Look at this sweet little baby!  She was born premature at 29 weeks back in December and look at her now!  She was the best baby while I was taking her pictures.  I shot for about an hour and took a total of about 400 pictures.  We got lots of goofy faces and smiles, and NO crying!!!  She was fantastic.  Her mom and dad requested black & white, but I left a few in color just for fun.

Now that our lacrosse work is coming to a close, I plan to spend the month of July showcasing some of our other works.  I’d like to begin with this beautiful collection of Starlets – a great group of girls who aren’t little anymore, but not full grown rock stars yet either!  If you have a starlet you’d like photographed, give us a call or shoot us an email.  Young men are always welcome too!

Hello everyone,

All of this year’s Lax team & indy pics have been mailed as of yesterday (Mon 06/01/09) from the Apex PO in stiff hardboard mailers.  If you have not received your pictures by Monday, 06/08/09, please let us know ASAP so we can correct the issue.  If you know of or have heard of anyone else not receiving their pictures, please have them contact us.  Thank you for another successful season, and we look forward to working with many of you again for Cougar Select as well as the 2009 ASA Football and Cheer season!

Sincerely,

Nick, Lisa, and Scott DiGeso

Ok, this picture might not seem all that impressive, but I had all of about 30 seconds to grab the camera, find the plane in the sky, focus, and fire.  This little yellow plane flies over my house (and many parts of Apex) frequently, and I’ve been wanting to get a picture of it for quite some time.  It was flying deceptively fast – I had a lot less time than I thought to get it.  In fact, I missed it on the first pass and was lucky enough to catch it come around a 2nd time.  So here it is, a little gem, a blast from the past, one of life’s little treats. (I believe this plane is called a supercub, but I could be wrong.)

The 5-8 Girls Gold team and the 7-8 Boys Gold team should be receiving their Team & Individual pictures in the mail this week.  If you do not receive them by Friday or Saturday, please let me know ASAP.  Four more teams should be arriving by UPS tomorrow – I actually expected them today, not sure what happened there.  Thank you everyone for your patience.  Most of you know that we do not print our pictures here in Apex.  We send them to a professional lab, and during this time of year lab times can get backed up due to the high volume of sports teams being processed.  THANKS!!

Hello ASA Lacrosse Families!  We are well on our way to getting the Team & Individual pictures taken for all of the boys’ and girls’ ASA Lacrosse teams.  It’s been such a pleasure to hear comments from those of you who know us from previous seasons!  Thank you to everyone who let us know how much you love our work, and to all of our new families – we hope you won’t be disappointed! We’ve had a few scheduling challenges due to a couple of tournaments, but don’t worry, we will get everyone’s team.  Here is some updated info that has been requested:

Renaissance Photography
1005 Rushden Way
Apex, NC  27502

They may logon to Paypal and send payment to ren (dot) photo (at) yahoo (dot) com.  Please indicate which package is being ordered as well as the player’s name and which team they are on.

Last night we had several girls from the 1-4 team who had forgotten their jerseys.  Due to this, the team pictures for 1-4 Black and 1-4 Gold will be taken on May 2nd at the Twig & Cookie Tournament which will be held at Finley Fields in Chapel Hill, and any individual pictures can be made up at that time as well.

All 3 of the boys’ 5-6 grade teams will have to be rescheduled due to the Stick it to Cancer Tournament.  More info to come!

Renaissance Photography and RP Action Photos are now on Twitter and Facebook! Link to our pages on the sidebar. Let us know what you think. We haven’t quite mastered either one of them yet, but that’s the fun part, right? We joined these social networking sites to get closer to you guys, our clients! What do you want to see on these pages? Let us know, we want to make them the best they can be, and we want you to know we’re listening. Enjoy!

Hello everyone, welcome to 2009!  The holidays provided a nice break for Renaissance Photography.  Action photography was relatively quiet for the last couple of months with the exception of a couple of basketball games.  This past weekend we were pleased to shoot some pictures of the USA Women’s Lacrosse World Cup team when they came to Chapel Hill for a youth clinic and tournament held at Finley Field.  It was Renaissance Photography’s honor and pleasure to be asked by the deBeer representative to shoot some pictures for them!  deBeer is sponsoring #3 Devon Wills and #12 Michele DeJulius.  Here are a couple of pictures we took of them:

We’ll be getting galleries of Devon, DJ, and their teammates up soon, as well as some shots from several other outstanding women’s teams who played in the South of the Border tournament on Sunday, February 8th.  Watch for these and some more exciting shots coming up soon!

I’ve just updated the website with a new portrait gallery.  Check it out by going to either http://renphoto.com or www.rpactionphotos.com and clicking on Weddings and Portraits.  The very first gallery (with the sunflower pic) is the latest one.  Help us build our portrait portfolio!!  The first 5 respondants to either this blogpost or the newsletter I’m sending out will get a FREE portrait session, and FREE wallets with the purchase of a portrait package!!!!

Since I am getting ready to send out a newsletter in the next couple of days, I thought now would be a good time to publish this.

At Renaissance Photography and RP Action Photos, our clients are our friends and neighbors.  We realize the trust you are placing in us when you give us your addresses, phone numbers, and email contacts.  We take our responsibility to protect your information very seriously.  We will never, under any circumstances, sell or otherwise distribute your personal information to other companies or organizations.  We will occasionally send out newsletter-style emails that you will always have the option of unsubscribing from.  We are committed to protecting your private information the way we would want our own to be protected.