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http://www.michealhallphotography.com/images/rsslogo.gif http://www.michealhallphotography.com http://www.michealhallphotography.com/index.html#welcome080807 Welcome to Micheal Hall Photography - a Sacramento based, family run photography studio specializing in relaxed, natural, high quality photographs. This site as been designed to make viewing and learning about our photography and services simple and straight-forward. It is intended to be easy to navigate and understand and to allow you to quickly get to any area of interest. The top navigational menu above is broken into subjects and will take you to any major section of the site in a single click. If you are interested in the most recent goings-on, be sure to check out the {{ahref What's##New##section|http://www.michealhallphotography.com/whatsnew/index.html|Check##out##the##latest##goings##on##...}} - this is where you'll hear about recent projects, shoots and plans and see some of our most up to date imagery. http://www.michealhallphotography.com/index.html#003a To ease navigation, our site has been broken into sections. Right under the image at the top of the page, you will see a series of buttons, each corresponding to a section of our website. Similarly, when you are in a section of the site, it may be broken into sub-sections, which you can navigate by a second set of buttons which will appear below the first. Finally, we maintain a blog on the site itself - the {{ahref "What's##New?"|http://www.michealhallphotography.com/whatsnew/index.html|Check##out##the##latest##happenings!|0}} section is our running blog and we will keep it updated with entries now again about our most recent sessions, upcoming projects, special offers and things of that nature. Be sure to stop by often! http://www.michealhallphotography.com/index.html#002a So I know that it looks like we haven't been doing much since the last site update in November, but that's what happens when we get into our club volleyball season and start working heavily on that. All of our updates have been to our {{ahref volleyball##site|http://www.vbpics.com|Check##out##our##volleyball##work.|1}}. There have been quite a few there, along with hundreds and hundreds of finished images posted throughout the season highlighting products purchased by our clients. However, we've also been quietly continuing our portrait, wedding and landscape work, even in the midst of all of our volleyball craziness. So, this is the big update to get us up to date and rolling until the NEXT busy volleyball season starts, and - hopefully even then - I'll be able to sneak over here and continue to update this site so that you know what we're up to. http://www.michealhallphotography.com/index.html#001a We got to do something really fun this last weekend. Not only did we photograph a beautiful wedding in Monterey, California, but the wedding was of one of our "little sisters" - a young lady that we photographed as a club volleyball player! We've been photographing the Kolkka girls for years now (since at least 2003) and early this year Fran Kolkka got in touch to let me know that Christine (her middle daughter) was getting married and wanted to know if I would photograph it for the family. I was thrilled! Jason and I photographed the wedding of Christine and William and {{ahref posted##a##few##images##here|http://www.michealhallphotography.com/whatsnew/index.html#001a|Let's##see##some##pictures!|0}}. http://www.michealhallphotography.com/index.html#thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving everyone - I hope you have a wonderful holiday. Our family spent it together at my parents home and we had the wonderful fortune of spending it with an uncle and cousin of mine that we hadn't seen in quite a LONG time. Earlier in the week, I snuck out of town for a few days and visited a friend of mine in Yosemite. As a photographer, most people would automatically assume 'AHA! You must have gone to photograph the park.' Actually, the truth is I mostly lounged about and watched movies. I know - shameful. :) However, this morning, as I was leaving the park, I did have the great pleasure of some beautiful morning light and frost in the valley and just couldn't help myself. So here are some Thanksgiving portraits of Yosemite Valley. {{img images/0J1W7050.jpg}}{{img images/0J1W7113.jpg}} {{img images/0J1W7148.jpg}}{{img images/0J1W7170.jpg}} {{img images/0J1W7150.jpg}} I'm an unreformed, closet landscape photographer - it's something I've really enjoyed since I was in high school. However, these days I rarely get the chance. This was a real pleasure. The valley was very quiet, the air was wonderfully crisp and cold. I even had a very unexpected encounter with a buck and several does as well as a coyote that went trotting on by me. It was so quiet that I could hear leaves falling from trees across the river from me! One of these days I'll make a point of doing this more often ... http://www.michealhallphotography.com/index.html#whatsnewfuhsfamily We had a lot of fun photographing the Fuhs family yesterday (we've been photographing volleyball for them since at least 2003 and they FINALLY had us come out and do a portrait of them! :) {{ahref meet##the##Fuhs|http://www.michealhallphotography.com/whatsnew/index.html#fuhsfamily|The##Fuhs##...|0}}. http://www.michealhallphotography.com/index.html#whatsnew07eghsvb We just finished photographing Elk Grove High School's Volleyball team pictures ... {{ahref check##them##out|http://www.michealhallphotography.com/whatsnew/index.html#07eghsvb|Check##them##out!|0}}! http://www.michealhallphotography.com/index.html#aedynrose17sept2007 Aedyn is the newest member of the Hall family and she's already adored by everyone. If you like children, take a peek - she's darling! {{ahref Here##she##is!|http://www.michealhallphotography.com/whatsnew/index.html#aedynrose17sept07|Meet##Aedyn##...|0}} http://www.michealhallphotography.com/index.html#portraitspecial As we try to get the word out more and more regarding our portrait photography, we are offering a special on our portrait photography to our existing volleyball clients this Fall. From now until the 10th of December, we will credit our normal session fee completely towards any prints that you order. That's a $150 savings! We're making this offer to all of our Sacramento Valley volleyball family customers and are mailing letters and certificates to families this week. We expect that interest will be strong, so be sure to contact us as soon as possible to make an appointment, if you are interested. {{img images/familyportraitcoupon.jpg}}{{img images/seniorportraitcoupon-web.jpg}} http://www.michealhallphotography.com/index.html#browsernote While no special plugins are needed for this site, for best results you should be sure to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. For the security conscious, we recommend {{ahref Mozilla##Firefox|http://www.mozilla.com/|Learn##more##about##the##Mozilla##Firefox##Browser}} as a browser for its more robust security, and its extensive support of important internet standards such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) which are crucial to the proper display of this page. We also especially recommend a security plugin called {{ahref NoScript|https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722|Get##the##NoScript##plugin##for##Firefox!}} which allows you to enable JavaScript only on selected sites.