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Welcome to our Blog!

Driven by their passion for photography and inspired by their children, Joshua and Jennifer Barut truly make a perfect photography duo. With their professional, yet easy going personalities they will make your special day relaxed, hassle free, and fun. The Baruts pride themselves on treating every client like close friends. They see every opportunity to capture your most precious memories an honor. With their creative eyes, attention to detail, and friendly, approachable nature they have become one of the most sought after photographers on the islands and now in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their gift of connecting with people and consistently delivering beautiful images will help turn your photographic dreams into reality. No matter what your event may be they will give you a portrait that you will cherish for a lifetime.

 

WPPI Lensbaby

We have been attending WPPI (Wedding And Portrait Photographers International) this week and we are having lots of fun. Here is a fun shot of us with the lensbaby fisheye lens. What do you think? Do you like it? This might be our next invesment for fun senior portraits. High school seniors that is! Well we will keep in touch this week with all our customers so we can tell you all the exciting new things we are offering.

Cutest Kid Photo Contest

We are running a “Cutest Kid Photo Contest” for the month of March all the eligible photos will be placed on our Paradise Design and Photography Fan Page. Become a FAN of us to cast votes and enter the contest. Don’t have FB that is fine! Email us the photo and we will add it to the contest. The photo with the most votes wins a FREE EASTER SESSION!!!! How does that sound? We want to see cute, fun and silly photos of your children. They don’t have to be professional just cute! We know that everyone has the cutest kid in the world so lets have fun with this one. Photos must be entered by March 26th and voting will end March 31st. Your friends can cast their votes by fanning us on FB and leaving a comment or a LIKE on your photo. So what are you waiting for? Enter today!

Ceviche

For dinner I made ceviche and tortilla chips. It is a low calorie yummy dinner. It can be eaten as a appetizer or main dish. It is about 175 cal per cup! If you want the reciepe post a comment and I will share it with you.

OK, What is This Now!!!!

Wow!!! That is all I can say about the newest gadget that Gary Fong invented or should I say got the idea from Zack Arias’ Darksphere [link]. My question is why now is he trying to create dimensional lighting when all of his previous products are meant to take them away? Well to each his own.

Below is an image I found of the Darksphere and here is the [link] on how to DIY your own from his original tupperware version. That is if you bought one like me.


Halie – 2 Years

Here is a little teaser of Halie’s session today. She is going to be 2 this weekend. How time flies! She has taken my heart away, she has got to be one of the sweetest little girls. I love her smile and the way she says “what you doing?” (even though it drives me nuts sometimes) Halie and her family have been such a blessing to our family over the last 2 years and we look forward to helping her celebrate many more birthdays in the future.

FREE PHOTO SESSION

That is right, FREE!!!! You want a free photo session? It is so easy! We would love to help you get a photo session and Canvas Gallery Wraps for your wall all for FREE! How does that sound? I went to a Jewelry Sales Convention with my Aunt this weekend and got inspired to offer more free items for you when you help us book sessions for your friends and family. It is amazing to me how being around people no matter what business they are in can be such an inspiration to help our customers while they help us. We have some of the best customers in the world and we want to work a program out with you so you can earn your photos for free!

Rising Sun

Just ate at Rising Sun which is a sushi bar restaurant in Village Square on the corner of Sahara and Fort Apache. It was fresh and yummy. I didn’t take a photo of the sushi but did take a photo of the plates. I will uplaod it later cause I don know how to upload photots to my blog from the iPhone.

02/03/10 Add to review

So I figured out that iphone has an app for wordpress!!! Yes, I will see how it works next time I am out to do reviews and what not. But, I did want to post the picture and add’l comments about our experience at Rising Sun.

As I look back at our Sunday Sushi I am still salivating the experience and wanting more. Rising Sun had very yummy sushi and they also had a really good deal for lunch. They have lunch combos with 3 choices for only $9.95 you can choose from about 10 different things including some of the basic sushi rolls. I wanted some specialty rolls so I also orders The Rising Sun Roll (It had Shrimp Tempura, Asparagus and topped with Ahi Tuna) We ordered another called Hot and Spicy (can’t remember what was in it but this was my favorite!!!) We ordered one more roll but can’t remember the name off the top of my head. They topped all the rolls with different sauces which were very good but the Hot and Spicy could have done without the sauce. I must say I am picky about the rice and how fresh it is. Their rice was pretty fresh but, I have had better. The sushi was good and the prices were reasonable. If you head to Rising Sun come back and comment and let me know what you thought.

Fuddruckers

We went to Fuddruckers last night and we found out that kids eat free on Tuesday! What a drag as we went on Monday. But, want to be sure to share with you. They said both locations honor kids eat free Tuesday but call before you go to make sure.

On Twitter!!!!

I am now on Twitter! Wow! That is right taking a step into to future.

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Jen

Our 10 Year Anniversary

Here we are on our 10 year anniversary in Long Beach. Celebrating the best 10 years of our life!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY