New Family Pictures

A couple of weeks ago we "won" a free 8x10 from Fotogenix. So we thought "what the heck we will give it a try". We set up the outdoor photo shoot, went and felt like it went well. We had to wait a whole week to view the pictures in the studio. Now a smart person would have taken the free 8x10 and headed out the door but NO we decided to purchase a 16 x20. We then learned that on top of the fee for getting the print we would have to pay extra for a collage style print, extra for switching the heads on the picture so that everyone was smiling etc. Both of those extra options are things I could do in a matter of minutes if I had the digital files. Oh yeah to get the images on CD would cost at least $500 dollars. Stupidly we went ahead and ordered the $250 print. We then left, talked about it and decided that we shouldn't have done it. Called back within 20 minutes to be told that they would not refund our money. Needless to say we are not very happy with ourselves or Fotogenix. A week later my friend Missy took family portraits of us. We are much happier with these images, by far! And guess what? They were free! Live and learn. Check out mine and Missy's photography blog here to see some of our recent photo shoots. Here is the slideshow of the family photos we took with Missy.

On another note - this past week and weekend we have all been sick with the flu. Some of us are still fighting it off while others are pretty much recovered. Not fun but we are getting through it.