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Photography, Wedding | 0 comment

WeddingWire.com 2011 Award!

2011 Bride's Choice Awards | Best Wedding Photographers, Wedding Dresses, Wedding Cakes, Wedding Florists, Wedding Planners & More

Again, it is humbling to have received the WeddingWire.com awards from such especially wonderful things written about me. These were by brides and grooms photographed on their wedding day last year. This is the 4th year in a row receiving this award. Thanks to all my assistants that were working with me. Especially thank you for the bride referrals. At this time, I am preparing for upcoming weddings this season. In light of this recognition, I am inspired to do even better. Further, here is the press release about the award:

Weddingwire.com Press Released

Fairfax, VA  – January 31, 2011 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce TimeLine Media has been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for Wedding Photography!

Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation.

TimeLine Media stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community. It is representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were giving to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories. These go from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on the overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is honored to celebrate the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community,” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s CEO. “With the annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program, WeddingWire has the unique opportunity to recognize the best wedding professionals across the US and Canada. We applaud TimeLine Media for their professionalism and dedication to enhancing the wedding planning experience last year.”

We are happy to announce that TimeLine Media is among the very best photographers within the WeddingWire Network. This includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee. Additionally, we would like to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today.

For more information on the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

About WeddingWire, Inc.

WeddingWire.com, the nation’s leading technology company serving the $70 billion wedding industry. It is the only online wedding planning resource designing to empower both engaged couples and wedding professionals. For engaged couples, WeddingWire offers the ability to search, compare and book over 200,000 local wedding vendors, from wedding venues to wedding photographers to wedding cakes. WeddingWire also offers an online community and a suite of cutting-edge planning tools for weddings, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge. For wedding professionals, WeddingWire provides free online management tools creating the only market opportunity that gives local businesses control over their clients, reviews, leads and performance. Businesses that join the WeddingWire Network appear on WeddingWire.com and other leading sites, including MarthaStewartWeddings.com (NYSE: MSO), ProjectWedding.com and Weddingbee.com (both part of eHarmony), and Celebrations.com (part of the 1-800-Flowers family of brands, NASDAQ: FLWS).

2011 Bride's Choice Awards | Best Wedding Photographers, Wedding Dresses, Wedding Cakes, Wedding Florists, Wedding Planners & More

Planning a wedding this year? Booking photographers is an important step. I am working on being more efficient in communicating. In any case, time is a precious resource for everyone. With this in mind, I simplify the choices for wedding couples. From coverage, albums, and assistants, I make it easier for you. If it is easier for you, it is easier for me!

Thanks again for writing reviews on my site. It is emphatically the best way to relay your experiences. I have asked for these reviews, and am thankful for the responses.

TimeLine Media – www.timelinedc.com
703-864-8208

Ballroom Dance, Event, Photography | 0 comment

Bally’s Ballroom

Open Professional Smooth Competitors
Open Professional Smooth Competitors

Life takes a strange winding road. Looking back, my wanting to be in something creative led me to photography. Although I love music, and had studied piano from 4 until college, my attempt at becoming a pianist, a-cappella music director, or recording engineer was just not sustainable. I had an amazing time doing these things, but I always seem to come up a bit short when challenged. Much like in my science career at the time, I was adequate, but not special. However, I may have gotten lucky at the Bally’s casino/hotel in Atlantic City.

Dance-o-rama

Bally's in Atlantic City, NJ
Bally’s in Atlantic City, NJ

When dancing in at the 2007 Arthur Murray Dance-o-rama, I photographed my fellow students, and instructors from the Arthur Murray dance center in Tysons Corner, VA. Throughout the weekend, I found that ballroom dance was a terrific subject for photos! Additionally it was a fun challenge to capture. There were different types of dances, and different costumes for each type of dance. Also lots of personalities that could be captured from facial expressions, body movement, and moments in between dances. I pushed my camera and 70-200mm lens as far as they would go. It was necessary to try to get better photographs during each heat.

Professional Dance Competition

Open Professional Rhythm Competitors Bally's in Atlantic City, NJ
Open Professional Rhythm Competitors

Overall the goal was to catch dancers in their dramatic lines that were well-practiced, and perfected leading up to the competition. Comparatively, i tried to catch students performing at their best in front of the judges! Likewise it was an ice breaker to interact with students from other studios. With a cheering crowd, and encouraging friends I felt that I really wanted to capture the mood. It was not every day that you see an event of this kind.

Open Professional Rhythm Competitors Bally's in Atlantic City, NJ
Open Professional Rhythm Competitors

Now, three years later, the thrill of that first big competition is still with me. With this in mind, I will again go to the Bally’s Atlantic City for the 2010 New Jersey State Open. It was the same room that I made my first ballroom dance photographs. I still get caught up in the excitement when the music starts. Moreover there is another set of friends, instructors, and dancers start to cheer! My hope is that I can capture not only the anxious, excited mood of the event but the months and years of work the dancers have invested.

Bally’s Atlantic City

Pro-Am dancers at the Arthur Murray Dance-o-rama in Bally's Atlantic City, NJ
Pro-Am dancers at the Arthur Murray Dance-o-rama in Atlantic City, NJ

There are so many I need to thank for helping me along this journey – Steve Theiss for giving my first opportunity to photograph dancers and who really helped open the door to more events, to my first subjects at this dance event who sucked my laptop’s battery dry on the ride home to view all the photos, and lastly to my wife Bryony who has gone to EVERY event I have photographed doing everything behind the scenes from downloading cards, editing images, and talking with dancers about our photography. I am really behind on the blog, but I promise to get more of our 2010 events up here very soon!

Personal, Photography | 2 Comments

Snowstorm Time Lapse

cardinal sitting in a tree empty of leaves during winter
cardinal sitting in a tree empty of leaves during winter

With the largest snowstorm in six weeks approaching the area 🙂 I decided to try an intervalometer experiment to make a time lapse film. My cousin introduced me to the concept a few years ago, but this is my first stab at it.

time lapse video of snowstorm in Fairfax, Virginia

Starting at 9:30AM on Friday February 5, I set my Nikon D200 to take an exposure every 30 seconds while being pointed out my front window. I wanted to capture the falling snow, the traffic outside, and the eventual dig out. Overall, I think it worked pretty well! Although, I wish that I was able to get a better view of how many inches fell, and how high the snow pile was in front of our house after the many sessions of digging out our parking spaces and sidewalks. I hope you enjoy my little project! It helped to stave off the cabin fever.

Did you do any photo or video projects during the snowstorm? Maybe you had a similar experience with weather this winter. If you have any suggestions for me to set up for the next time, please let me know!

TimeLine Media – www.timelinedc.com
703-864-8208

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