Here's to New Beginnings :)

Yay it's been a few months in the making but I'd like to make a huge announcement:

NTME Photography is now 

Natasha Esguerra Photography!!!!

Wooohooo!!! And with that comes a new website, among other things!

Here's a screenshot of the new site!

www.natashaesguerra.com

Over the next few weeks I'll be completing the switch (for instance, getting Facebook to allow me to change the fanpage name hehe), so I thank you in advance for your patience through this process.  I felt this was the next logical step in being able to provide my clients with an even higher level of service, and to make it easier for people when I introduce my business name to them HAHAHA!  

Back in June, I was able to take Jerry Ghionis's 5-day workshop and I have to say it was definitely an eye-opener and game changer, both for my photography and for my business in general.  I am thankful that I was able to invest in such an amazing workshop and honestly, I don't even know which workshop could top his hahahahaha!  But yeah, thanks to the workshop, I was basically kicked in the butt in terms of finally changing my business name.  NTME, it was fun while it lasted hehe :)

As always, thank you to everyone who has been so supportive of me and my art throughout these past few years.  I am thankful above all to God for helping me to get where I am, and for the guidance I know He will continue to provide me along the way.

Here's to the photographs I've taken, and the ones I have yet to take :)

New Website to Celebrate 2 Years!!!

Yay!

On February 5 of this year, NTME Photography celebrated its 2 year anniversary!  I am just so thankful as I didn't know what to expect when I started this business.. they say you should have a plan, but all I knew is that I enjoyed taking pictures and wanted to touch the lives of others through doing this!

2 years later though, I do have a plan, I have goals I wish to reach, and dreams that I will entrust to God.  No matter what happens, I just pray I will be allowed to keep doing what I love as it really has brought such happiness in my life.

I know I just unveiled a website like last August, but here I am again!  I've been using Showit for my webdesign, and felt that I wasn't using it to its full potential, so suddenly I found myself redesigning it over the past 2 weeks.  Thanks to everyone who helped me through my rounds of edits, your input was VERY valuable and I definitely incorporated  a lot of suggestions into my final design.

I put the link at the bottom of the post, as I hope you will go along for a journey with me through the post first HAHAHA :)

Here's some screen shots of my original site:

Main entrance page:

Wedding home page:

Now here's the EVOLUTION.. What I first started with, it's definitely a bit busy and hard to keep the focus on the center panel where all the images would be.  But I liked the personality, as it reflects me HAHAHAHA:

Gallery home page draft:

And this is what I ended up with (more focus on the panel where the images will be, as a lot of people suggested to make it bigger and everything else smaller).  I wanted it to reflect my personality but not to the point that it's ... too playful?  So I toned it down a bit.

Gallery page final:

Main entrance page:

 Weddings home page:

 About us!

Portrait home page 

(I decided to still keep a bit more of the .. color and my random facts panel with the portrait site lol):

Blog page:

Hope you like!  I am feeling very accomplished since I designed it myself.  I guess when you don't have the extra thousands laying around to get someone to do a redesign for you, you do what you can with what you got HAHAHAHA!  I'm very happy with the redesign and feel it's SOOO ME!!!!

Love you all!

Thanks so much for the 2 years, please help me to reach my 3rd by spreading the word :)

www.ntmephotography.com

A New Look, and a Big THANK YOU!

 Okay guys, I have been so anxious to share this with you for a few days.. but finally the moment is here!

I HAVE A NEW WEBSITE!! YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!

Click on the picture above, or click HERE!

The blog and other sites will be following suit, but I wanted to get my main website up and running first and foremost.  I decided to switch website companies in order to bring my website to the next level and so far I am VERY happy with the results.  Everything's gonna be turning white hehe!  The black and the purple are still there but, I wanted to go for a lighter feel, ya know?

My new packaging is arriving today as well, and I've been taking pictures of my latest albums, so I can't wait to share that with you all too!  In the meantime, I hope you like the new website, please message me if you have any troubles with it, so I can iron out the kinks!

And last but not least, I have to tell you guys something else:

THANK YOU to EVERYONE for your continued support of my business.  Many of you have been with me from the very beginning, even taking a chance on me when I was first starting out.  I wouldn't be where I am today without your support!  But I still have a ways to go, and I hope that you will continue to stick with me.  Please do not hesitate to recommend me to your friends and loved ones, and if they tell me that you referred me, I will definitely give you something to say "thank you"!

I love you all!

New Improved Website

So I know I just unveiled my website to the world about 2 weeks ago, but that was using a template because I didn't have much time to design a site from scratch.  But over the past two days, I have been able to work on a new and improved website.  My next project is to improve the appearance of this blog.  But in the meantime, I owe my hubby like 5 pairs of repaired pants (don't tell me how he managed to get holes in that many pants in the span of a week hahaha), and I also owe the apartment a good cleaning hehe.  Anyway, below is a screen shot of the home page.

I do hope you will check it out :)

NTME Photography

2010.02.15 NTME Photography is Born! Spelling Bee Coverage!

So, it's official, as of 2.5.10, I am officially a business owner!

I have started NTME Photography, along with my husband, Fred. Yay! It's a cool feeling, but at the same time, there's some anxiety b/c we don't know what lies ahead. But with God's help, we know everything will be A-Okay!

Here is my new website:

www.ntmephotography.com

Thanks to all those who have been supportive of us along the way! You are all so awesome. Also, special thanks to Joan Solitario from Es-Sense Photography who I have the pleasure of working with for various events. I've learned a lot from her, and I still have so much to learn!

We had a promotional gig last Tuesday, February 9, 2010 for a Spelling Bee at Cerritos High School. It was pretty exciting to watch, especially when it got down to the last two kids. Here are some pictures:

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Alright, that's it for now, back to editing my contracts and stuff. Paperwork isn't very fun :)