09/23 2006, Saturday
09/21 2006, Thursday
Carrie & Pat - July 15. 2007
I wrote about Carrie and Pat several months ago when they booked with us. Carrie had been referred by a recent bride and during our initial consultation we soon discovered that I had shot several of her friend’s weddings.
In trying to determine a location for their after-wedding shots, I recommended going to a beautiful garden at the back of a church where I had recently shot a wedding. It turned out that Carrie's parents actually got married at the same church...needless to say that we were all thrilled about being able to tie it all together!
09/15 2006, Friday
It's been a while...
Since June 17th, I've shot at least 10 weddings, survived a terrible accident, stayed home alone while my family visited London for 3 weeks, added a deck to my home, started a patio project, purchased some 9 pairs of shoes...the list is endless. In all of this, I'm grateful to God for His mercies and blessings!
When I started with this blog, I imagined I would be able to keep a daily journal thereby keeping my friends, family and clients abreast with what's going on in my world. But I did get caught up and became rather too busy for my own good. I will take the time to reflect on a few major mile stones from the previous months:
1. On August 13th while returning home from Springfield, MO, my car hydro planed off the road into the shoulder and into an embankment. Although I had survived another life threatening accident once before in my life, this time around I was in the driver's seat. Without going into too much details, I came out of the wreck without a scratch but with a severe whiplash and $8K worth of damages to my wife's car. More than anything, I'm extremely grateful to God for sparing my life!
2. July Bridal Show: Over the years I had comtemplated on several ideas on how to better reach my photography target audience. One of the things that had come to mind is having former clients represent me at a bridal fair. This past July, that wish came true as three beautiful former clients helped showcase our work to new brides. The results have been encouraging!
3. Amazing Couples & beautiful images: The last few months have also brought us numerous opportunities to work with some amazing couples. I plan to display all of their images here in my blog within the next couple of weeks. From Carrie & Pat to Jennifer & Jake - the whole 9 yards!
4. In a few weeks, we would be opening another chapter in our lives - the world of web development for my peers - other photographers! Stay tuned!
5. Purchased a 5D a couple of weeks ago and I can't seem to get enough of it!
6. Some interesting weddings and travel opportunities coming up. The next few weeks are going to be interesting - weddings in St. Louis, Tulsa, back to St. Louis, then to Virginia Beach, back to St. Louis then finally here - with our last wedding of the year taking place on November 4th!
We are also excited about some interesting opportunties on the books for next year - a multi-country destination wedding opportunity in July of 2007 - Carolyne & Richard's wedding in Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda. The engagement ceremony is scheduled to take place in Kenya and the ceremony a few days later in Uganda.
So, here we are, back to square one!
