Our little cutie…
by kellyI’m running low on time for blogging these days, so will share an e-mail that Paul sent to a couple of friends (also mothers of tiny tots) today. And I’ll attach (some of) the adorable pictures that he did, which are the result of Emma’s first ever trip to the portrait studio, just a few days after she turned six months old:
Hi, You Two!
I hope all is well with [your daughters.]:o) I’m sending you two images of Emma’s 6 month portraits. Of course, as a dad, I find everyone of these pictures simply adorable, except maybe #6. Anyway, Emma is doing great! We had the dermoid cyst removed from above her eye in January - She’s now finally getting over an upper respitory bronchitis - and she’s singing at the top of her lungs! This kid takes a huge breath and then screams like I’ve never heard (quite operatic actually), followed by huge laughs. I love it.
I’ll write more about me and K. at another time.
Love to you both!
Photos taken by Jeanne Pepinski; the Copyright holder is Target Portrait Studios
March 2nd, 2006 at 9:10 am
Target keeps the copyright to your portraits? I find that surprising! Seems like when you purchase the pix you should also be purchasing all rights to them.
March 2nd, 2006 at 10:03 am
Yep. The electronic versions of the pictures came in an e-mail from the studio’s “The Smile Station” along with the following notice:
Reminder: Professional portraits are protected by copyright laws. Images on TheSmileStation are low resolution; intended for electronic viewing and sharing only. You may reorder our professional high quality prints by selecting “Order Portraits” from the left-hand navigation.
I guess they retain the rights for their own promotional materials, and I suspect that the practice helps keep their advertising costs lower. The photographer we worked with was excited that two photos she had taken were used in the nationwide (includes JCPenney Studios) promotional materials. (She showed me “her” photos in the company display books). And one of hers was used on the website, and in a holiday adveritsing brochure, too. But oddly, enough, she told me, the powers that be had changed the clothing of her subject - twin girls - so that the girls were wearing Christmas dresses, when this is not what they had worn originally. Very mysterious.