My blog posts hope to reach the following people in the following ways. (No particular order)

1. The client

By showing them their pictures in a short succinct recap, and giving them a quick method to show their pictures to their friends and family.

2. The clients friends and family.

By offering them a short recap of their friend or family member.
And also provide a link to the full gallery so they can see more if desired

3. Potential clients

By showing them what kind of work I’ve been doing recently.
After 4-5 years I keep on getting better every shoot.
It’s great to see many pictures from one shoot and know that I don’t just take a small handful of good pictures at each shoot.
Thus the longer posts

4. Friends and Family

Because they say they like to see what I’m up to.
They like to look at pictures. Or so they say

5. Other photographers

-I think that’s a huge bulk of my audience.

I write many posts of photographers interest only.
Posts with tips and tricks directly mainly to photographers, specially the aspiring and learning types.

I also try to include teaching moments through almost all of my posts.
Like for instance, this post.

That being said.

Here’s the link to the FULL GALLERY

This couple has yet to be married.

I’ll be in Hawaii when they get married.

They opted to do their wedding pictures on a previous day.

Why do people do their pictures on a previous day?

• They’ll thus have these pictures in time for their wedding reception or dinner.
• They’ll also have lots more time on their wedding day.
• They won’t freeze as much on their wedding day. (popular for winter weddings)
• We can pick any location.
• We can shoot at any time.
• It’s tons cheaper.
• They can even get another photographer to do group shots if I’m not available.

Why do I like formals?

• For many of the same reasons:
• We can shoot at any time. (not just smack dab in the middle of the harshest light)
• We can take our time and focus on better quality. (Wedding days are often very rushed)
• We have more fun.
• I can do more weddings this way.
• They can show off the prints at the reception.

This one is the product of Spencer … he decided he wanted to pick her up.
I welcome ideas, I don’t know what all a couple is wanting or willing to do.

Any when it comes from the couple themselves, it’s bound to be the favorite… because it was their own idea, their own moment.

(more…)

Continue reading about 2 for 1 : Why a Blog? – Why Formals?

Backend Upgrade

Recently I upgraded the version of wordpress, but you won’t really be seeing that.

But there are a few things that maybe will be happening to make the blog even a bit more trafficked beyond the couple hundred daily visits.

Trying something out

I am presently trying out a new Wordpress theme. That’s why it looks very different.
I am very close to going back to the old theme… so if you like this new one let me know now cuz it could soon be gone.

Share your thoughts if you have some.

scott

Continue reading about Blog Maintenance and Testing

So all of a sudden blog usage on this blog went up 300% this month.
It’s not like the blog is new… I’ve had it for over a year.

My theories are:

• Wordpress fixed some search engine optimization stuff to make things easier to find.
• I’m taking better pictures.
• Fixing the problem when my wordpress got hacked and google told people not to visit my site.
  (This is probably the biggest thing

But it might be because I post a bit more often. For instance my website has stayed constant… I haven’t added anything to the website for a really long time! (what’s the point? 

Continue reading about Blog UP 300% ??

Here it is… the beginning of a great friendship. No longer to I need depend on gallery after gallery of pictures of what I’ve been doing on my photography site.The neat thing about this is that wordpress allows you to install your blog onto your own website.
Something I didn’t see too much of on the other popular sites.
Installing it to my own site did a couple of things… it brings traffic to my site and not just wordpress.com but it also removes the 50mb limit for pictures.

Which will fill up fast considering this Blog is all about pictures.

Continue reading about Photos… here they come!