Crowne Plaza Karcanes Wedding

Absolutely destined to be an all time Classic!

A very small sample from an engagement shoot...

It's Raining Babies!!!!!

Greydon.. the pro model... got the gene from mom and dad...

Okay... precious...

Reagan... what a poser...

Lately we have had the privilage of taking some beautiful photographs of new borns and one year old, as well as two year old children... here is a small sample and you can see more on the web site... Prepare to SMILE!

Speaking of posers check out Reece...

You kiddin'?

Sharon says it was kinda mean... but I have to tell you I love this photograph... in about 20 years Ian will be laughing his butt off...

As you can see he was only mad for a minute...

Travis... what can I say... nice job.

Jeepers...

Hallmark? Call me...

I said call me...

If you don't I'm calling American Greetings...

Looks like Ian stepped into the 50's... cool

Jackson... he is two now... looks like he stepped back about 80 years or so...

These have been so much fun... I can't tell you how privilaged we feel to have played a part...

Why buy prints?

There is a big discussion among the Photography association that this could be the Century of lost photographs. Why? It is simply because in the days of film everything HAD to make it to a print. I have heard so many sad stories of people just leaving the pictures on their flash card or flash drive or even just dumping them on their home computer.

The issues with this are... all hard drives fail... that's right they All do. Flash cards and drives fail as well. Furthermore updates to formats such as jpeg formats do not ensure that they will be compatible with future hardware or software which could render them unusable, and at some point certainly will. Jpeg which is the most popular format also degrades every time the file is opened or closed meaning that they will degrade in quality and at some point will present a corrupt file which is unusable.

If you have not thought about this before, start thinking about it now. Before you have a drive failure or computer crash which causes you to lose your precious memories. The best way for now without getting into a huge discussion is to put them on a CD or DVD disk and store them safely. Ideally you would have two copies with one somewhere else so that if the disk fails you have a backup.

It is also a good reason to buy prints. Prints are tangible, they actually allow you to display and share your pictures and ensure that long after you have gone, others will still have the treasure of photographs which made up your life and the memories in it. Today you can order books that have tons of pictures and it can be almost as inexpensive as buying individual prints. For small prints it does not matter much what you do... the detail and so forth is not that critical. If it is a larger print, let a professional photographer create the photograph to fix any anomalies and do a final print which will show the quality, color, and detail of the prints.

The bottom line is that your photographs will not be important to just you, your family and children will treasure them for years, even your great grandchildren will look back on these photographs, if you give them the chance.

Family shoots can be fun and creative... see?

This was a recent family shoot that is fun as it can be... well, maybe I am biased.

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Planning a Wedding

Planning a wedding is no small task. However, by following some guidelines, assuming you have not hired a wedding planner, you can take most of the stress out of the process and relax on your wedding day. The next few articles will be dedicated to helping you plan your wedding with less stress and actually look forward to your wedding rather than looking forward to the day being over.

Let's start with when do you start planning? I believe that the sooner you begin planning the better off you are. If possible start finding your key vendors as much as a year in advance. Start looking for a dress at the same time. Once the dress and the vendors have been selected they each will offer you tools and valuable insight to help you with your planning and ideas.

Now some might say that I am biased in this article... well, maybe they would be right. I believe that no vendor is more important than the wedding photographer you choose. Why? Number one if you connect with the wedding photographer and you are comfortable with them you will have better photographs ... period. You will be more relaxed and the wedding photographer will be encouraged to take more chances on creative shots.

The second reason I feel that the wedding photographer is so important is that after the wedding day is over, the cake has been consumed, the dress is packed away, and everyone has gone home, no one including you will remember too much about the meal, or most other things that happened that day and you are counting on the wedding photographer to capture the feeling of the day... to tell the story in photographs.

Twenty five years from now the one thing you will still be admiring as a remembrance of that day will be your photographs of your special day. When you are celebrating your 50th anniversary... guess what the kids and grand-kids will be looking for and admiring? I cannot emphasize enough that from where I see it the photographs are the one area which you should not cut corners. You will have to be the judge if you feel the same way.

One last word on that subject. If there is one thing I have heard over and over, after the excitement of the wedding day is over and they reflect on various decisions made are those which regret not having spent more time on the Photographs and placing more emphasis on that aspect of the wedding. There are no re-do's here.

Click here to get a checklist of possible wedding photographs you may want to provide to your photographer.