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July 28, 2014

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Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles Expiring

Westfields Marriott

I suppose that the main reason that photographers start blogging is to share their photos online. Secondly is to attract more visitors that will hire you to do more projects! That being the case, I have been very busy that last few weeks, and I have a lot of photo management and processing to do. Unfortunately, the blog is what has gone to the back burner, and I am consequently feeling VERY guilty! I apologize to those few of you that stop by to see what I am up to. Rest assured, I have not had any drastic changes, and I still plan on keeping you updated here on my photography projects.

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Spring Freestyles Expiring

Today, the post has to focus on this being the last day that you can view and purchase photos from the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles. The DC Area studios gathered at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, VA for their first big event of 2014. We had previously attended an Arthur Murray at this beautiful hotel as students, but this was the first time we photographed a ballroom dance event there as the official photographers. We assembled a great team of photographers and helpers that made sure we could capture as many dancers as we could over the two days. To view all the photos from the event, please visit the proofing site here:

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At the end of the event, we came away with some great photos of the professional shows! I really had a great time playing with these photos. If you remember, we had a Facebook voting contest with images that I treated with a distressed-retro look. I think it was a good combination with the kinds of images from the shows. I am currently working on the next set of professional shows from the Summer Showcase. That will be next on the growing to do list. Stay tuned!

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July 18, 2014

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Expiring Ballroom Dance Events!

Summer is flying by! Although it does not seem like that long ago, the time has come to clean out more room on the web server for new events. There are three ballroom dance events that are expiring very soon at the TimeLine Media proofing website. These have been up for a while, and we have had lots of visitors.

Firstly, thanks to you that have come by and purchased your photos! I have even put together a couple of albums from these events. Overall this is a great way to share your images without having to be tethered to a tablet or smartphone. At this time, albums can be made from photos of any event we have covered. I put together a layout of your 12-20 favorite photos. After you approve the design, I send the layouts to the lab for printing and binding into a leather album. It is actually cheaper to get the prints in an album than as free prints! If you have any other questions, or would like to know more about our “Ballroom Brag Books” as we call them, please send me an email, or give me a call.

The three events that are expiring soon are:

2014 Baltimore Dancesport Challege – expires July 21, 2014

Arthur Murray 2014 Spring Freestyles – expires July 28, 2014

2014 River City Ballroom Dance Competition – expired August 4, 2014

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I am scheduled to photograph a lot of exciting upcoming events in the next few weeks. I am shooting a couple of weddings, and there are a lot of happenings planned at Tysons Corner Center next week. Rest assured, I’ll be sure to share my adventures and images here on the blog and my other social media outlets. Have a nice weekend!

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June 3, 2014

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Gaithersburg Salsa Formation

Today’s photos are the last from the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles – a Salsa formation performed by the Arthur Murray Gaithersburg, Maryland studio. It is appropriate that the last post of the “grungy” set of posters from that event is from this piece. The dancers, just as all the pros, really go all-out for these shows with their costuming. For this formation, though the dancers also applied theatrical makeup to punch up the hardened look to go along with their moves.

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Dancing in formation is as challenging as it seems. You are multiplying the number of people that you need to align on the floor, and you need to incorporate them with dance figures. When pulled off well, the different presentation of familiar steps is really fun to watch! The audience that is familiar with many of the basic figures of Salsa had a great time seeing how the group worked figures into this 4-person configuration.

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As with all formations, there are also times where the dancers need to move on their own, not connected with a partner. They were able to showcase their individual skills which are not always as obvious when they are dancing with their students. Anyone that has taken lessons will know the feeling when they dance with a pro that it is very different than dancing with a fellow student. Being able to display their technique on their own worked really well in formation. With all the colors, the painted faces, and the grungy clothing, it was really fun to play with these images.

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