Sunday, February 8, 2009

Jesse and Erica Land Wedding


Another wedding is in the books and with that the downloads and back ups are complete. Seeing the results of my hard work on the screen is just as exciting and fun to see as shooting the wedding. Weddings really allow me to be creative in expressive in many different ways. They are all very similar yet all very different in many ways. The interaction of taking photos of people is something I feel is very important and essential to a successful wedding day shoot.

The interaction builds with each interaction and the tension that most people feel when a camera is pointed there way fades.

Congrats to Jesse & Erica Land, thanks for letting me photograph your special day!

Eric Baillies
www.Elitevideophoto.com
check out more wedding photos here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebaillies/sets/72157613496442831/

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Shower Economics 101

So I think i have some of my best thoughts or ideas while in the shower. This is where the following idea came from, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

To think of the state of our nations economy is a very scary thought, however I feel that optimism and confidence is the only way we can think about our future.

The complexity and enormousness of the ideas that have placed us in the situation that we are in are both massive is size and scope. The recession stems from an increasing growth of a world market, inflation, greed & corruption (along with a dozen other things). It seems to me that the American people have been thrown to the side, all for the sake of a buck.

Lets face it, we cannot compete with prices of China with a population of over a billion and an equal amount of people living in poverty to the entire United States. This deployment of jobs overseas is the loss of true purchasing power. In the long term it increases costs, unemployment and the debt of the American people.

This is where I feel a deeply rooted problem of the state of our economy stems from. So what is the solution??

We need to bring the jobs and what it means to be American back. The sense of who we are as a people has strayed but isn't lost.

I don't claim to have the solution, but it occurred to me while in the shower, somewhere between the shampoo and body wash, that as long as companies motive for being in business is to turn a buck, you know you've dropped the soap.

Would it be feasible for the United States government to counter act this balance so that both businesses & consumers once more would benefit in different ways for those 3 short words?? MADE IN AMERICA.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Blogging...

So can anyone tell me how to make blogging more effective? Is it really just a way to keep a journal or give out load comments on things that bug or interest you?

I guess, i haven't done this for some time since I wasn't sure what I should be doing to increase the use or visits to my blog.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.