Month: March 2008

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BlahBlahBabble

BYOB…

I am so completely in love with the bag designs over at Bring Your Own Bag! I’ve been trying for some time to always make sure I bring my own bags when I shop. It is just so wasteful to walk out of a store with a plastic bag that will end up in the trash as soon as you get home. When I can, I recycle them – the ones with the “2” code on the bottom can be recycled in my weekly pickup – but why let them get out in the environment?

It is just incredible when faced with our overwhelming consumer society to realize how much stuff we have that we don’t need at all that will just hurt the environment some day. I’m doing spring purging right now, and it makes me sad. I’m giving away as much as I can – donating it to the local outreach organization.

Reading about Compact living just drove it all home earlier. Think before you buy. And Bring Your Own Bag!

For more about the Compact, you can read this article or The Compact blog.

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ChristineTremoulet.com Wedding Photographer

Seal of Approval!

WPJA

On Thursday, I received the email I’ve been waiting for – the exciting invitation to be a member of the WPJA – Wedding Photojournalists Association! Oh goodness, ever since I discovered the WPJA last year, I have wanted to be a member. So when I got the news – I was so excited! I think I have told every single person I have talked to since then! What an honor, I can’t even put it into words.

Today I’m already at the hotel where I will be photographing Andi & Jason’s wedding — I covered the rehearsal dinner last night, and Mike suggested that I just stay here since I could get a room at the block rate and it would save me from driving home at 10:30 and leaving 12 hours later to start shooting again. It is going to be a long day – the ceremony will be at 7:30pm, and dinner will be served at 10pm, with the reception scheduled to end around 1:30am in the morning! Tons of celebrating, dancing, and rejoicing by all – it is going to be a blast! Elaine will be with me of course, and we’re being joined by my friend Jennifer Wilson who is coming in from New Braunfels to shoot with us. Tonight we’ll be crashing at the hotel all over again so we don’t have to drive home. So worth it to avoid the drive time!

Wheee! It is going to be a long day, with coverage starting late this morning – but I’m so excited about it all!

Another From the Seats

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Picture Time

It Is Time…

I’ve said for over a year now that I feel a strong pull to volunteer for Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, and organization of photographers who volunteer to be on call for families in need who are experiencing the loss of a child. I’ve always talked though about how hard it would be to do it — just thinking about it makes me cry.

After watching the video clip of what they showed on the Today Show this morning (props to Robyn for pointing it out in one of the forums that we are on), I realized that my excuses and my fear of the pain were nothing compared to the pain that families go through when they are experiencing this, and if I was in their shoes I would probably give anything for photographs of those precious moments with my child.

So I did it. No more excuses. I signed up, and am now waiting on approval from the group to formally be a member. I should know within the week. And while I hope a call never comes, I will be there, ready and willing, if it does.

I almost didn’t write about it here, but realized that I must. I want to get the word out about this wonderful organization and what they are doing to help people.

If you’re a photographer, I encourage you to volunteer. I applaud you if you do so already.

If you or someone you know is ever in need of a photographer to capture the precious moments with your child, please be sure to contact the group. As they said at the end of the video, many parents don’t think of it at the time, but no parents have ever said they wished they hadn’t done it.

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Knittastic!

I Think We Have A Problem…

So I’m not using the recommended yarn for my Einstein Coat, but I am getting gauge — so it shouldn’t be a problem, right? WRONG.

While waiting for things to upload to the server, I took the bottom portion and held it up to me to see the length; the top portion of the coat is only 39 ridges of garter stitch. My project? Yeah, not even close to the length it needs to be. Not close at all. Not even if it is reaaaaaaally stretched out.

No point in keeping this up because it won’t fit. I’m resisting the urge to throw the yarn ball across the room right now. *sigh*

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Liz & Dave – And a Challenge!

Love to Last a Lifetime

I’ve just blogged about the photos from Liz & Dave’s Texas A&M Engagement Session, and I just had to post about them here too. I love them so much. Plus Liz is a knitter! Whoo hoo! I love knitters. Knitters are the BEST. So go check out their photos, and feel free to leave comments and let me know what you think!

I can’t WAIT for their wedding at the end of March!

Now, on to the CHALLENGE!!! I am trying to be a good blogger and make a point of posting to the wedding photography blog much more frequently. I need you guys to keep an eye on me. My goal is to post 3 times per week – defined as 12:00am on Sunday through 11:59pm on the following Saturday – for the entire month. What I post is up to me, of course, but my goal is to make them pretty photo heavy as usual.

Where do you come in? Well, if you catch me not posting, and you are within a 2 hour drive of my house in Houston (so that includes Austin, Galveston, College Station, and a lot of other places too!) and you’re the first to point out in the comments on my last post on the ChristineTremoulet.com site that I’ve missed a post — you win a FREE PHOTO SHOOT! Valued at $250, my 1-2 hour lifestyle sessions are done on location – so I come to you. You can use it for an engagement session, a bridal session, a Fearless Bridal (aka Trash the Dress) session, a newborn session, a family session, a senior session … really, anything at all! The only stipulations are that you have to be close enough for me to drive to get to you – I can’t afford to fly across the country to do it – and I have to do the shoot in April or May when I’m not booked unless we make other arrangements.

So keep an eye on my throughout the month of March, and you could win a FREE session!