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Re: Meet the Calvary Team: Dirk Ruyf

curtiscopeland — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 08:14:22 -0000

Dirk is a genuinely diligent man of God. His passion for the lost and joyful smile are contagious. Dirk - may God continue to bless the work of your heart and hands!

Re: Love Out Louder Day

curtiscopeland — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:00:42 -0000

For those who would like to sign up and serve, here are the links:

http://www.calvaryftl.org/e...

Blessings!

- Curtis

Re: What Happens When the Unexpected Happens?

curtiscopeland — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:44:31 -0000

Praying for you and your family Michael.

Re: A Review of EntreLeadership, a New Book by Dave Ramsey

curtiscopeland — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:25:52 -0000

It is exciting to see Dave's passion, skills and abilities now taking on the even greater arena of small business. We do need more individuals skilled with vision enabled with solid business fundamentals as well as knowing how to leverage the talents of employees in our challenging economic times.

Dave has done it, and done it well.

As a small business owner, I can related to the frustrations of wearing too many hats and too many distractions. Knowing Dave, he will bring the sound disciplines of strong business basics in easy to understand nuggets of wisdom that are practical.

A group from our organization is attending his "Entreleadership" this Friday in Fort Lauderdale. We are excited to learn some of this insightful information straight from Dave as he teaches it live.

Thanks for the opportunity to win the book!

Re: Top 5 Ways You Know You are a Geek

curtiscopeland — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:07:04 -0000

I qualify for an "Uber-Geek". Especially with photography equipment. I still have my 6 megapixel Canon Rebel from 8 years ago. Not to mention I have so many back up hard drives I can't count them,

Re: Working with Photoshop #2

curtiscopeland — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:03:35 -0000

Thanks for the insight into album design with your software. Love Photojunction!

- Curtis

Re: vid 006-portfolio-images

curtiscopeland — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:49:57 -0000

Great ideas about being intentional about album building during the wedding day. Early in my wedding photography days I simply took pictures as events happened - photojournalist style. This was fine, but I was not fully aware of how important the details and location context was to the bride. Our photography studio now captures the full spectrum of details, emotions, events and context in a way that is more aligned to telling the story in an album.

Thanks for the insight. Keep the good stuff coming.

- Curtis

Re: Setting Physical Boundaries in Dating Relationships

curtiscopeland — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:29:32 -0000

Hilarious! and quite relevant. Over the years so many people have swung from "I Kissed Dating (and Reality) Goodbye" and harsh legalism to the extreme opposite with an "open and loving" mindset that allows for too much gradual moving of boundaries towards disaster.
Thanks for sharing the insight!

Re: 10 Adorable Apple-Themed Baby Accessories

curtiscopeland — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:43:45 -0000

Love it! My wife and I are expecting a baby soon. These are definitely going to be on the baby shower list!

Re: Jamaica Me Crazy

curtiscopeland — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:56:37 -0000

Love the fusion and photos.
Great job, Lawrence!

- Curtis

Re: What Inspires: Snippet and Ink

curtiscopeland — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:45:57 -0000

Great images by great photographers. Thanks for sharing and inspiring!

- Curtis

Re: What Inspires: Snippet and Ink

curtiscopeland — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:45:57 -0000

Great images by great photographers. Thanks for sharing and inspiring!

- Curtis

Re: Psychic Fair Cancelled Due to Unforeseen Circumstances

curtiscopeland — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:57:56 -0000

Hilarious!

Curtis

Re: Burger Marketing - Planning For Tomorrow

curtiscopeland — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:08:24 -0000

Great ideas lawrence - and YES! I want to see Grace's Black tie event! PLEASE!!!!

We are developing "mini" wedding packages for brides and grooms. These are fill in bookings between our regular weddings. These packages are scaled back in terms of time and product, but still the same quality. We are basing the prices on ROI vs time NOT shooting. Ironically, we found that we are still earning the same amount per hour as larger packages. So, in effect we are not lowering our prices, and at the same time generating more revenue. My wife (who is an accountant by trade) and I have been looking at the business model to tweak it and understand profitability through different options. The main factor - how much PROFIT per hour is generated - not just the top line revenue stream. Small weddings take up less time the day of shooting, less post processing time, less follow up, less design time for an album, etc. Just like McDonalds - selling smaller meals that are more profitable to the majority of people, rather than huge banquets for the minority of people. There are times and needs for both.
Thanks for the surfacing the concept. It has been encouraging.
Curtis

Re: 14 Essential iPhone Apps for Small Business Users

curtiscopeland — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:15:50 -0000

We use the iDisk feature on Mobile Me quite frequently. We are a wedding photography business and this allows us to access contracts and catalogs while away from the office. We have also considered Drobox to try with some larger files. With our iPhones we truly have a mobile office everywhere we go!

Re: Yahoo Acquires Citizen Sports

curtiscopeland — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:09:24 -0000

It is good for Yahoo to be entering into a strategy such as this. They need to diversify their social networking capacity.

Re: The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]

curtiscopeland — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:47:30 -0000

Most of the Twitterverse is gibberish or marketing overload. Twitter has potential, but many see it is an additional "to-do" rather than a free standing tool. Perhaps Google Wave will integrate email, twitter and Facebook functions so we can all have social information from one source.... Let's hope!

Curtis

wedding pictures

Re: Girl In The Green Scarf

curtiscopeland — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:14:27 -0000

More thoughtful insight into the wedding photography marketing realm. It is an ongoing challenge to manage the brand we are displaying, in print, online and through our interactions with clients and vendors. Being a professional photographer is loaded with many facets of running a small business - but that i the challenge which makes it so wonderful!
Thanks for the wisdom, Lawrence!

Curtis

Re: Photo Manipulation Techniques to Enhance Portrait Photography

curtiscopeland — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:02:48 -0000

Good use of the tools within Photoshop for portrait photography 0 however, more practical and real world applications might have been a little more useful. Thanks for sharing the ideas.

Curtis

Re: Google’s App Store for Business to Launch Next Week

curtiscopeland — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:55:48 -0000

Excellent move by Google. It is been far too long a time for Microsoft to be challenged. This is going to be helpful in the consumer market because there will finally be competition in this segment of software applications. Perhaps others will also be targeted, I.E. Photoshop and Quicken. In the end, the consumer will win with more choices and better products.

Curtis

Wedding Photography Miami

Re: Google Kansas II: Duluth Strikes Back [VIDEO]

curtiscopeland — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:23:11 -0000

I used to live in Net Zero, Kansas - (Wichita).

Re: 5 Essential Sites for Professional Photographers

curtiscopeland — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:17:12 -0000

This is a good list of photographic business websites, but there are many more about the art and technical aspects of the photography industry. Photography has a wide range of specialties. wedding, portrait, architecture, food, fashion, product, nature, and more. Each field has unique challenges, styles and demands different skills sets. And, there are the many facets of running a small business, payroll, legalities, copyright issues, marketing and advertising, networking, taxes, etc.

I would also recommend:
http://strobist.blogspot.com
http://digitalprotalk.blogs...
http://digital-photography-...
http://lightroomkillertips.com
http://www.photocrati.com
http://photography.alltop.com

Thanks for this list, and thanks for the others who have made some good recommendations of other photographic websites to check out.

Have a great day!
Curtis

Wedding Photography

Re: Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in Three Years’ Time

curtiscopeland — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:00:41 -0000

Our desktop is mainly used for graphics applications and professional photography needs. It will be some time before all the gigs of information we store will be readily and quickly available on the web. (each project can be from 6-25 gigs per shoot) However, outside of the wedding and portrait photography graphics side, all of our business applications could be run on the web. We already use iphone for scheduling and email/blog/twitter communication and basically it allows us to have a remote and portable office.

Curtis

Professional Photography

Re: A Culture of Strangers

curtiscopeland — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:44:47 -0000

Wonderful and encouraging story about the warmth of humanity seen through travel. There is nothing like seeing the compassion of the human soul transcend cultural and political boundaries. Thanks for sharing and inspiring!

Curtis

Re: Peace Of Mind

curtiscopeland — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:54:06 -0000

Rock solid advice, Lawrence. I still am driving my 2001 Acura MDX - because it still runs. I had 2+ years of savings before I finally made the big plunge into full time photography as well.
Thanks for the wisdom,

Curtis "More is Less" Copeland