2011 Childrens Village Fundraiser by Sean Watson Photography

Sean Watson Photography is having their yearly Children’s Village fundraiser, just in time to support National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Dates: April 11th – April 20th, 2011

Children ages 3-14 will be photographed with our modern black or brown backdrop and our white on white session.

We will be calling some children back to take advantage of additional FREE SESSIONS, while we test new image ideas for future marketing,studio samples and promotional materials!

Each mini session is $30 PER CHILD and includes a FREE 5X7 of your favorite pose! Additional images will be available for purchase at 30% OFF our retail package pricing, and like last year, for those of you who purchase one of our packages, we will UPGRADE your 5×7 to an 8×10!

Now is your chance to enjoy a fun and inexpensive session, while helping to bring smiles to our local children!

Limited sessions available, CALL NOW to reserve your session 208-292-4027.

Every since I bought my new website from aphotofolio in December 2010, I’ve had numerous issues getting my blog transferred over. Every single issue was my fault of course but their customer service was awesome and helped my along the way. So I want to give a big shout out to aphotofolio for all of your help.

To be honest I’m not sure why I even quit blogging…. actually I can think of numerous reason why I stopped by none of them are strong enough reasons! You will now be able to look back at the last 5 – 6 years of my blogging history. It seems that when you transfer over your old blog content to a new one, the post get a little scrambled. Either that or I have a setting wrong. Which I can guarantee is probably the issue. If there are any  wordpress experts reading this and know how to fix this please let me know.

In the mean time I will be posting photos and sharing whats going on in the SWP world through my blog once again. I’m hoping to post  3-4 times a week so make sure to join my feed and stay current with everything. In the mean time check out this video featuring photographer Peter Lik. He has galleries all of and his work is amazing! If you have not been to one of his galleries make sure you go at least once in your life. The quality of his prints is amazing!

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Cheers

My goal for this shoot was to use one lens and use the same f/stop for each image. Which I did follow through with except on one image (every image was shot with my 50mm f/1.2 at 1.2). As were driving down the road we noticed a small 4 point buck with his lady friends. So obviously I had to put the big lens on and let Matt shoot away.  Check out the shots below.

We decided to turn around after we read this sign!

Skiing is one of my biggest loves in life.  There is nothing better than having 50 inches of fresh powder, your good buddies and a day of endless pow!  I’ll being skiing Schweitzer most of this year (since I have a seasons pass) and making a couple trips to Snowbird to go ski with the homies. So if anyone wants to meet up and ski this year let me know.

I also want to give a shout out to to my good friend Rick Knot. Its his birthday today (second annual 30 th b-day) so if you know him heres your reminder. If you don’t, feel free to wish him a happy birthday in the comments and I will pass them along.

I’m off to Boise and won’t be back home till Monday.

Random’s for your Tuesday reading……..

1.  I’m thinking about investing in gold. I’m a big reader of Gary Fong’s blog. Gary is a very wealthy man who made his money investing in real estate while he was a photographer. He then branched out and started creating products for professional photographers. Needless to say he has done really well for himself. If you get a chance check out his blog. It’s not only filled with photographers info, but more importantly he talks in great depth on the future of our economy. When Gary first started talking about what was going to happen to our economy (about 1.5 years ago) I didn’t believe him. He then started sharing wisdom on what he would be doing right now to prepare for the future. He said the first thing to do is invest in gold. At that time gold was $310 an ounce. I looked into it for a bit and decided to wait. Today gold is $803 an ounce and I’m kicking myself. If I would have bought 10 ounces worth of gold then it would have cost me $3100. 1.5 years later (meaning today), I would have made 4930.00 on my gold investment alone. So am I going to buy gold now when its $803 and ounce? YES, I just can’t afford as much. Maybe your asking why? Because gold is expected to reach $2000 and ounce! Readers, if gold does get to 2K an ounce, money will be worthless and precious metals will be the new currency!

2. I’ve been bidding on this really cool job for a couple weeks now. If I get it I will be shooting high end fashion head shots for a local salon. Most of the images will be for local advertising and PR. The main reason I want this job is because I want this imagery for my portfolio. I will be launching a new division of SWP and these images would fit perfect! So if your reading this Lisa & Jenny I hope you guys say yes!

3.  I’m headed to Costa Rica in December for some R & R and adventure. I have no plans except for renting a car and going where the road takes me. So I’m looking for places to go etc. If you have been there before please comment on where to go and what you enjoyed most. Keep in mind I’m not a tourist guy. I would rather avoid those locations!

4. The Eagles are coming! Every year Bald Eagles fly down to Lake CDA to feast on the salmon. I was out looking for them today and I found 2. Within a month there will be at least 100. If you get a chance drive over and check them out.

5.  Pakistan is a mess! I’m glad we gave the all this money and arms to start a democracy and now it “appears” to be a dictatorship. Here is a question ” who believes that we should impose our beliefs on the world”? Why or why not?

6. When did our society get to the point where we just throw people, objects, marriages or significant others out of our lives just because they or “it” don’t fit our wants at the current time? What happened to fixing what was broken? Or talking things out? Instead we say good buy and either look for someone or buy something new. What a vicious and unhealthy cycle. Don’t you think?

7. I want to end this post on a positive note. Click here for a good deed by a fellow citizen in Colorado.

Happy Tuesday.

I won’t be answering calls or emails till Monday (depending on the outcome). But rest assure, if I do get rather large cheeks I will post a picture right away!

Wow, 6000+ miles later I’m home! I photographed two great weddings, had some time to relax and ponder about what I’m going to be doing for next year. Now its time to meet with all of my great clients from this past year to finish things up. If you have called or emailed me while I was gone, I will be getting back with you over the next couple of days. Here is my last image that I took in Hawaii. I’m gonna have to make a print of this for my own wall!

I’m in Hawaii now and the accomodations are amazing. Looking forward to some beach time and Corona’s. If I find the time to post images from yesterdays wedding I will. Mike and Alicia really threw a great wedding, I’m glad I have two new friends in the OC!

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