Time for a flashback.

Somehow, you guys, it has been three years since we started a new holiday tradition: our at home portrait sessions. Pixels comes to YOUR HOUSE and we capture you “doing life” during the Christmas season. Let’s pause so that you can think of your favorite holiday comedy….

During the interim, we have shot many, many, many weddings, newborn portraits and first birthday photos, senior portraits, graduations, engagements and more documentary family portrait sessions than we could have anticipated. We’re now hooked on this type of photography – memoir, documentary, lifestyle.

We also had a son. And that changed everything. “Family” took on a new meaning. Lord knows that you don’t have to be parents to embrace family. Our friends, neighbors, coworkers, roommates and yes, blood relatives are family. My hope is that you will consider an at home holiday portrait session with anyone you consider beloved during the holidays this year or anytime in 2020. We’ll meet you at your place.

In the meantime, here’s a little look back at how we started, and why, from 2016.

Misty 1976

We’re doing something different with our holiday portrait sessions this year. We’re bringing them home. As in to YOUR home. It’s where you live and it’s where the magic and memories live too. Photographs tell the story and evoke all the memories of the season even as they are frozen forever in that specific time. It only made sense to take your family portraits in the place you call home.

Misty 1978 – Gifts for my girlie AND my rugged side.

Let’s be honest: isn’t half the fun of old family photographs saying, “remember that couch? remember that carpet?” Or “that was our first year in that house and you insisted on having a mini-tree in your room.” Every family on earth looks at past Christmas photos and has these conversations, in reverie and laughter.

Ryan 1980 – HOT WHEELS, BABY!!!! Santa WAS listening.

Misty 1981 – future Merlefest attendee and Official Photographer, thank you very much!

Ryan 1982 & 1986 with brothers and sister. LOVE the pjs. Sports, super heroes and Little House on the Prairie.

Nothing is more important during the holidays (or anytime for that matter) than family. I want a way to create a personal experience for each of our clients. I want to capture families gathered around trees with handmade ornaments, trees where all the fragile ornaments are at a height away from little fingers, stockings are personalized and tree toppers are those that have been passed through generations. I’d love to capture children in their Christmas PJs while they show me an ornament they made at school. Children years from now will recognize their surroundings in a photograph. What it looks like is different for every single one of our clients.

Misty 1986 – I was expressive. …still am.

Ryan 1983 – and his own hot wheels a few years later.

Ryan 1971 & 1981 – there’s a theme developing here……….

Misty 1990 & 1992 – “What? NO WAY!!”

Ryan 1985 & 1987

We hope you’ll take a moment to remember your own Christmas photos over the decades and consider that this will be easier than you might think, will be fun and SOOOOOOO worth it when you see the results. We know this is going to take some coordination, guys, but we’re in if you are. People start decorating as soon as mid-November and hope to get their cards out or gifts for relatives ordered soon after. As you plan your decorations and holiday festivities (family visits like Thanksgiving, for those who want to get the tree up and capture more than your immediate family), let us know so we can book the date and time and share fun ideas with you.

The fee of $125 is due when you make your reservation. We will provide 5 digital images for families with up to 3 children. This includes the printing rights along with the option to purchase prints, cards, and gifts. Pets and additional children or family members are welcome for an additional $25. Call 336-990-0080 to reserve or email inquiries to mail@pixelsonpaper.net.

We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddings, brides, and special events and portraits  of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.