Upcoming Special Events

It's Fall, and you know what that means!  Sipping hot cider, going on hayrides, creating memories.  Blink, and before you know it, it's Thanksgiving.

This fall, at Honey Bee Photography, we've put together a variety of Special Events to help different families to reconnect and rediscover what they love about each other, ending with artwork that will impact your family and draw you closer together, during the best time of the year.  Listed below is our calendar of events.

Honey Bee Photography Upcoming Events

10/12 This Is Me Sessions, Samhain Edition

Do you celebrate the change of seasons and harvest with a pagan tradition?  This is the session for you.  This Is Me sessions help women to reconnect, and rediscover things about themselves that daily life has kept them from with education, career, and family.  In this, we'll explore what you love about Samhain and how it relates to your experiences.  

As this is a Special Event Date, our sessions are :45 minutes long, and will be in studio for convenience.  Basic props will be available, and we'll discuss what to wear, and what you'd love to bring with you.

If you are looking for a session that is outside and more organic, we can do a full experience with hair, makeup, and 100% bespoke to you.

10/15 AA Schools closed Special Magic of Fall Sessions

Our Magic of Fall sessions are fun, festive, and family friendly!  (Did you see what I did there? So fabulous!)

We are opening up 3 Special Event MOF experiences and sessions just for families who have children who attend school in Anne Arundel County.  Bonus pricing is available only for these sessions.  You'll receive a Lite Version of our full experience, including a couple of discovery calls about what you love about being a mom, and fall, and recommendations on clothing, collection purchasing, etc.  These sessions will be held at one place, in the morning only.  Call today to schedule your appointment.  We have ONLY THREE (3) available. 240-766-8966. 

Note:  we will schedule your design consultation to be held within 1 week after your session to review your photographs and help you design your collection, album, greeting cards, and more! 

10/17 Headshot Day at Pongo’s Learning Lab

When you look at your headshot, do you have to kind of squint a little because it was done 10 years ago, and it doesn't quite look like you, anymore?  Or is it one that was "free" by your HR department manager, because she has a camera?  Or finally, is it a selfie in the driver's seat of your car?

 We're teaming up with Adam Santavicca of CBay Advisory, who gives a monthly presentation to the Crofton Chamber of Commerce members on better ways to grow their businesses.  As the Chamber's office is two doors down from Pongo's, it's very convenient to have a no-stress headshot session done, and then get to do some networking with lunch and learn something new.  

If you get your head shot done in the morning, you'll be able to network and head over to the chamber, for the 11:30 am presentation.  If you come for the 11:30 presentation first, you'll just head over to Pongo's, where we'll be, and do your headshot then.  It's a total win-win situation.

Adam and I are providing lunch, so you'll be able to nibble and enjoy your time together with new networking friends.

Your head shot experience includes a phone consultation to talk about how you want your audience to see you in your most authentic light, your 15 minute session with me, then you get to sit with my assistant to go over your favorites, and purchase them.  I'll retouch them lightly, and get them to you within a week.  All of this, PLUS 2 of your favorite photographs, for only $150 (a $200 value).  Each additional photograph is $100.

   

10/18 PG and Howard Schools closed Special Magic of Fall Sessions

Our Magic of Fall sessions are fun, festive, and family friendly!  (Did you see what I did there? So fabulous!)

We are opening up 5 Special Event MOF experiences and sessions just for families who have children who attend school in Prince George's and Howard Counties.  Bonus pricing is available only for these sessions.  You'll receive a Lite Version of our full experience, including a couple of discovery calls about what you love about being a mom, and fall, and recommendations on clothing, collection purchasing, etc.  These sessions will be held at one place, in the morning only.  Call today to schedule your appointment.  We have ONLY FIVE (5) available. 240-766-8966. 

Note:  we will schedule your design consultation to be held within 1 week after your session to review your photographs and help you design your collection, album, greeting cards, and more! 

10/27 Magic of Autumn Special Event 9-2

According to the experts, we'll be in peak fall foliage, and so this date is the PERFECT day to do your family portraits.  We are photographing ONLY 5 families this day (45 minute sessions) and these are going to be held at a specific spot where there is plenty of gorgeous color.  You'll receive a Lite Version of our full experience, including a couple of discovery calls about what you love about being a mom, and fall, and recommendations on clothing, collection purchasing, etc.  These sessions will be held at one place, in the morning only.  Call today to schedule your appointment.  We have ONLY FIVE (5) available. 240-766-8966. 

Note:  we will schedule your design consultation to be held within 1 week after your session to review your photographs and help you design your collection, album, greeting cards, and more! 

11/2 Magic of Autumn Special Event 9-2

According to the experts, we'll be in peak fall foliage, and so this date is the PERFECT day to do your family portraits.  We are photographing ONLY 5 families this day (45 minute sessions) and these are going to be held at a specific spot where there is plenty of gorgeous color.  You'll receive a Lite Version of our full experience, including a couple of discovery calls about what you love about being a mom, and fall, and recommendations on clothing, collection purchasing, etc.  These sessions will be held at one place, in the morning only.  Call today to schedule your appointment.  We have ONLY FIVE (5) available. 240-766-8966. 

Note:  we will schedule your design consultation to be held within 1 week after your session to review your photographs and help you design your collection, album, greeting cards, and more! 

11/9 Fundraiser Bowie CLAW Pets with Santa

This event far surpasses any other opportunity your pets and family has to spend with Santa!  Our Santa loves pets, kids, and everyone in between, so you'll have posed and candid with Santa, as well as some others that will show off your pets' sweet and cheeky ways.  ONLY one date, by appointment only, at Calvert Brewing Company.  240-766-8966

11/17 Studio Holiday Card Sessions:  Christmas, Hanukkah, and Yule

These sessions are for families who love the holiday spirit AND want their kids to look really great for their holiday cards.  This experience includes your Excitement phone call, where we talk about what you and your family loves about your holiday of choice, and together, we'll plan your photographs and card design, so on the day of your session, you're all ready to go.  Your session will last for a half hour, and you'll see your photographs directly afterwards by my assistant.  We are offering bonus pricing on this date only, so please plan to spend about an hour with us.  We have time for ONLY 8 FAMILIES on this day. (Santa Baby sessions are unavailable this year, sorry)

11/23 Studio Holiday Card Sessions:  Christmas, Hanukkah, and Yule

These sessions are for families who love the holiday spirit AND want their kids to look really great for their holiday cards.  This experience includes your Excitement phone call, where we talk about what you and your family loves about your holiday of choice, and together, we'll plan your photographs and card design, so on the day of your session, you're all ready to go.  Your session will last for a half hour, and you'll see your photographs directly afterwards by my assistant.  We are offering bonus pricing on this date only, so please plan to spend about an hour with us.  We have time for ONLY 8 FAMILIES on this day. (Santa Baby sessions are unavailable this year, sorry)

11/24, 11/26, 11/27, 11/29, 11/30 Family Legacy Sessions, for 3+generations

Thanksgiving is a time for families to gather, and with our global living these days, sometimes a family can only get together for a couple of days during that one crucial week.  The experts don't say that Thanksgiving week is the most highly traveled week out of the year for nothing!

This year, we are offering something so incredibly special for these families, and there's SO MUCH VALUE, that we just can't fit it all on here.  Please note that we are very limited on the number of families we can work with, as these sessions do take time, and you'll be able to see your photographs projected on the wall right after your session.  Your family members will receive the full experience, to help you all rediscover what you love about each other, and reconnect with each other, because let's face it.... some siblings are more excited than others to have family photographs taken.  We're able to get everyone on board and excited to do family photographs. 

(If I tell you here how I do it, it wouldn't be so successful!  You'll just have to trust me!)

Please visit this blog post for pertinent details!  Thanks! 

 12/1 Last Minute Studio Holiday Card Sessions

These sessions are for families who wait til the last minute for their holiday cards.  This experience includes your Excitement phone call, where we talk about what you and your family loves about your holiday of choice, and together, we'll plan your photographs and card design, so on the day of your session, you're all ready to go.  Your session will last for a half hour, and you'll see your photographs directly afterwards by my assistant.  We are offering bonus pricing on this date only, so please plan to spend about an hour with us. In order for your cards to arrive in a timely manner, you have to do your order on this date.  We have time for ONLY 4 FAMILIES on this day. (Santa Baby sessions are unavailable this year, sorry)

Thanksgiving Week for Extended Family Sessions

Legacy Family Experiences

As a young child, a favorite activity was to pore over old family photo albums, and hearing stories from my mom about each person.  I loved the smell of the albums, the way the pages sounded when turned, and the feel of the photo corners that had been carefully licked and placed for each photograph.

 It’s because of similar experiences, that the oldest generations in your family hate to get photographs done.  Other complaints are that everyone looks stiff.  The thing I hear the most is “I hate myself in photos; I never look natural!” from these generations.  It’s because they were standing there, waiting for the person to take the photo, with the sun in their eyes, and not being quite sure when the photo was being taken, so they had their photo smile pasted on.

I’m here to tell you that it isn’t painful, these days, at all!

How much sentimental value do you place on the photos in your grandma’s photo album?  With the years gone by, specific details in your memories fade, but photographs always help you to relive the good times.  Those old photographs become valuable with each passing year, because let’s face it, the cycle of life does end, and when that happens, photographs of loved ones are often all we have left.

I consider Legacy Family Artwork to be an essential gift.  I have a photograph, done at Olan Mills, of my sister, my mother, and my grandmother.  It’s beautiful.    Because of unusual circumstances, I was not able to be a part of this photograph.  I truly wish I had.  It would be a gift to see the four of us together like that. 

When I think of 3 or 4-generations of a family that are alive, or even 5, I think of how amazing that must be to have all of that love, wisdom, all of those shared experiences, in one room.  

How marvelous is the opportunity that when your grandchildren have children, they will have these pieces to hand down to them, share with them special stories to make the people in the photos come alive! 

Consider this young boy, Ethan.  At the tender age of 6, he knows of his grandfathers on his dad’s side, simply because he loves boxing.  This boy is the youngest of generations of boxers, who have left a great legacy for him.  These photographs help him to remember who he is, where he comes from, and to where he’s going.

That’s the kind of artwork that we produce here at Honey Bee Photography.  

Photography that creates an impact every time you walk past, even on the hard days, because you relive those feelings every time you see them. 

If a family can walk past a collection like this every day at home, and feel that love, imagine what a collection will do for a family with three or more generations, together…  It’s an amazing addition to your photographs that you already display, and will complete the story of who you all are.

We know that Thanksgiving week is a time for families to gather, and it’s never long enough.  That’s why we’re offering a special opportunity, the week of Thanksgiving, to help families with multiple generations to be photographed together.  We can do in-studio, or on-location for these families.

The premium experience that we provide includes the following for only $99:

• §      A $400 gift certificate
• §      A series of phone calls to help you, and yours, to reconnect and rediscover what is loved the most about your family, and planning of the entire session, down to clothing, colors, and location of the session.
• §      The session itself, which will take approximately 2 hours.
• §      A cinematic presentation of your photographs, for all of you to enjoy, right after your session, where we’ll sit together to create the collections each family within the main unit wants to purchase. 
• §      Each family unit will save $200 with the purchase of a collection starting at $600 or more, or 10% off, whichever is more.  We offer 3 pricing platforms in Good, Better, and Best.  All artwork is created with premium products.

§      Local members of the family will have their delivery and installation done by me.  Families out of town will receive their artwork directly from my vendor via UPS, with instructions on how to install.  Our 2 largest collections, in the best category, come with installation by a professional, who will be vetted by me, through a vast networking community to which I belong, at the family’s convenience, whether in the area, or out of state.

Slots are available on the following dates and times:

Nov 26 at 10 am

Nov 27 at 10 am
Nov 29 at 8:30 am and 3:00 pm
Nov 30 at 8:30 am and 3:00 pm

Expect that the session, starting on time, to each family unit ordering, will take about 5 hours.  Please make time for that, so that we can serve everyone there.