I’m trying to be more environmentally friendly these days. I bought a hybrid car, switched out all my lightbulbs with CFL’s, use green household cleaning products, etc. So, in my quest in being more green I came across some websites that will help. The first website is www.greenerprinter.com. The second website is more for my business and it’s www.greenerphotography.com. I’m just trying to do my small part and hopeuflly it’ll pay off.

I recently became aware of the Wedding Photographic Society.   Instead of me trying to explain them here’s the excerpt from their website:

We’re a network of professional photographers who come together to collaborate on photographic ideas, thoughts, and information in an attempts to elevate the artistic, technical, and business standards of the wedding photographic community. Membership in the WPS offers many professional & personal growth opportunities via bi-monthly educational meetings, networking, critiques, and general camaraderie during such gatherings. WPS meetings, forums, blog submissions, & web pages are open to any and all professional wedding photographers throughout the world.

The WPS’s origins date back to 2005, when North Carolina photographer Christobal Perez organized quarterly photography meetings in an effort to help build relationships, share knowledge amongst peers, and help create a competitive, yet supportive photographic community. The spirit of Christobal’s movement has grown exponentially since that time and has since evolved into the WPS(which became official in 2009) with the further support of other local photographers, Shane Snider, Robin Lin, Martha Manning, Stacy Borelli, & Brian Mullins. Leaders & members of the WPS donate their time to organize topic discussions with guest speakers, collaborate on ideas and offer guidance, all without compensation.

It’s very exciting to see this open network of photographers come to existence. I am looking forward to sharing ideas with other photographers and especially being able to meet the owners since they are local to Raleigh, NC. I knew there were be some perks of moving down here.

As you know, I had a baby boy recently. In addition to taking photos of my beautiful baby boy, I thought it would be cool to create a video also. I’ve kept in touch with my wedding videographer so I called her up and asked if she would do a baby announcement video. Just by chance, it was something she was trying to branch into so she was thrilled to do it for us.

I can’t give more accolades to Danielle. She is truly great as what she does and she will always be the first videographer I would recommend. Well, I’m sure you’re all just waiting to see the video. You can go to Danielle’s website at Lucky Productions Video to check it out.

I got wind of this story and thought I would share it here.  The story is by photojournalist James Nachtwey.  He is considered by many to be the greatest war photographer in our era.

Click on the image below to see the story.

My site is finally up and running. I think the site turned out really well. I have no clue where this photography venture is going to take me but I hope it’s goign to be a fun ride and I can’t wait to start creating memories for other people.