People, Go To Bed

It is 12:55 AM on Thursday morning and 10 min ago I sent out over 3000 e mails to fellow photographers. In 7 minuets over 120 people had opened the email and more than half are on my blog right now. Thanks Guys, but come on, get some sleep.
I can't sleep because I am in a hotel room in Colombia , SC at the moment and the band at the bar next door is keeping me up. It would be ok if they were any good.
Thank you all for checking out my blog. Please leave a comment.

Peace and Quiet

It is midnight and I am sitting on my back deck looking out over the lake. The water is so still and the night is very quiet. All I hear are frogs and crickets. No stereo with the psychedelic mid 60s music floating threw the air along with the smell of incense. No cold ones. Not tonight. That was LAST night after I got home from Saturdays event.
Anyway, tonight I am working up a little advertising sheet that is for the event facility that my Friday night wedding took place in. The guy that owns the place says he does over 200 events a year there and does NO advertising. Now many of these events are lunches for local civic groups and garden clubs and such. But you never know who will pick up a card with your name on it. I had one lady spend over 33,000.00 (Yes that's thousand) dollars with me over a period of 2 months all because another lady that she did not know was sitting next to her in a restaurant and snooping in on her cell phone conversation hearing that she was planning her daughters wedding and gave her my card. You photographers listen up. The advertising card that I just made is in 8x10 size and fits in a brides wedding planner book just perfect. Print up 100 of these and give them free of charge to the event facility. You put your name and web address on the card ABOVE where the name and contact info for the event facility goes. Why does you name go on top ? Because some of these event planners, especially the ones that hiss when they speak will trim off the bottom of the card where your name is so that the free 8x10s that you just gave them will only show off the photographs of the event facility and no one will know that you made all the photographs. Then the event director can recommend another photographer that gives them a kickback while still using your free advertising 8x10 to show off their facility. Sounds bad but it has happened to me several times.
The peace and quiet was just shattered by the most hideous noise. It was either two bobcats trying to kill each other or just getting it on REAL GOOD or space aliens have landed in the water off my point and that was their mating call. Either way, I think it is time to go inside. The skeeters are starting to eat me up. See the photo of the advertising card. The event facility info will be added when I remember the name of the place.

One more thing. Hello to who ever is in Venice , California and has spent over two hours in the last 5 days looking at all the back pages on my freaky little blog here. Do you like what you see or are you plotting to kill me like my old paranoid neighbor used to say about blog readers ? Just wondering. Please California, post something or just send me an e mail at scott@scottevans.com

Stuff from This Weekends Wedding

My wedding this weekend was in the North Ga mountains at an estate home built by the groom. The weather was fantastic and I can remember telling my couple that theirs was the kind of wedding that makes me not want to retire. It was very personal and at a place that was special to them. Once the groom saw the bride, he just could not stop hugging her. Not bad work if you can get it. She was a living doll. Enjoy the photos, I just started editing them. If you are here for the first time, maybe because you just got an e mail newsletter from me, drop me an e mail or make a post. If you don't want to do that, then just buy some of my DVDs. HA !

The photo of the estate is from Google Earth.

Does Anyone Like These

These photos are from a Bridal Portrait shoot I did last week. I just want to know if anyone likes them. Please add a comment . If adding a comment is to big of a pain in the ass because of the way that you have to "Log On" or something just send me an e mail at scott@scottevans.com

Had to Post This

This photo reminds me of these 3 guys that are always in the local restaurant where I get my biscuit every morning.

I would also like to thank the people in the following cities who checked out my BLOG for what I think is the first time this last week.

Rohr, Bayren Germany, San Francisco and Windsor California, Philly and St Paul, MN

I've Been Everywhere

I know I have not posted anything in almost a month, but I have been on the go quite a bit. Since my last post I have been in Savannah, Nashville, Jacksonville Fl. ,Atlanta and Miami. I have photographed 3 weddings, a prom, 2 engagement sessions, 4 bridal portrait sessions, a baseball team 2 golf tournaments and 300 Red Hat Society little old ladies. The Eng Session was shot at my house. Everything else was shot on location. The Baseball, Prom, Golf and Red Hat ladies were all photographed with my new "Print On Site" system. The way it works is this. I take a photograph, the wireless transmitter on my Nikon sends the image to my laptop and the printer prints the photo right there and I hand the photo to the customer. All lightning fast. I bought this system because I thought it would be fun to do something other than weddings every now and then. And it is fun.

The photos are from a few of the weddings, Eng Session and the print on site events.