Nicole and I first meet a couple of years ago at an Association of Bridal Consultants meeting in the Chicagoland area.. We bonded immediately as we had one big thing in common-we had both recently moved to Illinois from other states. Nicole from Minnesota and me from Colorado. I had been back a few months and Nicole had been here barely a month I think.

We shot these in Wrigleyville on a beautiful spring day. I LOVE how these turned out, and my favorite is the first one. With the others as a close second.

Nicole is awesome, and is a wedding planner with a great eye for detail and style:
http://www.premierplanningservices.com/

We are currently looking for people to host portrait parties.

Portrait parties are a unique opportunity for you to have a professional photographer come to your home or favorite location and create images of your children, family, friends and even pets! You and each guest family will receive a 20 minute photography session. In that time period we will capture as many creative images as possible. It is our goal for you and your guests to be comfortable, have fun and end up with great photos from a very memorable experience. And best of all, there is no sitting fee for any of the sessions.

More details are below; you can call us anytime to discuss this further. If you or someone you know are interested, please contact us for availability.

How do Portrait Parties work?

The host will provide a suitable space for creating professional photos. We will set up our lights and backdrop, and create an on location portrait studio in the comfort of your home. Each guest and their families will all have a 20 minute photo session that can include multiple combinations from each family.

What happens next or How to order prints?

Images will be available for viewing on-line within 7 days of the party. An email will be sent to all guests with an access link and password to their portraits. It is up to each Guest to make all orders and payments to the photographer. Guests can order via the online gallery. Portraits must be ordered and paid in full to the photographer within 14 days from the date the portraits are posted on line. Orders generally take 3-4 weeks to be completed.

Finally-What’s in it for the host of the party?

* Be treated to a 30 minute personal pre-party portrait session
* When at least 6 sessions are scheduled and held you will receive a hostess package consisting of 1-8×10, 2-5×7’s & 8-wallets.
* You will also receive 25% commission on the total sales from your party to be used toward portraits taken the day of the portrait party.
* In addition, for every party that is booked and held from yours, you will receive an additional $25 in Hostess Credit.

Portrait Party theme suggestions:

Children. Play groups. Family. Pets. Birthday. Tea Party. Teens. Seniors. Holiday. Sports. Cheerleading. Dance. Valentines. Christmas.

As some of you may know by now, Roper Photo has been chosen for this year’s edition of “the Knot” Magazine’s “Best of Weddings”. Well, the issue is now available at the newsstands and we couldn’t be more thrilled or honored.

What sets this honor apart from others is that it’s not just our colleagues (or even The Knot Magazine) bestowing this award on us - the recognition comes from our brides and grooms who were thrilled with the level of service we brought to their wedding day and the quality of the images we captured. This is especially important to us since our goal with all of our clients is to exceed their expectations.

So, thanks to all of our brides and grooms who have given us the privilege to be a part of their big day and inspiring us to create some of our most memorable and heartfelt images.

Eric and Terri Roper

We have a couple of mini sessions coming up soon. There will be multiple openings per day-from morning till sunset.

They will be in downtown Naperville by the Riverwalk. The exact location is still yet to be determined.

Each session will be 20-30 minutes. The images will be put in an online gallery.

The price is $100 and includes 1-5×7 print.

The dates are (Saturday) November 1st and (Sunday) November 9th.

Email me at terri@roperphoto.com or call 630-809-6042 to set up an appointment.

I am sooo excited for these sessions. First of all the downtown Naperville area is a really cool place and the Riverwalk in the fall is just lovely.

And most importantly-I LOVE what I do. I am so blessed to be able to do what I truly love to do.

I know it sounds so sappy-but it’s so true.

Cheers,

Hey, just wanted to let you know that I will be back in Denver July 28th- August 4th. I am photographing a 50th wedding Anniversary party for the parents of a former bride.

Over the years I have photographed this family several times and am soooo excited to see them again!

While I am out in Denver I am also photographing many kids for their comp cards, a couple of senior portraits, a newborn (awww) and a family session.

Right now I do have some availability left-please email me at Terri@roperphoto.com to set up a session.

Could be for a comp card, headshot, pregnancy, newborn, family, engagement, boudoir or even a trash the dress!

We have been so busy lately that we haven’t had a chance to blog all the latest portrait sessions, weddings and a Bat Mitzvah we done recently.

I have been traveling back & forth between Denver and Chicago lately and have lots of sessions to blog and photos to show.

Hopefully we will be able to catch up and blog all these amazing sessions we have done lately.
There have been some fabulous locations for the events and I am looking forward to posting them.
Sometimes it’s so hard to narrow done the images for the blog!

We are so blessed to be able to do what we love to do!!!

We are pleased to announce our brand new website made specifically for our Headshot photography -

www.agreatheadshot.com

Due to tremendous popularity, demand for our headshot photography has exceeded all of our expectations and we felt it was time for that part of Roper Photo to be showcased on its own site. This makes it much easier for our clients seeking our headshot services to access all the information and galleries they need all in one site.

Stop by and have a look. a great headshot

Check out Meagan & Brett’s engagement album.

We love designing albums and considering just how many we have done over the last couple of months-that is a really good thing. LOL.

I LOVE Chicago!

There are so many fabulous places for photographs. Any place you go can make for a wonderful backdrop.

The photo taken in the middle of the street was pretty wild-I was laying on my stomach on the median-getting the best angle, with the traffic coming from behind me on my right side. I could feel and hear the whoosh of the cars going by. Crazy, I know, but you gotta do what you gotta do to get the best stuff. : )

After we did that series I ran along ahead of them and wanted to get them crossing the street. Of course the yellow taxi ended up blocking the crosswalk, their path and my shot. So I used the taxi prominately in the shot and love how it turned out.

Brett & Meagan were so much fun and open to going for something different with their engagement photos. The resulting images from their session are amazing!

Their coordinator is Denise Pape from Weddings by Denise.

                                  

                                  

 

                                  

                                  

 

                                  

We finalized the design on James & Callie’s wedding album. Check it out.

These guys are so cool, fun and gorgeous to boot! They made our job so easy.

Here is their initial blog post:

Callie & James were married in Boulder and had their reception at the Omni Interlocken Hotel just outside of Boulder.

They were surrounded by family & friends that were very loving, supportive and just so excited for them.

One of their bridesmaids wrote a song for them and sang it during the ceremony. It was one of those moments that I will remember for a very long time. It was so moving & touching that there was hardly a dry eye while she sang.

Yes, I admit it-the song made me cry as well!

During the reception James and his posse surprised Callie with a choregraphed dance number-it was a hoot!

 

 

                                  

 

                                  

 

A couple of weeks ago we decided to update the look of our blog. The biggest change to the blog are the new colors.
I LOVE the new look. LOVE IT!!

Now we are updating our website to match. It is going to look awesome. I can hardly wait for it to be finished.

We will post the moment it goes live.