Otis & James Photography

MM . The Family Westgard!

Our day here at the Grand Palais of Otis & James came to a thrilling conclusion with a visit from the family Westgard! Oh what fun it is to ride on a one horse open sleigh, but oh what fun it is to work with a family that is so completely and utterly rockin’ to work with!

They truly brought their A-game to the studio last night, and it showed. They make it look effortless, but I suspect that this family is actually a group of models that were sent to us to show just how easy this thing called photography can be when your subjects are perfect!

We thank them for coming down so late in the evening, and for choosing Otis & James to be a part of their Holiday festivities! As a small token of our thanks, we now offer up some sample snaps from the nights work – Enjoy!

MM . The Hoffert Edition!

What’s that?? Is that the sound of the Fun Train rollin’ towards the Otis & James Lair of Love?? By God it is, and it’s bringin’ with it a visit from the Family Hoffert!

We had the immense pleasure of working with this lovely and talented family this past evening, for the occasion of getting some Holiday/4 Year photographic representations. And I’ll tell you this, we got right up on representin’ the good times that were being had with this lovely family! Even though I’m relatively unsure of what that last sentence meant, what I do know is that this family was great to work with, and we thank them for being a part of the O&J family. Being a part of the family doesn’t have that many perks, but it’s nice to put on a resume.

I’m now officially going to stop all of my jibber-jabber and just get on with seeing some of what went down. Again, thank you Family Hoffert, and – Enjoy!

MM . The Roommate Edition

Our Saturday continues with a visit from this totally rockin’ super-roommate duo of Jessica & Samantha! The had a plan, and it was to have fun, and wear the most righteous Christmas socks that one could find. Well, I come today to tell you this – mission accomplished!

These two were absolutely wonderful to work with – we couldn’t have asked for two better individuals to get us in the Holiday Spirit! We thank them for coming down to visit us, and are now going to throw this out there – what if we looked at some of the snaps? What’s that…Yes??!! Well let’s do it – Enjoy!

MM . The Family Schmidt Edition!

Our Saturday Morning got off to a great start with a visit from our new friends (and suprisingly, old St. Paul neighboors of Otis), The Family Schmidt! They came in the studio ready to rock up some good ol’ Holiday Portraits, and rock up the Holiday Portraits we did.

We truly had a great time working with this awesome family, and thank them for their time this morning (I guess that it’s now yesterday morning, as we are currently entering into this morning as I type.) But let’s skip all of this debate over what time of day it currently is, and get on with the show – Enjoy!

MM . The Livingston Edition!

Our day Friday (not to be confused with Our Man Friday) came to a most excellent conclusion with a visit from our old friends, the family Livingston! The last time that the familly was in the O&J Nerve Center, one of the members hadn’t quite made his grand entrance yet (click here to see what I mean.)

Well, this new addition has not only made his entrance, but he is absolutely and totally beautiful (and has a sweeeeet sweater)! It was a charm to work with this new arrangement of the family, and thank them for taking the time to visit us this evening. We thank them for coming, you for reading, and now offer up some pics from the big night – Enjoy!

MM . The Josh Edition

As I typed the title to this post, I almost left off the word ‘Edition.’ In fact, I did. It momentarily was just called ‘ The Josh.’ I really liked it; it seemed powerful, Donald Trump-esque. But after consideration, I thought that perhaps just calling it ‘The Josh’ would make it seem like we had been visited in the Empire of Otis & James by some sort of a Senior Robot – and this was not the case.

Instead, this past Friday we were visited by our new friend Josh, and his faithful assistant/GF Lexi! We had a great time together – we visited the part of the building that smells like bad Chinese food (just tell yourself that’s what the smell is), Jamie had him just cover up the ‘ans’ in ‘Titans’ for some reason only known to her, and I can safely say that fun was had by all (or at least I had fun, and that counts for something, right?)

We thank Josh and his assistant for making the trip to see us, and want to show just a smidgen of the sweetness that was had – Enjoy!

MM . The Kile & Richelle Edition

This past Friday morning we had the great pleasure of meeting a future O&J B&G (for those of you not in the know, that’s Otis & James Bride & Groom – you gotta keep you brain a runnin’ if you want to keep up) Kile & Richelle!! The braved the cold of the outside, and then warmed up the studio with their total and complete (and I’m going to make up a word here) awesomedness (no relation to Loch Ness).

We had a great time together, and are totally looking forward to the big day next summer! So for now, pull up a chair and warm yourselves by the glow of their photographs – Enjoy!

MM . The Family Ramirez Edition

Come with me, as we venture back in time to a place called ‘Monday’ – a day where we were surrounded by family that came from the land called Virginia. I know that this may seem crazy – you may tell yourself that we can’t travel back to this mythical place. But I’m here to tell you that indeed, we can travel back.

All that you have to do is: A)Let yourself go – let go of your pre-conceived notions of what time and space are, and – B)Hop on board the Otis & James Blog Express and travel the information superhighway back just a little bit, and we will soon all be back to where we once were. Got It??!!

Now that we’re back to this time, let’s see what’s going on. Oh…It’s longtime blog reader and poster Reba, and her beautiful family (Jessie and Little Jesse)! What a treat it is to have them back with us and in our studio! We were honored to not only be their official photographers, but to also be chosen as the God Parents to this beautiful boy. We thank them for coming up to the equally far away land of North Dakota to be with us, and trust that we will all be together again soon. So we travel back to the current time, and the family Ramirez travels back to Virginia, but we can still hop on that time machine and remember our Monday – Enjoy!

Midnite Meditations (MM)

I come to you at this late hour, my faithful bloggers, to offer up a delicious plate of blogging goodness. We are immersed in the world of photo-graphing and all that it entails, and offer up this missive to let you know that we are still here, we have not forgotten about the faithful, and are working as hard as we can to ensure that peace and love are the feelings that prevail!

A flurry of blogging activity is about to commence, so I want everyone out there to strap themselves in and prepare ye for all the juicy goodness that is about to begin! You may ask yourselves, “What does this mean?” – but instead I think that the true question should be “What doesn’t this mean.” Only then, will you understand that we are about to enter a world in which you are about to be hit over the head with some posts. Not literally. We will not actually be hitting anyone with a post, but figuratively. Our posts are in a digital format, your head is not. Our posts have no weight, but your head probably does. So the impact will be more intellectual than visceral, but I digress.

Let us now move to the business at hand, some good ol’ fashioned posts.

Keep It Real

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