I received an email today letting me know that I had received a huge honor — I’ve been accepted to be a member of Photographik! My wedding site will be listed there soon. I’m so excited about this, I can’t even explain it! Maybe sharing some of the information from the site will help to put into words what I can’t seem to express.
We are determined to become THE place to find talented, truly elite photographers providing wedding and portrait photography services to clients in the United States and all over the world. We screen every member’s online portfolio and admit only those photographers who possess a high level of artistic and technical aptitude. By offering the consumer a pre-screened directory of photographers sortable by region and area of expertise, we hope to expose the consumer to top notch photographers in their region as well as highlight the differences between cookie cut photography corporations and independent contractors whose work, we feel, is far more artistic and beautiful.
Just go and read a little bit about their criteria for who they list on the site, and you will see even more about why it is such an honor to me. This isn’t your usual site where just anyone can sign up - I actually requested consideration several weeks ago, and only after they reviewed my work for the following, was I accepted:
Technical proficiency
Creativity, Originality, Emotion, Art
Online Presentation
I’m just so excited, I had to share right away with everyone! My listing will be live there in the next day or two. Thank you again to everyone for your support and encouragement — especially to the fantastic couples and their families & friends that I’ve had the opportunity to work with! I wouldn’t be doing what I absolutely love without all of you!
What happens when 3 people bring complete desktop computers - giant monitors and all - into the local Starbucks? The reaction is quite hilarious! I love the Windows 95 machine. [Props to Laurie for posting the link on twitter.]
Speaking of hilarious things, after I wrapped up my client meeting at the Starbucks in Barnes & Noble this morning, I decided to walk through the magazine section to see if there was anything I wanted to buy. I passed on buying this, but the fact that anyone felt the need to publish a guide for Facebook really amuses me to no end!
Everyone makes fun of me for my gang signs that I throw down, but obviously they are cool. Otherwise why would someone make a video about white chicks & gang signs?
Every time I see all the news about Roger Clemens and the use of steroids and human growth hormones, and the Congressional hearings about it, I just find myself puzzled. Yes, it is a big deal. It is wrong. It is a terrible example for kids that look up to sports figures as heros. But … why is Congress involved? Don’t they have more critical, government related things to be dealing with? Like isn’t there a war going on and a possible recession looming ahead?
But we’re focused on ball players using steroids and human growth hormones? I just don’t get it. Please feel free to explain it to me - I really would appreciate it!
The Houston Center for Photography is having a fine art auction of prints, which you can check out online here. There are many great prints there, some very beautiful work.
But a few leave me confused. I don’t get them. Some are almost snapshot like to me. Just … I don’t get it.
I guess that is the thing about art though. It is all subjective.
I *hated* working in a cubicle. I have noise issues, and I can’t handle listening to people talk when I’m trying to work. So I have to confess, this would have been my dream cubicle! It is just so cute!
Whew! What a week it has been! Mike & I started Weight Watchers on Monday. We are doing the Online version because I know we would end up skipping meetings, whenever I’ve done the meetings they talked about things on the site that I had already read, and because Elaine is doing the meetings at her work so she is keeping an eye on us to make sure we are in line. I’m actually moving our weigh-in day to today to sync up with her.
By Tuesday, my stomach was feeling queasy. I blamed it on the increased fiber intake. I was blissfully trying to ignore the fact that Jason had been sick 36 hours earlier and was still home from school. Oh no, it was the fiber. That evening, it shifted to having to admit that oh no, the fiber had nothing to do with it. Fiber doesn’t cause a fever.
Of course, I had a client meeting scheduled for Wednesday. I was not going to risk making anyone else sick though, so we moved it to Thursday and I instead spent Wednesday in bed. Still with a fever.
Thursday, feeling much better, I headed to The Woodlands to meet with my potential client and her mom - and learned while talking that she had found us because she is friends with Dan, the brother of the Emergency Bride, Lauren! Even more ironic, Lauren & I had already made plans to get together for lunch after my meeting! So it ended up feeling like visiting with long lost friends, and they were so fabulously cool. I was even more fascinated by the fact that she does college counseling for high school students - so part of our meeting wandered off into talking about Jason and his college future. I ended up devouring her site last night, reading all the articles she had linked to - things like her work just fascinate me. You can check it out if you’re curious over at Burnt Crimson. (She has all sorts of great posts there.)
Afterwards, I had to head to the iPhone store to have them help me reset my phone, as it had locked up after I got off a call. I did the whole hold down two buttons for a very long time thing about 10 times before I went in, but it didn’t work. Of course, as soon as they did it, it worked fine. *rolling my eyes at my phone* So I was able to hook up with Lauren for lunch after all!
Funny, isn’t it? We don’t memorize phone numbers anymore. So when technology bites us like that, we are lost!
Today is Twisted Yarn’s 4 Year Anniversary sale! (Well, it is tomorrow too.) So Katy & I are going over there to celebrate and get some knitting time. To be honest, I need a few hours away from the computer, away from “work” thinking (although really it never stops it seems when you’re the boss of you), and to just knit and be social. I’ve got my Noro packed, and my sweater that I finished the pieces on and need to stitch together so I need advice on how to do it - I forgot to steam block it last night, so I won’t get to do it while I’m there as planned. Bummer!
If I don’t return, I’ve succumbed to the yarn fumes. You’ll find me among the wool. Most likely Mountain Colors, but there could be some Cascade involved, and maybe some nice Malabregio laceweight too…
There were a few good Superbowl commercials today, but none of them are as good as the Cat Wranglers.
When I finished watching that one, I spotted this one - what the West would have been like with Shetland ponies! It is AWESOME!
So? Which one was your favorite Superbowl Ad this year? I think mine was most likely the SoBe “Thriller” ad, although the Pepsi Max one was pretty good too. And thank goodness there was no wardrobe malfunction with Tom Petty…
I’ve realized I have this need to blog photos from events over on the wedding photography blog in the exact order that they happen. However, since I was catching up after my surgery back in November, and then tweaking the blog layout and now the wedding portfolio photos, I’m just now getting to blog about the photos from Andi & Jason’s engagement session!
They were such great sports about putting up with me in my crazypants state of anemia. At the time, I thought I was just exhausted from shooting two weddings the day before - but little did I know, I would land in the hospital two days later. Yeah, I probably should have been at the ER that day, not walking around Hermann Park taking photos — but the photos we got were GREAT! Check them out over there - here are two of the latest to be added to the gallery on Flickr:
On a side note - they have had the proofs for awhile; I am just blogging about them a bit late! Eep!
Market coordinator Mitch Cohen says, “Christine and Elaine are what we are all about, finding your passion and sharing it with others. They’ve been chosen as a pair to be featured because everything about them is professional: High quality matted prints of their work, excellent booth display and a wonderful attitude. I see people return to their booth each month!” Cohen also pointed out that its artists like Mesker-Garcia and Tremoulet that have been the drive to keep the market going. Yale Street Arts Market will celebrate its fourth year next month.
The market is tomorrow, Saturday February 2nd, from 11am to 6pm. The arts market is located on the parking lot of Wind Water Asian Antiques Gallery at 548 W. 19th St. and open only on the first Saturday of each month, rain or shine year round. As we have been doing the market for over a year now, Elaine & I have decided to have a special sale this month to help make way to for new prints to be featured in the future - so come out and find some bargins! There will be door prizes too!
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