I am proud to announce that I’m a winner of WeddingWire’s 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards!

Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by over 500,000 newlyweds. Being a recipient of this award means that Karen Lisa Artistic Photography is in the top 5 percent of all wedding professionals in the WeddingWire Community!
THANK YOU to all of my amazing brides & grooms! :)
Today’s the last day to vote for the best wedding photo of 2009!
Please get your vote in by 12am Pacific / 3am Eastern…. Since nearly half of my wedding couples from this past year actually live in California (or pretty close to it!) I want to accommodate their time zones too! :)
CLICK HERE and make sure you get your vote in!
I am soooo excited to finally post this preview for Franci & Tiago! I photographed their baby bump session last week at the amazing Long Key Nature Center in Davie and I’m super excited that I had the opportunity to work with them at this beautiful location while the weather was perfect, since I’m pretty sure it will soon be too warm to return there until next winter (those parks get too many spiders in the summer).
This fun and stylish couple [my favorite kind! :)] were both absolute naturals in front of the camera – they followed my cues perfectly, were utterly and completely relaxed, and allowed me to create some of my favorite maternity shots thus far! Wait until you see how gorgeous the Long Key Nature Center is – having a setting like this definitely helped us get in the mood to create beautiful images together.
Franci and Tiago, I hope you love your images as much as I do! I can’t wait to show you the rest and REALLY can’t wait to meet your little angel when she arrives into the world!!! Enjoy!!

I decided that in an effort to make this blog more personal, I’m going to make a post the last Friday of every month with some interesting things I’ve found that will make life prettier and more interesting. Since I am a total Etsy fanatic, a lot of stuff will likely come from Etsy (the internet heaven of all crafters) since it’s almost always open on my web browser.
I’m going to try to do themes since that makes life more interesting! This month the theme is Valentine’s Day since it’s the next big holiday! Speaking of Valentine’s Day, don’t forget that I have Valentine’s specials going on right now for both Boudoir Sessions and Mini Sessions for kids & couples… and click here to contact me if you’re interested!
Sooo…. here we go! Hope you like the cute little things I’ve picked out :) I’ve tried to put together a little variety of things and hopefully introduce you to some new online stores and beautiful handmade items you may love!

1. Be Mine Valentine Reusable and Felt Banner 2. Fat Red Primitive Wooden Bird 3. Madeline Bath Cupcake Fizzie 4. Unchain My Heart – Mixed Metal Heart Tag 5. Dachshunds in Love Valentine Card
A couple weeks ago I decided to take Zachary over to Volunteer Park for his 1 year photo shoot. I wanted to shoot in a different area of the park – over by the community center. It is no secret that I LOVE this park! It is right near our home office and has a zillion different places to shoot. I could do ten sessions here and each one would be different depending on where we picked as our backdrop. I just love this place! It’s one of the reasons why I chose it as the location for my Valentines Mini Sessions…. .which… by the way… I’m going to be extending to the rest of February! That’s right. Do you want a mini session done, but next weekend doesn’t work for you? Let me know. We can shoot on a different day and you can receive the special as long as it’s before February 28th. Just see the flyer below the photos for more info.
I shot Zachary at around 3:30pm when the sun was just starting to sink in the sky – one of my favorite times of day. My friend Lori helped me out on this shoot. She makes a great baby-wrangler. :) Toddlers move fast, so we just shot for about 25 minutes – a quick mini session!! Anyway, here are some of my favorites.

and don’t forget about the Valentine’s Day Mini Sessions now that they’ve been expanded to include the rest of January and February! Many weekends are already booked up so please call me if you are interested. My number is 954.247.1121.

tags: fort lauderdale baby photography, fort lauderdale child photography, fort lauderdale portrait photography, holiday mini sessions, mini portrait sessions, mini-sessions, south florida baby photographer, south florida child photographer, specials, valentine's day mini sessions, volunteer park
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