Monthly Archives: June 2011

We are going on tour! – Flashfire Workshops

Remember that big announcement I’ve been talking about on Facebook?  (You know, the one everybody assumed was that we were having a baby, haha.) Well, here it is… Casey and I are going on tour! I’ve launched a new workshop called Flashfire Workshops! It is a one day speedlight bootcamp focused on not only mastering...

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Casey Barrette - July 11, 2011 - 1:54 pm

This is sweet, friend!

Let me know if you have any down time (definition: time spent with no agenda; I know you don’t have that very often, so I took the liberty of defining for you) when you’re in Chicago. Maybe we could all catch up then…

Joanne Giannetti - July 29, 2011 - 3:20 pm

Hope one day you guys make it to ny.. would love to take a workhop!

Amanda Jackson - August 4, 2011 - 11:25 am

If you are considering this…STOP IT and SIGN UP!!!!!! It is an incredible experience and will definitely rock. your. world.

Dylannlicious

I’ve known Dylann since she was about 4 years old so it is really crazy to be taking her senior pictures! She is definitely a rockstar.  The proof is in the pictures. (I borrowed the title of this blog from one of Dylann’s Facebook albums.  I found it very accurate, haha.) A little behind the...

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Shauna - June 28, 2011 - 8:30 pm

She is gorgeous! I particularly love the one with Tracy! Love her!

LeeAnn Warner - June 29, 2011 - 6:55 pm

I love the picture in her cheer uniform and barefoot. Your work is absolutely amazing. (the one at the very top)
The picture on the old sofa, (far back) can that be made closer?
Guess because she’s mine, I think she is just beautiful in these Senior pictures.
Thanks you Brett.

Senior Photographer Test-Drive!

When you buy a new car, you get a chance to kick the tires and take it for a spin.  It’s an important decision and you don’t want to get stuck with a turd.  (and sometimes you just want to try out a Mercedes to see what you are missing!) You know what else is...

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Mary Bolinger - June 14, 2011 - 6:29 am

These senior pics (and all the others!) are awesome! I just hope you’re still around when Julia and Wil are seniors!

Jason and Amanda’s Engagement Session

A couple weeks ago I got to photograph Jason and Amanda – two ridiculously good looking people.  They are pretty much a celebrity couple (except Aman-son isn’t a very good celebrity couple name and Janda isn’t much better.)  Nevertheless, these two ROCK in front of the camera!  Definitely made my job easy. Can’t wait for...

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Doris Wilker - June 17, 2011 - 1:13 pm

Great pics Brett! I’m at your blog looking for some inspiration for a E-session that I have because you always have some cool posing!

How Much Is A Memory Worth?

(Let me preface this by saying that we QUADRUPLE back up our clients photos!  Even backing up all the files on DVDs and putting them in a fireproof safe.) Recently the hard drive in my MacBook pro crashed.  It completely locked up and I couldn’t even turn the computer on.  I rarely backed up my...

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Jordan Moore - June 10, 2011 - 9:22 am

Great post, Brett! So true. I have always said if there was ever a fire… The first thing I would grab are my pictures! (Definetly wedding pictures & scrapbooks first!) I hope your hard drive can be fixed.

J - June 10, 2011 - 10:59 am

Did you at least try to mount the hard drive in a different computer to verify if your data was accessible from it? If it was then a simple copy/paste would have saved you. Otherwise, you could have used free software (like TestDisk) to recover your data, which would have saved you $1700.

On Windows it’s way easier to recover deleted files by just using Recuva (free) but that software isn’t available for Mac. :\

Brett - June 10, 2011 - 11:02 am

Ya I mounted it from a couple different computers. I recovered small handful of things but nothing significant. Most of the files were corrupt. I sent it to two different places. 1 couldn’t get anything off so they sent it on to the next.

Back To The Blogging Board!

As always, I’m starting a blog post off, apologizing for the lack of blog posts!  This time I actually have a good reason though! Just about a month and a half ago, Casey and I got married!  I now have such a better understanding of my wedding clients.  All the chaos, the planning, the blur...

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