BFF/Sweetheart Packages

Heading off to college this September and already missing your BFF or sweetie?

Take advantage of this portrait package available throughout July and August and get your pictures taken together to remember the summer of ’13!

Choose 8 images as a digital download from an online gallery of at least 15 images. Includes a print release.  Receive a FREE gallery of your chosen images as a SmartPhone app so you can show them off everywhere you go!

Slots are limited, so book today. Contact me at shannon@shannonstroubakis.com or call 832-663-5128 for more details.

A touch of glamour for this senior session. I just loved her stunning floor length red dress! Perfect for some street shots for a chic urban look, and we had plenty of gorgeous backlighting.

I love it when products and wall art arrive for clients! Digital images are wonderful for sharing with friends online, but nothing beats having something beautiful in your hands, a tangible product to show off. These adorable 3×3 inch mini accordion albums are perfectly portable and make great gifts.

Another beautiful week here in the Woodlands, another beautiful senior session! Miss J is all glamour and style, so we headed over to the streets for an urban feel for her senior photoshoot. Just a little peek at what I’m working on for her this week.

I had a great time with Miss G at her senior photoshoot! Three outfits, for three totally different looks, and with her gorgeous  colouring the weather was just perfect to catch the sun in her hair and light in her eyes.   I adore simple serene black and white images, and her calm and laid back style made for some beautiful and slightly moody monochrome shots. We got a lot of variety from this senior photo session!

Are you looking for a great portable way to show off your favourite images from our session? I offer my clients these beautiful hard cover brag books in a convenient 5×7 size – just the perfect size for your purse or backpack.

These are ordered from a professional photography lab  and the front cover is mounted on white styrene to prevent creasing and damage.  These books are spiral bound, with thick sturdy pages on real lustre photo paper.

And of course these are not just for seniors! I offer these a la carte for all my wonderful clients, as they make a great gift for grandparents! I am proud to offer my clients more than just photographs, but quality products that you can keep and display in your home or office for many years to come and gift to family and friends.

It’s been a beautiful spring so far here in the Woodlands for senior photography sessions on location! I met Miss C for her senior photoshoot session on a beautifully sunny Sunday, just perfect for her pretty white spring dress with all the new flowers in bloom! Here’s a little preview of her session for her senior announcements.

This local author contacted me for updated headshots months ago, and the weather has finally cooperated with us to go outdoors on location to do her photoshoot. We were looking for several different angles to get a variety to choose from for promotional images for her new book coming out this week. I like to use natural light and soft flattering lighting to bring out the beauty in my clients, and we found a few little pockets of nice light in her home garden.

Congratulations Barbara on the release of your latest work, and I wish you much success!

The earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s bluebonnet season! We took a beautiful drive and found this amazing field for some spring bluebonnet portraits.
Bluebonnets will be coming to the Woodlands shortly!

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

 Easter is coming, and Mother’s Day isn’t far behind! Are you looking for spring portraits, or the perfect gift for Mother’s Day?
How about the gift of amazing portraits she’ll treasure for a lifetime, of the children or the special lady herself?

There are so many sides of you. Capture them all in your senior photography session.

My favourite portraits are the ones that ask you to look more deeply into an image, and the subject, than the surface.

Man is the least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
~ Oscar Wilde

This lovely couple came in for a portrait session on a beautifully sunny Sunday. It was a bit chilly, but photographing love always warms the heart.

We lose a great deal when we lose the sense and feeling for the sun.
When all has been said, the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live,
and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it,
is to close a dull door on nature’s sustaining and poetic spirit.
– Henry Beston

Winter Solstice has passed, which means the days are starting to get longer! I took these two out for a fun session in the gorgeous golden sundown light for some fun family pictures for the holiday season. It’s such a joy being a children’s photographer.

Our beautiful weather continued into the holiday season, making for some pretty golden light for outdoor on location family portrait sessions here in the Woodlands. I photographed this beautiful family on a bright and cheerful Sunday. Lovely family and they even brought their fluffy and friendly dog to join in for some family picture fun!

I love to offer perks for my clients! All Premium Collections come with a custom Facebook Timeline Cover, so you can add some of your favourite session images to your personal Facebook page. Let me do the work for you, so your cover image fits perfectly!

Here are a few samples of the styles I offer clients:

Style 1) Triptych with Vintage Frames

Style 2) Diptych with Vintage Frames

Style 3) Triptych Classic

Style 4) Diptych Classic

Just a few images from a beautiful family I had the pleasure to do family portraits for this month!  It was a gorgeous day to do an outdoor on location session here in the Woodlands TX. It’s always a joy to be able to capture the love of families and the bright beautiful smiles of children!

The standard gift print size is usually 8×10, perfect for sitting framed on your desk or in a scrapbook album. However, it is not the same shape as the original 8×12 ratio that the camera produces. Since 8×12 is not the standard, you might be hesitant to order your favourite images in the original ratio.  Let me show you why it’s usually better to retain the original composition and ratio in which the image was shot!

On the left is the original image with the 8×12 ratio, within an 11×14 frame and matted, with an 8×12 opening.  As intended, this young couple is framed perfectly, with some ground below them to stand on and the beautiful fall colours of the trees in the background. It’s just as common to find 11×14 frames in stores as it is to find 8x10s!

Another example shows how this pretty little fairy shot loses some of the magic when the 8×10 crop closes the frame in around her.  In the 8×12 ratio on the left,  she’s lost in her own little world, in the forest. On the right, she’s sacrificed  a little of her dress on the left side from the smaller 8×10 crop ratio, and it’s not as enchanting when pulled closer in.

Just one more reason why I am happy to do in person viewing and ordering sessions with my clients! My goal is to make absolutely certain you are happy with your final images and order the right size and shape for your prints, so your family looks their absolute best!

As a natural light photographer, shooting outdoors on location, it’s important to help my clients choose their wardrobe for their session so that matches well with the environment and shows them to their very best!

Here are a few ideas for your upcoming family and senior session, and don’t forget to check out Shannon Stroubakis Photography on Pinterest for more inspiration!

I had the honour of helping this young couple celebrate one year together! They chose two locations, a field and a small forested area with a pathway, for some fun outdoor on location portraits! And they even came with their own little prop – a cute sign that Miss S made herself!

Thank you for letting me capture images of you on such a special occasion! Love is a beautiful thing!

A Sunday in the park near sunset was the perfect time and place for an outdoor on location mini session for Miss J.  We captured some unique portraits that show her personality, to celebrate her kindergarten graduation! Congratulations and I look forward to seeing you again for family portraits!

Looking for a family portrait session this summer? There are plenty of great locations around the Spring, TX and The Woodlands, TX where we can meet outdoors on location! Each Investment Session and Momento Session with me also includes a Pre Session Consultation, and we’ll go over the perfect place that’s convenient for you and that reflects you and your family!  A lovely flower field?  An urban location? How about near the park and canals?

A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger,
wisdom with bubble gun in its hair, and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
~ unknown

This month I met the talented and inspirational Sondra Sneed, a local writer and author here in The Woodlands, Texas, for unique and personalized headshots. She inquired with me for images for her website, with a specific vision in mind. We met last weekend, on a gorgeous golden late afternoon at my favourite grassy knoll, and shot these beautiful images of her in the field. With the sun rays raining down behind her, she’s illuminated with beautiful light, a perfect ethereal glow that matches the aura of her inspired writing. You can read her story and follow her upcoming work at www.sondrasneed.com.

If this sassy model looks familiar, it’s because she was featured here last fall! I love photographing seniors, especially outdoors and on location, and capturing the unique personality of each person.