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Happy 2014!

Family Photos

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
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.

NYE-skype

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!

Washington Monument at sunrise from the Lincoln Memorial - ©TimeLine Media
Washington Monument at sunrise from the Lincoln Memorial – ©TimeLine Media

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One Year of Blogging!

2013 Self Portrait - ©TimeLine Media

It has been a year since I recommitted myself to blogging every day in 2013. What an experience it has been for me! There are many photographers in the blogosphere that inspired me to do this. I first saw a lot of people with “Photo 365” blogs where they would post a photo each day. Overall, that did not seem to reach the goals that I was looking to accomplish. I wanted to get more traffic to my website, and more exposure to potential clients and subjects.

Daily Posting

2013 Self Portrait - ©TimeLine Media
2013 Self Portrait – ©TimeLine Media

One benefit from blogging every day is that it documents what is going on throughout the year more in depth than a daily journal could. The topics from the blog came from what was on top of mind at the time – upcoming events to cover, new techniques I was learning, as well as looking back to recent shoots and whether or not they were successful. I did not think that blogging would help my photography, but it definitely has! I now have a regular outlet to post and share my images where I can explain what was going on, what I was thinking – much more than I can on Facebook or other social networks.

2013 Self Portrait - ©TimeLine Media
2013 Self Portrait – ©TimeLine Media

Will I continue to blog in 2014? I think it is safe to say yes! I have really enjoyed getting to learn how to complete awriting assignment every day. The challenge to come up with topics and write more than 2 sentences is helpful in the sound-bite / 140-characted limited world. It has helped me to remember settings, and approaches better, and has helped me to setup for new shoots. If I take off a day or two, please do not be too harsh, but I still have a string of topics I would like to write about. With new subjects and events lining up for 2014 already and some changes that I have been planning starting to come online, I am sure I will have more to add to the list in no time.

2013 Self Portrait - ©TimeLine Media
2013 Self Portrait – ©TimeLine Media

Happy New Year!

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Silver Spring Professional Show

Arthur Murray Silver Spring, MD - ©TimeLine Media

It has been a while since I posted some ballroom dance photos! There are a few of the professional shows from the 2013 Arthur Murray Fall Showcase that I have not yet featured on the blog. Today, I will post photos from the Swing show by the Silver Spring, MD studio.

Arthur Murray Professional Show - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Professional Show – ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Professional Show - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Professional Show – ©TimeLine Media

This show had a lot of fun personality! There was a great playful character to the dancing that had a lightness and quick action that was fun to watch. This was a great display of Swing technique by these two that really made for some great photos.

Arthur Murray Swing Professional Show - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Swing Professional Show – ©TimeLine Media

The Swing is a dance that brings lots of people into the studio. It can be done to a lot of modern and classic rock music, so it has a familiar feel to all levels of dancers. These two put on a nice display to inspire students to continue learning new figures.

Arthur Murray Silver Spring, MD - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Silver Spring, MD – ©TimeLine Media

The speed of the action of this dance had great movement in her dress. It was hard to catch in the camera they were so quick! The Silver Spring crowd should be proud of another great showing by their staff.

Arthur Murray Silver Spring, MD - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Silver Spring, MD – ©TimeLine Media

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