Holiday Schedule

Graphicsmith Studios and First Edition Custom Printing will close Friday, December 18, 2009 for the Christmas and New Year Holidays. We expect to reopen January 5, 2010.

We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year.

Getting Ready For Santa

I spoke with Santa today. We've had such a strong respone this week with our final reminder that we're going to start earlier. We'll start at 9:00 am.

We will be closed some the rest of the week as we get ready for Santa. We'll be putting up the tree, hanging and moving backgrounds in the camera room and stuff like that. I'm certain we will be working late to get everything done.

As soon as we get the set finished, I'll take some of the test shots and post them here so folks coming on Saturday can get an idea about the set early.

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Last Chance for Santa

Santa will be here on Saturday, so now is the last chance to get an appointment. We've made our special packages more affordable this year, so don't wait. Just a few appointments are available.

This year's set will be a traditional-type set like we've had in the past. It won't be exactly the same as last year, but it will have the same traditional elements. Warm fireplace, beautiful tree with lots of presents, etc.

Bring the kiddies in their 'jammies, or dress them up any way you want. Santa will be here ready to hear what they want for Christmas.

Session fees will only be $20 this year. Packages are available for this special occasion.

Santa

Here's the official word - Santa will be in the studio Saturday, November 14. He will be here in the morning hours for a brief visit.

Mark your calendars. We'll get more info out on the website shortly.


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Brave New World

So we're now on Facebook and Twitter and we can update these feeds from our iPods. Look for regular updates on what we've got going on and what we have planned.


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Center Stage Dance Academy

OK, so we shot nearly 1600 images at the recital during the matinee and evening performances. That a lot of images, nearly 400 per hour. I never would have thought that many would be taken, but the recital was great, so you just shoot and shoot.

After culling about 300 of the images, we've been trying to get about 1300+ online since Sunday night. It has been a nightmare and the solution was not the best, but it worked and the images are posting as I type this. The photos are grouped according to the dance name. If you know their outfit or dance name, you will have no problem finding them.

These images were to be posted Sunday night/Monday morning, but a server issue (that is still unresolved) reared its head again. The weekend before the recital, the data that makes up our website, and five others we host, was moved to a new machine. After we caught up with the change, all looked well. Then I needed to post images to our Gallery and things fell apart again. We've got two Gallery sites, so if one doesn't work, then the other will. Not in this case. Long story short, the server oompaloompas still don't have it fixed so we installed Gallery on our First Edition Custom Printing site and got things moving again.

The Gallery on the Graphicsmith Studios site is due for retirement with the new site, so it may not get fixed for new images. The one over at www.thegraphicsmith.net is due for an upgrade, so it will get fixed with the upgrade. Both still work, but we can't put new photos up until they are fixed.

Most of the new portraits and weddings are going to our new online proofing site anyway.

I hope everyone enjoys the dance photos.

Allen

Welcome to the new blog!

Welcome to the new blog.

We're making changes to our website, so things will start looking different really soon. We've moved the blog because of the changes and because it had become corrupted with comment-spam attacks.

Here's what's coming up:

Bunnies - March 17-21

Ducks - March 24-28