To Friends and Family

Dear Friends and Family,

During this time of year, we are surrounded by family and loved ones. It’s a time when the smell of warm cookies permeates through the home, relationships are rekindled and new memories are created. And every year, there never seems to be enough time. 

Here at Miroslavich Photography, we understand the importance of being with family and creating those special moments. We work diligently year-round to provide a warm, inviting atmosphere so we can capture the honest nature of all personalities we work with each and every day. So, for a limited time, we are pleased to offer any size of our gift portraits for a holiday special of $80 if ordered by 12 p.m. on December 9. Additionally, we are also offering gift certificates through December 18 that can make for a great stocking stuffer.

So join us this holiday season, and let’s work together to create amazing memories that will last forever. Let’s celebrate the everyday, today.

We love Jolie's portrait, but it isn't easy to capture that magical moment! She provided us with some fun, candid moments we wanted to share with you all. Check out the below blooper reel, and enjoy!

Our Thanksgiving Family

In honor of families spending their time with us at Miroslavich Photography throughout the year, we wanted to share a special post regarding one of our favorite families.

This past September we had the privilege to spend time with Sherry and Charles, as well as their children Ben, Brock and Brooke. Even Sasha, the chocolate lab joined us! The family wanted a classic look and feel to their portraits, and our goal was to capture the family with a timeless appeal, before the kids began their personal journeys in pursuit of their dreams.

We think the final portraits highlight the family’s fun, engaging personalities as well as the obvious love for one another. And just in time for the holiday season, the family has their portrait hanging in the entry way to their home for everyone to see.

It was a pleasure spending our time getting to know each member of the family, and we are thankful for each opportunity provided to us every day by all families and friends of Miroslavich Photography. Have a happy holiday season!

Thanks & Giving 2014

Thanksgiving First! 

    

Open your heart to someone this holiday season - and thank you for giving us the opportunity to open ours! We are so grateful for the opportunity to continue to have the business of creating such joy in the lives we touch.Thanksgiving 2014 may be later in November this year, but we love to honor this holiday by pausing to appreciate its significance.

Our Thanks & Giving event started in 2009 with the purpose of giving the joy of photography to a local family. A family who truly would appreciate the gift of portraits for their home. Over the past five years, we have been humbled by the recipients of this gift. We have created lasting memories for each family we are honored to meet each year. We are always amazed by each family's strength, and incredibly grateful for the thoughtfulness of the people who nominate them.  

This holiday season we are giving you the opportunity to give once again. If you are a client or friend, please join us by nominating a family that would love to have photography created especially for them. You know someone who's having a tough time and needs a little lift, experienced sadness, struggling to stay afloat, raising kids while holding down more than one job, has someone in their family that is quite ill or someone who is volunteering selflessly despite extenuating personal circumstances. You know someone who would cherish portraits of their loved ones this holiday season. You know someone who deserves a lifetime reminder of their family's spirit, love and beauty.  

We know you know someone to nominate. We want to know who they are, and want to give them the chance to experience complimentary custom photography. $1500 worth to be exact. Whether it's a beautiful canvas, or an art book or multiple wall portraits, what better reason to show some love could there possibly be?

The Rules:
- You cannot nominate yourself.

- The nominee must be able to come to Woodbury for a weekday studio or location session. 

Submission Details:

- Who are they?

- What are they experiencing?

- Why do they deserve the gift of photography?

Please Include:

- A way to contact yourself and the nominee

- Please put "Thanksgiving Giveaway" in the email subject line

- Please email the story to info@miroslavichphotography.com

Submission deadline: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at 12 p.m.

The winner will be contacted in time to celebrate Thanksgiving, so get nominating! We are blessed to give another family an amazing, beautiful experience, and start to the holiday season!

Celebrating sisters!

We were so fortunate to meet this cute family recently after they were the winning recipient of our donated gift certificate at the Luther College Silent Auction! We love supporting education and schools! And we get to meet the best families!!

Sisters Brynn, 8, and Elise, 5, were a hoot to hang out with and photograph! Is there anything cuter than sisters?!?  They chatted Melissa up about everything girly-including dance, gymnastics, ballet, books and art! We wish they could have stayed all day!!  We loved watching the interaction between the sisters and the love and silliness that ensues!

Pretty in Pink!

So far, 2014 has been the year of babies!! Newborns, 6 month olds, nearly year old babes- you name it!   With each new baby, we marvel at the new-ness and sweetness of each one! Baby Lauren came to us at just a few days old with her family including big brother Jack who is all of 21 months old. After almost 2 years of little boy cuteness, Mom is certainly excited to be adding pink into the mix!  And it seems to be Lauren's color! Next up-Jack's 2 year old session this summer when Lauren is closer to 6 months old and when we can be basking in the summer sun!!
And keep posted for more baby session blogs coming soon!  We can't get enough of these babies!!

New Year, New Families!

Every year we are fortunate to meet new families who come to us to capture their family portrait.  We were delighted to meet this family and get to know them this year!  Creating a stunning family portraits for their home was an honor for us!  We know they will cherish them for a long time! And we hope to see them again over the years to come....

Evan turned One!!!

What seems like so long ago (it was actually only a few short months ago but during the Polar Vortex we are currently experiencing, it seems like ages ago!!), we went to Evan's family's new home to photograph Evan for his first birthday and their family at their new residence.  It was the perfect fall day with the sun providing the best light!!  Evan had started walking since we had last seen him and was having a ball exploring his surroundings-which included his grandpa's vintage super cool red car!!  What a morning we had!! Big sister Halle had her horse out that day so we were able to capture some beautiful moments of them together!  We are looking forward to this spring when Evan and Halle welcome a new baby to their house!  Hooray!!

New Year Wishes!

Welcome back to the blog! Our first post of 2014! We are back in the studio and ready to take on 2014 and make it the best year yet!!  Fun and exciting sessions planned for January already and you can be sure we will share them with you here!  But first, we thought we would start the year off showcasing a beautiful family session from 2013.  Such a lovely, fun family whose siblings were happy to partake in this session despite their busy lives and schedules! As our families grow up and move on, there is still a tie to each other despite school, jobs, distances away.  Let's make 2014 an amazing year- and we hope these images remind us what is important in our lives!  Happy New Year!!

Summer Sun!!

On this super chilly November morning in Minnesota,  it is warms us up to look back at some of our summer sessions from this past summer.  It is also heartwarming to us to see such sweet siblings basking in the sun of a carefree summer day!  This cute trio are longtime friends of the studio so we were thrilled to capture them together this year.  As we kick off Thanksgiving week, we wish all of our blog readers and Miroslavich Photography family a very happy holiday!  We will be back blogging next week with some holiday gift ideas so check back then!!

Togetherness.

What is important to you?  When asked, most people will have some variation of family in their answer.    We couldn't agree more!  Capturing families is always special for us.  Having family portraits that document a time in a family's life is priceless.  Showing connections, relationships, feelings is what you remember when you look at your own family images.

This family is not only gorgeous *and super fun to photograph*  but we love how they all relate to each other!  Brother, sisters, mom, dad.  Fun, playful, silly, loving. (it is an added bonus that mom styled them all so fabulously!) It has been a couple of years since we have photographed them so it was cool to see how these siblings have all grown up and have fun together!  We know their family portraits hold a special place in their hearts and we hope they will cherish this as much as we loved creating it for them.