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New Wedding Albums…. Tom & Jamie!

Monday, February 23, 2009 5:25 pm

I want to first apologize for not posting in a couple of weeks now – I’ve gotten so caught up on the Facebook thing, I sorta forgot all about blogging for awhile. We are working on some cool projects in the upcoming weeks and will do my very best to keep things more up to date! These past couple of weeks, I have been working on a lot of new cool ideas and things we will soon be implementing for 2009/20010 – these involve website updates, product additions and updates & a few other tricks up my sleeve!

This morning we received a batch of albums for Tom & Jamie from Graphi-Studio in Italy that I wanted to do a quick post on! It’s always exciting to get new albums in, but have such a hard time shipping them out the next day since I always want to keep one for myself. Tonya always yells at me and tells me to stop buying all these extra “show” albums, but it’s so hard to let go of something you’ve worked so hard on sometimes…. if it were up to me, I’d have a copy of every single bride & grooms wedding album I have ever shot :) I really love these albums for Tom & Jamie because they have an awesome fiberglass clear cover and metallic pages, which in my opinion are absolutely stunning when you see how they make the photos pop. I did my best to put together a video blog for this blog entry, but I kept screwing up so you’ll have to stick with just the photos for now!

I want to remind people that it’s a great time to get your albums done if you have not done so already before the craziness of the 2009 season really kicks in. I also want to give another heads up that our subdivision called Ramos Designs is a full service operation that will design a custom wedding album for anyone using their wedding photos on Disc (even if we didn’t shoot the wedding!) Anyway, I’m getting ready to ship these puppies out, but wanted to post a few quick photos so you can see how awesome these albums are – you really have to see them in person though to give them full justice!

P.S. We are adding 2-3 brand new album companies to our line up of available wedding albums, so stay tuned for a post of that in the very near future with more details and photos of the goods!

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Jamie Lynn - You rock. I can’t wait to get them!February 23, 2009 – 5:29 pm

Jamie Lynn - Update: This is torture. I’ve been drooling over these all day. So excited!February 24, 2009 – 6:40 pm

Matt Ramos - Shipped em out this morning for ya! :)February 24, 2009 – 9:50 pm

JL - Another update: Still drooling. Tomorrow is Thursday! ::crosses fingers::February 25, 2009 – 8:33 pm

JL - Yet another update: I have not yet seen the albums, but Tom and Mom have them! Some memorable quotes:

“Put it this way, and you can quote me on this to Matt, when I look at it I stare at it transfixed in a semi-hypnotic state, much the way I do with our new television.” ~Tom

“The albums came. Ha, ha I got to see it before you!! It is absolutely gorgeous. I think the pictures are great. I am going out to dinner with Aunt Annie on Saturday, can’t wait to show her and the Kelly girls. I am going to bring it home at lunchtime so Daddy can see it. ” ~Mom

Ugh… 6 1/2 more hours until I see them…February 26, 2009 – 3:29 pm

Professonal Photographer Magazine Blog Contest – Please Vote!?

Monday, February 9, 2009 10:58 pm

I’m pretty excited to have our blog entered into this year’s Professional Photographer Magazine’s national blog contest. If you are a regular blog stalker (I know you are out there!), I would REALLY appreciate some votes for this blog for a chance to win! The page you will find our blog on depends on your monitor size believe it or not, but I’ve posted a photo below and circled what it looks like so you can click on it and then cast your vote! I’d start on page 6, but could be anywhere from page 6-12… it should look similar to what you see below here. Thanks for your votes if you get a chance to do so – much appreciated!!

P.S. The contest goes from February 8th – 15th.

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Jamie Lynn - For those of us blog stalkers who have trouble finding it, you can click on the dashes in the left corner where it says entry number and type “0178″ to find and vote for Matt’s Blog!February 10, 2009 – 6:22 pm

chris h - Hey bro, i voted for you, but like everything i do – it was too late!February 25, 2009 – 10:41 pm

Congratulations, Kristen & Rob! Hall of Springs Wedding

Sunday, February 8, 2009 1:18 pm

Getting right back into the swing of things, we shot our 2nd wedding of 2009 yesterday with Kristen & Rob, who were an absolute blast to work with (I knew they would be a lot of fun when I saw what they were like on the engagement session we shot last summer). Earlier this week, I sprained my ankle pretty badly and was really worried about whether or not I could get through the day limping around on it… I decided to go for it and am really glad I did (although the ball of my ankle was as big as a baseball when I took my shoe off last night) – luckily I had my two rockstar 2nd shooters with me, Jamaica & Jessica. What started out as a really cold day in the 20′s quickly warmed up to 40 (NY heatwave this time of year) and we actually had some nice weather to shoot with for the most part. Kristen & Rob as well as their entire bridal party and family were such a treat to work with and were super cool when it came to braving some evening cool temperatures (thanks guys!)

After a beautiful ceremony at a church in Mechanicville, we headed to the infamous Hall of Springs for an incredible reception and celebration. The Hall of Springs (one of the Glen Sanders Mansion sites) is such a great place to work and aside from how beautiful it is for a reception, they always have such top notch food and service… it’s highly recommended for those of you still looking for a great reception hall! I also want to give some quick props to Vinny Commisso of Elite Entertainment for doing a fantastic job as a DJ last night…. I don’t think he had any less than 50 people on the dance floor at all times!

We don’t start to dive heavily into the 2009 wedding season until April this year, so I’m posting a few extra photos to keep you occupied until our next wedding. We are working heavily on album designs from 2008, a few corporate projects, not to mention I need time to heal my ankle! Congrats & thanks again to Kristen & Rob and we wish you all the best in your new marriage together! For those interested, you can click the link below to pre-register your email for when images go live for online viewing & ordering (usually about 2-4 weeks):

P.S. Leave your comments below… I’m sure Kristen & Rob will be reading this and would REALLY appreciate it! :)

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Love this shot!
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This where my new 200 f/2.0 with IS really comes in handy… shot this from about a mile away hand held no flash!
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One of my favorite shots Jamaica got
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One of my personal favorites from the entire wedding!
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Another killer shot my assistant Jess got from the balcony…. money!
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Bam… we did it!
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Just the boys… there’s about a million beers hiding behind their legs – lol
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Love the lighting in this one
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I thought these were the table decorations until they started drinking out of them – wow!
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Another one of Jessica’s shots I really liked…
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