June 24th 2010 was the Worldwide Photowalk created by Scott Kelby. Scott Kelby is the creator of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and is a photographer on the East Coast. For the last three years he has challenged photographers around the world to all go out on one day and shoot something in their city, then share after it’s all done. Here’s the Flickr Group if you want to see more from around the world.
We headed to Tower Grove Park for a walk hosted by Edward Crim (one of my fav photographers in STL). We had a great time walking around with 17 other photographers and having just about everyone we walked past asking us “what are you doing?” Below are my favorites from the day.
After spending a wonderful portrait session with baby James, we thought we would take a moment to introduce you to a product of ours called My Baby Steps.
Having three kids ourselves we understand how fast they grow up, especially the first year. So much changes in that very short amount of time. From looks to personality your child will grow so fast and there are so many moments that are worth remembering forever. We want to help you capture those moments.
With My Baby Steps you get 5 portrait sessions with your new baby: newborn, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and finally a 1 year birthday celebration session. Each session is planned with you to capture the unique personality of your fast growing baby. It will culminate with a 1 year celebration portrait shoot where we will have a custom 1 year birthday cake made by a boutique bakery waiting for your child to enjoy, while we capture the happiness.
Each session comes with a $50 print credit or a CD with five 8×10 images with a print release. When all your sessions are complete the package is finished off with a high quality custom designed 6×6 album including 30 selected images from all 5 of your sessions.
Our regular price for this package is $380 that is broken up into payments at each session, but we do offer a pay up front discount. If you decide to pay up front we reduce the price to $325 that’s 15% savings. Plus we include 10% off all canvas prints.
If you’re interested click over to our contact us page and let us know.
We had a great afternoon with baby James. We had the privilege of taking his mommy’s maternity pictures too. James and Alicia are great people and we had a blast hanging out with them and their new little baby James.
We understand that our customers have an active eLife and they share their precious moments with friends and family through places like Facebook and MySpace. We too have a large online presence and share our real lives with people in many different places scattered across the internet. We understand you want to be able to share your moments spent with us, and be able to show friends and family your images without having to pay money for online pictures.
So with that in mind we are introducing a new product this month. The OSS myLife™ is a FREE, yes that’s right FREE, product to any of our customers that purchase $100 or more products from their photoshoot. The OSS myLife™ is a collection of 10 non-intrusively watermarked images that you can use on any of your online profile pages. Be it Facebook, MySpace, Blogs… and so on. You will choose your OSS myLife™ images at your scheduled screening to choose your picks for products.
We hope that this product will add excitement to your experience with us and we look forward to continually offering you the products and service you deserve at a price you can afford.
We spent an afternoon with Sam at St Louis’ City Garden and then traveled down to the Riverfront Trail. Sam is a very artistic and bright young lady. Both on the drama team and Deca team at her school. She is talented in many areas and added great charisma to our day. She is also a natural in front of a camera. We are very thankful for her willingness to go the extra mile to get the shot we all had in mind. Some of them requiring some climbing and hanging on to almost nothing. She was very determined to have unique pictures for her senior portraits and we were more than happy to be a part of the process.
The City Garden is a pretty cool place, it’s neat to see our city have a beautiful tribute to art right in the center. It is a very nice addition to the stretch going up Market Street. The Riverfront trail is unique as well. It is riddled with art created from bits and pieces of St Louis. All the way from old i-beams and rebar to creative concrete works. There is a lot of re-construction going on there as well so there are many different textures and backdrops to choose from.
Many of you know my son Matthew is involved with the St Baldrick’s Foundation. This was Matthew’s third year getting his head shaved and collecting money to help find a cure for kids with cancer. This year however we got invited to go to the St Louis St. Patrick’s Day Parade and help fly Lucky the St Baldrick’s mascot balloon.
We had a blast. It was cold but once we started moving and got in line for the procession the excitement really warmed us up. Especially all the ones that kept spinning the balloon. Neither Matthew or I had ever been in a parade before especially one that had thousands of people standing on the sides on looking the event. It was a privilege to be able to hand out so many informational packets about St Baldrick’s and I hope to see more and more people get involved and start coming out to help fly Lucky. It was even more a privilege to stand by my son and so many others that really have a heart for this foundation and what they stand for. Meeting them and sharing in their company was enough to keep me smiling till next years parade. Where I look forward to seeing them again.
Here are some pics from the event.
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The three favorite words of any SEO expert. Content is the key to getting any search engines to pay attention to your site and rank you as rellevant for anyone searching for your type of business. Now there are books written on the subject and many really geeky debates as to the best methods, but to boil it down to layman’s terms (me), it means text and lots of it.
Writing the content however is more difficult than it sounds. Sure throwing up a bunch of text sounds easy, but Google and the likes aren’t stupid. They expect your text to be relevant to the page it is on. For instance an about us page should have lots of text that is about us. At the same time as a business we want to communicate a very clear message with everything we put on here. A company’s website is it’s first salesman. So we want very much so for it to be a good salesman.
The difficulty arises in getting lots of content on your site that also sends a very clear message. Making sure from page to page the visitor feels a sense of consistency to your content, while at the same time things are strategically placed so that search engines know you have content they are interested in as well.
As we add more and more content to Open Sky Studios we hope your experience here continues to be a good one. Let us know what you think. Either comment or send us an email on the contact us page.
So here we are. A new beginning for Open Sky Studios, LLC. At least on line that is. Thanks to my good friend Geoff Gallaway your online experience here is much more rewarding. You can check out Geoff’s blog at Geoffeg.org
So just a few things I want to point out. One is of course the new blog. We will be updating content here regularly with pictures, articles, opinions and the like so keep checking back or add us to your rss feed. Also go check out the new galleries there are a ton more pictures in there and we added our graphic design work as well.
We hope you enjoy the new site! Leave a comment letting us know or send us an email on the contact us page.
