2008

Another year wrapped, Jeni and I finished up the last of our weddings on Sat. A great busy year, we'll take off a few days, set up our booth at the Premier Bride shows in Jackson (TEL COM Center) and in Tupelo for the next two weekends and wrap up a few loose ends before the end of January. A great 2008 is ahead, Jeni and I wish to thanks all of our clients for a memorable 2007 and wish everyone a great and wonderful 2008. Check back often, since I now have a few minutes to breathe we'll update our site some more. Happy New Year from Wiggins Photography to all in Mississippi and the rest of the world!

Thanksgiving

As Jeni and I take a few moments off from the hustle and hurry of this Holiday Season this morning, we snuggle on the couch with Kaitie and Eric and watch the Macys parade and enjoy a little family time. I realize that we do have a lot to be thankful for, sometimes we forget as the hours and days blur together with the stress of business life. I wanted to take a few quick minutes and thank all of our clients from this year and wish everyone the best! May you have the time you need this season, whether its surrounded by family or a few moments of quite time, all the best from Wiggins Photography.

Seasonal Sessions

After another busy week, Jeni and I have put the final touches on our Seasonal Sessions. This year, Wiggins Photography will offer our 'a time for thanks' and 'a visit with santa' sessions as matted and framed art pieces as well as our cute image folios perfect for your purse or desk. Selected images from 'a visit with santa' sessions are hand worked in a style reminicent of The Saturday Evening Post, printed on fine art paper imported from Germany and signed. We will be using an old world, very rustic look with our 'a time for thanks' sessions, with each selected image hand worked and custom printed in order to achieve a distinct feel of times gone by. Our available sessions are very limited for 'a visit with santa', and will include a personalized snack from santa for our young visitors, an 6-8 image pocket folio for mom (or dad), and of course an heirloom print ready for display. Give Jeni a call today (601-853-3273) and reserve your session for this very special time of year.

New Presentations

Another busy day. Almost all day behind the computer screen, between artwork for finished images preparing for printing and prepping new presentations for our updated site, of course thats Wiggins Photography. The three wedding related shows that went live are for our some of our vendor friends here in Mississippi (check out the work of Wiggins Photography at The Old Capitol Inn, at Dunleith in Natchez and a few of the cakes from That Special Touch. Jeni and I will be adding additional shows for our brides, select portrait sessions as well as the other vendors on our vendors page as we have time, now if we can just add about 10-15 hours to each day.........till next time

Site Updates

A lot of you will have noticed that we have finally had the opportunity to begin the updates to our site (a very long process thats been a long time coming). Our Home page and Wedding page have both been updated, my goal is to get the final presentations complete in the next few weeks (easy enough to do, except we do have a few other thing going on!) Our Fall Harvest and Santa Sessions will be open for reserving sessions soon, more on that later. Our studio make over is almost complete, just a matter of one last wall to texture and paint, check back and keep looking for a slide show showcasing our home away from home. Till next time....

Undewater Bridal

Lots of requests to see more of our underwater bridal images we did of Kim (yes, we had a blast and will be doing more). Kim is a great sport, though a little tired the next day, but these art images are well worth the effort. Jeni and I, the team at Wiggins Photography, hope you enjoy the artistry we create in our images.

back to School

Finally back to somewhat of a routine, Patrick is back at college for his second year, called to let us know he did get first chair trumpet. Eric is settling in to his old school routine, and Kaitie is currently just enjoying life. (one moment...please). Ok back, Kaitie has just learned to play the kazoo and a concert was necessary. Since its been awhile, I'll slowly bring everybody up to date as to whats been going on. Just when Jeni and I felt like totaling pulling our hair out, my mom surprised us by retiring, selling her home and purchasing a home closer to us. She is now on the payroll, keeping Kaitie a couple of days a week (yes, I insisted we pay her). So for the last several months we have been slowly recovering our sanity, dusting off our plans and slowly getting back to running our studio instead of the other way around. Last year was our busiest year ever, and this year has thus far shaped up strong. We are booking weddings well into 2008, in-studio sessions are on the rise, and if I can just finish painting the studio.....keep checking back as new things are always happening at Wiggins Photography!

Drum Corps Finals

OK Skip to 'Discipline Pays Off' and read it first, it makes more sense that way!






After being on pins and needles all day, Jeni and I have finally found scores for Memphis Sound. Even though they had a drop from their earlier scores, Sound was still able to pull in the gold for their division, by only 0.1 points. Great competition this year, and with the gold win, Memphis Sound will perform in exhibition in the Rose Bowl. Very proud of Patrick and his determination to reach this goal, as are his younger siblings who have been bouncing off the walls at the good news.

Discipline Pays Off

First off, huge congratulations to Memphis Sound (they are the corp our oldest son has been marching with this summer). Semi-Finals in CA on Fri, the bus to transport the corp from their housing site to the competition field arrives late, then is stuck in traffic. Memphis Sound arrives at the competition site and sprint to the field from the parking lot. Warm up time....gone. Block up and march onto field....nope. At the moment the announcer is asking '...is your corp ready?' Sound is sprinting through the gate and onto the field, they must start their performance NOW or be penalized for exceeding their allotted time on the competition field. This is a moment this corp has been working towards since May (schedule), everydays in the heat to perfect the drill, countless miles between events, sleeping in the gym of gracious host schools around the country, everything they have worked so hard to achieve at risk due to a late bus and traffic. And they nail it. Fantastic performance, highest score of the season, still first in division going into finals today. And the precision march off the field? Sprint on Sprint off. 5 seconds to spare before a penalty is accessed. Drill, drill, then drill some more, know your drill so well you can perform in your sleep. Be in top physical condition so you can sprint from a parking lot to a performance with enough wind to nail that first note. Above all, have the character to stand strong with all the pressure and deliver! You did so,congratulations Memphis Sound!

Time to Start Anew

Its truly amazing how life can take a simple matter such as time and change it in a moment. Seems like only yesterday we were in Colorado with friends instead of a year ago. Have been so slammed with work at the studio, Jeni and I just don't seem to know which way is up here lately. Good news, school has once again begun, at least for one of ours, another starts next week and our oldest is....in CA? Patrick has been competing once again this year with Drum Corp (soprano, otherwise know as the trumpet), finals are this week and its starting to look as though Memphis Sound will take home the Div 3 national championship this year. We'll find out in a few hours. Working on a new update for the site, sessions, as well as countless custom album designs have really been taking their toll, wouldn't change for anything. Keep checking back as once again we share a little of us beyond the web.