This post is one year following the grand reopening of the Tysons Tower Apartments. On this occasion, the caterer referred me for this event. Augustin from The Chef’s Table Caterers and Event Planners contacted me since we have worked many Santa Breakfast’s together.
At this time, the apartment building was celebrating their grand reopening. For months prior to the celebration, they renovated all the apartments and the common areas of the facility. During the ribbon cutting ceremony, and the reception, it was nice to the residents happy with the results. To be sure it was tough work to coordinate the project with so many residents. Now they celebrated the results! Without a doubt, the residents and staff have a beautiful new building to work and live.
Last fall, I photographed the 70 Year Celebration for the Carl M. Freeman Companies. Since I had not been to this venue before, I arrived very early for the event. Tusculum Farm in Laytonsville, Maryland was where the employees and their families met for the celebration. This was a particularly beautiful setting for an outside celebration. Again, I was thankful for the referral from current clients for new work!
As the day progressed, there were so many activities for guests to do. There was plenty of food and drink to sample from barbecue to beer trucks. Additionally, there was a cigar specialist that was giving tutorials on smoking cigars with sips of brandy. While walking through the farm, I was impressed with the art pieces that made the place more interesting than the typical farm. Finally, the group photo of all the employees that could make the 70 year celebration capped a great Freeman Day at the Farm.
2014 has arrived! For me, that has meant staying up until midnight with my family after a good evening of eating and visiting with friends. It started as a celebration of my parents wedding a few years before I was born, and it has continued as a family tradition since then. This year, we had lots of good food, and lots of stories to tell.
A selfie I found on my camera
This year, we passed around an iPad with the old slide scans. There were so many laughs at the fashions, the hair styles, and the familiar faces. We also used cutting edge streaming video to meet faces for the first time this year.
It was a great year, and I am looking forward to 2014. Not planning and big changes, but liking the progress I have been making in business, and image making. Maybe I’ll throw try some new tricks! Things are changing fast, and it is fun trying to keep up with technology, and what other great photographers are doing. It is such an inspiring time to be a photographer, and I am blessed to have the opportunity to do this job. I will always be working to make better images every time I go out to shoot.
I am so thankful for my family. It is a privilege to belong to such a caring group of people. My wife is an idea-generating machine and manager, injecting new ideas to support the photos keeps the thinking cap on, and makes sure that the work is never stale. We keep getting better every year, and I’m sure that will continue this year. I hope that more readers will stop by the blog this year as we make more photos. The challenge to make the images and the stories interesting, can only make the photos better. Happy New Year!
