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Amazing things happened last night. What a great way to end the year. Amy & Matt's wedding was stunning. Their images will surely reflect the incredible day we had. I get to photograph these two on their honeymoon now. What a great way to finish their wedding story.

3 New Albums to show you.

Funny thing is that they are all from a local golf club called Newcastle. All 3 albums are gorgeous so I'm looking forward to sharing them. Our couples must see them first of course, then with their permission I'll share them with you.

Stay tuned friends!

Jim

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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Fun to share this one. We've just completed the remodeling of this little cabin. This house and the home next to it will certainly be part of a future workshop. Can't wait to share it with you.
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Here's the View from the Beach,

HUGE TIP FOR MY FRIENDS!

This is the time of year we get a chance to clean house and look behind the scenes to see how things are going with our web traffic and hits, etc. We're in the process of revamping our site a bit which is very important to do every year. What many photographers fail to do however is to maximize their traffic by assuring higher rankings on search engines, etc. My friends at BIGFOLIO created a great DVD to help you do this optimization. I strongly recommend checking it out. I will be implementing what I just learned immediately. I feel like the lights just went on! Thanks to my friends at BIGFOLIO. You make our lives so much easier with what you do.

BIGFOLIO DVD

Happy Holidays Friends!

We're chillin' around here. (except for albums) What a great time of year!

A few random images from the updated site
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New Images on the site!

Claire freshened our site yesterday! We have 360 images in our "style" section. You may know that we are all about story telling photography, these images are snaps from these amazing 2007 weddings. We still have 3rd and 4th Quarter Albums to complete so many more to come. Thanks Claire, we were way overdue. It's been a year at least since our last update of this scope. Check it out. JGP Bridal Site

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The Season of Big Prints. We love huge prints. This one is for Sheri and Chris. This is a stretched version of what we are printing for them today. It's a 48x 32" print for their home. GORGEOUS! Yesterday we had an order to fill 3 walls equalling about 1000 sq ft. We'll do some HUGE metallic prints mounted on 2" foam core with black edge tape for the B/W images. This will be a very clean look in a contemporary home. Frameless is hot.

Under the Radar

Hi Guys, So, thought I would share with you a bit about what we are about here. There has been some interest in us going big and doing some workshops, and the photography education thing. While this sounds like a fun thing, I have to be totally honest with you. I am nothing but a family guy. I am about serving my clients to the best of my ability and my girls, Gabriella and Linnea. We know that if we focus on both that we will be unstoppable as photographers and as a parents. This is Katarina and me right now.

While we compete and aim to win competitions because we believe that it raises the bar on what we do, we will show you this work with humility. It's a process of growing for us. The results are not our ending point but just the beginning of new ideas we plan to implement, and of course share with you through this simple blog.

Here's the simple road we have planned for now.

2 educational platforms for 2008. WPPI "Young guns," WPPI "Masters class," & One More simple thing

The rest will be done through our newsletters. What better way to share what we know.. Sorry about the delay if you are waiting for this one. It's big and I'm getting tech support on how to show it.

If interested, send and email to jim@jgarnerphoto.com with subject: Photographer Mailing List.

JG

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Something good is coming. Really good! Any Guesses?
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Winter Weddings are Fantastic! We're done shooting for the year so we can focus on design and delivery. We love it!
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Here's a closer look at the Double Page Ad. Many of these images you can see below.
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Ads were due last week. Here is what we are showing 1st Quarter. We are doing many pages throughout the magazines. Double spread, a single page and 2/3rd pages. Since many photographers are showing b/w and muted soft color, we are showing the beauty in full color images, mostly urban but all fashionable. (even though we adore b/w images and sepia as well). I believe takes more practice to master great color so lets show it right?
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