Thank you for giving me this journey. Thank you for holding my hand through this dream. Thank you for allowing me to be me.

Wishing you and yours a day filled with love, gratitude and contagious laughter.

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2007 Availability

For your convenience, I've added a separate availability page to my website, dawnm.com. For those of you inquiring about when they should book for Spring/Summer you can track how quickly I'm booking up there as well as watch when I've opened new months for bookings. I expect to open up May dates sometime in March. The first three weeks of January are already booked as well as a few select dates in April.

Holiday Cards

The order deadline is fast approaching. Holiday card orders must be in by 12/1/2006. No holiday orders will be accepted after this date.

I'm excited and oh-so-very proud to announce a series of my images were selected for use in the jacket and liner of this year's Live From the Archives, Volume 9 CD by XRT. I couldn't be happier to be part of the project.

Proceeds of ONXRT: Live From the Archives, Volume 9 will benefit the Columbia College Chicago Scholarship and Metropolitan Family Services. Columbia College’s Al Parker Scholarship assists outstanding sophomore, junior, and senior level radio students defray tuition costs. The scholarship is awarded annually to the students who, by recommendation of the Columbia College radio faculty, have demonstrated considerable achievement in the department and have significant potential for future creative development in the broadcast arts.

The CD is on-sale now to the public at all Chicagoland Borders locations and for a short time will be available at ShopXRT. Get'm while they are hot! Previous volumes have sold out quickly.

Fabulous artists on this year's CD:

Ben Harper - Ground On Down
Recorded live at the Aragon Ballroom for XRT Sunday Night Concert, 11/01/00

Gomez - Nothing Is Wrong
Recorded live at the Vic Theatre for XRT Sunday Night Concert, 10/08/04

Shawn Mullins - Lullaby
Broadcast live from XRT studios, 1/11/06

Buddy Guy - Baby Please Don't Leave Me
Broadcast live from Buddy Guy’s Legends, 5/16/01

KT Tunstall - Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
Broadcast live from XRT studios, 2/24/06

Finn Brothers - Weather With You
Recorded live at the Vic Theatre for XRT Sunday Night Concert, 7/22/04

Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
Recorded live at Double Door for XRT Sunday Night Concert, 2/15/05

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Ain't No Easy Way
Broadcast live from XRT studios, 2/08/06

My Morning Jacket - Off The Record
Recorded live at the Vic Theatre for XRT Sunday Night Concert, 11/22/05

Koko Taylor - Hound Dog
Broadcast live from XRT studios, 12/09/93

Garbage - Special
Recorded live at the Riviera Theatre for XRT Sunday Night Concert, 5/09/02

Billy Corgan - A100
Broadcast live from the Vic Theatre as an XRT Concert Exclusive, 7/05/05

Special thanks to XRT and Brainforest (art direction) for selecting my images to complete their vision.

Dawn M Photography is completely booked for 2006. Thank you for a wonderfully busy year!

Over the next month I will finalize my 2007 pricing and will then open up the 2007 calendar for new appointments. Pricing should be up by November 1st and I'll start booking new sessions on December 1st.

My apologies to those who have already asked to book in 2007. I'm taking some time to take a good look at my scheduling. I tend to overbook myself and I want to have a better game plan for the year ahead. That is best for all of us!

Enough talk ... adorable 1 year old TWINS!!!

DMP will be closed for business while I'm on vacation from 9/12/2006 through 9/20/2006. The Husband and I are escaping the "real world" to explore Rome, Italy. I hope to have lots of beautiful pictures to share. Email and voicemail will be checked sparingly, if at all. Your patience is greatly appreciated. No appointments will be booked while I'm away.

It would be impossible for me to leave without sharing a few images from my most recent portrait session ... a madly adorable 8 month old. I've been working with the toddler set so much as of late I forgot how much fun this age can be.

AKA, the obligatory introduction entry.

fresh! is a place for me to collect all the things that would normally fall between emails, phone conversations, portfolio updates and meetings with clients, family & friends. This will be the place where you can follow what's going in all aspects of Dawn M Photography & my other adventure, Chicago Uncommon. And because there is a very fine (sometimes invisible!) line between my business life and private life, you will likely find a few things here and there from my personal experiences.

There it is ... short & sweet.

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