Super Monday Program

This Monday I will be hosting a PPA Super Monday Program at my new shop. The title is "So You Want to Quit Your Job and be a Professional Photographer"
If you would like to attend, you can register on site on Monday from 9:30-10AM
The class is from 10-4pm and I will serve lunch. ( A cookout at my house) The fee is $ 120.00 payable to Professional Photographers of America. Directions can be found at this link http://www.imagedoctor.com/classes___workshops.htm
I had a blast in Miami for The Who show.

What a Great Weekend

I am sorry I missed it. The weather was FANTASTIC here in Georgia this weekend. The fishing at my house was great. Everyone came by to fish and hang out. At last count over 100 Crappie were caught and released. (For you guys up north those are Croppie or Speckled Perch ) Most all in the 2 lb range. 19 Large mouth Bass from 1 to 8 lbs and one Chain Pickerel at 3 lbs. All released.
I missed it all. I was stuck in my hole designing wedding albums all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I got 7 finished. So I am caught up on work. I have a wedding this next weekend and a Super Monday program on .... well Monday, of next week. There is still space open if you want to come. The Course name is "So You Want To Quit Your Job and Become A Professional Photographer" My class will probably scare the hell out of anyone that attends. But I do not sugar coat anything. Take this weekend for example. Everyone was having fun but me. I could have outsourced the design, but then the Brides and Grooms would not have been getting what they paid for, which was one of MY designs. Also, the only GOOD design company out there charges $ 40.00 per page for design only, no book. I did 7 albums this weekend The smallest was 42 pages. The largest was 68 pages. My Wedding Books wholesale cost more than a lot of these new "Photographers" charge for the whole day of shooting plus the CD of snapshots.
When I finished up this afternoon I did do 2 things for me. The first was I took a photograph of Garen and Chris in the canoe. See the Before and After photos in this post. If you want to know how I did it, buy my Instructional DVDs here at www.scottevans.biz The second was buy a ticket to see the WHO concert in Ft Lauderdale, Florida tomorrow. I am on the 8th row. And bought 1 round trip airline ticket. The show is at the Hard Rock where Anna Nichole Smith died. I am staying the night but not in a room. My flight leaves Fl. at 5 am
So Tuesday I am sleeping. All Day. If you want something from me, save it till Wed.

Louisville, KY

There is a Dog Show and a Cheerleading Competition at the fairgrounds across the street from my hotel. What a contrast.
Thank you PPAGL for putting me up in the official hotel for the cheerleaders.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

I Love Fireworks

Ask anyone that knows me and they will tell you that I am such a guy. Just love fireworks. I stoped for gas on the way to Kentucky at this fireworks place just North of Chattanooga, TN. While I was getting gas, and could smell the gas fumes, some employees of the station were setting off fireworks in the side parking lot. The spent rockets were falling all over the pumps. I wonder how long of a fireworks display we would have if the gas station and the grocery store sized fireworks shop were to go off at the same time ? If the place is still standing, I am going to load up on bottle rockets and star shells. I always do when I get into Tenn. We have these super funny "Bottle Rocket Softball Games" where I live. Hit the ball, run the bases. If you get hit with a rocket, You are OUT ! The opposing team can also shoot rockets at the outfielders. Everybody has to help put out the small brush fires that sometimes happen. I am North of Nashville at the moment and going on to Louisville tomorrow . I will be speaking at a show in Louisville on Sunday. The beach photo is of my son Garen. I just found it on the cameras flash card. It is from Savannah, GA a few weeks ago when he and I went there to do a show. If you are a photographer, do you see the "Rule of 3rds" ?

My Favorite Photos & How They Were Made

There sure is a lot going on this week. All week long I have been re recording my 2nd Photographic Instructional Series Disk set. This one is a 2 DVD set of My Favorite Photographs and How They Were Made. Get behind the scenes video or narration for each photograph. You can see the photos that are in this set at the bottom of this post. I would also like to announce the re launching of my Image Doctor web site. At the moment it is up but in a very basic format. My super cool hip web designer is nowhere to be found so I had to make a basic one. If someone has any ideas for it let me know. See it at http://www.imagedoctor.com/
Tomorrow on Friday, I leave for Louisville, Kentucky. I am the main Speaker at the PPA(Professional Photographers of America) Kentucky Chapter in Louisville's Annual Meeting. If you are in the area come see me. I am doing the show for free but I thing the Kentucky group is charging at the door. See their site at http://www.ppagl.com/ I will post stuff from the road.
If you would like to purchase the latest DVD set , go to http://www.scottevans.biz/ This is Volume number 1 with 4 more volumes to come. I chose almost 50 images for this project and will release a new set about every 6 weeks. The price on the web site is 129.00 but for my blogers, it is $ 99.00 until March 20th 2007. Post something or send me an e mail and tell me you saw it on the blog to get the 99.00 price. When you order on line the order form will show 129.00 plus 5.00 shipping but YOUR special super cool total will be just $ 104.00 Trust me and don't believe your receipt. Oh, And Claudia in McAllen Texas, Yours is already on the way. One more thing. When you run a Spell Check on this blog. The sudgested spelling for blogers, is BOOGERS. Pick a winner for me . Oh yeah, and Garen's team won their ball game tonight 10-5

First Sale !

Thanks to Travis in Enterprise, Alabama. I hope you and your wife enjoy the CD set. Call me with any questions. 770-355-9644

First Set of Instructional Videos

Hey , remember a month ago when I said I would have some big news on Friday ? Well it is still Friday, only a month later and I am happy to say that the FIRST SET OF DISKS ARE READY !!!!!!!.
This first set is called "Photoshop Basics" and it is for those photographers that are just getting started with digital and are just a little overwhelmed with the power of the massive Adobe Photoshop. In this 3 disk set you can follow along with me and watch on screen exactly the way I work in Photoshop using ONLY the most basic tools and processes. It is so easy I do have advanced sets almost finished as well as Disks and DVDs on "Wedding Album Design from Scratch" and "My Favorite Photographs and How they were Created" A 2 disk set.
See the photos of the Cover of the packaging and me holding the first one to come off of the duplicator. I will be relaunching my Image Doctor web site in the next week and then doing an e mail newsletter to the over 3000 photographer that are on my e mail list. When the site goes live, the price for this first 3 disk set will be $129.00. Since you are a loyal BLOG reader, you can have it for $99.95. Order on line at http://www.scottevans.biz/ Click on order on line and then "CDs and DVDs" The price in the shopping cart will say $ 129.00 but when I process the order I will only charge the $ 99.95 price plus minor shipping. I promise. You know you can trust me. Right ?

Just a few photos from Yesterday

Yesterday I did a wedding for Anne and Howard. They are a pretty cool couple. Howard must like Anne alot because the rock on her finger made her walk like a gorilla. I don't even know if she can lift her left hand.