I am finally in Nashville and settled. My day started about 7am. I hit the road for Raleigh at 8am. Made it to RDU with no issues. Got my bag checked and through security all so my flight could be delayed lol. Wich is a rare thing for Southwest Airlines. Any way, made it in, Monica picked me up. We then waited for her cousin to get in. Hungry we settled on Macaroni Grill. Once we were done eating we went over to the Gaylord Opryland Hotel where I am staying. After a looooooooooonnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggg line to check in I am finally in my room and ready for Imaging USA!!!!!!!
There will be lots of new information to pass along to my photography clients when I get back :D
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Saturday, January 02, 2010
With the new year comes new changes to Breezy Cranford Photography
Well I am certainly hoping that 2010 will be better than 2009. Many things happened in 09 good and bad. My husband was a geo bachelor in Mississippi while we were here in Hampton Roads VA until May, which certainly has it's challenges. Family sicknesses, cancers, surgeries and deaths. I hope they are all behind us now.
But with the bad there was some good too. The kids and I were able to go to Charleston SC to visit Daddy while they were commissioning the ship. We wound up in DC just to get away. We went to Oahu and Kauai over the summer for our family vacation. And then Disney had to put out their Military Discount that is always too good to pass up. So for Thanksgiving we wound up at Disney World. So lots of good traveling atleast.
I met some great friends and clients in 09. Photographed lots of couples, families and weddings. OPLOVE really took off here, so much so that we can't possibly help everyone who requests it.
With all of that said I am ready to start 2010 off right.
I am enrolled in a photography course, cause as we all know you can never learn too much. I am always looking for new ways to do this or that. I have a photoshop course lined up for later this year.
I don't make New Years Resolutions, so I am going to make "goals" instead.
A few of my goals personal and business wise are
* to get fit.
*get more organized and balance my time better (purchased software to help with this and made schedules)
*Practice new lighting techniques.
*Spend more time together as a family since the hubster will be home for the majority of the next 6 months.
*Try to remain open and understanding when the talks with the detailer starts for new orders (this is probably be the hardest of them all lol)
*And I hope to take atleast one photo everyday.
I will post the images here but it probably won't be everyday. But I definitely plan to post here atleast a couple of times a week. So be on the look out.
I have 6 photo projects that I need to get done hopefully before I leave for Nashville and Imaging USA. I had an idea today that I practiced with but unfortunately it won't work for my project. I will post it here later and start fresh again tomorrow.
Also if you are following this blog please friend/fan me on facebook as I have an awesome contest going on.
For all of my facebook friends/fans I am asking you to help me get more fans for the new year. From Jan.1 through Jan. 14th at Midnight who ever refers the most friends to my photography page will win a 2010 calendar with a collection of images from our Hawaii trip. I will do a different contest starting the 15th through the 31st. These contests will continue through June 30th. At that time who ever has referred the most people overall will receive a complimentary Snaptotes clutch bag with the portrait of their choosing. With your help I know that 2010 will be awesome. If you refer someone please have them put your full name in a message so that I know who referred them. If you click on the title of this post it will take you to my photography facebook page.
Thanks for your help and I look forward to meeting many new people, reuniting with old friends and making new ones.
But with the bad there was some good too. The kids and I were able to go to Charleston SC to visit Daddy while they were commissioning the ship. We wound up in DC just to get away. We went to Oahu and Kauai over the summer for our family vacation. And then Disney had to put out their Military Discount that is always too good to pass up. So for Thanksgiving we wound up at Disney World. So lots of good traveling atleast.
I met some great friends and clients in 09. Photographed lots of couples, families and weddings. OPLOVE really took off here, so much so that we can't possibly help everyone who requests it.
With all of that said I am ready to start 2010 off right.
I am enrolled in a photography course, cause as we all know you can never learn too much. I am always looking for new ways to do this or that. I have a photoshop course lined up for later this year.
I don't make New Years Resolutions, so I am going to make "goals" instead.
A few of my goals personal and business wise are
* to get fit.
*get more organized and balance my time better (purchased software to help with this and made schedules)
*Practice new lighting techniques.
*Spend more time together as a family since the hubster will be home for the majority of the next 6 months.
*Try to remain open and understanding when the talks with the detailer starts for new orders (this is probably be the hardest of them all lol)
*And I hope to take atleast one photo everyday.
I will post the images here but it probably won't be everyday. But I definitely plan to post here atleast a couple of times a week. So be on the look out.
I have 6 photo projects that I need to get done hopefully before I leave for Nashville and Imaging USA. I had an idea today that I practiced with but unfortunately it won't work for my project. I will post it here later and start fresh again tomorrow.
Also if you are following this blog please friend/fan me on facebook as I have an awesome contest going on.
For all of my facebook friends/fans I am asking you to help me get more fans for the new year. From Jan.1 through Jan. 14th at Midnight who ever refers the most friends to my photography page will win a 2010 calendar with a collection of images from our Hawaii trip. I will do a different contest starting the 15th through the 31st. These contests will continue through June 30th. At that time who ever has referred the most people overall will receive a complimentary Snaptotes clutch bag with the portrait of their choosing. With your help I know that 2010 will be awesome. If you refer someone please have them put your full name in a message so that I know who referred them. If you click on the title of this post it will take you to my photography facebook page.
Thanks for your help and I look forward to meeting many new people, reuniting with old friends and making new ones.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Imaging USA Final Update
Well I am finally back from Imaging USA and at "home" in Norfolk Virgina.
I was too exhausted to update most of the time and then when I could the internet at the hotel was usually down.
So I will just update everything here in one big post.
I was in classes everyday starting at 7am. I got to meet some great and well known photographers.
Just to name a few, 2 that I had wanted to meet the whole time we were in Corpus Christi was Mike Fulton and Cody Clinton of Tricoast Photography. They live just south of Houston TX but usually shoot weddings all over the world and very few actually in Texas lol.
Hanson Fong, Joe Buissink, Anne Geddes, Bob Davis, & Clay Blackmore just to name a few more.
Bob Davis has worked closely with Oprah Winfrey, and photographed Eva Longoria and Tony Parkers wedding.
Joe Buissink has photographed many celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey, Brendan Fraser, Kelsey Grammer, Hillary Swank & Chad Lowe, Christina Applegate, Jenny Garth & Peter Facinelli, and Christina Aguilera. BEAUTIFUL work!
We all know who Anne Geddes is!!! She is the one who started the craze with the babies in flower pots etc... Very beautiful work too. She even got a standing ovation in a sold out symphony hall.
Clay Blackmore has photographed Larry King, Forrest Whitaker, Jenna Elfman, Maria Sharapova just to name a few.
The expo was great tons and tons of products to offer. I can't wait to get my frames and bags in to show my clients.
The parties were fun and pretty good food too. And it is official that Imaging USA will be in Nashville Tennessee in Jan. 2010. I can't wait to go back to the Grand Ole Opry where the expo will take place.
If you a photographer and debating attending a PPA event I HIGHLY recommend it. I learned so much and met some AWESOME photographers, many who haven't shot Celebrity Weddings but great None the less!!
I want to thank Andy Contreras for putting up with me as a room mate :D
I truely hope it was as much fun for you as it was for me. I can't wait to see you in Nashville. BTW send me those photos :P I need to post them here.
Tonya I hope you passed your exam and are fully certified.
Don and Dee Barnes & Janice and your hubby, it was great to meet you guys and have dinner. Hopefully we can do it again another time.
To all of the photographers on the Southwest Airlines flight, it was truely fun and memorable. Maybe I will get to see you guys in Raleigh for the school. www.ppofnc.com.
I was also able to meet one of the Biggest Loser contestants while on my journies westward. Can't speak a lot about it but I do have a snapshot to post once I download my images.
And I have to say one thing about Phoenix, if you are going to visit and plan to use the light rail, make sure that the hotel really is just across the street from the rail station as our convention hotel told us that the rail was just across the street. But it was actually 4.5 blocks up and not your normal block either. So it took us about 15 mins to walk to the rail station and then the train ride was supposed to be 15 minutes but I never made it to the convention center in less than 28 mins.
Once I arrived back in NC it was FREEZING literally. I have a couple of photos to post from it too once I get them uploaded.
The kids had fun I do believe with their Mimi and Papa and then Nana.
Mimi and Pa got them 4 wheelers for Christmas, even after wrecking them they kept going back for more. My kids are apparently just like my husband, not afraid of much lol.
Poor Snoopy thought we had thrown her away, she still hasn't adjusted to VA let alone be bounced around. But she is snoring as usual now, so I think she is settling down.
But keep an eye out for new and improved things to come to Breezy Cranford Photography!!
Any way I think that is it except for the photos. So once Andy emails me the ones she took and I upload the others I will get them posted.
I was too exhausted to update most of the time and then when I could the internet at the hotel was usually down.
So I will just update everything here in one big post.
I was in classes everyday starting at 7am. I got to meet some great and well known photographers.
Just to name a few, 2 that I had wanted to meet the whole time we were in Corpus Christi was Mike Fulton and Cody Clinton of Tricoast Photography. They live just south of Houston TX but usually shoot weddings all over the world and very few actually in Texas lol.
Hanson Fong, Joe Buissink, Anne Geddes, Bob Davis, & Clay Blackmore just to name a few more.
Bob Davis has worked closely with Oprah Winfrey, and photographed Eva Longoria and Tony Parkers wedding.
Joe Buissink has photographed many celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey, Brendan Fraser, Kelsey Grammer, Hillary Swank & Chad Lowe, Christina Applegate, Jenny Garth & Peter Facinelli, and Christina Aguilera. BEAUTIFUL work!
We all know who Anne Geddes is!!! She is the one who started the craze with the babies in flower pots etc... Very beautiful work too. She even got a standing ovation in a sold out symphony hall.
Clay Blackmore has photographed Larry King, Forrest Whitaker, Jenna Elfman, Maria Sharapova just to name a few.
The expo was great tons and tons of products to offer. I can't wait to get my frames and bags in to show my clients.
The parties were fun and pretty good food too. And it is official that Imaging USA will be in Nashville Tennessee in Jan. 2010. I can't wait to go back to the Grand Ole Opry where the expo will take place.
If you a photographer and debating attending a PPA event I HIGHLY recommend it. I learned so much and met some AWESOME photographers, many who haven't shot Celebrity Weddings but great None the less!!
I want to thank Andy Contreras for putting up with me as a room mate :D
I truely hope it was as much fun for you as it was for me. I can't wait to see you in Nashville. BTW send me those photos :P I need to post them here.
Tonya I hope you passed your exam and are fully certified.
Don and Dee Barnes & Janice and your hubby, it was great to meet you guys and have dinner. Hopefully we can do it again another time.
To all of the photographers on the Southwest Airlines flight, it was truely fun and memorable. Maybe I will get to see you guys in Raleigh for the school. www.ppofnc.com.
I was also able to meet one of the Biggest Loser contestants while on my journies westward. Can't speak a lot about it but I do have a snapshot to post once I download my images.
And I have to say one thing about Phoenix, if you are going to visit and plan to use the light rail, make sure that the hotel really is just across the street from the rail station as our convention hotel told us that the rail was just across the street. But it was actually 4.5 blocks up and not your normal block either. So it took us about 15 mins to walk to the rail station and then the train ride was supposed to be 15 minutes but I never made it to the convention center in less than 28 mins.
Once I arrived back in NC it was FREEZING literally. I have a couple of photos to post from it too once I get them uploaded.
The kids had fun I do believe with their Mimi and Papa and then Nana.
Mimi and Pa got them 4 wheelers for Christmas, even after wrecking them they kept going back for more. My kids are apparently just like my husband, not afraid of much lol.
Poor Snoopy thought we had thrown her away, she still hasn't adjusted to VA let alone be bounced around. But she is snoring as usual now, so I think she is settling down.
But keep an eye out for new and improved things to come to Breezy Cranford Photography!!
Any way I think that is it except for the photos. So once Andy emails me the ones she took and I upload the others I will get them posted.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Phoenix Arizona and Imaging USA
I arrived in Phoenix yesterday about 200pm local time. After catching the bus to the light rail, figuring out the light rail tickets and hoping on the train in the right direction, I was on my way for my hotel.
Once in my room I called my husband, mom, sister and MIL (watching kids for me) to let them know I had arrived and that I would talk with them again soon.
I caught the shuttle to Mill Ave. to grab a bite to eat is is now 530 EST and I am starving. After waling around for a few, I finally decided on Hooters I was in the mood from some Wings. :D
I then came back to the room and called it a night. Emailed my clients and got everything in order for today.
On to today.
I went into Downtown a little early grabbed some breakfast and then wondered around with my camera for some shots.
I finally got over to the Sheraton and checked in for my class for Imaging USA.
The class was great! I have learned a lot and can't wait to implement it when I get back to Virgina. And this is only day ONE!!!
So with that said to all of you in Hampton Roads VA, be ready for some great things to come from Breezy Cranford Photography.
Mainly in High School Senior, Baby, Event and Wedding Photography!
I am looking for 2 senior Reps from East Montgomery High School and 2 from West Montgomery High School in Montgomery County, North Carolina.
I am also looking form 2 high school Reps in all High Schools located in the Hampton Roads Virginia area.
Each Rep will receive a Complimentary 120 minute Photography Session including indoor and outdoor poses. 50 referral bookmarks and $5 for every booked referral.
If you are interested in being a Rep please contact me ASAP for more information!
It is about time to call it a night.
Can't wait to update tomorrow!
Once in my room I called my husband, mom, sister and MIL (watching kids for me) to let them know I had arrived and that I would talk with them again soon.
I caught the shuttle to Mill Ave. to grab a bite to eat is is now 530 EST and I am starving. After waling around for a few, I finally decided on Hooters I was in the mood from some Wings. :D
I then came back to the room and called it a night. Emailed my clients and got everything in order for today.
On to today.
I went into Downtown a little early grabbed some breakfast and then wondered around with my camera for some shots.
I finally got over to the Sheraton and checked in for my class for Imaging USA.
The class was great! I have learned a lot and can't wait to implement it when I get back to Virgina. And this is only day ONE!!!
So with that said to all of you in Hampton Roads VA, be ready for some great things to come from Breezy Cranford Photography.
Mainly in High School Senior, Baby, Event and Wedding Photography!
I am looking for 2 senior Reps from East Montgomery High School and 2 from West Montgomery High School in Montgomery County, North Carolina.
I am also looking form 2 high school Reps in all High Schools located in the Hampton Roads Virginia area.
Each Rep will receive a Complimentary 120 minute Photography Session including indoor and outdoor poses. 50 referral bookmarks and $5 for every booked referral.
If you are interested in being a Rep please contact me ASAP for more information!
It is about time to call it a night.
Can't wait to update tomorrow!
Friday, January 02, 2009
The Start of the NEW YEAR
It was great to ring in the new year with my husband even though it was by phone. It certainly could have been worse. He called about 2 minutes before the NYC Ball dropped, so we celebrated my time not his. Certainly would have been better for him to be here in person but hey such is the life of a military family right?!? lol
Well not sure what to say about it. I am really looking forward to it. But I forgot my greens and Black Eyed Peas. Sure hope I didn't Jinx myself.
Spent the day unpacking and repacking for the next trip. We are heading to North Carolina to visit family and celebrate Christmas with them. And then I am off to Imaging USA in Phoenix.
I have decided to try and post here atleast 2 times a week. Hopefully with new photos. I am hoping I will learn some better organizational skills at Imaging also as I need to be more organized so that I can get the most out of my time. As I am also planning to workout 5-6 days a week, plus still homeschool the kids and have time for my photography clients.
Would love to buddy up with someone in the area that can help keep me motivated for the workouts, as we have a trip to Hawaii booked in July and I absolutely can NOT go there looking like I do right now. I am a stress eater and have obviously been stressed alot over the last 18 months. So if you are also looking for a workout buddy let me know. We can motivate each other through email and such if need be.
Thanks for reading and I hope you all have a GREAT New Year!
Well not sure what to say about it. I am really looking forward to it. But I forgot my greens and Black Eyed Peas. Sure hope I didn't Jinx myself.
Spent the day unpacking and repacking for the next trip. We are heading to North Carolina to visit family and celebrate Christmas with them. And then I am off to Imaging USA in Phoenix.
I have decided to try and post here atleast 2 times a week. Hopefully with new photos. I am hoping I will learn some better organizational skills at Imaging also as I need to be more organized so that I can get the most out of my time. As I am also planning to workout 5-6 days a week, plus still homeschool the kids and have time for my photography clients.
Would love to buddy up with someone in the area that can help keep me motivated for the workouts, as we have a trip to Hawaii booked in July and I absolutely can NOT go there looking like I do right now. I am a stress eater and have obviously been stressed alot over the last 18 months. So if you are also looking for a workout buddy let me know. We can motivate each other through email and such if need be.
Thanks for reading and I hope you all have a GREAT New Year!
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