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Now you missed another one you you better get on the B-A-L-L I can't make it any easier. Here is the link
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Look if you keep coming here civilization as we know it may come to an end, global warming will accelerate, people will take to the streets in revolt an gas prices will go back up. Ok maybe not but you will miss out on a lot of cool photography and (wink wink) I'm going to have a killer contest when I announce the grand opening of the new blog, it is going to be "LOCO"

-Mike

And You Thought I was Jokeing

See what you are missing. I posted a new post and you are missing out because you are still going to the old blog. Progress baby! The new blog takes this blogs lunch money and then gives it a wedgie. You can even subscribe to the new blog through your email RIGHT HERE

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OK, you win pretty please.



What?
Fine, pretty please with a cherry on top

-Mike

A new blog for a new year

It is with great pleasure that I will be announcing my new blog. Well not quite yet but really really soon. Here is a sneek peak New Blog I would love to hear what you think, so please comment. I will be placing a redirect code on this blog in the not to distant future but you should go ahead and bookmark or subscribe to the new one since I will be putting all new content on it.

-Mike

Happy Post-Thanksgiving

The days after Thanksgiving are here which hold some of the most wonderful traditions of the year. Sleeping in after long nights of tryptophan induced slumber. And for some waking up at 3am to prepare for battle as Black Friday arrives. I actually talked to a bride that booked her wedding with us yesterday and had the great idea that I hold a black friday sale next year and have people camp out on my lawn. I would love to hear what the neighbors would say.


In our household the day after Thanksgiving marks the start of the christmas season. The tree comes out,the lights go up (and I try to sneak a menorah some place)

Today I arrived victorious from a day of stealthily hunting the ever elusive Abies concolor (concolor fir) but if my mother asks it is a Chanukah bush.

There are a lot of great events that I haven't posted yet so keep checking back to see yours. I also have a lot of events coming up this next month that I am really excited about so stay tuned.

-Mike

Happy Birthday Jaden

One of the things I love to do is talk to clients. People as a whole are very interesting and have much to contribute to each other if you take the time to strike up some small talk and try to listen as much as you talk.

This was the situation last week when I was speaking to a mother of a Bar-Mitzvah boy whom I am going to shoot this weekend. We were talking about party themes (his is going to be Marti Gras) when I mentioned that my sons birthday is Nov. 15th and we were going to have a Carnival theme. For anyone that knows me and my wife, we love Birthdays and usually make elaborate games and decorations and bake a novelty cake. I had spent the last month making Carnival Games out of wooden boards and painted them in garish reds and yellows (I was very proud of myself)

Kelly, the mother of the Bar-Mitzvah boy shares the same view on birthdays and mentioned a Carnival themed one where they did a take off on "ye ole" pie eating contest. The twist is bubblegum. You drop a gum ball in a pan fill it with whipped cream. With no hands the child has to burrow their face through the whipped cream, get the gum, chew like mad. The first one to blow a bubble is the winner.

I loved the idea and had to do it. Guess what? it was the hit of the party. Despite hours of hard labor building those games, they were out shined by a very simple yet clever idea. Thanks Kelly I can't wait to see what you have in store for this weekend.

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Happy Birthday Louis Daguerre (221 years old)

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
Born November 18th 1787

For many of those that are slowly forgetting what film is, may be drawing up blank at the mention of the Daguerreotype. But photography would not be what it is today with out this Artist and Chemist. The Daguerreotype is an image exposed directly onto a mirror-polished surface of silver bearing a coating of silver halide particles deposited by iodine vapor. The daguerreotype is a negative image, but the mirrored surface of the metal plate reflects the image and makes it appear positive in the proper light. Thus, daguerreotype is a direct photographic process without the capacity for duplication.

While the daguerreotype was not the first photographic process to be invented, earlier processes required hours for successful exposure, which made daguerreotype the first commercially viable photographic process and the first to permanently record and fix an image with exposure time compatible with portrait photography.

Here's to you Luis-

Winner of contest #2

Here are 2 of my favorite pictures of contest #2's winner Melissa. One of the images will be featured in Style magazine. Congrats Melissa the day was fantastic and you look great.