I had the opportunity last week-end to take the camera and just shoot for pure enjoyment, no pressure to capture anything in particular. I had been wanting to try the multiple exposure setting on my camera so I set the settings I wanted & did some shooting. I set the exposure for 3 exposures. It was fun and I came up with some interesting images. I began to realize as I went along that, like any image, there needed to be some previsualization involved if I wanted an image with particular elements in it and with a particular style. For instance if I just took 3 exposures of trees but at different angles or location, the image was just layers of trees. But if I took 2 exposures of the trees and then thought about where I would place the 3rd exposure of a horse then I could create an image that had more of a Bev Doolittle effect to it – you know the prints where an image is hidden among the imagery and you have to search for it. Or if I tried a light image first then took 2 more exposures of darker images then my first exposure was lost behind the darker exposures. I tried different elements in the setting I was in – trees, an old barn, horses, blue sky, dirt roads, close up head shots with eyes and ears of the horses. My favorites were the images where I combined the barn, horses, & blue sky or the trees and horses. It was a fun exercise and one that I will certainly try more creativity with.

Customer Service is something that I value as a consumer and so that is something that we strive to offer to our clients as well. This is an area that I want us to continue to improve on year after year and consider it to be an important factor that makes us who we are.  As photographers  some of the ways that we strive to offer customer service is by offering quality images of your favorite equine or of your family as well as making it a pleasant experience for you to choose those images. We also want to offer you a variety of choices that fit your lifestyle but that will still maintain the quality of the images you choose so that your memories will always be treasured.  I subscribe to a marketing blog, The Marketing Mix, and today’s topic was removing the ‘weeds’ from your business. I hope we are removing the ‘weeds’ from our customer service and planting ‘seeds’ that will give you joy as you choose, purchase, & enjoy your images for years to come.