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I’m really excited about this! We have been turning the gears in our noggins for a while now trying to come up with a great referral program that will help us get more great clients to create beautiful images for and at the same time rewarding our referrers for their raving about us!

Introducing the new TNG Photography VIP Referral Program!

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For those of you who would rather read it here:

Here’s how it works:

Simply tell everyone about TNG Photography; your friends, co-workers, family, neighbors or anyone else you feel would make a great TNG Photography client! When your referral books a session then you and your referral will receive a few special perks! Plus, with every referral you submit, each referral affiliate will be entered into our Grand Prize drawing at the end of the year! The more referrals you make, the better your chances of winning!

Family & Children Portraits Referral: If your referral schedules a session, you will receive a $50 TNG Photography Gift Card for any future session and your referral will receive $50 off their session fee! If your referral orders a framed 30×40 or larger, you will receive a $100 gift card to Joe’s Stone Crab Restaurant in the Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace or the Grand Lux Café in the Venetian!

HS Senior Referral: If your referral schedules a senior portrait session with TNG Photography, you will receive a $25 TNG Photography Gift Card and your referral will receive $25 off their portrait package order.

Wedding Referral: If your wedding referral results in a booking, you will receive a $50 TNG Photography Gift Card and a “TNG Photo Movie Night” including 2 tickets to any Regal Cinemas and a $50 gift card to your choice of Macayo’s Mexican Restaurant, The Grand Lux Café at the Venetian or Joe’s Stone Crab in the Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace…oh, and your referral will receive a $100 credit towards any album order!

Pet Portrait Referral: Your referral receives $25 off their session fee and you receive a $25 TNG Photography Gift Card!

Commercial Portrait Referral: If your referral schedules their commercial portraits with TNG Photography you will receive a $50 TNG Photography Gift Card and your referral will get a whopping $25 off their session fee!

At the end of the year, TNG Photography will have a drawing for the grand prize of:

• 2 night stay at the luxurious Zion’s Edge Cabin (10 minutes from Zion National Park)
• $350 TNG Photography Portrait Credit

That’s not all!

At the end of the year, whoever has given the most referrals will be in for a special treat! Our top referral affiliate will receive:

• Dinner for 2 at The Grand Lux Café in the Venetian
• 2 Tickets to The Phantom of the Opera in the Venetian

We know you love TNG Photography so make sure you share the love with everyone you know! Send us an e-mail with the subject, “REFER” and we will send you a set of TNG Photography pass along cards to refer your friends and family! Just please include your contact information.

Thank you everyone! Feel free to call or e-mail us with any questions.-Nate

http://www.TNGphoto.com

(702)809-9763

A few months ago we noticed out by our air conditioner that there was a mysterious plant growing through our bushes and around our A/C unit. Kendra took the time one day to pull it out and we thought that was the end of it…nope. It grew back and now we are in awe at just how fast this mystery plant grows! It was growing along our back door and within 2 or 3 days it seemed to grow another foot and now it’s well, turning into something from a classic B-movie!

(Yes, we have a drinking fountain. 🙂 ) As you can see, the plant seems to have devoured our pooper scooper and is heading north up the concrete to possibly strangle the nearest sprinkler head. We were planning on pulling it up again but we ended up leaving it alone because we are curious as to how gigantic it is going to get and whether or not it will start singing musical theater and wanting to eat people in our neighborhood (in particular, our dentist). Like this guy -> 

Do any of you know what kind of plant this is?

Nate

http://www.TNGphoto.com  <- The new website should be up by the end of September. Just in time for the family portrait season! I can’t wait!

To this day, this is one of my favorite family portraits I’ve ever taken.

This was printed on a 30×40 canvas in a beautiful black frame. They also used it for their Christmas cards. On the cards they wrote, “Same shirt, different day.” 🙂 I thought it was a fun idea!

These 6 kids were some of the nicest I’ve ever met. When the session was over, they all offered to help me clean up! I was very impressed. This portrait s actually a composite image. They were all in the same photograph, yes, but I had to switch a few faces, heads and even entire bodies. The little girl on the left I traded out her face with an image where she was hugging onto her mother’s arm. The face of the little boy in the front was changed and the boy laying on his stomach on the right was swapped into this portrait because in the original, he was laying on his back. We photographers are always chasing after the “perfect portrait” and swapping faces, heads, arms, etc. is just one of the many tools we now use to get closer to that “perfect portrait.”

Have a great weekend everyone!

Nate

http://www.TNGphoto.com

CUTIE PIE CONTEST!!!

Here is how it works:

Attach a photo of your child to the TNG Photography Facebook wall by JULY 22nd. I will then upload them all into an album and have all the TNG fans vote The boy and girl  with the most votes will win a free session, including 2-5×7’s, 1-8×10, and 1 framed wall collage. I am loo…king forward to seeing your entries!!! psst…Don’t forget to tell your friends to enter too 🙂

ENTER HERE

Nate

http://www.TNGphoto.com

Hope you all had a great holiday! Kendra and I visited my dad up in a little town called New Harmony, Utah. We had a great time!

This passed weekend, Kendra and I went up to St. George, Utah to attend a family reunion. I won’t say much about that other than it isn’t much different than any of your family reunions; food, talking, food then goodbyes. What I do want to talk about is my stay at the hotel. I’m not about to plug the Holiday Inn or anything. I just noticed something…something rather strange. What is it you ask? Well, proceed 3 lines down to find out!

Welcome back! Ok, so what I noticed about being in a hotel is that every single time I stay in a hotel, I always end up watching these three things on TV.

1) A Dennis Quaid movie.

It doesn’t matter which one I watch because there’s always 3 selections to choose from and they’ll play multiple times during the night.

2) A pastor of some sort.

Now, I have my own faith but for some reason if there’s a pastor on tv and I’m in a hotel, I will devote at least 15 minutes to listen to what they are selling. This weekend, I listened to a pastor try to sell me faith for $1,000.

3) Workout DVDs.I seem to always be eating pizza, burger or a bottle of high fructose corn syrup whenever I’m in a hotel and lo and behold I ingest a good 30 minutes to 22 hours worth of workout advertisements. Be it the P90X, Insanity workout, Brazil Butt Lift or a machine that not even the most health conscious supermodels look good doing. Maybe I’m just jealous… sigh.

Nate

http://www.TNGphoto.com

It’s a very busy and fun month! Last Saturday I photographed a young couple’s wedding day portraits. I can’t help but feel a little old in comparison. It’s been amazingly windy the passed few moths in Vegas and lo and behold it was quite windy on their special day too but we made the most of it. Here are a few from the day…

And just for fun, here’s a little project I did for my friend/2nd mom/Mary Poppins fan Wendy who designed her own cookbook of her favorite cookie recipes to give to her family. She had me design the cover for her and this is what we came up with.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go write my 6th grade English teacher a letter explaining why I began my previous sentence with the word “and”. Thanks everyone!

Nate

http://www.TNGphoto.com

I’ve been photographing these two their whole lives. Lorelai and Peyton are always fun to photograph and I guess being photographed by me is now built into their subconscious because they always cooperate. Here’s a quick little video I made of my favorites from the session. Enjoy!

Nate

TNG Photography

http://www.TNGphoto.com

Kendra and I had 2 11×14 portraits made of our parents and hung them on both sides of the 16×20 of us. Kendra then took some decals and completed the ensemble. Our big wall now looks so much nicer.

The letters are a little crooked here and there but stop bugging us about it! We’ll fix it! 🙂

Hope everyone is having a good week! We have some cool promotions coming in April so stay tuned on the blog and the Facebook page and your e-mails!

Nate

http://www.TNGphoto.com

p.s.

TNGphoto.com is being redesigned! It’s gonna be great!

I recently printed and framed a 16×20 print of Kendra and I. Our intention was to hang it in the bedroom where the wall space would suit it better. On Friday, Kendra came home before I was about to hang the portrait.

“Where do you want it?” I asked even though in my head I had somewhere in mind.

“There!” She pointed above the hutch in our living room.

Here’s how it looks…

Don’t worry, our intention is to hang a few other photos around it to fill up the space but this is a perfect example of why the size of the wall dictates how large you should print your portraits. If we weren’tgoing to print additional portraits to hang around this one, I would much rather this space to be occupied by a 24×30 or larger… to answer your question, yes, I AM that into looking at myself. 🙂

Here’s Kendra relaxing after work, spreading the good word about the new portrait. 🙂

Our dog, Ralf looking rather paranoid.  🙂

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everybody!

Nate

http://www.TNGphoto.com