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Melissa’s senior portraits from her mom’s perspective

Peter — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:52:22 +0000

I was pleasantly surprised by a lovely testimonial this evening on one of galleries of a senior portrait session.

Here is Melissa gallery from our session together (Melissa, her mom, my assistant and me) at Cox Arboretum near the Dayton Mall. Melissa’s Gallery Click here

Melissa is a lovely young lady and was delightful to photograph. She has been posting about her plans for the future on her Facebook wall. College will be here in no time at all for sure.

Peter DeMott • Peter DeMott Photography • Greater Dayton area • peter@photosbypdemott.com • 937-478-6222

Megan’s senior portraits created a dilemma for her and her mom Lori

Peter — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:13:17 +0000

After having several conversations with Megan’s mom, Lori, Megan and Lori were finally able to placed their order for her senior portraits taken this fall. Their order is arriving within the next couple of days and they are very excited to see everything and get their canvas image framed and hung.

Megan chose several different images for wallets to give friends.

Here is the image they chose to make into a canvas print. It was fun to have a Megan in her prom dress with her beautiful horse.

It was fun talking with Megan’s mom about the portraits because she and Megan were having such a difficult time narrowing down their order. I said, of course, that they can order everything if the wanted. But, they didn’t take my advice and order lots of prints of every portrait. That was their dilemma, how to narrow their order.

Here is a link to her gallery. Megan’s Senior Portrait Gallery

Seems like spring will be here soon. If you have a horse and it is time for your senior portraits, remember that many photographers don’t know much about photographing horses. Since I do senior portraits and I am an equine photographer here in the Dayton, Ohio area, I can give you the best of both worlds.

Peter DeMott • Peter DeMott Photography • Located in Germantown, Ohio near Dayton • 937-478-6222 • peter@photosbypdemott.com

Lebanon Horse Drawn Carriage Parade on 12/3/11, Photos of every carriage in the parade

Peter — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:05:39 +0000

I had a great time taking pictures at this year’s Lebanon Christmas Festival and Horse Drawn Carriage Parade during the day 12/3/11. I was able to capture several images of every single carriage that came by.

For those who participated, I have a gallery where you can purchase images if you would like. Anything from wallets to 30×40 canvas prints are available. You can also purchase shirts, mouse pads, and other merchandise. For the next two weeks until 12/17/11 you can use the coupon code: “parade” to get 20% anything you order.

This is the link to all the photographs of all the carriages in the daytime parade.

Lebanon Horse Drawn Carriage Parade and Christmas Festival 12/3/11 Picture Gallery

Here are a few images to give you an idea of what you will see.

Here is a link to my Facebook gallery: Facebook Gallery Preview

If you missed the link above, the rest of the photos are here:
Lebanon Horse Drawn Carriage Parade and Christmas Festival 12/3/11 Picture Gallery

Getting ready for a mini horse photo session

Peter — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:57:08 +0000

This morning we arrived at IONA mini horse farm in Clayton, Ohio as preparations were under way for the scheduled photo session. I have a couple of video clips just for fun so you can see just how tiny this little horses are.

I will be adding to this post as I process some of the images from the session. Maybe another video clip and some of the best images from the session would be good to share with you.

This mini horse stallion that he was all that. The owner put him in the round pen for a bit to take the edge off half way through the photo session when he was just getting a bit too feisty.

Casual business portraits – what does your Linked In or facebook profile image say?

Peter — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:37:30 +0000

Does your Linked In profile image say, boring, uninteresting, average or worse?

Every day I see stodgy and stiff portraits as well as just plain bad photos or snapshots of people on their Facebook profiles, on Linked-In profiles and on business websites. Everyone has heard the old saying that a picture can say a thousand words, but what words is your picture saying about you and your business?

Here are recent portraits taken for Danielle Deramo, the owner of Just Say It. She is a marketing and branding consultant here in the Dayton area. She has a great outgoing personality, but she has been using snapshots for her web site and other business networking websites. She almost canceled this session because she just does not like to have her picture taken. I encouraged her to go ahead with the session, which normally only takes about 30 minutes, because she needed some nicer pictures for her Linked-In profile and other internet business networking venues. These were taken conveniently at her home. She likes the middle image best because she says she looks happy. I am pleased with several of the portraits.

Upgrade your image on-line business networking sites

Is it time for you to upgrade your image on business social networking venues or even on your own website? Rather than a formal business portrait, would you like a casual setting and a more relaxed portrait? Maybe it is time to call Peter DeMott Photography.

Learn more about casual business portraits made here: Business Portrait Photography

Peter DeMott Photography • peter@photosbypdemott.com • 937-478-6222

Now go to my Facebook page. Click here to go to my Facebook page and join the conversation.

Or you can go to my Testimonials page and see what people have to say about their portraits and their session.

You can also join me on Linked In

Fall portraits with color for seniors and families and children

Peter — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:14:06 +0000

Gone are the days of 95 degree heat with 90 humidity here in the Dayton area. Suddenly the crops and the trees are showing us that fall is here with small bursts of color. Because of the heavy rains over the last two weeks, the grass is all greened up again too. Good grief, I had to mow my grass twice already even though its cool outside.

Time for fall portraits with horses

If you have a horse and you want fall portraits, act now before they start getting their heavy winter fur. Actually, I’ve seen many great portraits with horses and their human companions when they have their winter coats. Cool evenings make for some more interesting clothing choices like sweaters and scarfs and hats. Perfect weather for something different for senior portraits as well with furry hooded coats, scarfs, and long-sleeved sweaters.

Time for family group portraits

Cool evenings make for some good family group portraits. However, the days are shorter so scheduled times are more limited.

Like the slogan of a major manufacture of athletic shoes

I was just talking to a woman today about having some portraits done. She has seen my work and knows she will love her portraits, but she dreads having her picture taken. My job is going to be to get her to relax and enjoy herself so that I can capture, not the stiff and fearful person, but the wonderful outgoing person that I know her to be. She even was considering canceling her session, but with some gentle prodding, and the “JUST DO IT” attitude she is going forward with the session.

So many families have very few portraits of themselves in relaxing outdoor environments and enjoying each other. Is it time for you to “JUST DO IT!” ? Time moves so fast in families and in no time you kids are going to be going off to college and starting their own families.

Peter DeMott Photography • peter@photosbypdemott.com • 937-478-6222

Equine retail supply company buys photos with unique feel and style from Peter DeMott Photography

Peter — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:17:33 +0000

Capturing the emotion of the moment

When I do portrait sessions or take pictures of people with their horses I do my best to capture the emotion of the moment. If I can capture JOY or LOVE or COMPANIONSHIP in that photograph I consider that a win for everyone involved.

This week I sold images from a senior portrait session (with permission of the young lady who wants to become a model) to a large retail equine supply company to be used in consumer promotions in late 2011 and early 2012. Another image that was purchased was from a session that I did with Patty and her horses (Patty is my wife and we have 3 beautiful arabs). But, in both cases it was not just the image, but the emotion expressed in the image that caught the eye of the business.

I’m looking forward to sharing the images and where they will be published once I have samples from the promotion. That will be fun to show you.

In the mean time, fall portrait time is now. For seniors and for seniors with horses, this is a great time for those cozy outdoor portraits in sweaters, scarfs, jeans, etc. For the horses, there are fewer flies and everything has greened back up in pastures and farms again with all this rain in mid September in our area.

For seniors wanting to consider modeling, having a good mix of styles of images for your portfolio is important. As you can see from my news above, my style and photography capture attention and show personality a little differently than the glamour and glitz that some photographers are known for. I hope you will consider me in the coming days and months as you consider where you will have your horse and rider portraits made or your senior portraits. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts about your portrait session.

Peter DeMott • Peter DeMott Photography • Seniors, families, equine, and children • Greater Dayton area and the region • peter@photosbypdemott.com • 937-478-6222

Cracked Oats Crunch Endurance Ride at Scioto State Park in Ohio 2011

Peter — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:39:15 +0000

What a beautiful weekend for an endurance ride in Ohio. Cool evenings and cool days make for a great ride.

Pictures from the ride are available here: Cracked Oats Crunch endurance ride at Scioto state park in Ohio

Cracked Oats Crunch is an AERC sanctioned endurance ride. At this particular ride, FEI vets came to take random blood samples for drug testing. Although I would find it hard to believe that anyone would drug their horses for any reason at this level of endurance riding, you could see it happen that the national and international events where the competition is intense. At this level, the old slogan for endurance riding makes endurance riding as a sport a joy to the participants, “ To finish is to win”.

As you can see, Endurance riding is a sport that everyone can participate in. Amy Whalen is a ride manager for several rides each year. Shannon Loomis goes all over the region participating in rides with her daughter. These are two folks that I can almost always depend on seeing at every ride we participate in. Bringing along your kids into the sport helps the sport to expand and flourish for future generations. Not only that, but meeting a challenge together and with horses is very rewarding and brings lots of good personal character traits.

Pictures from the ride are available here: Cracked Oats Crunch endurance ride at Scioto state park in Ohio

Peter DeMott • Peter DeMott Photography • peter@photosbypdemott.com • 937-478-6222

Peter DeMott is also available for farm calls in the region. To find out more about having a farm call visit to your farm or to your boarding stable for portraits of you and your equine companion check out this link: Farm call photography in Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and SE Indiana

Royal K Horse Show Pictures September 11, 2011

Peter — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:12:32 +0000

Royal K Horse Show pictures are available for review here: Royal K Horse Show . There are over 1000 images and the gallery displays the pictures in order of go. Please order pictures within 30 days. Share this post and link using the buttons at the bottom of this page.

The Royal K Open Horse Show is a fun and well run one day show

This open show had classes for all ages and levels of experience. Each year The Tacky Horse is the major sponsor and puts together a charity horse show. The show had 45 classes and occurred on Sunday September 11, 2011. The address of the barn and The Tacky Horse is 185 N. Alpha Bellbrook Rd. in Beavercreek, Ohio.

The show lasted from about 10am to about 6pm and the last three classes had some rain to deal with.

After the show, I did some Mini Portrait Sessions with a couple of the participants and boarders at the barn.

I also do farm or barn calls to capture portraits of you with your horse, senior portraits with horse, or horses alone. If you are interested in a farm call session please call to schedule.

Peter DeMott • Peter DeMott Photography • 937-478-6222 • peter@photosbypdemott.com

Mini Horse Farm photography session at IONA Farm and VersatilityMinis.com

Peter — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:29:19 +0000

Spectacular Mini Horses

The photography session was very fun with the farm bringing out various little tiny horses to photograph. Bonnie Harris and Ashley Harris really know their horses and they know how to show them off too. They were so small that I had to lay on my stomach to get low enough for the right angles.

IONA Miniature Horse Farm, Clayton, Ohio Bonnie Harris

Versatility Farm & Training Center, Brookville, Ohio Ashley Harris

I still have about 25 images to prepare, but I just had to share a couple of the photographs with you. Here are a couple of images from the session.

When I finish up I should have a couple more I can share with you.

If you have mini horses, consider a mini horse farm call session for some beautiful photographs. Not a Mini Session, but a mini horse session. With mini horses portraits are usually without people in them so that they can appear to be regular sized horses in the images. However these horses are about belt high and are the tiniest little things around.

Peter DeMott • Peter DeMott Photography • 937-478-6222 • peter@photosbypdemott.com