us. Appreciate it.
The lovely panorama...
The next two: Westminster Abbey.
You'll notice i don't take a lot of full shots of places. Its usually because I get fixed on one thing I like and can't walk away. For me it was the door and windows here wondering who all has walked through this exact door.
A sweet statue outside of Buckingham Palace. My buckingham shots will have to be shared another time. Too many people. Ick. looked all touristy in my shot.
About 20 minutes later, still at buckingham palace.
Westminster Bridge at night with a perfectly timed bus, human (in front of the eye), and london eye lit up.
5DmkII, 35 mm 1.4L, handheld at ISO 100, f/2.8, shutter 0.5 sec...in case you're curious.
Shot from the very front of the second level of a double decker. I thought we were going to squash people everywhere on every turn.
Sorry for the long delay. I wasn't ignoring you and your request for pics. Just busy settling in.
We left London on 12/26 for France. Took the train. I Sudoku'd for 2 hrs. I'm seriously good at these puzzles. I challenge any of you to a Sudoku-off. (i will most likely win....if you don't have professional sudoku experience). Lets make a note here that THIS is when I started getting sick. It lasted exactly the duration of our week-long road trip. Such is life.
(Forgive me because there's a TON of stops and sleeps missing in here. I don't want to overwhelm you. I'll be making an album of the entire trip and am happy to share if you're ever DYING to see it all. And, of course if you need recommendations on places to stay for a trip like ours, I'm your girl)
Here are a few faves from our trip to France...
Matt, sleepy. With dirty hole-y socks.
The train...
LOVE this one too.
White pigeon flying through the train station...
Notre Dame...
Book stands along a street in Notre Dame...
My MOST FAVE photo from this entire trip. This little girl had bread in her hands and the birds came flying in! So happy to take a photo of a human being and not a landscape for a change:) I wish it wasn't awkward to walk around taking photos of people you don't know.
When I think of the Eiffel tower, I think of all the street vendors.
It was heavy...
Our French family, the lovely Kishbaugh's. They were so kind to let us stay with them.
Carl bought some chestnuts roasting on an open fire...
Inside Galeries Lafayette...
Then we got a car and I had my first Autobahn (sp?) experience. (if you didn't go AT LEAST this speed you were hazardous)
Then came Germany...and our desperate attempts to translate dinner menus. We did alright :)
I got Putenmedaillons vom Grill. The only word i knew was "pommes frites" because they say the same in France. Means fries. That's honestly the only reason I ordered it. The entire dish came out super yummy!
We steered clear of big cities for the most part and drove on roads we struggled to find on the maps. It lead us to places like this...
(sometimes "no plan" is the best plan:)
We took a SUPER tiny and slightly dangerous snow-covered road to the top of a huge hill so I could snap this photo of the town...
Bakery in another town in Germany...
This is where we discovered the humongo pretzels (after we ordered the medium one first)
The big papa pretzel, or "Bretzel" as the sign read...
They're quite the creative-type in Germany...
Another little town...
Then we changed course and headed to Switzerland via Austria. I want to kick myself in the head (not possible) for taking hardly any photos on this part of the trip. I was on round two of being sick. See?
But I did get this shot...
And these two when we stopped in Luzern...
All things swiss right here...
Then New Years eve rolled in and I was laying in a bed at our hotel in Zurich with a hot towel on my ear. I had so much pressure build-up that I couldn't hear. Rough night. We managed to get in a great dinner but I took no photos. Nada. Until the morning. Then I snapped this LOUSY PIC, of the view from our room, on my computer and called it a day. I think I wanted meds, a bed and the ability to hear.
Then we routed back through Paris on our way home and stayed at our most favorite location. Les Degres de Notre Dame. We found it when we walked Paris the first day we visited. We would have never found it and would NOT have booked it based on the photos on TripAdvisor (i pay close attention to these things) but after they showed us the room, we were sold...
It was a full trip with tons of photos (not even showing you a 10th of what we took here!) that we'll enjoy putting into an album. Matt even typed out a day-by-day account of our journey for us to relive when we read it again.
Bye-bye France and Germany...
Hello again to London. Here's a quick video tour of our new apartment. We're no longer in the Notting hill area. We're now Lambeth-ites.