Online Dating Profile Pictures

Online dating profile pictures are important to catching the eye to potential suitors. But no one wants a stuffy head shot or a photo that doesn't represent their personality. Enter Chrissy. When Chrissy hired me to do her dating profile pictures but like most people she hates getting her picture taken.


So we sat down and made a plan. She likes wine, cooking, throwing dinner parties, and hanging out with great friends. She travels all over the world and is so awesome to talk to that I almost forgot to take photos!

With this plan we decided to head to Kepler's Book Store to pick up some magazine on cooking and grab a glass of lemonade and scone the neighborhood cafe.



Chrissy wanted the photos to be professional but still casual. While chatting with her doing the session in Menlo Park, she mentioned that she loves going to the beach and a thought popped in my mind...

...Let's go to the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay! They have great wine, a killer view, and amazing service. Unfortunately it was extremely windy and freezing cold! So we headed inside to the restaurant and grabbed a glass of wine.



And before heading back we enjoyed the nice warm fire place and then headed back over the hill just in time for Chrissy to make her dinner party.

Chrissy, it was so awesome hanging out with you! We will have to do it again, especially when it's warmer on the coast.

Vote and Help a Great Charity!!

Hello all! If you follow my blog you know that I am participating in the International Charity Model Search. All proceeds from the voting goes to the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation which assists families who are about to loose or have lost a newborn child.

Please vote for the family I have submitted to help support a great cause! To vote just search by my last name and click on the family's photo to vote. Go vote today!!!

Jenny and Ben Engagement Photographs

Jenny is a HUGE San Francisco Giant's fan. She loves going to the games and kicking it in her season ticket seats right behind where Barry Bond's use to play outfield. With so many games to go to in the baseball season, Jenny posted an ad online to see if she could find someone to attend the games with....and Ben answered!







For their engagement photographs, Jenny had a clear idea of what she wanted. She wanted to have her photos taken at AT&T Park, where the Giants play. I was so excited about the location and love how Jenny and Ben brought ideas and their own unique spin to the photography session.




One of the ideas that I loved was the baseball with the engagement ring photo that Jenny thought up! She even supplied the baseball and I totally love how it came out.


Ben was great throughout the session. He likes baseball and going to the games too. Jenny wanted a baseball shaped wedding cake, but for a nice compromise they decided to do the engagement photographs at the ballpark and have a traditional wedding cake.



J.T. Snow is one of Jenny's favorite players (after all isn't he everyone's favorite player)? And she stopped to pose with his plaque on the sidewalk across from the ballpark.







After taking shots outside the ballpark, we got to head inside to take some photos in Jenny's season ticket seats. Great seats! I'm going to have to wrangle a trip to a ballgame from them. ;-)

Finally to wrap up we took some photos in front of the main gate. It was a great day, perfectly sunny, and a day that I will remember due to the great company of Jenny and Ben!

Nominee for Best Wedding Photographer

We are proud to announce that Rhonda Giedt Photography has been nominated for Best Wedding Photographer by Bay List! Voting starts in a couple of weeks, so get your clicking finger ready to vote. We'll be sending a reminder when the voting starts.

3 Pain-Free Reasons to get a Family Portrait

There are 3 Pain-Free Reasons to get a Family Portrait taken right now.

1. You could win a new car!
By participating in the International Charity Model Search to find North America's Cutest Family, you could win a new car.

2. You're helping out a good cause!
The Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep charity helps families during a very difficult time in their life. You can find out more about the charity here http://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/.

3. Gift giving ideas for the year!
With Mother's Day, Father's Day, and those birthdays of the Grandparents coming up, you can get a jump on your gift giving by giving what everyone loves....a family portrait!

5 Reasons to take Engagement Photographs

Planning your wedding involves many details, lots of appointments with wedding vendors, and a ton of decisions to be made and the last thing you feel that you have is extra time. Therefore you may ask yourself, do I really need to have Engagement Photographs when I have fifty thousand things to do?

The answer is yes and here are 5 Reasons to take Engagement Photographs!

1. You'll get to know your wedding photographer better.
Doing an engagement session gives your and your wedding photographer an opportunity to get to know each other better. You will get to see how your wedding photographer works, directs, and poses you. You will also be able to give feedback on poses that you like and don't like and to bring up any additional questions you may have before the wedding. In addition, the photographer will get to know you and your finance's personalities more and be able to reflect that in your wedding photographs.



2. You'll get use to having a camera in your face.
Unless you are a celebrity, you are not use to having someone around taking photos constantly and having a flash go off every now and then. The more comfortable you are around the camera and your photographer, the more nature your wedding photographs will come out.

3. You'll be able to personalize your wedding.
Using engagement photos for Save-The-Date cards, wedding favors, or wedding decoration accents gives your wedding a more personal touch. Frame photos can sit near the table where guest can pick up their seating assignments or as an entry way welcome to your guests.


If it's hot out, you can use the photos to make a unique fan that guests will ooohhh and ahhhh over.


Or you can use it as part of your favors, such as making a CD with your favorite songs as a couple to hand out to guests.


4. Make your guest book be memorable.
Engagement photographs can be used in photo guest books. Or a framed photo with an extra large boarder can be used signed by guests and later hang in your home as decoration.

5. Announcing your engagement.
In years past, formal engagement announcements were always put in the newspaper. Now a days, announcements go out on social networking sites, email, and several other electronic methods. And as they say, a photo says a thousand words, so make your announcement even more special with an engagement photo.

Model Search to find North America's Cutest Family

Rhonda Giedt Photography is participating in the International Charity Model Search to select North America’s Cutest Family and to raise funds for the non-profit Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation. (NILMDTS.org)

Are your loved ones North America’s Cutest Family? We’ll give you the opportunity to prove it! Many exciting prizes will be awarded, and the grand prize winner receives a new car!

Model Search Special:
$50 entrance fee includes a 30-minute model session and one image submitted to the national gallery.

Finalists will be determined by online votes. Each vote is $1 (no limit on the amount of votes you can cast), and all proceeds from votes benefit Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (NILMDTS.org).

Grand prize international winner will be determined from the 52 city finalists. The winners will be selected from the finalist gallery by photography and modeling industry experts. The winning family also receives a session with the renowned portrait artist Sandy Puc’ and international recognition.

Call 415-336-3834 now to enter your family in this exciting contest.

*Contest open to residents of the US and Canada. For more information, visit http://sandypucmodels.com/.