Portland Portrait Photography-Jewel Images by Julia Radlick

The Jewel Images team extends to you all a deep and heartfelt thank you!

The February 4th Grand Opening and Portrait Reveal Party was a smashing success. In fact, congratulations to all of you for helping to raise more than $500 for the Humane Society through our prize raffle. The ability of the Humane Society to continue to do amazing work to protect and forward the cause of animal welfare is dependent on the support and giving of the Bend community. We consider it a great honor to be partnered with HSCO in pursuit of their mission, we hope you all take a moment to celebrate your own part in making a success out of the raffle. You may not have been a raffle prize winners, but you made winners out of the many abandoned and abused animals the HSCO supports!

We are awed at the generous compliments and interest in shooting with us. We are also aware that several patrons had trouble purchasing our limited time offer of Double Dollar Gift Cards. We have decided to extend the time to purchase these cards through February 15th. Several of our patrons have decided to book sessions as Valentine’s presents for their sweeties. We are quite taken with the idea of photographing your pets as a statement of ones love for their partner. What can we say, we are softies when it come to children, pets and love! Purchase any dollar increment and we will double your credit, i.e. $100 becomes $200, $500 becomes $1000.

Again, thank you for your patronage and support and we look forward to seeing you back in the studio in the near future.

-Julia & Michelle

What an amazing night! Over 200 people came to our brand new studio to celebrate our Grand Opening and help support the Humane Society of Central Oregon. It was one of the best turnouts for a Chamber of Commerce Ribbon cutting, and everyone had so much fun! Wine, food, fun and furry portraits were the theme of the night and my thanks goes out to so many, many people who made it happen.

My Marketing Director, Michelle Yacullo, is my right hand. Without her this simply would not have happened. Lynn Ouchida and Pat Roden from HSCO are my new heroes! Thank you ladies for giving us this amazing opportunity to photograph your employees and major donors. We are thrilled with the results and can’t wait to hang the display at HSCO so the rest of the world can see it! All in all, the display is valued at approximately $15,000 and we couldn’t think of a better organization to give this to. We LOVE you and all you do for animals!

Denise Tate of Birdies Cafe in Redmond, your food was AMAZING! Thank you for your help, time and such a delicious food spread. It was devoured. Thank you to Shirley and Eduardo of Art Impressions and Framing. You saved my fanny on those last minute images! And thank you to Wine Styles, Birkenstock, Trinity Vineyards and KOHD News for your generous gifts to our raffle. We raised over $500 for the Humane Society just from raffle tickets!

Finally, thank you to my sweet fiance who has put up with me for the last frantic three weeks as we attempted to shoot, edit and create this display in record time. I love you, hunny.

We truly hope you had an amazing time with us. We will cherish the memory always and we are already planning to make this event an annual one, so start giving back to the Humane Society and maybe we’ll see you and your dog on the HSCO walls nest year! In the meantime, here is a taste of how our 20 sessions went. We photographed 37 dogs, 6 cats, 2 lizards, a guinea pig and a ferret. So fun!

I give you, the blooper reel. AKA:

The Out Takes File