Trystan Photography: An Intimate Portrait.

What in the world are “The Trystan Way” and “The Petite”?

It’s a revolutionary way to think about fine art photography. They are two portrait programs optimized for the two most pressing demands we’ve seen from our wonderful clientele over the last 6 years:

a) “The Trystan Way” is a guided, hands-on approach to the creation of custom artwork for your home and office.

b)”The Petite” is a fast, affordable, and easy way to get portraits to share online and access to the most popular sizes of standard prints for friends and family.

“The Trystan Way” is a premium service, entirely based around custom quotes for the commissioning of completely unique display art  in the home or office. “The Trysan Way” is the pinnacle of fine art photography. We’ll help you from start to finish, from planning to installing the final piece on the wall.

In this age of digital photography, many aspects of the art and power of photography are becoming lost to more imminent needs such as ease of sharing and access to the digital files. While we will not deny that it is a wonderful thing to share these amazing moments and photos with family and friends all over the world, we feel it is imperative that our clientele still have an option to take advantage of one of the most rewarding and satisfying experiences of fine art photography: the creation of custom art that surpasses mere portraiture and becomes a priceless heirloom for generations to come!

While this service does mean you’ll need to make a more meaningful investment than “The Petite”, it provides each client with expert guided care along every step of the process of creating stunning artwork for the home.

No concept is too aggressive. Dream big and beautiful and become part of “The Trystan Way”. Please visit our pricing page or call us at 719.359.5520 for more details on the “Trystan Way”.

“The Petite” is the best of both worlds: the finest photography, but in a more compact and timely form.” The Petite” is perfect for those who know they won’t want wall portraits, and are interested in standard sizes (from wallets to 8×10′s) or digital files. It includes a Mini-session, online proofing and ordering for two weeks. It’s fast, easy, and (other than the session), done completely from the comfort of your own home!

 

 

My God in Heaven, after nearly a month of arguing with Vonage’s (SUCKS) completely inept customer service reps… TRYSTAN PHOTOGRAPHY HAS 719.359.5520 AS A PHONE NUMBER AGAIN!!!

Nearly a month ago, our main business phone number of 6 years was “slammed”. That’s when somebody fraudulently poses as you, and steals your number. To what end I don’t know. Initially, our number just went dead, but then it started ringing to a family here in Colorado Springs!! They started receiving our business calls!!! And the best part, Vonage says it has no idea where the number is, but then it turns out the family getting the calls are new Vonage (SUCKS) customers! And for a month, that’s the story. A Vonage customer is receiving calls from our number, and yet Vonage says it has no idea where the number is. It’s been a nightmare.

I can’t believe how hard this was to fight the number slamming. Whoever faked our identity and put in the fraudulent transfer really put the screws to us last month. The phone line going dead really worried some of our wedding clients, obviously. How many potential business calls did we miss for portraits? My cell phone was ringing off the hook last month, but how many people didn’t find that number and just stopped trying?!?

I have to tip my hat to Verizon, though. Even though they were the company to which the number was slammed, they worked their butts off to track this down and find the fraudulent order and get the number back to Vonage (SUCKS). The rep from Verizon actually got into an argument with the rep from Vonage (SUCKS) because the Vonage (SUCKS) rep kept insisting that because the transfer was “authorized” Vonage (SUCKS) could do no more. The Verizon rep kept insisting that because the original owner was on the phone saying that the transfer was fraudulent, that Vonage (SUCKS) should file a fraud claim and take the number back! “Nothing we can do: it was a “legitimate” transfer…”

“I am telling you it is fraud. It’s me!! I’m telling you this, THE OWNER OF THE NUMBER!!”

“Yeah, but the transfer was legitimate” Dear God, I might have reached through the phone and done horrible things at that point…

1 month Vonage (SUCKS)!!!! 1 month you’ve left me, my business, and my family hanging. The entire “single contact” department at Verizon was working on this at one point with conference calls and constant contact with me. My “Executive Response Team” member at Vonage (SUCKS) won’t even return my phone calls for the last two days.

Did I mention they charged me a $90 cancellation fee and a $50 activation fee because I “transferred” the number out and then brought it “back in”? What a bunch of incompetent fools.

I got an email yesterday from a past client who is chair of an auction committee for an annual fundraiser event for www.MyLifeline.org.  MyLifeline is an INCREDIBLE nonprofit organization based in Denver that provides free personal websites for cancer patients. Using their website, patients can easily update friends and family on the progress of their treatment, allowing them to focus on healing and recovery. It truly makes a difference!  They will be holding a Kentucky Derby themed party this year at Invesco Field as a fundraiser.

Tryg and I have decided to do donate to the silent auction and hopefully we can attend the event as well.  MyLifeline.org looks like an incredible foundation and I’m hoping to get involved with this more.  If you are interested in making a donation or becoming a company sponsor please contact:

Kristen Kirsh

@ Alisa Benay Bridal Couture

Cell: 303.646.7055

www.alisabenay.com

www.alisabenay.com/blog

Kristen represents a bridal line “Alisa Benay Bridal Couture.”  which are incredible vintage inspired wedding gowns, and the designer is local. You should check out her website if you get a minute. These dresses make me want to plan a 2nd wedding (to Tryg again, of course)!

For those of you who are already a fan of our fan page on Facebook, you’ve probably already seen the updates about this…

For those of you that are not a fan already: 1st of all, “Shame, shame…”, 2nd of all you need to get over to the fan page (http://www.facebook.com/trystanphotography), become a fan, and check out the note we wrote about the new “Facebook Fan Foto Contest”.

Fabulous prizes, fame, and unending amounts of envy from others await you and your favorite wedding photo!

Loyal readers and the women of Colorado: Trystan Photography is delighted to announce after months of hard work and design, our co-founder Charlotte Bundgaard has launched her own boutique boudoir photography brand, “L Boudoir“.

L Boudoir is now the premier boudoir studio in Denver and Colorado Springs. Charlotte’s art has achieved new heights of unmatched skill, and we’re so excited to showcase it within such a sexy new brand like “L Boudoir”.

So please stop by the new blog-site! Ladies: make sure to share it with your friends, and make sure to grab the L Boudoir RSS feed so you can stay up-to-date on all of Charlotte’s latest announcements!

Got a Facebook account? Become a fan of L Boudoir’s Facebook Page here.

Don’t miss out on our annual wedding special!

If you book your wedding with us before 1/31/2010 and include a Graphistudio wedding album, and get two 6″ parent’s album copies FREE!

It’s a great savings and a wonderful gift for your parents. Schedule your consultation today!

In Denver call 303.872.4678, and in the Springs call 719.359.5520 or e-mail us at info@trystanphotography.com.

Check out our sample Graphistudio album layouts

At the writing of this blog post, there is t-minus 12 hours left until Trystan Photography’s 1st ever Viral Fan Challenge comes to a close.

Don’t miss out on your chance to win fabulous prizes.

It’s easy to enter. Simply go to the discusssion board at our Facbook Fan Page and check out the official rules. Oh yeah, you have to have a Facebook profile to play. (Sorry Myspace users.)

What is a VFC (Viral Fan Challenge)? It’s a series of simple steps that you have to complete that will promote Trystan Photography virally through social networks.

What are the fabulous prizes? You can chose to have your name entered in one of two drawings for either a brand new Ipod Touch (8 GB), or a $500 gift certificate to Trystan Photography. Interestingly, there a very few entrants for the Ipod: everybody wants the gift certificate. (What do you think about them apples, Apple?!?)

So check out the rules, complete the challenge, enter the drawing… and good luck!

It’s that time of year again, and the Colorado Springs Independent has opened voting for it’s annual “Best of” awards. Kim, Charlotte and I are very proud of our loyal clients, and we’re very content and happy with just being self-employed and paying the bills! However, there comes a time when one thinks, “Hey, it’d be fun to win an award…”

Well, it would be fun to win an award this year.

So, we humbly ask if you valued your photography from us, if you could please venture on over to the CS Indy’s Online Ballot and pencil us in for “Best Photographer” that would be awesome! (You’ll find that category at the bottom of the survey)

Thank you to all of our clients for such great referrals and all the good word: 2009 is the best year ever for weddings at Trystan Photography!

We are absolutely honored by the demand for our work.

The Highlights:

All packages now include the wedding & engagement digital files on disc.

The engagement session now includes a custom photo book for guests to sign.

Graphistudio albums include Kodak Metallic pricing.

It’s rare when you stumble across a talent so gifted and natural that it inspires you as a photographer.

Photography is hard for most. It’s easier for some. And then there are the few that make it look almost effortless.

Kim Harms has that kind of talent. She takes photos that are so stunning, and yet she is so unassuming about the whole thing, that it kindles a kind of jealousy within me. That’s right. I said it. Jealousy.

Char and I knew we were onto something special years ago when Kim first started assisting for us. She has this incredible eye which coupled with her completely unassuming demeanor makes it very fun and relaxing to shoot with her. She never seems stressed, she never seems bothered, and photography never seems hard for her.

And the best part is there has never been a photo shoot of her’s that we didn’t look through the shots and think at least once: how did she do that?!?

Charlotte and I are her biggest fans. And I couldn’t be more excited or proud to announce that Kim Harms has paid her dues, earned her stripes, and is now a lead portrait photographer with Trystan Photography!

All of Kim’s work is tremendous, but I think she especially shines in her newborn portraits and babies / kids portraits, which she’ll be specializing in for Trystan Photography. I’ve posted some of my favorites from her portfolio of newborn portraits below.

I just have one question: How does she get those babies to sleep like that!?! How!?! I couldn’t do that with my kids, ever.

So if you have an adorable newborn: call us!.. or know someone with a newborn: forward this onto them! You simply don’t see newborn portraits like these everyday!