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Orlando Photographer ~ Happy 4th July, 2010

JohnNielsen — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:57:49 +0000

A little some thing we put together with sparklers to wish everybody out there a Happy 4th of July!!!!

Stay tuned as we will be releasing some Christmas in July specials at our Oviedo Florida photography studio!

Central Florida Wedding Photography ~ Our New Promo Video….

JohnNielsen — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:08:13 +0000

HUGE thanks to Perfect Sky Productions for creating this amazing video and to Katie & David for being our beautiful models for this shoot!!!

Nielsens Photography Promo from Perfect Sky Productions on Vimeo.

Orlando Photography Studio ~ The “Official” Open House

JohnNielsen — Wed, 12 May 2010 02:44:16 +0000

Open House at the new studio……Carnival Style!!!! We have been working hard on renovating two historic train cars in our hometown of Oviedo, Florida, into a beautiful gallery and office as well as a full functioning studio space. So what better way to show it off than have a big old party to “officially” open the doors to our new train car studio. We were happy to see over 100 clients, other wedding vendors, business partners, friends and neighbors show up to help celebrate our new digs. The mayor of Oviedo, and several city council members, even stopped by to check it out and help with the ribbon cutting ceremony. We are so thankful to everybody that helped make the event the talk of the town. This studio is truly a work of art in itself and Cristy and I are excited to share it with the world. So, if you want to check it out, give us a call and set up a time for your own personal train car shoot and experience.

A special thanks to Lisa Konecny & Jesse Rivers of E-Events, Lee Heard of Czes Heard Design, Jay Clark of Brix Restaurant Orlando, Schuyler Osborne of Perfect Sky Productions, Kristin Hubbard of Our DJ Rocks, Abby Liga of The Liga District, Bryan Taylor of Tagas Events and Production Services, Darrin of Orlando Wedding & Party Rentals, Cotton Candy of Once Upon a Time Events, Molly & Jeff Brown of Cinematique Films, BB & J Linens, Coast 2 Coast Party Rentals, Zeus Event Furniture Rentals, Leos Italian Ice, and to all of our friends and neighbors who helped make this an incredible party!!!

The long overdue post…….

JohnNielsen — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:49:11 +0000

Sorry for being so absent on the blog lately. Between everything going on with the new studio, shooting events including weddings, births, babies, mamas to be, families, etc., everyone’s favorite day, tax day, my transition to full time with the Nielsens Photography & Design, and so on and so on, we have seriously neglected our blogging…….

So, with that being said……..I bring you our families little journey out to Cape Canaveral for the April 5th, 2010 morning sunrise launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Carl Franzen of AOL online penned it best in his article, “NASA called the predawn launch “spectacular,” “picture-perfect” and its “most visually beautiful launch ever,” which accurately summed up the reaction of many observers.” We would have to agree!!!

~John

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Orlando Portrait Photographer ~ February Freebies!!!

CristyNielsen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:31:26 +0000

Have you checked out the new studio? If you’re a Facebook fan (hint, hint), then you will have a great chance to do so. To find our fan page click HERE! In celebration of opening the new studio, we’re doing away with studio session fees all month long (02/2010)! (To guarantee your appointment time, we will collect a $50 reservation fee which will be applied to your print order). You get an approximately 30-minutes–one outfit, one backdrop–in studio or right outside session. Choose and order your images on the spot. Prints ordered immediately after the session will receive 10% off. If you prefer to place your order later, the discount does not apply. These sessions are limited to family (up to 5 subjects), maternity, children or babies. Newborns aren’t included in this offer since their sessions require extensive preparation and move at a different pace. Of course, if you have a newborn you’d like photographed, we would be happy to offer a newborn session at 50% off our normal session fee. Session times are limited and slots will fill fast, so contact us ASAP at 407-619-1359 or by email at cristy@cristynielsen.com to schedule your session.

Orlando Portrait Photographer ~ Have you heard our STUDIO news??

CristyNielsen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:01:17 +0000

We are very excited to announce that we are opening a studio in Oviedo. We have taken over 2 train cars that we are turning into our offices, studio, and shooting areas in the downtown Oviedo area. Yes you read that right, 2 train cars! We couldn’t be more excited and are really looking forward to this unique opportunity to have a cool space like this to work in and share our work with others! So stay on the look out for your invitation to our grand opening party and updates about what we are up to! We also created a Facebook Fan Page, so if you haven’t joined please do so for Facebook only invites and offers. Here’s some photos of the studio in progress. We have done lots of work and have gone to great lengths to make it ours and reflect our brand. We have been painting, redone the flooring, and still have more work to do! I will be posting more photos in the near future when we decorate and get all of our furniture moved in! See you at the studio soon!!! [[Show as slideshow]]

Orlando Childrens Photographer ~ Little Sawyer

CristyNielsen — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:29:31 +0000

I’ve known Sawyer’s mom and dad for a while now. Kelli does our whole family’s hair and does such an amazing job! I photographer Sawyer’s birth almost a year ago and it’s crazy to think that he’s almost a year old! He was so easy to photograph and so darn cute! I just love my job and watching babies grow up! It’s so crazy to see them grow and change and to be able to capture those milestones for our families! Happy almost birthday to little Sawyer man! [[Show as slideshow]]

In Case You Didn’t Know…..

JohnNielsen — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:22:08 +0000

So today is Cristy’s birthday and I wanted to send out a blogshout screaming….”Happy Birthday”.

I posted this on one of the photography forums we participate in so I thought I would share it here as well. This was posted at 12:06 am this morning,

“So sneaking this up first thing to say Happy Birthday to you.

I love you very much and want you to know how special you are to me and to our family. Without your love, compassion, caring, without your drive to do and be better, without your commitment to and acceptance of me, our relationship, our family, our life, would not be what it is today.

Thank you so very much for everything you do and I cherish sharing this life and birthday with you.

Happy Birthday.

Me”

Orlando Newborn Photographer ~ This was a very special session…

CristyNielsen — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:57:07 +0000

Meet baby Cash, isn’t he just the cutest thing?! His mom and dad are Lyles and Dan. We photographed their wedding a few years ago and have been awaiting this day ever since! Lyles has sent us so many of her friends for their wedding photography and we are truly grateful to them for spreading the good word about us. We were truly honored to photograph this little guy and enjoyed every minute of watching Lyles do her mama thing! Cash was a little angel baby who slept the majority of the time and you can tell that his parents just love him to pieces! Congratulations Lyles and Dan! We can’t wait to see your little dude grow up! [[Show as slideshow]]

We have been busy at CNP….

JohnNielsen — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:25:57 +0000

It has been a while since our last post, so at Cristy’s request, I am jumping in and saying hi to the blogging world. This past month we have been updating and adding additional computers and software to our arsenal. We reworked our office and workspace to be more compatible and more efficient for both of us. Cristy even got a new comfy office chair that is oh so plush. So what does this mean for all of you? Brace yourselves, you will be hearing more from me as I will be contributing to the blog to help free Cristy up to tackle other CNP projects.

So for my first blog post, I thought it would be fun for you all to get to know me a little more since I have been in the background and behind the camera with CNP thus far. So, where to start. I guess the most common comment when meeting people in person is, “wow, you are a lot bigger in person”. Well I am 6′ 4″ and although I am 34 years old, my Wii Fit age is 40. Yeah, thanks Nintendo for that little “calculation”. I grew up living all over the west coast. Northern California was for the most part home, growing up. I graduated from Santa Rosa High School in 1992 and attended the University of Northern Colorado where I played baseball for the University and spent a lot of time in the Rocky mountains “playing”. After leaving school, I began working with an environmentally conscious company where I learned a lot about our impact on the environment and how to not only take care of ourselves, but our planet. This is where I met Cristy. We happened to be attending a training together and for the most part have been together since that day back in the fall of 1995. Fast forward to today……we have two beautiful daughters, a black lab, a kooky cat and a busy life and business that we are proud and happy to share with all of you. I am proud to say that I have never been a fair-weather sports fan. I was born and raised an Oakland Raiders fan (this is where you can hiss and spit and laugh if you want) and will be one until the day the team, or I, is no longer around. I am also a follower and fan of the Oakland A’s and the Golden State Warriors (hmmmmm all Bay Area teams….hmmmm). I love to play golf and jump at the opportunity to play new courses. I am a fan of red wine, stout beers, Baskin & Robbins peanut butter & chocolate ice cream and for some weird reason mathematics. Go figure. My music choices range anywhere from the Doors and the Dead to Coldplay to Bob Marley to Rick Braun. Pretty much all over the place.

Hopefully my brief history didn’t bore to many of you. I am sure there will be a lot more to come and I am looking forward to being a part of this side of the business.Thanks for reading.

A belated Happy Holidays from us to you!!

CristyNielsen — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:08:24 +0000

I wanted to keep these photos fairly under wraps until all the holiday cards had gone out. Hopefully everyone has gotten them by now, so I am safe posting them! Every year I try to outdo the year before with our holiday cards, and this year I think took the cake! I found these VERY bright colored sweaters for the girls and knew they’d be perfect for my “vision” of our holiday card. I wanted super colorful with colored blocks. I was going to hire someone to do it, but decided I’d just knock them out myself. I thought they turned out great and so far everyone has loved them. Here’s the digital file of the cards and then the images that were included in the card. A belated Happy Holidays to everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I’ll post some of our family holiday photos soon too! But for now, enjoy! [[Show as slideshow]]

Our friend Tamu…

CristyNielsen — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:54:34 +0000

We often get asked by our clients who watches our kids while we are out shooting and doing weddings on the weekends. Well… here she is. This is our good friend Tamu, whom we affectionately call “Mu”. We have all been friends for about 12 years. If anyone knows US it’s her, she’s seen us at our best, and at our worst, and she’s been very involved in both of our girls lives. She and I used to work together in California and have been very close friends ever since. When we moved to Florida she decided she missed Shaylee way too much and moved out here about two years later. She is like a sister to me, she’s as close as we have to family locally, and is like a surrogate aunt to our girls. She is here literally almost every weekend helping us with the girls, even on the weekends we don’t have shoots so that I can get caught up and work! She is one of the many in our “village” for our kids. We love her so much and appreciate everything she does for us on a regular basis!

Last weekend she got all dressed up and went to her company Christmas party. I asked her if anyone took a photo of her, and no of course, her answer was NO. Sooo… since she happens to know a photographer…lol… she asked if I would take a few for her to give to her mom. Of course I was totally thrilled at the idea of getting some photos of her since normally she’s a complete BUTT about being in front of my camera…lol. So we took some of her with the girls, and a few of her alone. One of these days I’ll get her to do a REAL session… one can hope anyway. Here’s a few from our impromptu 15 minute shoot this past weekend. Enjoy! [[Show as slideshow]]