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February Mini Shoot Promo

vard — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:16:46 +0000

Tis the season when shooting has slowed to a manageable pace and I am finally catching/finishing up on last season’s edit work. I’ve got a bit left, but there’s definitely a light at the end of the tunnel. So, as life slows down just a bit I finally have time to run a promo that I’ve been wanting to for some time. The February Mini Shoot – designed around the idea that life is always more fun with more than one person. $50 for a two people, be it a couple or just friends.

Details:

1 outfit
Studio or Location
Online Proofing
Piles of Fun

…and you can add friends for $20/person. This will run the entire month of Feb, but book ASAP for better shooting slots. Drop us a line in the studio (570-752-4119) to book a Mini Shoot or if you have any questions about the promo.

Thanks for reading and we’ll see you on the flip side of the lens!

I Found a Hobby

vard — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:57:28 +0000

Finally! I’ve finally found a hobby that doesn’t require a camera…not that I was looking for one, but it’s nice to be able to enjoy something without creating more work to get to.

A few months back some friends and I decided we wanted to take a stab at making our own beer. We drink enough of it, and we like good craft beers, so why not. Benny got to work studying what we’d need to make it happen. A couple of small investments later, we were ready to brew.

The first beer up was an IPA…there’s no way it wouldn’t be. Benny and I both drink our fare share of it, so why not start with what we like. The brew went well and we had a great time. The only hard part was not being able to drink it immediately. That first IPA had to sit for 3 weeks before it was ready for bottling! So we kept ourselves busy with other beers…

Next up was a Belgian Wheat. I’m not the biggest wheat fan, but at this point we’re just learning, so we’re brewing pretty much anything and everything. We had another great 5+ hour brew session that night as well. The wheat was brewed a week after the IPA, but both would be ready for bottling at the same time, as the wheat takes a week less.

So, two weeks after brewing the wheat Benny and I sat down to bottle 93 bottles of our own making. A simple process really, but again we were cursed with beer not yet ready to drink. Patience…it’s important to beer making, apparently. With the bottling of the first two batches out of the way we got to work planning our next 2 brews…

For the next round of brewing we ran back to our favorite, the IPA. This time we mixed it up a bit. I tried a Dogfishhead 90 recipe and Benny went after a Ruination. Two nights in a row of great brewing and learning…learning that mixing up your yeasts will probably not result in the beer you were aiming for…Oops! Yep, we accidentally swapped the yeasts between the recipes. Doh! Oh well…lesson learned…the beers should actually be fine…we’ll know in a few weeks.

While these two IPA’s were fermenting, we finally had our first real beer casualty. Benny’s Ruination was fermenting so intensely it blew the airlock off the top of the carboy. Not a huge mess, and the beer wasn’t ruined, but something different for sure.

And that about brings us to this weekend. This time we pushed the capacity of our setup and went for a double batch of the Belgian Wheat. It’s takes nearly the same time and the grain costs are minimally different…and the first round of wheat was so popular with the folks that tried it, we thought we’d give it a go on a larger scale. As has been the case, we had a blast brewing and are very much looking forward to the weekend before Xmas when a whole bunch of this stuff will start to be ready for sampling…

We’re having fun…We’re eventually going to be saving money…We’re learning lots of cool stuff…and it’s pretty neat to be able to create something we dig so much. Oh, and the first 2 brews, the IPA and the Belgian Wheat…both are effing awesome! They didn’t last long, but they were damn good while we had them…

Rock on!

Lucky You

vard — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:07:29 +0000

One of the cooler parts of this gig is the variety of life I run into while working. Such was the case last night while doing some recon for a promo shoot with Luck You we’ll be shooting next week. The guys played an incredibly energetic set in front of hundreds of screaming drinkers, at times having to share the stage with upwards of 20 stunning women at the same time; tis the rough life of a rocker I guess.

Anyway…it was a great show and it was perfect for seeing this band in their natural element. Should be a great shoot next week.

Rock on!

Highland Games ’11

vard — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:16:08 +0000

Another awesome time out at BriggsFarm in Nescopeck, PA. The Highland Games is another one of those days I plan my schedule around; you can’t miss it…it’s just way too much fun. Aside from the extremely juicy fields and huge ponds of mud we were again gifted with killer weather which does tend to make it a bit more fun for everyone watching the Games.

Get out and enjoy life!

Grab Your Balls!

vard — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:21:55 +0000

Finally had a chance to make it to a friends charity Dodgeball event this year. Wow, what a crazy time that was. I was blown away by the amount of people, the number of teams and the intensity of the play. It was awesome to watch! Thinking about putting a team together for next year. Win or loose it looks like fun!

Game on!

BriggsFest ’11 – Day One

vard — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:54:03 +0000

Wooooooo! Day 1 of BriggsFest ’11 is in the bag. Like always, a generally awesome time was had by tons of people.

The rain helped keep everyone cool and looking forward to today’s perfect weather! If you’ve never made it to Briggs before, or just couldn’t make it out last night, today should be one for the ages!

Hope to see you here…Rock on!

The Love – A Short Story

vard — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:54:49 +0000

For the first couple of days here in Minnesota I had a chance to catch up with a guy I graduated high school with back in ’93. Hanging with Donny and his wife Heidi gave me a great opportunity to try my hand at another short story done in still frame. I called in Megan, a model I worked with my last time here in MN, to be our villain and we spent a few hours having a great time telling this story. Everyone did a killer job doing what we needed to get this done. I gotta raise a morning beer to each of them for their efforts, ideas, hospitality and friendship! Thanks guys!

Rock on!

Short Story Stills – New Blog Section

vard — Sat, 28 May 2011 23:32:31 +0000

I’m spending a week in Minnesota clearing my head and preparing for life in the busy season back home in Pennsylvania. It’s a great place to sit back and refocus (photo pun #1) on where I want to go with my photography. It gives me the chance to review what I’m doing through a new lens (#2) of clarity. So, I thought it would be a nice opportunity to shoot (#3) some new project stuff up on the blog.

The ‘Short Story Stills’ section is something I’ve been working on for a few weeks now. Each entry is a new series of images that I’m using to stretch myself creatively, both behind the camera and from a production/direction perspective. In 20 images or less I’m trying to tell stories that have a beginning, middle and end. And everything is fair game; they can be complex, sexy, funny, adventurous…you name it…if the story can be thought out effectively, I’m going to try to shoot it.

Here’s a few stills from the first three shoots in the series. Each idea is a collaboration. The basic concepts for each shoot are planned out ahead of time, but are also completely malleable during execution. Everyone has a voice; photographer, models, makeup artists and any production assistants we have on hand…the more input, the better chance we have of making something awesome.

Gotta tip the hat to Chantel, Beth & Casey for being on the business side of the lens for these first sets. A major thank you to Daniel Oz and Chelsea for the backside production on shoot’s two and three…and of course Connie for helping make these ideas realities LONG before I ever pick up a camera. With all sincerity, everyone of you have been crucial to the success of these shoots and I appreciate your help in a way I’ll never be able to explain.

Thanks for checking them out! Hit the link in this post or at the top of the page to see each story in its entirety. And, if you feel so inclined, share them with your friends and cell mates.

Now, time for me to get back to my brats, sauerkraut, cheese curds & funny speaking friends.

Peace, eh! Yah-sure, ya-betchya!

Movers & Shakers – Raeesa Khan

vard — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:33:50 +0000

Just posted the latest article in the Movers & Shakers series. Thank you to Raeesa Khan for being part of this growing and enlighting series.

Rock on and thanks for reading! Please share this if you enjoy it. :D

Pakistan’s Cave – A Film by Raeesa Khan

vard — Wed, 18 May 2011 03:56:12 +0000

Posting a quick note about 2 upcoming items. We’re having a movie showing in the studio next Tuesday evening, May 24th, at 6pm. Raeesa Khan’s “Pakistan’s Cave” reviews the country’s need for education reform as told from the first hand accounts of her father and his brother. There will be a Q&A session with Raeesa and her father directly following the showing. Hope you can make it.

And, I’ll be posting the second article in the ‘Movers & Shakers’ (formerly Artist Articles) series at some point tomorrow. Please check back and give that a read if you get a chance. Thanks again…and have a great one!

Rock on…