Happy Friday! I know I can’t wait to get outside, but to get you through your work day, here is the ultimate summer is coming song:
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Archive for April, 2010
Happy Friday
Friday, April 30th, 2010Shawn Marie Rockwood, Honored for her Photography Work
Thursday, April 29th, 2010One of our photographers, Shawn Marie, has been honing her photography skills for over 25 years, but finally worked up the confidence to enter her images into her first Professional Photography competition.
I guess good things come to those who wait because Shawn Marie received the highest total scores for the year, for first time entry from the Professional Photographers of Michigan and was awarded with a full ride scholarship to Great Lakes Institute of Photography. Because of Shawn accumulative scores on her entries, she received the honor of ranking in Michigan’s top 7 Photographers.
That’s not all! She was one of two people in Michigan who were awarded The Fuji Masterpiece Award for Wedding Photography. She also received the Court of Honor which is awarded to the judges’ favorite in of each category in the competition.
She was very excited and honored to receive these awards. She says it has taken her many years of attending print competitions, and awards banquets watching other photographers receive these awards, to have the guts to enter her own images. With the support and encouragement of her mentors she decided this was the year to try. She is “proud and surprised” with the results, and she now has the competition “bug.”
She has recently entered 4 prints in the Professional Photographers of America’s National Competition, and is anxiously waiting for her results from the Judging at the end of June.
Shawn Marie believes that these photography competitions allow her to fine tune her skills and be the best she can be. She loves seeing her improvement reflect in her wedding photography.
Congrats Shawn Marie, and thanks for always striving to be the best!!
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Case of the Mondays
Monday, April 26th, 2010Just in case you aren’t the biggest fan of Mondays or even if you are, here is the ultimate playlist to get you through your day today.
Enjoy!
Photo Montages - Perfect for Sharing
Friday, April 23rd, 2010Everyone loves looking through wedding albums, and yours will be no different. But for all those people who can’t make the trip to see all your wedding photography, we have a solution…
Photo montages are a great way to show the highlights of your wedding day and the emotions you felt. Have your favorite song played in the background, and it is the perfect way to share your wedding memories with everyone.
Check out one of my favorite Photo Montages…
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Great Reception Song: Electric Feel
Thursday, April 15th, 2010If you want to make a fun statement with your bridal dances try an eclectic, playful song and really set the mood.
How about MGMT’s Electric Feel…
Sorry if this is stuck in your head for the rest of day. I know it is stuck in mine.
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A new addition to the Mike Staff Production Family!!
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Congratulations to Kurt & Brandi Colone, proud parents of Lily Kay Colone! Their beautiful daughter arrived perfectly healthy (and with a full head of curly hair) on Saturday night at 8:33pm. She is 7lbs, 11 ounces.
Rockin’ the shades!
Laying with Daddy
Nap time
Please keep the Colone family in your prayers this week as we give thanks to God for such a beautiful & healthy baby.
Videography for you wedding…
Friday, April 9th, 2010Did you know that a recent poll found that less then 20% of brides had videography in their top 10 Must Have Items before their wedding, BUT over 91% wished that had professional, videography after their wedding?
Just so you don’t miss out on capturing your once in a lifetime moments, I wanted to give you a sample of a recent wedding highlight video:
I just love it!! What do you brides think?
Taking the Cake!
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Check out the world’s largest wedding cake! Built for the New England Bridal Showcase at the Mohegan Sun Casino. The vanilla cake is about triple the size of the previous world record-holding wedding cake.
Measuring 17-feet tall
Weighing 15,032 pounds
Ingredients include:
10,000 pounds of pound cake batter
4,810 pounds of creamy frosting with a taste of vanilla and almond.
Comparatively speaking, the cake weighs more than five Volkswagen Beetles and can feed up to 59,000 people.
Chef Lynn Mansel, Mohegan Sun’s Executive Pastry Chef and resident “Michelangelo of batters and buttercream,” began creating the cake on Sunday, February 1st in the Uncas Ballroom. Along with his team of 57 chefs and pastry artisans, Chef Mansel baked 700, 18×24 inch vanilla sheet cakes. Then, using frosting as cement, they created 200, five- and six-layered bricks, which were put together to form the tiers of the wedding cake. Steel discs were used as cake separators and two fork-lifts helped raise each tier as the wedding cake took shape.
Unique First Dance Song
Thursday, April 1st, 2010Are you loving this weather of what?!? Really, what could be better than awesome weather and a day of pranks? Not much!
To go along with today’s laid-back mood and fun loving feel, I thought I would share an awesome option for your First Dance song. It’s called “Just a Boy” and it is by Austrian born duo Angus and Julia Stone.
Check it out:
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