Maybe it’s your first time at Barnett Portrait Studio, maybe you’ve been with us since I became studio manager in 2004, either way it’s fun to look back over the past three years.

Here are some of the ways we have changed

in just three short years…

*We have emptied a storage room and made it into an office/consult room/production room

*Added one full time employee, and a couple part time employees for weddings etc.

*Sherry got her Children’ Photographer Certification from MNPPA

*We have remodeled our changing room, with paint & new decor

*The studio has purchased numerous new backgrounds, props and a new hard wood floor

*We added a website, blog and online proofing for long distance weddings

*Sherry received her first print merit score with “San Antonio Winter”

*Our staff has been attending countless seminars ranging from photography basics to advanced photo enhancement techniques. They have learned from nationally recognized photographers from around the nation

*Our business was selected to photograph Tony Dungy when he came to Mankato to speak for Fellowship Of Christian Athletes

*We traveled across Minnesota (From St. Cloud to Worthington) to photograph your wedding day

*Our staff has donated time, talents, products and cash to many nonprofit organizations throughout our region.

*We have touched lives with photography, both near and far, uplifted and motivated people to be their best.

*Our entire lobby has changed it’s appearance, one, two, three…..times

*We have photographed new families, children, high school seniors, parties, weddings, new borns, animals, maternity, commercial, our friends, our neighbors, our church….maybe even you.

*And most recently we have been motivated by you, our friends, to do better, be bigger and push harder no matter what life brings us. Despite hardships, and loses, past joys and celebrations….you inspire me each day to create something better.

              In Closing……

                Yesterday a new friend of mine (who works with chemically dependent people) told me “Sherry, I wish I had your job, all you have to do it take pictures”……off all the weeks to mention this to me, I felt a bit of irony in her comment, last week I carried a bit of a burden. Sometimes is not just taking pictures, everyone “takes pictures”. I hope you know that we wear many hats here at the studio. They range from photographer, to receptionist, to janitor, to counselor, to nanny, to big sister, to sales clerk, to student, to design consultant, to personal attendant, to website designer, to computer software fixer person, and to photoshop skilled, to marketing, to fund-raising and even to an educator.

Have a great week everyone!