Want a fast photo session Saturday morning?

Portrait Playtime will have a booth and will be taking black and white portraits at the Reston Market this Saturday, June 28th.

Come, bring the family, bring the dog, bring the neighbors! Shop at the Farmer’s Market, have a portrait taken, and shop at the arts and crafts market.

The Reston Market offers art, antiques, collectibles and artisan crafts down by the water at Lake Anne Plaza in Reston, Virginia. Please drop by!

The Reston Market Premier Sitting Fee: $25 (prints are extra - for a complete price list please see our prints and portrait page.)

Date: June 28

Time: 9am to 2pm (The last sitting will start at 1:30)

Location:

The Play Structure near the Farmer’s Market
Lake Anne Plaza (map)

Details:

• Photos sessions will be at the play structure
• Sittings are 10 minutes long, then you will have the opportunity to view and orders immediately after your sitting.
• Photos will be black and white
• Let us know if you are planning to come and what time. Appointments greatly appreciated, but not necassary
• Order at the market and you will receive a gift from us…a statuette of your favorite photo. (What’s a statuette? An image laminated between a 1/8th inch clear acrylic front and a 1/8th inch black acrylic back then laser cut. Each statuette comes with a black acrylic stand.)

We will accept cash and checks at the Reston Market.

To sign up for a specific time slot, please:

1. Email Jessica and please include the following information: your 1st and 2nd choices for timeslots and who will be photographed - how many children and/or adults in your family.

Once we have received your email, we’ll add your name to the schedule and send you an email to confirm your time slot.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

We will contact you if there are any problems scheduling one of your preferred time slots.

Some of you may have heard us talking about revamping our website back in March. Yes, it’s been a long haul, but we’ve finally gotten there! While our old site had it’s simple charm, we think our new site is a big step beyond.

It provides a great deal more information about Portrait Playtime practices, prices, tips, and product choices.

Among the new features is a news and updates section where we hope to be posting to on a regular basis (what you are reading now is a post in this section). We would like to keep our customers, partners, and friends up to date with what is happening here at Portrait Playtime, and this area will let us do it quickly and easily. You can even subscribe to get these updates in your favorite RSS reader.

We also have a new Fundraiser Calendar so that you can check to see what fundraisers might be coming up that you’d like to participate in.

We’ve tested the site out in recent versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. If there’s anything that doesn’t look or work quite right, please let us know and we’ll try to resolve it asap!

Thanks to all of our Portrait Playtime friends for assistance in making this possible! Laura Champe Mitchell was an invaluable resource, as were Susan, Melinda and Elizabeth. The new website was designed by Cary Scott, thanks Cary for putting up with a very long process for getting the site out the door. We think you (all of you) will agree with us that it was worth it!

Now that our new site is live, you might be wondering how to get to your images from our old site. Don’t worry, you still can. Just visit http://portraitplaytime.smugmug.com/Clients. Your gallery name and password have not changed. If you need assistance, just contact us, and we can provide help accessing your photos from our old website.

Portrait Playtime spent two days doing a photo fundraiser for Project Hope at Fabrangen’s Torah Celebration. It was simply amazing. We raised almost $1000. We had more people wanting portrait sittings than we had sittings available. As befits such a tight community, people were constantly asking for others for help in choosing their pictures, since it is often so hard to pick the choices available even in a relatively short sitting! Some of the photos we took are featured in the portfolio section of our new website. We made some beautiful images.

In April, Portrait Playtime headed north to Pittsburgh for a photo fundraiser with La Leche League of Western Pennsylvania. We photographed 24 clients in two days, most people signed up for our nursing sitting It was simply heaven, as all LLL conferences are, and we got some beautiful shots, including a bunch that are featured in our portfolios on our new website.

Thanks to everyone who made it possible for us to get up to Pittsburgh and have the whole event run so smoothly!