Cañas Photography

Some exciting news for everyone!

Not only have we re-done the gallery (to a new-found state of appeal, I think), but we are now offering the artistic services of Emily Fitzsimons in addition to our photography!

Emily Fitzsimons is a dear friend and a fantastic artist, who is multi-faceted but comes to us offering glamor body-paint artwork. We’ll set aside an album in our Gallery specifically for painting she’s done, which I promise will impress all.

Whether someone wants an animal theme, an intricate design, or something else, Emily is both ready and excited to offer you this opportunity for a once-in-a-lifetime portrait session.

Also, we now have a group on Facebook (under Cañas Photography). Feel free to add us!

At last, we’re well into July, and the weather is just as hot as we’ve been busy.

If you take a moment to peek into my side of the Gallery, you’ll notice that I’ve re-arranged it (again); now, there are two additional albums: Theme Shoots, and Couple Shoots. And, while each is rather self-explanatory, I would like to draw special attention to the Theme Shoots album, especially the recent shoot of the Seven Cardinal Sins. Never before have I had such a lengthy photo session - but I think it paid off!

Also, though I doubt it’s a surprise, I’ve added more than a dozen new photos to my Friends album. Needless to say, the summer weather has heightened my friends’ drive to get out there and let me take pictures!

Finally, our page regarding Prints and Services has finally been updated to include the luxury of our new (though modest) home studio. Keep that in mind the next time you’re out for photos!

Enjoy the weather!

Hey folks! Here we are again, more than a year later, finally updating the site and getting back on the horse.

For those of you who have a moment, you should go ahead and look at the new photos we’ve posted on the site. To remind everyone how to get there, you click on Gallery in the top right hand corner, and then the Photo Gallery link in the post on the following page. From there, you can select either my or Tony’s gallery.

I won’t speak for Tony, seeing as he’s been busy with his MBA studies and hasn’t had a chance to update his photos just yet, but I’ve posted several new pictures in the Costa Rica Trips album and the Friends album. I’m particularly happy with the portraits in Friends, and encourage everyone to take a look!

Come Spring, we’ll be off and running with even more shoots. We also bought a house last April, which has given us much more flexibility with shoots at home.

Not much to say today, just wanted to draw everyone’s attention–once again–to my Miscellaneous folder. You’ll see that I’ve uploaded a replacement shot of “Writer’s Block”, which I re-did to correct some things from the first shoot. And on either side of it (we’re talking about the first row on page one, right when the album opens up) are my two newest shots: Gloves and Flower. No creative titles here, just file-names. I should probably get in the habit of actually titling these one of these days… =P

Hope everyone’s having a good week!

Alexandra

Hey everyone! Today’s just a quick post - just wanted to let you know about the four new photos I just uploaded.

Again, go to Gallery, and then click the Photo Gallery link, and click on my self portrait. Then click on my Miscellaneous folder, and the first four shots are the four new ones. Writer’s Block is pretty self-explanatory, and Winter Wonderland is just a pretty shot from the park the other day. Spines wasn’t executed as well as I would have liked, but I’ll probably try again sometime in the near future. Although it doesn’t illustrate the point I was trying to make as clearly as it could, it’s still a really nice shot. And as for the Glasses Composition, that was just something goofy I put together the other night when Tony and I were snowed in!

Enjoy!

As much as Tony and I both wish we had the time and money to go to a photo op like the Super Bowl, we sat instead at the local sports bar and enjoyed the game with fellow Des Moines-ians. This weekend did not pass without capturing a few good photos, however. If you have a minute, click on Gallery >> Picture Gallery >> Alexandra Cañas’ Photography >> Miscellaneous, and then go to the last page and view the last two photos, you’ll see the two from this weekend that made it to the site.

The first of the two, The Many Faces of Tony (I don’ t know if the full title is listed there) is just hilarious. Open it up to view several different stages of Tony’s goofiness. The middle one stands out as the one photo with Tony’s big, sincere smile, while the other ones get progressively goofier as you go. I had fun taking them, as well as putting them together in a single-view composition.

The second one was just something I took when Tony came home from work on Friday, took off his shoes, and sat down to relax. I had a fire going, and the gold light on the red shoes looked pretty nifty, so I got as near the shoes as I dared and snapped a few.

Football isn’t really my thing, so during the game tonight, I brainstormed a few photo-shoot ideas I might go for in the near future. I’ve gotten really comfortable with portrait photography, but would like to explore more content-based work, too. It’s my goal to send at least a few photos out to photography magazines, card/calendar companies, and contests before the year’s done, so we’ll see where this takes me!

Tony plans on posting in the near future as well, to let everyone know his scoop on his own current projects!

We’ll catch everyone later!

-Alexandra.

Hey everyone! The blog side of our site has finally gone public, and so I thought I’d show everyone what it’s all about. More than anything, we’ll publish information about photos we’ve added to our personal gallery. For example, I went on a shoot yesterday. Being 50 degrees out, I just had to get out and enjoy it before it drops down to negative 20 again! I took a few shots that I really liked, and you can find them in the Miscellaneous folder on my side of the gallery. “Random Shoot 3″ and “Random Shoot 5″ are at the bottom of the first page, and “Random Shoot 8″ and “Mask from Venice” are at the bottom of the third. Those first two, 3 and 5, are definitely my personal favorites.

In case you’re not sure how to navigate to our gallery now that we’ve added these other components to the site, I’ll explain that. Up at the top right side of the page here, you’ll see the Gallery link. And because that portion of the site uses a different software than the textual part, you’ll find a second link as soon as that page opens up. Just click on the link, and you’re right there at our personal collection.

Thanks everyone! Hope you enjoyed yetserday’s heat-wave as much as I did!

-Alexandra.

In order to have a place where we can post some textual information, we decided to add a blog component to the site.