You Only Live Once! - Southern NJ and Philadelphia Wedding & Portrait Photographer

A friend of mine sent this to me a few days ago. I'm sure a lot of you have seen this video but I thought it was great. It reminds me that you only live once so live life to its fullest.

Why I Switched to Pictage

Here are some of the reasons I made the switch to Pictage for my online galleries.

• Easy to use website
• 2 for 1 Print specials. Buy 1 print get 1 free.
  
• Folder lists - if you click on the Photo tab look on the right column and you will see Folders next to it is + New Folder. Now you can put all your favorites in your own folder.
• Great customer service.
• Off-site backup. This is most important for our wedding couples. I am a little crazy when it comes to backing up. Our typical workflow for a wedding. At the wedding, when we finish a card we back it up as soon as possible on a portable hard drive. As soon as we get home, we upload them on the computer. The computer automatically starts backing up. I then make a copy of your whole wedding folder and put it in a safe. For that night all of the cards of the wedding sit on my night stand just in case something happens in the middle of the night. Before I go to bed there are already 4 copies of your photos. Next morning, I go to another location make another backup and another copy and put it in another safe at a different location. Pictage add 1 more backup. When I upload your photos to Pictage they keep a copy of all of your photos on there servers. By the time I proof your photos there are 5-7 copies of your photos.

To Honor a Hero

Last September I wrote a post about my wife's Grandmother's brother, Donovan. At the time Donovan was 93 and he and his wife had just celebrated his 76 wedding anniversary. I just learned a few days ago that Donovan pasted away.

You may be wondering why I thought Donovan was a hero? Webster defines hero as a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability b : an illustrious warrior c : a man admired for his achievements and noble qualities d : one that shows great courage.

One of the reasons Ruth and I started our wedding photography business was because of high a priority we put on the commitment of marriage. Donovan may have had some limitations in his life, I don't know, but I do know he valued his wife and his marriage. That's a man. When he died he had lived out 94 years on this earth and devoted 77 years to loving his wife, that's a hero.

Last years post.

New Proofing Options

Option A - A Proof DVD* with all of your wedding pictures categorized that you can view them on your tv with an album of 150 4"x6" prints of your choice.

OR

Option B - A Proof CD with all of your wedding pictures categorized that you can view them on your computer and some dvd players. These picture files would all be sized appropriate that you would be able to have them printed as 4"x6" prints or smaller. I would also include a release giving you permission to print all of the pictures on the disk for personal use up to 4"x6". They would also be sized well for email, blogs, or Facebook.

*These options are ONLY available with the Elegant Affair & Black Tie Affair packages.

Introducing, Zeke the Zucchini

So, what do photographers do when they're bored? What else, have a portrait session!

We we're given a very large zucchini by a good friend the other day. When Ruth started to cut it up for dinner it was bad inside. My 12 year old son asked if he could have it. That's when Zeke the Zucchini was born. Can you tell we like the Veggie Tales?

I'm promised him I would take a picture of it but I forgot until 12:30am. So, then we break out the camera, then the reflectors, then we just got silly. I remembered some green lights we had gotten from a wedding and stuck it inside, then the fun loving Zeke was transformed into Zeke-0-lantern.

New Partnership

I'm excited to announce my new partnership with Pictage. Pictage is a world renowned photography lab. I've check them out thoroughly and their quality and service is outstanding. This will help me to continue to offer you the very best products with some new exciting choices and a simpler to use website. I very sorry for inconvenience and confusion. I am trying to move all of our weddings and portraits over as soon as possible. I'm uploading them backwords, by that I mean most recent wedding to the oldest.