V West photography Valarie West Dishonest, unprofessional, lying, discourteous Dallas / Ft Worth, Texas

I had the absolute WORST experience with a 'cheap' photographer whose also a babycenter mom - valarie west / v west photography.

Smooth talker, fb page had decent pics, and for a price of $125 she promised me a 2 hours session, 20 prints, and the rest of the images on a CD to be ready in 2-3 days. We paid her $140 coz we were feeling happy and generous. Well it has been 33 days!! After continuously calling her, leaving her messages, emailing her for updates, requesting her to at least send birth announcements so we could send them out, she finally sends the CD via UPS - broken precisely in half. Several more calls and emails later, she stops by for 5 mins just to hand me the CD. I was just greatful to have it so I didn't question her where'd she had disappeared.

Excited, I load the pics only to find 22 images with horrible resolution (532kb!!), repetitive poses (not due to lack of choice!), disgusting editing making baby look sickly yellow brown!

And now she won't respond again

What the hell do I do? It's not just a waste of money, but an irreplaceable loss of newborn memories :( :( I have written angry emails, pleading ones, even offered her extra money..

Valarie west is a lying dishonest unprofessional so called photographer, not the least bit worth trusting your precious memories with :(