We’re proud to again be sponsoring the Clive Festival Portrait Contest and excited to be unveiling the first of three new categories for this year’s contest.  BQ is our category for Boys ages 2-10.  Stay tuned for other new categories and full contest details on our website at www.photojeania.com/clivefest.  In the mean time, we hope you like the cover boys who helped us create this cool new theme for the contest.

Yesterday we had the opportunity to photograph dozens of beautiful children all dressed up for Easter at Glen Oaks Country Club.  In continuing with our flower girl theme, most of the girls wore flowers or pretty ribbons in their hair.  The flowers were provided by Danette Lynd of Fleur de Lynd.

A few of the images from the event are included here in this post.  We also have a beautiful video posted on our website arranged to an appropriately named Bobby Darin tune http://www.photojeania.com/glenoaks.  We hope you enjoy it.

 Any families interested in purchasing or viewing more of the images can contact our studio at 888-482-5735 and ask for Jeannie.

Photojeania is offering a limited number of free test sessions to select Des Moines area High School Juniors now through mid-April.  Test sessions allow us to try out new ideas and get feedback from potential clients.  Specifically, we are looking for athletes, musicians, and fashion-oriented High School Juniors to create dramatic and artistic multi-image composite prints.  Test session participants receive a complimentary two-hour session and complimentary prints from the session.  All we ask for in return is for two hours of your time, feedback from you and your friends on the images we provide, and the right to use the images for marketing purposes.  We also select our Senior Models from our test session participants.  Senior Models receive our top senior portrait session for free and can earn free prints and products representing our studio.

If you know a High School Junior (Class of 2009) who is active in sports, music, or fashion and has an interest in modeling, please encourage them to contact our studio and ask for Chuck or Jeannie.  There is a great demand for these sessions so interested students should call and schedule soon before they fill up.

888.482.5735

The Waukee High School Dance team put on their 2nd Annual Spring Dance Show on Saturday as a finale to their tremendous season.  The show included a number of performances by the team, including their State Pom Championship routine, as well as joint performances with the cheerleading squad and some men in black.  There were three performances by the kids who participated in the clinic earlier in the day and a guest appearance by team of dancing cows.  The night was capped off by a very entertaining daddy-daughter dance with a 70’s theme.

I can’t put to words how impressed Jeannie and I were with how well these girls dance.  They clearly have a lot of talent, strong work ethic ( all those 6AM practices paying off), a great coach, and supportive parents.  We’re really proud of your success and wish all of you the best. 

We are so grateful that our girls could be a part of it.  Thank you.

Lindsay with two very proud parents.

Lindsay showing her moooves

Liza (with a Z) - a super performance by Lindsey (with an E)

Waukee High School Dance Team

Sorry for the cheap shot Abby, but your facial expressions are always priceless and we love watching you perform.

The really junior squad getting ready to perform

Steph in flight

Mackenzie in step

The Williams Twins - these girls are so inspiring, they deserve their own post in the blog. 

Madi Williams (I think)

Future Waukee Dancers: One of the dance routines taught in the dance clinic earlier in the day.

Allison and Lindsay showing their State Championship Pom Moves

Abby

The Finale

Not your typical Daddy-Daughter Dance

Three guesses which Village People song they were dancing to

Jessica’s first performance since knee surgery in September.  Great to see you back!

Wondering if these costumes are from the 70’s or The Matrix?

On Saturday our girls had the great opportunity to participate in a dance clinic put on by the Waukee High School Dance Team.  The team taught a different dance to three age groups of children so they could perform later that night in the School’s dance show (see upcoming post on the Waukee High School Dance Show).  The Waukee Dance Team team did a wonderful job teaching the kids and making it fun with Hannah Montana music and an occasional game.  Thanks for the opportunity ladies!

Allison, seasoned veteran, demonstrates how to dance without losing eye contact with the camera.

Many part time pop starts were in attendance.

Lindsey caught in a game of Dance Tag.

Head Coach and Disc Jockey Steph Guiter

Our Maddie succumbs to dance fever and is rescued by Claire.

Steph demonstrating how to stretch (or maybe just chill?).