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Networking – Business After Hours

Three local businesses in Alliance had a Business After Hours last night. What is a Business After Hours? Its an event for the local business owners, and some of their employees, to get together.

The social networking was held at Uptown Auto, 330 Car Salon and Autozone.

Who attends these events? Politicians, small business owners, clergy people and employees of small businesses. Its a time to relax and socialize and network with businesses in town. Sharing tips and also exchanging business cards is but one way to help each other with business. And if another business can refer someone from their town – its much better then seeing the business go elsewhere.

Smile – Picture Time (simple business picture)

The people pictured in the image below are the owners of 330 Car Salon, Autozone manager, and co-owners of Uptown.

If you would like to host a business after hours, get a hold of us or Mark Locke at the Alliance Area Chamber of Commerce and we can help you organize one.

Thank you for inviting us – Great Business After Hours.

Ayrabella is on the go. Don’t believe me, take a look at the first image. She is starting to find her legs and mom will soon be chasing around the house to catch up to her. I feel that I will be chasing her in our studio when her and mom visit us the next time.

She is one of our easiest little models and she is a lot of fun to photograph. Mom comes prepared with hair bows, different outfits and plenty of energy to keep up with her high energy young daughter. There are so many images to choose from her sessions that it makes it difficult for mom to pick her favorite ones.

Thanks for coming to visit Ayrabella (& Mom too). We are looking forward to your next visit.

Yesterday we met AyraBella and her mom (Stacie) at our Mall studio – Catchlight.

AyraBella had the biggest Blue Eyes and she was such a flirt. Stacie came into our studio and AyraBella was sound asleep in her car seat. Soon she woke up and she was ready for the camera, as she was all smiles.

We created several portraits of AyraBella. One of the first ones that we attempted was in a Tea Cup planter. It went well when we were “testing” the Tea Cup – but once AyraBella was changed into her first outfit – she did not want anything to do with the flower pot. Here is one of the portraits that we captured of AyraBella. I call it “A Strong Cup of AyraBella”. Which is completely the opposite of how she was – most of the time she was full smiles and I heard a few happy gurgles from her.

AyraBella is the newest member of our portrait club – and it will be great to watch her grow.

Santa Claus is going to be back at Carnation City Mall starting this coming Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 11am. We have the great honor of looking after Santa while he is here in Alliance and photographing him with the children.  Carnation City Mall really out did themselves on decorating center court and it looks and feels like Santa’s living room. Mrs. Claus will be joining us at center court when she can. She is busy keeping the elves on track getting ready for the big day.  We will be holding 2 days for Pet Portraits with Santa – Sunday, December 6th from 12pm – 5pm and Thursday December 17 from 4pm – 8pm.

We look forward to seeing everyone this year.

Every year for the past 20+ years, Halifax has had a Busker Festival. This festival shows off the talents of “street performers” and attracts many tourists as well as locals to the capital city of Nova Scotia. Over the 10 days which the festival is held, there will be well over 500 performances from various performers.

We had a chance to stop by and look at such a performer, and I was asked to help out. Well, it was much more then that – I was used as a ladder to help the guy get to the top of a pole where he was going to juggle a sword, flaming torch and an apple – while eating the apple. Plus this was goin g to be on top of a bike.  This guy was OK, not great – but OK. He juggled a chainsaw that had no “teeth” on the blade, I think that’s called cheating. All I cared about, since I was in the show, was that he was well balanced and did not weight that much when he jumped on my shoulders.

While visiting Nova Scotia, we had a family picture request to be taken at Peggy’s Cove. This area is a famous Tourist Trap in Nova Scotia and offers some nice views looking out to sea, looking through the fishing village, or just to look at the lighthouse that sits on exposed bedrock.

This was a great idea, as it is not too often seen as a place to take Professional Family Portraits. Sure many families get a snapshot of themselves near the lighthouse – but I wanted to take it one step further. So I brought some of my portable flashes with me. Below are the portraits that I captured, plus some images that I captured without the flashes, but with the use of a tripod.