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Welcome to my blog!
I'm Grethel, I'm a mommy to 3 little ones and I have an obsession for photography. I'm a life style photographer, I use only available light, shoot on-location, and there is almost always a kid involved in it! I love my job, I love to create art, I love to make friends. I'm currently serving Central Alabama, Atlanta, GA. and surroundings.  Here are a few sneak peeks of my recent work, for more info please contact me at: info@gvephotography.com or 205-453-4983.

Don't forget to leave a comment while you are here, they make my day!!.

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GIFT CARDS available!.. contact me for information.


Photo Classes available.

Spring Mini Sessions announcement is coming soon!!! 

Three Monkeys…

So my last US session of 2009 was in Texas. I’ve known the mommy of these cute kiddos for a few years know but we’ve never met in person before.. when I found out that I was going to Texas I knew I had to finally meet them. Mary is a beautiful person, inside and out, and a great artist! check her work HERE.

Her little monkeys are close in age, just like mine, they did awesome and it was a lot of fun to spend a couple of hrs with them. Not to mention that they are beautiful too.

M decided to do the big 20×20 prints.. Can’t wait to see how it looks on the wall!

and finally M with her monkeys.. :)

Thanks again M!!!! can’t wait to shoot the whole family later this year.. :)

on another note, if you haven’t joined my Facebook Fan Page you are missing the Spring Mini session announcement! I’ll post it here later this week but I want to give the chance to my fans to be the first ones to know.. Join today!!

2 babies…

I arrived to this sweet family’s house and a super smiley face open the door.. mom looked awesome and was happy happy.. I was called to photograph their baby boy 1 year pictures and their new baby boy.. yup, they really have 2 babies.

While my closest kids are 15 months apart, it brought a lot of memories to me..  I’m not going to lie to you.. it was hard. I remember several occasions where I just sat down on the ground with a baby attached to me and 2 toddlers running around us and I cried and cried.. wondering, what in the world I had done.. Now 3 years later I miss it.. no, I don’t miss those first couple of months with 3 kids 2.5 years old and under,  but I do miss having them all little, they sure are growing way too fast.

I ensured the mommy of these cute babies that everything was going to be alright, after all I had done it … twice. :)

The birthday boy..

The new baby boy..  aren’t they cute?!?!

I absolutely LOVE this series..

and finally mommy with her boys.. :)

Ok, so a big announcement for SPRING MINI SESSIONS is coming next week, if you want to be one of the first ones to find out about the great deal please join my facebook fan page, my awesome fans will have the chance to know about the whole deal first.. Please invite your friends to join my fan page too!.. Share the love.. ;)

Happy weekend you all! stay warm and dry!..

February Photo Class

I feel so flattered about people wanting me  to teach them about photography… Specially when I’m still learning everyday.. :)

Due to all those emails I decided to open one more group class for February, starting on February 19th. Please let me know if you are interested in joining us . Classes will take a break during March through June so if you don’t want to wait that long this is your chance. Group class will be limited to 5 participants, in case there is more people interested I might be able to open one more group.

And because we all know that takes more than a good camera an a basic photo class to be a professional photographer, every  participant must sign a “non compete” form in order to take the class.

There is no post without picture, so here is my littlest student.. ;)

8 month old baby girl..

Sweet baby “O” was back for her fall/Christmas/8 month old pictures, we met on a cold and gray December afternoon. She was such a trooper though, it was COLD! and she did awesome.. She’s part of my baby package and I can’t believe next time I see her she’ll be one. It’s always super fun to see her and her mommy and daddy.. for sure very cool people and a joy to be around. :)

Isn’t she like super cute?!?!

I love this pic…

So I have a couple of people interested in February Photo classes, anybody else? please contact me ASAP to start doing all the details.

Also, keep your eyes open for some Spring Mini Sessions Announcements! those spots fill up fast so stay tuned!

NEW WEBSITE!

This year so far has started great for us, we have a couple of international trips booked that involve work (and a bit of rest too!), my calendar is filling up so fast! Thank you!, I’m just waiting on Apple to approve my very own app for iPhones (YAY!!!) and now a new website.  I decided to give my little website a lift, it’s been almost 2 years after all since I’ve had it so it was due for a little bit of change.  I went ahead and put all new pictures, some that you probably haven’t seen before, it was super cool to look back to all these pictures!

The new website has some cool features, it has a place to subscribe to receive newsletters and it has a cool little button on the shopping cart where you can put coupon codes to save! (how cool is that?!).  So please take the time to take a peek in it and PLEASE sign up for the newsletter (located in  the contact page). In that way you wont miss any news, specials and coupon codes.. ;) 

First 10 people that subscribes to my newsletter would receive a $15 off from your session fee! so go hurry up!

Anyway, enough talking here.. go check the new website!  www.gvephotography.com

Please note the only price change made was on the session fees (all prints, products and packages remain with the same 2009 price). New session fee starts today, if you are already in my calendar the old price will be honored.

Brooke..

I rarely get asked about Senior Photography.. I guess by now we all know families and kids is my cup of tea.. but when I got an email from Brooke’s mom I couldn’t say no..  we met in downtown during a beautiful fall afternoon and this is what we got..

isn’t she gorgeous?

little girl..

love sessions like this one..

Christmas in January…

Ok, so I have to finish sharing Christmas sessions so here are the last ones.. :) Still have fall session left.. one day I’ll be able to catch up.. ;)

Big Family

During the Thanksgiving break I was lucky to meet this awesome family… you know, it’s hard to photograph big families ut they sure made my work easy, they were so much fun and open to whatever.

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Grandpa was the reason for this special session..

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a jumping shot of course.. :)

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The whole gang

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the newlyweds

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the girls having fun..

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so much love in this family

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and grandpa and his grandkids.. :)

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The Z girls..

My dear friend T, the mommy of these cute girls is one of my closest friends, you might think her girls get to have tons of pictures too but unfortunately she always has to wait until I’m done with clients session and editing clients and all that stuff.. last year it was soo cold during her session that we had to rush and finish in less than 30 min, this past fall at least it was a nice day, but she joked with me that she wouldn’t see the girls in the blog until February.. well, I’m 5 days short of February so I don’t feel totally guilty.. ;)

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my totally favorite from the session.. aren’t they gorgeous?

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so for their xmas card, mom bought them tutus and painted their tshirts.. the girls loved it and had so much fun with it.

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and finally, another favorite.. T and her girls.. :)

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love you girls!