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Ch, Ch, Ch, Changes … at Custom Concept Photography

admin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:15:25 +0000

Serving you better by appointment only.

Spring changes are all around. At Custom Concept Photography we are changing also to serve you better. Over the last 12 years we have had regular studio hours. As the photography industry changes so must we. Trish and I find that we are out of the studio more often and prefer not to put up a sign saying,

“Sorry for the inconvenience. We are out on a Photo shoot and will be back at 4:00pm.”

No one likes to show up at a business and find they are closed at that time. For that reason effective April 5th Custom Concept Photography will be by appointment only. Other than that business still carries on as usual. We feel this shouldn’t affect photography that much as most of our photography is done by appointment already. Our framing clients will now have to book in rather than walk in. Pick ups will be similar too.

We understand that there will be an adjustment period for a short time. We apologize for that, but in the long run it will make business more efficient.

We thank you for your patience and Trish and I look forward to growing personally and as a business. This adjustment will give us the time needed to get out of the studio to meet with clients and network with other business professionals without disappointing a pop-in client.

If you have any questions please feel free to call the studio and talk with Trish or I at 519.425.1249.

Best regards,

Trevor and Trish

HELP US RAISE $25,000.00 for PAC 4 Life.

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:37:33 +0000

$25,000 for PAC4Life! Childrens’ portrait coffee table book

That’s right. We have pledged to raise $25,000.00 for a local grass roots charity called PAC 4 Life; Prepare a Child for Life.

Trish, myself and the studio are very involved with babies and children along with others who help in all sorts of ways. Not only do we photograph many from Bellies to actual Births to all ages, but we are involved with Big Brothers and Sisters, and Trish is also a “Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep” and “Little Heroes” Photographer.

Along the way we have met some incredible people, but none like Wayne and Rosanne Prevett of Kettle Creek Weddings. We have known him since he started his business in St. Thomas and he even married Trish and I five years ago at our New Year’s Eve wedding. Last year, when he turned 49, he made a list of goals called 50 b4 50. He accomplished all but two. Not bad for an old guy. One that stuck out to us was his goal to start up a registered Charity to help local children prepare for life. In his words, while working with local underprivileged children, “We soon began to realize that is was not just low income families that needed support it was the “working poor” who were struggling to see their children develop a well rounded growing up experience. Having our own newborn we became aware of how costly sports memberships were, how tutoring costs were beyond the average family, camp for a week would not be possible for most Canadian families.”

So how can a photography studio raise $25,000.00 and help PAC4Life?

We are proud to announce a project that will do just that and everyone can be involved. Custom Concept Photography is producing a limited edition, production run coffee table portrait book featuring children from newborn to 15 years of age. This beautiful hard covered book will be 10″x 10″ and filled with individual portraits of local children with their first name and a short description of what makes them who they are. It will be named “Kids of Southern Ontario: Faces of a Generation”. As the name implies the children have to be from Southern Ontario which is a big area so we have set the boundaries for this book to be Toronto to the Windsor border. We want to photograph 250 children for the book. So please help us spread the word by forwarding this on to everyone you know with children. If you’re on facebook I urge you to join our Kids Of Southern Ontario “Like Page” and invite all your friends to join. Together we can develop awareness for this charity and raise $25,000.00.

Here’s how it works.

We’re looking for everyday kids to appear in a collectors’ edition coffee table book titled “Kids of Southern Ontario: Faces of a Generation”.

This book will be full of emotive images created in the studio and on location around Southern Ontario by Master Photographic Artist, Trish Roberts of Custom Concept Photography.

To have your child included in this exciting project, simply requires the completion of the registration form and a payment of $85 per child session fee. Proceeds will go to PAC4Life Charity (Prepare a Child for Life) www.pac4life.ca

THAT’S RIGHT. WE’RE DONATING A MAJOR PORTION OF OUR SITTING FEES TO PAC4LIFE

To find out more, contact the Custom Concept Photography studio at 519.425.1249
or by email at info@customconcept.ca

In anticipation of your support, we thank you.

Trish and Trevor Roberts (CCP)
Wayne and Rosanne Prevett (KCW & PAC4Life)

Over the next six months you will see ads like this to get the word out about our project. Here is one.

Labour of Love with a St. Thomas hospital birth – Thomas

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:47:29 +0000

Ontario Birth Photography

Talbot Creek Midwives

On April 17, 2010, Trish had the honour of photographing the birth of Kristy and Chris’ son, Thomas Clarke. Kristy and Chris are 2008 wedding clients (married at the McMichael Gallery) that we love and were thrilled when they asked Trish to do her Bellies and Babies sessions with them (coming soon to the blog). We suggested they consider Birth Photography also to fully capture the whole experience from Maternity to Delivery to Newborn photos. They now have an incredible coffee table book of their delivery to compliment their wedding album that have both recorded the beginnings of their new family legacy. With all that goes on during a birth, an album like this truly captures the emotions involved. You can’t help but feel the love and pain both Chris and Kristy felt during her very long labour and delivery of Thomas.

Kristy and Chris choose to use the services of the Talbot Creek Midwives and did the delivery at the St. Thomas Hospital. Their midwife was Janet along with Student Midwife, Kate.

I have to mention, Trish and I used the services of the Stratford Midwives for both of our boy’s deliveries. It is a great experience and the pre-delivery and follow up care is remarkable.

The following images are the 20 pages from their Debut of Life album for Thomas. If you are interested in a similar photographic recording of your babies delivery please contact the studio for more information. We are available for both hospital and home births.

Thank you Kristy and Chris for letting us share in some of the most special and intimate moments of your life. The question now is, what’s the biggest day of your life? The day you got married or the birth of your son?

Your Ontario Birth Photographer,

Trish Roberts

Custom Concept Photography

Trevor Roberts,

Studio Director.

If you like this post you may like the delivery of Callum and Ava.

Ontario Birth Photography – Callum & Ava

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:03:06 +0000

Every Mom has her own “Birth Story”. For me, the memory that will always remain is the smell of burgers and fries. You see, a good friend of ours delivered dinner to us at the hospital, and between contractions, my husband was enjoying his dinner before it got cold. I’m sure it was the smell that coaxed Sterling, our carnivore, out. To this day he loves his burger and fries! Funny that wedding clients of ours, that own the Stratford Boston Pizza, kept the tradition alive and sent 4 pizzas for Tristan’s birth to the hospital when they heard we were enroute. Fortunately, Tristan arrived before the Pizzas did so I got to enjoy a warm dinner. Tristan must have smelled the pizzas coming down the hall!

Kim, it’s hard to believe that 7 months has past since I photographed the debut of your twins, Callum and Ava, April 6, 2009. I thought I would share with our Custom Concept Photography family the precious images from their “birth story” that I was invited to capture. Here are the pages from the album Custom Concept Photography created for them to look back on during their lives. I can’t wait to photograph Ava and Callum next week.

Thank you for allowing me to record your “Birth Story”. I’m sure you will fondly remember Andrew texting to keep the family up to date during the delivery.

Your Ontario Birth Photographer,

Trish