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Start of our new website (st cloud photographers)

Well I finally have part of our new website up and running. It’s really amazing how long it takes to look through thousands of photographs but I did it. Right now the Portrait section is up (families, children, maternity, newborns and young models). My new high school senior section will be up in about another week and I’ll be adding to it over the next few months. I’m really stoked as I think it’s going to be very cool. Not to mention I was lucky to photograph some very photogenic kids last summer!

I’m also working on my Bombshell Boudoir section. I’ve been photographing some amazing women over the past few years and will be having a real showcase type website to show off the stunning images we’ve created.

If you see anything not working that should be (portraits, about and contacts) please drop me an email and let me know exactly what page you were on and what didn’t work. I’d be forever grateful.

I’ll have to find some time to tell everyone who’s on my new site that I’ve used their pictures…

Thank you to everyone who follows my photography and all the fun things we do at our studio.

Wow! What a response at the St Cloud Wedding Expo

For those of you that know us, you must be like, “What? Wedding Expo? But you don’t shoot weddings!” We may not shoot weddings but we do get the brides self esteem built up before her wedding with our Bombshell Boudoir photography! We have been shooting amazing, classy boudoir photography for years but in the past few years it’s become the HOTTEST thing for brides to do a stunning boudoir session and then present their man with a gorgeous book of images on their wedding night (or the day before).

This was our first time showing off our Bombshell Boudoir photography at a wedding expo and all I can say is WOW! What a response we got from brides-to-be. We had almost 200 brides register for our Prize give-away of a Bombshell Boudoir session and a beautiful album chock full of their gorgeous pictures.

We have emailed our winner but are anxiously awaiting for her to call back and verify her entry. So if you were at the expo, check your email now!

If you are interested in doing your own Bombshell Boudoir photo shoot, give us a call and we can talk about all the options we have available and then custom design a photo shoot for you. We also have group sessions available for bachelorette parties and just a BFF party. Call us today at 320-253-4143.

Bombshell Boudoir Mark Stein Photography

Kelly

Kids and Summer Time (St Cloud Photographer)

It looks like we are finally going to get some relief from the frigid cold weather we have been having. My brother in Arizona just laughs when I tell him how excited I am that it’s going to get to about 34 degrees! I stop him from telling me about the 75 degree temps they are having right now.

So I thought it would do us all some good to see some sites of summer and what better to bring out the joy we get from summer months can a couple of cute little kids out in the green grass.

Do you like shooting & editing video?

I’m looking for a high school or college student who wants to do a little video project with me. I have a video I need to shoot & edit and I am thinking there may be a student out there who wants to help out with this little project of mine and get a little more experience. This is more of an intern-type project so you’d be working for the experience instead of cash…and of course it’s going to be fun! If you are interested, please call me and tell me what skills you have regarding video shooting and editing. Call me at 320-253-4143 Mon-Fri from 10-5.

I have a sony hi def video camera that records to tape and a Canon 5D Mark II that shoots video too. For software I work on PC’s and use Sony Vegas for editing.

Call me at 320-253-4143 Mon-Fri from 10-5.

Little One-year-old (St. Cloud children’s photographer)

We’ve been photographing Addison since she was in her mommy’s tummy! OK, so she was just a bump at that time. LOL She was such a cute little newborn too and now It’s hard to believe she is one year old! Happy Birthday Addison!

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Beautiful little family (St. Cloud family photographer)

Another beautiful family! Mia was so good and kept up her sweet personality for the whole session. Mom is the photographer of the family so it’s not too often she gets included in the pictures so we made sure to get plenty of mom with her little baby. We sure had fun!

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Alli Gaulin - Adorable family, Mark! Great work!

Mark - Thanks Alli!

Carol - Mark, these pictures are wonderful.....As the proud grandma of Mia and Mom of Alissa...These pictures made my day!

Cameron, Caleb and Anna Lee (St. Cloud family photographer)

I spent a super fun evening with these wonderful kids and their horses. Cameron and Caleb have done very well in the rodeo arena and have awesome belt buckles to prove it. Cameron, Caleb, Anna Lee and I had a great time capturing their brother/sister friendships and the love of their horses. We even managed to get a sunset shot Enjoy!

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Alli Gaulin - Love love love this session. What absolutely gorgeous kids.

Congratulations Kelsey! Homecoming Queen!

We recently found out one of our seniors was crowned homecoming queen of her high school! Congratulations Kelsey! Here’s a few from Kelsey’s senior photo shoot. We just loved her “snowboarding hair”!

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Jessi - These are absolutely stunning Mark! What a beautiful girl!!

Mark - Thanks Jessi, I appreciate that. Yeah, Kelsey sure is beautiful I have to agree with that!

Kelsey - Thanks so much Mark! You're awesome! :)

Update from the trenches.

Hello everyone. Well, OK, not everyone but all of you who wander by our blog to see what’s going on and find out what photo shoots we’ve been up to.

It’s been way too long since I’ve updated our blog and to be frank we’ve just been plain busy. I’m not talking a little busy, I’m talking record breaking busy! This has been our busiest year since I got back into photography about 8 years ago. For the most part it’s been Jes and I and man, things got away from us and slowly but surely we started to get behind. The good news is that we should be pretty much caught up in the next week.

We still have record orders to work on but at least our proofbooks should be caught up. Thank you for your patience if you’ve had to wait a bit longer for your proofbooks…we love you for being patient!

Alright, on to more things going on. We are working (mostly after hours) on designing and building a new web site. It’s really exciting to see our new simple, elegant design starting to take shape.

We’ll have more sections to showcase our variety of incredible (OK, so we think we’re pretty good so incredible is not too strong of a word we don’t think) photography. New sections will be Seniors, Families and Children (mostly our storyteller sessions which we have been doing a lot of lately), our Beautiful Boudoir (gorgeous intimate, sexy artistic, stunning images of women who want to do this for themselves or as an amazing gift for the man in their life), our modeling sessions and our commercial work along with links to our blog and some bio info.

Stacey just told me it’s time to head home so we’ll leave it at this for now but really hope you can find time to call us or stop in and let us create some beautiful photography for you!
Mark

Brianna–stunning girl, extreme urban world!

This year we wanted to shake up our summer a bit and offered seniors a chance to head to Minneapolis for an Xtreme Urban Trek photo shoot. A few seniors took the plunge and found themselves in the heart of the warehouse district in Minneapolis with me, Mark Stein as their photographer. This is Brianna in her awesome photo shoot. We photographed her both at her home and also downtown Minneapolis as well.

You know, she is a typical teenager and her many looks show off the numerous aspects of a teenager’s personality. You really kicked this shoot Brianna and thanks Miki for coming along to tame the wind!

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Mands - Inspirational and stunning...she is gorgeous and so are your images....as always

mary johnson - Stunning subject - these images are everything... thanks for sharing.