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Wedding Client Print Club
I’m really excited to unveil the “Print of the Year Club” for all my wedding clients. If you have known me for anytime, you know I have a huge passion for [intlink id=”fine-art-gallery” type=”page”]Fine Art and Landscape photography[/intlink]. Well, each year every one of my wedding clients will receive a FREE 10×15 print (5×15 or…
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The Wee Ones
I thought I’d post a few more of my favorites from this weekend camping trip. The one to the left was taken by Nana Akins while I was swimming over to the other side to get a few shots of Seasha going off the rope swing. Mind you, this was after I had drowned my…
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A Weird, Watery Weekend!
I’m not even sure I can present a story that fully illustrates the crazy roller coaster of a weekend I had, so I’ll keep it to a simple narrative. Friday: I was very excited to start heading out to Krause Springs, where myself and some fellow photographers from an online photo group were going to…
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Rain, A Blessing For Weddings
The last time it rained while I was at a wedding, I was in a little town called San Juanico in Baja California on a surf trip. San Juanico is just a dusty, and dirty fishing village about 800 miles south of San Diego, and is renowned for it’s very long right hand point break.…
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My Bestfriend is Getting Married
“Back in the day” as they say, is when I met Chris Elders. We met each other while working in a live/work loft on 12th and J Street in San Diego. He and his sister Tanya were running Ignite My Site, a small web development firm in the front and living in the back at…
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Free Album April
Hi All, April is here once again. And I’m a little behind on updates, but it’s time for Free Album April… Here are the details: In addition to the album you get in your package you can get either- 1 Free 10×10 duplicate wedding album, or 2 Free 5×5 parent albums. Each are a $900…
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How to Smooth Out the Recession for Big Business
Note: I know this a bit out of the realm of a wedding photographer, but this idea is just so simple it could work. Hey Big Business, I know you’ve laid off lot’s of people in the past few months. And as an entrepreneur, I understand the need to control costs. But what if you…
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10 Marketing Techniques for Wedding Photographers
I’ve been doing a lot of meditating, brainstorming and reading about effective marketing and promotion for my wedding photography business. What I’ve concluded is that it all boils down to relationships. This is a bit of a revelation for me, as I have spent the majority of my 20’s burning bridges, and stubbornly thinking I…
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The San Diego Trip
I had a chance to run home to San Diego for a few days over Christmas. Here are a few pictures from the trip. The first two were from a small town in Texas on I-10 just as the sun was setting. The next five were taken at White Sands National Monument. Unfortunately, I ended…
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I Was Interviewed for a Documentary, and the Importance of Local Economy
12th and Lamar in Austin is a strange nexus point in the universe, much the way that the Red Rocks of Sedona, AZ is a portal to a different time and place. The cosmic strings weave deeply there. And just a week ago, those intangible forces showed their glowing heads for a visit once again.…