I am going to start running one special a month, just for kicks. This month, book a session and receive half off the session fee ($50 rather than $100). Email me at info@mandimcdougallphotography.com to book!
maternity: Jenny - Centralia/Olympia, Washington Photography
November 22, 2008 – 7:39 pm
I had such a great time on Monday, doing two maternity shoots in one day! Just like each personality, each person photographs in a different way. Jenny was a blast to photograph. She is only 3 weeks away from the arrival of her little one, and looks gorgeous!
Be sure and add a comment below to help Jenny win a free 8×10!
If you are intersted in booking a session with Mandi McDougall Photography, e-mail me at info@mandimcdougallphotography.com. If you are a friend of Jenny’s and mention that when you book, you both receive $20 free print credit.
maternity: Katy - Centralia/Olympia, Washington Photographer
November 19, 2008 – 4:59 pm
Katy was such a great mommy model, and the pictures of her turned out STUNNING! See for yourself:
Be sure and add a comment below to help Katy win a free 8×10!
If you are intersted in booking a session with Mandi McDougall Photography, e-mail me at info@mandimcdougallphotography.com. If you are a friend of Katy’s and mention that when you book, you both receive $20 free print credit.
sneak peek: Katy - Centralia/Olympia, Washington Photographer
November 18, 2008 – 10:34 pm
I had so much fun yesterday photographing Katy. We went to school together and both worked at the same business for a while. Her and her husband are expecting a little girl in January, and Katy is very excited to meet her little bundly of joy! Thanks for being such a great model Katy!
sneak peek: Jenny - Centralia/Olympia, Washington Photographer
November 18, 2008 – 12:19 am
Today I had the pleasure of meeting Jenny for a maternity session. Talk about the mommy glow! And she’s so small, with a little over three weeks to go! She has two little boys running around, and they are also pretty excited about the arrival of their new sister! Enjoy, and keep an eye out for the rest soon!
Little Wonder: Ellie - Centralia/Olympia, Washington Photographer
November 8, 2008 – 2:55 pm
Today I had the pleasure of photographing this energetic little girl to test out my new backgrounds (I don’t think I did half bad, and neither did she!) I’ve photographed her brother (he was a senior rep) and I’ve known her parents for quite a few years.
She started off a little shy….
But then she warmed up a bit…
She certainly is miss sassy!
And then she settled into plain old adorable!
This tutu one is my personal fave!
Thanks Ellie and Kristin for a fun Saturday morning! Interested in a session? Contact me at info@mandimcdougallphotography.com
Edited to add a few storyboards:
Thanks for looking, and remember to leave a comment below for the family, and win them a free print!
Senior Album: Maria 2009 - Centralia/Olympia, Washington Photographer
October 27, 2008 – 12:04 pm
It’s been a while. Things around here haven’t been bad, or crazy, just a steady stream of busy. Work is good, home is good, and in general, life is pretty darn good. I’ve been working on finding just the right senior album papers and layout, and I finally found one I adore. Here are some spreads from Maria’s album.
My Family - Centralia/Olympia, Washington Photographer
October 6, 2008 – 12:58 pm
About a month ago my family got our picture taken. Scratch that. About a month ago, my family spent a few hours laughing at a local park, and in my gramma’s field, and the amazing Jenica of Lemondrops Photography (http://www.lemondropsphotography.com/) happened to be on hand to document it.
And document it she did! I love each and every one of these pictures…I hear other professional photographers say that they don’t have good images of their family, and I think that is just UNACCEPTABLE 
We got these done because my brother (the almost-six-foot-tall one) is leaving for Navy basics in February. It had been 4 years since we had these done, and that time, they were Sears portrait studio images….ugh. We won’t even compare the blandness from four years ago with the amazing stunning awesome job Jenica did this year!
I wanted to say THANK YOU, again, to Jenica…she did the most amazing job capturing our family and each precious relationship!
Senior 2009: Maria - Centralia/Olympia, Washington Photographer
September 25, 2008 – 10:35 am
Maria is another senior I’ve known for years through church. She’s always been the quiet one, the shy one…and apparently, now she’s the modelesque one with the kick-butt style. Maria showed up with the best outfits, and she WORKED the camera. In these shots, I gave her little instruction…she just TURNED IT OUT!
Thank you Maria, for being such a great sport! Le deseo lo mejor en sus futuros esfuerzos!
101 in 1001 - Centralia/Olympia, Washington Photographer
September 21, 2008 – 3:43 pm
**I have intended to move this over to the new blog for months…but today I finally did it! woo-hoo! The original post date was January 1, 2008**
I’ve seen a few other people make these lists, and you can find out more about the inspiration at Day Zero. The list is basically filled with long and short term goals that I would like to accomplish in the next 2.75 years (prior to September 28, 2010). For me, this list is all over the place, and I love it!Green: in progress
Red: done
1. Graduate from TLC (05.24.2008)
2. Grow out my hair to shoulder length
3. Make a sign that says “I Won” and then get to hold it up at D’s wedding
4. Move to Centralia
5. Buy a house
6. Have a baby
7. Get another tattoo
8. Go overseas at least twice
9. Finish my Costa Rica scrapbook
10. Start and finish my wedding scrapbook
11. Get my wedding album printed
12. Replace the picture in our wedding signature mat with a wedding picture
13. Get an awesome blog (more color, more of “me”)
14. Unpack all of the boxes in our apartment, or get rid of them
15. Open a photography studio in Centralia
16. Take two weekend vacations with Kris that are not trips to our parents houses
17. Pay off my car loan
18. Get Kris back to school
19. Get another pet so that Rex has a friend
20. Figure out a better client proofing method that is cost effective and is nicely presented
21. Get our curtains hung in our bedroom
22. Put together at least 10 new and improved client info packets
23. Shoot 3-4 family sessions for friends in Centralia, to build a new customer referral base
24. Convince my Grandma Thelma to let me photograph her
25. Blog three times a week for 2008
26. Make Kris’ lunch every night before bedtime for one month
27. Attend a photography workshop
28. Get Dionne’s website up and running
29. Grow an indoor herb garden
30. Create a way to prevent Rex our cats from eating indoor herb garden
31. Take a vacation with Dionne and Mike
32. Go on a mission trip
33. Find a rockin’ church home where both Kris and I feel welcome and included
34. Portrait session by Carrie Viohl
35. Get a 30×40 canvas print made from our wedding
36. Do Trash the Dress portraits with Dionne
37. Road trip: D, Mel and I
38. Buy a new lens for my camera (02.10.2008 Nikon 50mm 1.8)
39. Partner with at least two boutiques in Centralia/Olympia
40. Vacation in the dirty south!
41. Buy bigger monitor(s)
42. Buy Kris a plasma TV (early October 2008)
43. Find and buy a better camera bag (looks hot like a shootsac, but meets my needs…)
44. Start saving for retirement
45. Sell 10 sets of greeting cards (Christmas cards, baby announcements, invitations, etc.)
46. Buy a small SUV
47. Hand out one business card a day for one month
48. Order my first KISS album
49. Cook dinner (including a vegetable that Kris will eat) three nights a week for 2008
50. Make our bed each morning for a week
51. Sell $500 in prints/other products to one client
52. Go to Montana (05.24.2008)
53. Commission Dionne to paint a huge painting for our living room wall
54. Create a streamlined organization for all of my business paperwork and all of our personal paperwork
55. Get an A in all of my Spring classes
56. Find an internship for the fall that will truly challenge my current ways of thinking, work ethic and beliefs
57. Attend one Christmas church service
58. Do a session for my Brother In Law and family, and my Sister in Law and family
59. Crochet three projects from start to finish without starting another in between
60. Create a system to keep track of all of these goals (01.01.2007)
61. Drink milk with dinner for one week
62. Book one portrait session a week for one month
63. Send out all of my Christmas cards on time one year
64. Give away all of our leftover wedding “stuff”
65. Use my Kitchen Aid mixer 25 times, photo document
66. Buy a cuisinart (thanks mom, birthday present, 01.26.2008)
67. Learn how to make amazing pesto in #66
68. Buy a rice cooker
69. Use the hot tub at our apartment complex
70. Use the elliptical machine once a week for one month
71. Attend Yoga every Wednesday that I am not working for two months
72. Learn how to make raspberry jam from my grandmother
73. Have coffee with two professors
74. Edit 5 more newspapers during Spring quarter
75. Photograph 30 Celebrating Adoption photo sessions
76. Go overseas with a family adopting a child to photograph their journey
77. Become a LoveCat on OSP (02.10.2008)
78. Figure out a streamlined way to read the 30 or so blogs I visit every day
(01.05.2007)
79. Go one week without drinking Starbucks (8.15.08)
80. Find an amazing local photographer to do a portrait session for my immediate family (9.6.08)
81. Photograph my father’s parents
82. Convince my parents to get a new computer
83. HSOAW in 2008
84. Ebay all of my old school books
85. Get an IPod Nano (thanks hubbs, birthday present, 01.26.2008)
86. Purge my closet of all the clothes I don’t wear anymore
87. Buy some amazing red high heels
88. Find a tailor who I trust and who does a really good job, and get the 4 pair of unhemmed pants hanging in my closet hemmed
89. Read one business book for each 5 for-fun books I read
90. Design (01.05.2008) and print custom shipping address labels (01.06.2008)
91. Buy a Wishblade (02.08.2008)
92. Go to Europe (Italy, please!)
93. Create a budget system that we can use effectively
94. Get rid of all but 2 credit cards
95. Drink one gallon of water a day for one month
96. Subscribe to three magazines
97. Eat two servings of fruit or veggies a day for two weeks
98. See a Seahawks game in person
99. Photograph a maternity session, birth session and newborn session for the same mother/baby combo
100. Organize all of my scrapbook supplies
101. Make homemade bread at least 3 times (November 2008)
You did an amazing job on Katy’s pictures!! Wow!!
These pictures are amazing!! you did an awesome job!!
Pictures Look Great! I think I like the Color pictures the best.
You did a great job with Katy’s pictures! I really like the one with the heart on her tummy!!
absolutely love the pics! the heart on the tummy is my fav! good work…
These pictures are all so beautiful of Katy. You really captured the happiness that pregnancy brings to a women. Great Job.
Sooooo cute!!!! I love these!!! Can’t wait to see her!!!!! Luvs!!!!!!!!!!
Great pictures! They are all very amazing. You did a great job!
Love all the pics; the heart on her tummy is my favorite. You did a great job!!!!
I love the preggo belly pics!! You did a great job!
Aww Katy these pictures are beautiful! I can’t wait to meet her!
These pictures are great! I can’t believe how soon she will be here!
These pictures are so perfect! A great photographer and model! Love them!
You look so cute and ready to be a mommy! The heart one is my favorite too!
Beautiful!!! I love this idea with the heart around the bellybutton. Katy you’re adorable even while pregnant!
You did such an amazing job with the pictures. They really capture the excitment that Katy has been feeling since the beginning of her pregnancy. I do love the heart on her belly! Great work.