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Content Creation Milestones

Dancers in black and white - ©TimeLine Media

At the end of 2013, I looked back, and I realized that I kept a resolution that I stipulated a year prior to blog at least once a day. To say that I learned a lot would be an understatement of a large degree. I was thinking so much more about why I do things, I sought the opinions of other bloggers and what they wanted to accomplish with their writing. With my focus on photography, I had lots of content that I had not written about as these events and projects were progressing. I thought that I would need to dip into that pool of projects to keep going when new ideas or images were not made throughout the year. In fact, I still have a list of things that I have not blogged about event after a year of daily postings.

Washington, DC

Lincoln Memorial - HDR Image - ©TimeLine Media
Lincoln Memorial – HDR Image – ©TimeLine Media

There are a few content makers out there that really crank out posts multiple times a day. I knew that I could not do that being just one person. When would I have time to make new photos? There are many photographers, writers, comedians, sports reporters, that blog articles daily. It took me a while to see what they were doing, and to jump in myself. This was despite the fact that I would read their content multiple times a day. I knew I had some things to contribute, and I had a WordPress blog already setup. It was only the commitment that was needed to really get the ball rolling. It is now a part of daily routine. If it is getting late in the afternoon, I feel the tug of the keyboard to get something down. It is as much for me as for anyone else that happens to come across the site.

©TimeLine Media - Piano Keys
©TimeLine Media – Piano Keys

For everyone that has come across my posts and written comments and urged me to continue – Thank you! To all the writers, photographers, podcasters, and other content creators that are sharing their creations online with their audiences – Thank you! I hope that I can contribute more than noise to the online community. I love creating and sharing new images that hopefully get better as I write and analyze the photos over time. And it is my hope to make them better each time I hit the “Publish” button.

Dancers in black and white - ©TimeLine Media
Dancers in black and white – ©TimeLine Media

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Editing Continues

Award lineup USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media

I am making editing progress, and things are looking good! So many photos to go through, but it is fun to look back on 2 days of dancing. Not tiring yet of being in front of the computer but am taking a little break to blog this note. I’ll be back to working on the photos asap, I promise! They will be posted here by this weekend:

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Award lineup USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships - Editing Continues 
 - ©TimeLine Media
Award lineup USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance President and competition Emcee, Yang Chen - Editing Continues - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance President and competition Emcee, Yang Chen – ©TimeLine Media

As long as I have been covering ballroom dance events, this has been an early stopping point. Joe Huesman was one of the first organizer to have us set up a booth at their event. Now, both the competition and our photography business has grown! With this in mind I keep that thought when I have to do so much work. Similarly to dance, photography is a luxury item, not a necessity. So I attempt to make the experience and products as luxurious as possible. Of course, I have to match what the dancers are putting out there. In fact, many of these dancers are aiming for a National Championship! Hopefully the photos will reflect their hard work to get there.

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Editing Started – USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships

View from just off camera - TimeLine Media

We are back from a long weekend of dancing at the 2014 USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships. No, we did not get a chance to go out on to the floor and actually dance, but we did come away with over 10,000 photos! I have to thank my assistant photographers, and my wife for helping to make it a successful weekend! The editing of all the photos has started, and I hope to have them available at the proofing site by this Saturday.

Similar to other events, we will correct the color for each photo, and crop them as needed. On this occasion, we had a nice setup with our strobe lights. So I do not anticipate much work is needed on most of these. Additionally, we need to sort them by competitor. Likely, that will take the most time until then!

If you add your email list to the event site below, you will get an email as soon as they are ready to view. I will also announce it here on the blog. Back to work for me!

View from just off camera - this photo is not part of the editing - ©TimeLine Media
Ballroom view from just off camera – this photo is not part of the editing – ©TimeLine Media

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