Wedding Photographer Lowers Prices in 2009!

You're probably saying to yourself right now...Yeah Right! That would never happen! But read on and you'll see it's true.

Here's how we are able to do this.

At the end of each year, we always take a look at what has worked and what hasn't over the past year in our wedding photography business in an effort to run our business more efficiently and cost effectively.

We research better ways to do things and use information from various sources as well as feedback from our past wedding clients as to what they liked, what they would like and what they need from a wedding photographer. We listen to our clients and we are constantly trying to improve our services, and products to give you the very most for your investment in us. This is only part of how we go "above and beyond" to serve you better.

We have closely analyzed our business practices in 2008, we have entered into some new partnerships with labs and other companies and we have also streamlined our studio services without losing anything (or anyone) important.

It's because of this and also because we know that we are all feeling the current economic crunch that we have been able to rearrange our wedding photography packages and we have been able to lower our prices for our 2009 wedding photography services.

What's even better about this is that instead of getting LESS, now each of our packages will include MORE than what we were able to offer before! That is an incredible feat for us and we are very excited and happy to be able to do this.

Our 2009 wedding packages will all still include, coverage, proofs, and an album, all which we can customize to better suit your needs, style and budget.

Sure, we could have just kept more money for ourselves, but we really want your business! So instead we chose to pass the savings on to our wedding clients.

We are really excited to be able to provide our couples with better services, cooler technology, quality albums and lower prices in 2009 thanks to these new partnerships. We will also continue to evaluate our services, our partnerships with current companies and our own business practices to provide you with the most value for your wedding photography investment.

So if you're looking for a wedding photographer or you know anyone who is, send them to us for top notch, professional and personal services. Contact us at: 508-216-5898 or via e-mail at: info@DiazDD.com for more information about our wedding photography services.

In 2010 we will continue to strive to offer the best possible services and keep our value up and our prices reasonable.

Thank you for considering us for your professional wedding photography needs! We hope to be able to help you "Discover the beauty in your world" in 2009 and beyond.


At your service,
Ed Diaz

Diaz Digital Discoveries
http://www.diazdd.com/

Family Portrait Month 2008

I really love when Family Portrait Month rolls around!

That is when I usually get the most number of families coming in to have their portraits made, whether it be for holiday cards, to give as gifts or just to cherish for themselves.

I love meeting and getting to know these people a bit more. Like this new family who just returned from Ethiopia with two wonderful children. I really enjoyed our portrait session and it was certainly my honor to be chosen to capture the images that they will keep close to their hearts.

Thank you Rachael and Adam for the opportunity!

Every family's stories are so different and interesting and the fact that people can be so different, yet come together for a common good cause such as Operation Smile means so much. I feel fortunate to be able to do my part to help children in need.

One of the other reasons I like this time of year? The holidays tend to "Tame" everyone a bit more (for the most part). Yeah, you'll still have that occasional grumpy person in line at the mall or the grocery store that will just complain about everything; but just ignore them and they will soon go away. For the most part, at least the people I have been dealing with are in good spirits, putting aside if only for a short while, all of our economic situations.

It's nice though when one can find love, compassion, unselfishness and other good will during this month. I look forward to it every year, and not because of the "presents".

We are completing the last of our Holiday Family Portraits this week and I just wanted to send a quick post and some images for you all to enjoy. Thank you to all of you who contributed to Family Portrait Month and Operation Smile this year. It is very well appreciated!

Happy Holidays! Be safe and be well.

Beauty Discovered.

Giftback... The Gift that Gives Back.

Hello all!



For all of you online shoppers out there, here is a really great idea that I want to share with you all.



This year, shop online for your gifts at http://www.giftback.com/ When you do, they will donate a portion of your purchases to YOUR favorite charity. What a great idea!!



For more information and to participate, read more below:





At http://www.giftback.com/ their mission is to connect individuals with the non-profits of the world by providing them with innovative tools to incorporate giving into everyday activities like shopping and interacting online.


The giftback(TM) difference...At giftback.com we feel it is important to give people the opportunity to support causes that are important to them. That is why at giftback.com 10% of every purchase goes back to a charity of your choice!


Finally there is a place where you can Have your cake and donate too™...


How it works; Shop giftback.com for the perfect gift to express your sentiment. When you find that gift, select a charity of your choice from our list of hundreds of great causes. Then add the item to your shopping cart.
At this point you may continue to shop for other gifts or proceed to checkout. During checkout, add your recipient's delivery information, your card message, and your payment information to complete your purchase.


Your recipient will be notified via the card message that a portion of their gift was donated to support the great cause you selected. For example:
Your Card Message: Happy Birthday Mom, Love Jim. The Recipient will see: Happy Birthday Mom, Love Jim. A portion of this gift was donated to "XYZ" Charity.


Remember shop http://www.giftback.com/ for...thoughtful gifts that give back!

Holiday Photo Cards

SEND CHEERS FROM YOUR HOT TUB THIS YEAR!!!

This year why not send FUN holiday cards to your friends and relatives.

We could all use a good laugh during these trying times.

Call us today to book your holiday family portraits and get the family together for some fun images that you can share with your friends.

I always enjoy getting holiday cards from my friends and family, but most of them are always that standard (formal) photograph.

This year, lighten-up a bit and send out some fun photographs your friends and family will be talking about all year long. We can help you think of ideas and images that will be fun, funny and creative.

Like the Orrell family, pictured here...Now they know how to have FUN!

These were some of my favorite picks (and theirs too) from their holiday portrait session. (click on the photos to enlarge)

Incase any of you are wondering...YES, they did actually get into the Hot Tub! This is not photography magic. It's all part of the fun and the memories that make these images so great.

There are only a few more appointment slots left for holiday portraits, in time to get out those holiday cards, so call now and book your session with us.

We can usually have your holiday cards ready within 7 days.

Enjoy your Holidays and don't forget to have FUN!!!

Beauty Discovered...

2yr. Portrait Outtakes - WHEW!

Takes & Outakes of a recent 2yr. portrait session.

October is Family Portrait Month

Only a few days left to take advantage of our special this month. Call now to book your session before it's over. Available sessions are very limited now. Don't wait! Call today!

October is national Family Portrait Month and we are offering reduced portrait session fees and percent-off our portrait packages. Don’t Miss Our Special “Family Portrait Month” Promotion! Every October we participate with an elite group of photographers around the country in a very special family portrait promotion.
Throughout October 2008 we will celebrate “Family Portrait Month,” a wonderful opportunity for you update your family portrait (or portraits of your children), and at the same time help to support Operation Smile, which treats children around the world who suffer with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.
Along with other studio members of Professional Photographers of America (PPA), we have pledged to contribute up to 50% of our Portrait Session Fees to PPA Charities, which has chosen Operation Smile as its charitable partner.
What’s more, we want you to benefit from this special offer: Receive 10% off any portrait package of your choice.
Recording the faces of children and their families is our greatest pleasure. That’s why we believe so strongly in the work of Operation Smile.
Each year this incredible organization of more than 5,000 volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, and specialized health-care professionals, perform free reconstructive surgeries for children suffering with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.
It costs only $240 to perform a life-changing cleft lip operation. More than 100,000 children are born with a facial deformity each year in Operation Smile’s 25 partner countries. We also believe that Family Portrait Month is a wonderful way to teach children the value of reaching out to others. Even small children can understand the importance of Operation Smile’s work, and they are eager to help these needy children.
We hope you will join with us in helping to make this vital work possible. Don’t forget that the holiday season is right around the corner, so there’s no better time for a family portrait, which is always appreciated as gifts for family and friends and to send along with holiday greeting cards.
With Warm Wishes, Ed Diaz
See you soon!

Senior Portrait Video - Steven

Here's a video clip of Steven's Senior Portrait Session.

Operation Smile 2008

October is national Family Portrait Month and we will be offering reduced portrait session fees and percent-off our portrait packages.
Don’t Miss Our Special “Family Portrait Month” Promotion! This October we will participate with an elite group of photographers around the country in a very special family portrait promotion.
Throughout October we will celebrate “Family Portrait Month,” a wonderful opportunity for you update your family portrait (or portraits of your children), and at the same time help to support Operation Smile, which treats children around the world who suffer with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.
Along with other studio members of Professional Photographers of America (PPA), we have pledged to contribute up to 50% of our Portrait Session Fees to PPA Charities, which has chosen Operation Smile as its charitable partner.
What’s more, we want you to benefit from this special offer: Receive 10% off any portrait package of your choice.
Recording the faces of children and their families is our greatest pleasure. That’s why we believe so strongly in the work of Operation Smile.
Each year this incredible organization of more than 5,000 volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, and specialized health-care professionals, perform free reconstructive surgeries for children suffering with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.
It costs only $240 to perform a life-changing cleft lip operation. More than 100,000 children are born with a facial deformity each year in Operation Smile’s 25 partner countries. We also believe that Family Portrait Month is a wonderful way to teach children the value of reaching out to others. Even small children can understand the importance of Operation Smile’s work, and they are eager to help these needy children.
We hope you will join with us in helping to make this vital work possible. Don’t forget that the holiday season is right around the corner, so there’s no better time for a family portrait, which is always appreciated as gifts for family and friends and to send along with holiday greeting cards.
With Warm Wishes, Ed Diaz.
See you soon!

Senior Portrait Video - Naomi

Video Clip of Naomi's Senior Portrait Session.

Beauty Discovered.

Captiva Island, FL

Hello all. We are working to serve you better by attending a weeklong photography workshop in beautiful Captiva Island, FL. During our week there we will be training to better perfect our skills and techniques.

Because of this, our studio will be closed from 9/20/08 until 9/29/08.

When we return, we will be starting our Fall promotion. October is national Family Portrait Month and we will be offering reduced portrait session fees and percent-off our portrait packages.

Don’t Miss Our Special “Family Portrait Month” Promotion!

This October we will participate with an elite group of photographers around the country in a very special family portrait promotion. Throughout October we will celebrate “Family Portrait Month,” a wonderful opportunity for you update your family portrait (or portraits of your children), and at the same time help to support Operation Smile, which treats children around the world who suffer with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.

Along with other studio members of Professional Photographers of America (PPA), we have pledged to contribute up to 50% of our Portrait Session Fees to PPA Charities, which has chosen Operation Smile as its charitable partner.

What’s more, we want you to benefit from this special offer:
Receive 10% off any portrait package of your choice.

Recording the faces of children and their families is our greatest pleasure. That’s why we believe so strongly in the work of Operation Smile. Each year this incredible organization of more than 5,000 volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, and specialized health-care professionals, perform free reconstructive surgeries for children suffering with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities. It costs only $240 to perform a life-changing cleft lip operation. More than 100,000 children are born with a facial deformity each year in Operation Smile’s 25 partner countries.

We also believe that Family Portrait Month is a wonderful way to teach children the value of reaching out to others. Even small children can understand the importance of Operation Smile’s work, and they are eager to help these needy children.

We hope you will join with us in helping to make this vital work possible. Don’t forget that the holiday season is right around the corner, so there’s no better time for a family portrait, which is always appreciated as gifts for family and friends and to send along with holiday greeting cards.

With Warm Wishes,
Ed Diaz

See you soon!

Senior Portrait Video - Justin

Video Clip of Justin's Senior Portrait Session

Senior Portrait Video - Melissa

Video Clip of Melissa's Senior Portrait Session

Beauty Discovered.

Senior Portrait Session - Melissa

Hello all.

Here are some images from a recent high school senior portrait session we did.

Melissa had our Combo Session, which includes both indoor and outdoor photography.

We had a really great time and got many wonderful images including these with her car.

We are coming up to our last few available sessions for senior portraits, so if you haven't had yours done yet, CALL NOW. We only have a few slots left before we are all done for the year.

Choose from our regular Studio Session, Location Session or ask for a Combo Session. We have packages to suit most all budgets.

Choose original custom works of art from our Portrait Art Collection for really great, unique and customized image art.

Get your Portrait Art framed here in-house. We offer custom mounting, matting and framing right here for one stop shopping. Or opt for a Canvas Gallery Wrap and receive your images ready to hang. Our newest and hottest item is the Metallic Gallery Wrap. It really makes your images shine!

Whether it's single images, Collages, Canvas Wraps or Portrait Collections, we will fulfill all of your portrait needs.

Contact us today for all your professional photography needs.

http://www.diazdd.com/

Salem Cross Inn Wedding

I had the pleasure of photographing a wedding at Salem Cross Inn in West Brookfield, Mass.

I had not been to the Inn before so when I paid my first visit a few weeks before the wedding day, I was delighted to see how beautiful it was.
From the moment you pull into the drive and park your vehicle, you are transported back in time to a different era.

Old Victorian living at it's best was the feel of this venue for me. Everything from the old wagons out in the fields, to the open cooking fireplaces and antiquities throughout the entire place reminds us of how special and precious items from the past are. Looking at certain pieces can instantly bring you back to those days, or make you wonder how it must have been "back in the day."

The ceremony was held outside even though only one hour before the ceremony, the sky had opened up and dropped bucket-loads of rain on the grounds. But the rainstorm went by fairly quickly and the Bride was determined to still hold the ceremony outside. Good thing, because the Sun came out just before the ceremony began. So, it turned out to be a beautiful ceremony, on a beautiful day, with a beautiful couple, at a beautiful venue.

Although we did not stay for the entire reception, we did cover the first portion of it. On the inside, the Inn is equally beautifully antique and furnished with many items from our history as well. The lighting was quite challenging from a photographers point of view due to the low light lamps that were available back then, but we made the best of it. That is one of the reasons I always visit the venue prior to the wedding day.

To Joe & Elin, thanks so much for choosing us (over all the other photographers in this area) from your home all the way over in Santa Monica, CA, to photograph the celebration of your love for each other. It has been an honor.

Next time you're in MA, look us up!
Best wishes!

Beauty Discovered.

Senior Portrait Video- Tori

Video Clip of Tori's Senior Portrait Session.

Beauty Discovered.

Senior Portrait Session Video

Video Clip of Chelsea's Senior Portrait Session.

Beauty Discovered.

Senior Portrait - Chelsea

This very lovely girl with the perfect complexion is Chelsea.

We had a great time during Chelsea's Senior Portrait session!



























I am very pleased with all of the images, though, as you can see, she was very easy to photograph. Her Mom, Wendy had a great time too! Just look at those smiles!

























We will soon be starting the (indoor) renovation of our studio, (hopefully in October) which will follow with an outdoor renovation (Spring-Summer 2009) to include a portrait garden and other photo friendly areas.















Right now we have a couple of areas outdoors that are ready, which we use for portraits like the area in some of these portraits. So, we are able to offer our clients a combination of both Indoor & Outdoor portraits without having to leave our studio location.













This renovation will enable us to offer even more variety to our clients and they will be able to discover the outdoors a bit.










This season, there are only a few more appointments available for Senior Portraits - Class of 2009 before most school deadlines have been reached, so if you haven't had your Senior Portraits done yet, give us a call so we can try to fit you in sometime this month. Most school deadlines are by end of August or beginning of September.















Our current special is: 8 Free Wallets with any Package Purchased and this special will run until August 31st only. Call today to book your pre-session consultation and come meet with us, see our studio and make plans your session. Together we will create some ideas or a theme that will make your portrait session unlike any others.















Then you will also be able to say:























Beauty Discovered.

Arrowhead Acres Wedding

Arrowhead Acres Weddings are great if you want an outdoor environment for your celebration. There is a beautiful area with a gazebo where you can recite your vows and then a short walk later arrive at a very cute bridge for your formal portraits.



















I captured these two lovebirds by the bridge and I just had to share the images with you all. You can really see and feel the love between them in these photographs. That is what makes my job so special and makes me feel good about what I do.








Now this couple can look back at these photos many years from now and still remember all the fun they had on their wedding day. Each wedding I photograph presents a new and interesting challenge and I welcome it with open arms.












Here are just some of their many photographs taken near the bridge outside the reception hall.

Enjoy and let me know your thoughts!

Katie & Kevin, thanks so much for the opportunity to capture your wedding celebration. It was lots of fun! I am looking forward to customizing your wedding album.

Keep in touch!

Beauty Discovered.

Wachusett Mountain Wedding

Hi everyone!









Here are some images from a recent wedding at Wachusett Mountain in Princeton, MA.




It is a Ski Resort during the Winter months, but in the Summer they use it for many events and private wedding celebrations.










It is a beautiful place to have a wedding as you can see. The newlywed couple can ride via ski-lift to the summit and have their photo taken... On top of the world.

There are many other places here which are also really great for photographs and the banquet hall is decorated very nicely. The staff was very nice to work with and laid-back.

If you are looking for a place to have your wedding celebration, check them out.









I had a lot of fun at this wedding! Both the bride and groom are great people and their families were too. They chose good entertainment, good food and good company.







Scott & Melissa, thanks for choosing us to photograph your wedding. It was an honor. I am looking forward to designing and delivering your beautiful, custom wedding album soon.









Best wishes to you both!


Beauty Discovered.