Conventions and education...

Haven't been posting lots of images because for the first quarter of this year I've been attending conventions to get more education, writing a monthly newsletter on business and marketing for photographers, working with a software developer to create products to help photographers in their business and am helping to market a wonderful new service for photographers called Your Images Forever which I'll be using in my business. It's offsite storage for images that are stored on geographicly redunant servers. Why is this important to you? Once your images are in the YIF vault they will be protected on my end in case of fire, or flood or equipment failure here at the studio. And from your end in case of anything happening to your wall art or albums you know that copies will be available to recreate your memories, just in case....

Here are the web addresses if you want to see what I've been up to.

http://www.yourimagesforever.com
http://www.successful-photographer.com
http://www.thestudioassistant.com

Getting back to shooting more. Wedding and portrait session inquiries are starting to pour in. (must be spring!) If you need to book a wedding date or family portrait session you should call for to schedule your date before it fills up. 928-284-0200 or Toll Free 877-746-8646

Houston Wedding Album Updates

Been working on producing wedding albums.... They can take a bit of time especially when they have a lot of images in them. If you remember the Houston wedding of Lori and Andreas (see posts below) Lori's mom Joan ordered her own album with 180 plus images. It's in full production now. I'll show you some page spreads later on. Here's some of an email I just received from Lori,

"Currently, I have about 730 photos (out of your 1250) that I would like in
the album and/or in my scrapbook. I am still reviewing the DVD every so
often and each time I get rid of a few more. Obviously,it is quite a lot,
but ...it is your fault since y'all took a lot of wonderful pictures ; ) So
I'll keep working on decreasing the number.

Mom told me last week that she and Dad will be buying Andreas and I an 80
side album with the 8x12 pages. We are very excited about that since I was
afraid it might be fewer pages. Yippee!!!

As soon as Lori gets her selections in we'll start the design of her album too.