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We are so exciting to be working on some new designs for our marketing materials to co-ordinate a little with our  web site.  We have a new sign ordered for our Bridal Show this weekend and lots of little “Skinny Mini” cards that have our info on one side and all different images on the other.  I am nor working on some fliers with a great promotion for our bridal show.

Here’s another version

If you have any ideas, we’d love your comments.

We are so excited to have a booth in the Perfect Wedding Guide’s bridal show next Sunday – at Petruzzellos in Troy – (OMG – that’s in 1 week!). We haven’t done a bridal show in over 10 years… Working hard on marketing and promotional pieces – I like to design these myself, love it, but tend to take forever on every little thing….Come say HI! Tickets are free if you sign up online.

Welcome to our new website/blog – we are so excited and proud to finally have it live and active. This is a hybrid between a regular website, adding some flash in the galleries and headers and the WordPress blog I have had since 2006.

Nothing is ever as easy as it seems, and the “merge” was certainly a challenge. A big THANK YOU goes to Chris Hebert, for all her help in actually making it work! A thank you also to Brian and Dawn for all their help in molding the various versions of our websites and blogs over the many years!

Now we will still be tweaking and adding to this site to continue to improve on it and make it grow.  We will also be populating some of the galleries that are not yet complete and hope to soon add another larger section for our growing endeavor in High School Senior photography!

So stay tuned as we continue to grow, but this is a huge step in rebuilding and growing Wally Spice Photography!

Be sure to take a look at our face book fan page, by clicking on the F symbol for some of our interim activity. We will be updating this also.

ENJOY!! and please feel free to give us your input!!

Thank You
Wally and Julie

Wally Spice Photography is voted best of weddings vendor

Wally Spice Photography was voted as one of the Knot Best Detroit wedding photography vendors by recent brides who use and love the Knot. Thank You brides!!

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I just got back from PPA – Professional Photographers of America convention in Nashville and really enjoyed it, Julie is excited to go to SYNC – for high school senior photography in Florida real soon and will also be at WPPI – (Wedding Portrait Photographers International) in Vegas in March. We are both active in DPPA (Detroit) – I’m a Past President and Julie is in line to be. We’ll be at PPM (Michigan) in Troy in Feb ….

It is so important to stay current & keep up with all the latest cutting edge changes in our industry – It does make a difference and sets us apart. In this day, experience and willingness to push ourselves to be current should count more. This is all we do for a living. It is a labor of passion and we love it!

This is a time for looking ahead to what this new year can have in store for us. We are looking forward to continuing our contemporary weddings – this has always been our main passion and nitche for almost 20 years. We would also love to venture more actively into the contemporary high school senior portrait market -… if you know of any juniors or seniors who would love to be among our “Models” – give us a call.

Be sure to keep up with us on our Facebook Fan Page

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?filter=lf#/album.php?profile=1&id=109141840457
or just search for Wally Spice Photography

Hope you are enjoying the preparations for the Holidays coming up.

It is not too late to order reprints or even Holiday cards from the images you already have from your wedding or portrait session.  I just a added a new tab to this blog on Specials, Products and pricing
take a look at the post on specials for reprints and Holiday cards.

Our web site home page also has a slightly different look, all the new hot links are now active – although we need to work on the spacing for the new 2009 Holiday specials and pricing page.

We have been nominated for the “4 the best – Detroit” in the photography category!
Thank you to those of you that have already voted for us! Please vote for us if you have not already done so.

http://wdiv.cityvoter.com/wally-spice-photography/biz/52278

Wally Spice Photography in Detroit- 4 The Best – Detroit :: Click On Detroit

I love some of the great comments and testimonials some of my great clients have left:
I will copy and paste them here – but you can see them on the site also.

Wally photographed my wedding at the Detroit Zoo. She caught some amazing images of myself, my husband, and our bridal party with some zoo animals, and she managed to also a lot of small intimate moments as well. I can’t believe how beautiful our photos turned out, and I will have them to remember our day with our family and friends forever. Wally was a joy to work with throughout our planning and the day of our wedding — creative, kind, flexible, and really committed to capturing our day. I’d recommend her to anyone who wants stellar photographs taken by a really talented photographer.
Posted by: S Decker, 8/4/2009

She was my wedding photographer and she was amazing she went well over and beyond what I thought. I love her style of pictures and I have pictures of everything she didn’t miss not one special moment of my special day and I will always be grateful for that.
Posted by: Heidi S., Yesterday

Wally is truly a gem! She did an amazing job with our wedding 3 years ago. She is very personable and easy to work with. I recommend her to all of my friends!
Posted by: Wendy R., 8/4/2009

I have seen a lot of her work, she does awesome urban shots, brings out the personality of the couple, and reflects there special day with the individual style of the couple. it is all about them! and that is how it should be
Posted by: mangosteengirl, 8/3/2009

Excellant service , beautiful pictures
Posted by: lebeckl, 7/21/2009

Great people to work with!
Posted by: pandunn2, 7/21/2009

Absolutely customer friendly and professional with outstanding results.
Posted by: buzzboy, 7/2/2009

Wally and Julie are amazing! They take beautiful images and are so much fun to work with. Their creatvitiy and energy really helps create really awesome shots that capture the memories of the moment.
Posted by: lekili17, 7/29/2008

Wally did our wedding 5 years ago and the bridal party still talks about how great our photographer was to work with! I loved how everything turned out….Wally Spice was WONDERFUL to work with!
Posted by: Amanda Lynn, 7/18/2008

This Mother and Daughter team are awesome! The images are exceptional and the ladies are the best to work with!
Posted by: , 8/30/2007

THANK YOU so much everyone – we REALLY appreciate. We got 5 stars from all of you.
We love what we do – it is a privilege and and honor to capture these moments for you to last a lifetime!

We have been nominated for the “4 the best – Detroit” in the photography category!
Thank you to those of you that have already voted for us! Please vote for us if you have not already done so.

http://wdiv.cityvoter.com/wally-spice-photography/biz/52278

Wally Spice Photography in Detroit- 4 The Best – Detroit :: Click On Detroit

I love some of the great comments and testimonials some of my great clients have left:
I will copy and paste them here – but you can see them on the site also.

Wally photographed my wedding at the Detroit Zoo. She caught some amazing images of myself, my husband, and our bridal party with some zoo animals, and she managed to also a lot of small intimate moments as well. I can’t believe how beautiful our photos turned out, and I will have them to remember our day with our family and friends forever. Wally was a joy to work with throughout our planning and the day of our wedding — creative, kind, flexible, and really committed to capturing our day. I’d recommend her to anyone who wants stellar photographs taken by a really talented photographer.
Posted by: S Decker, 8/4/2009

She was my wedding photographer and she was amazing she went well over and beyond what I thought. I love her style of pictures and I have pictures of everything she didn’t miss not one special moment of my special day and I will always be grateful for that.
Posted by: Heidi S., Yesterday

Wally is truly a gem! She did an amazing job with our wedding 3 years ago. She is very personable and easy to work with. I recommend her to all of my friends!
Posted by: Wendy R., 8/4/2009

I have seen a lot of her work, she does awesome urban shots, brings out the personality of the couple, and reflects there special day with the individual style of the couple. it is all about them! and that is how it should be
Posted by: mangosteengirl, 8/3/2009

Excellant service , beautiful pictures
Posted by: lebeckl, 7/21/2009

Great people to work with!
Posted by: pandunn2, 7/21/2009

Absolutely customer friendly and professional with outstanding results.
Posted by: buzzboy, 7/2/2009

Wally and Julie are amazing! They take beautiful images and are so much fun to work with. Their creatvitiy and energy really helps create really awesome shots that capture the memories of the moment.
Posted by: lekili17, 7/29/2008

Wally did our wedding 5 years ago and the bridal party still talks about how great our photographer was to work with! I loved how everything turned out….Wally Spice was WONDERFUL to work with!
Posted by: Amanda Lynn, 7/18/2008

This Mother and Daughter team are awesome! The images are exceptional and the ladies are the best to work with!
Posted by: , 8/30/2007

THANK YOU so much everyone – we REALLY appreciate. We got 5 stars from all of you.
We love what we do – it is a privilege and and honor to capture these moments for you to last a lifetime!

As of Aug 4th – I’m happy to announce that we figured out what the problem was, and the Animoto slideshows are now showing up for all of us – even if you use Internet Explorer. I still prefer Firefox, but I do realize a lot of internet users are still using Internet Explorer.
THANK YOU to to Brian, for figuring this out.
It needed a little extra code, and once it was explained to me – I can even add it! Can’t believe how techie we’ve all become!

I may even let Animoto know – they never got back with me on the solution!

I apologize for not keeping this up to date during this time – I didn’t want to add videos that a lot of people couldn’t even see!

July was a great and busy month for us this year with 5 weddings: I just updated the blog with the great slideshows we love so much on all of these, as well as links to the Facebook “Albums” of images that anyone can see.

If you are a FB user – take a look at our Fan Page:
www.facebook.com/pages/Wally-Spice-Photography/109141840457
Take a look – become a FAN!

Are you viewing this in Internet Explorer?

I have to admit I use Mozilla Firefox almost exclusively, and never have any problems with it, but I do realize that the majority of users still use Explorer. It has been drawn to my attention that the fist slideshow for Suzanne and Flint is not showing up in Explorer (and that’s the best thing here)

I apologize, we are trying to work on this but it is very frustrating.

If you have the option, please try to view this in Firefox ( free downloads) or Safari. I would really like some feedback if you are having problems – please let me know.  Comment here or give me an e-mail:

PS With Brian’s help we were able to correct some issues on Explorer – the only problem we still have is that the Animoto slideshows are still not showing up – even with the upgrade to Explorer 8.

wally@wallyspicephotography.com

Thank you

Wally

Julie and I came home from Florida just in time to photograph for the Sunset at the Zoo Charity Event – as we did last year. Our friend and awesome Senior photographer David Humphrey  Joined us this year.   We all offered our photographic services and enjoyed the evening. This year they were very organized and had us at specific areas with a suggested shot list. We even had our own “volunteer’ working with us that got photo releases signed anytime we had a group of people smiling for the cameras.

We also donated a session and some items for the blind auction on behalf of Wally Spice Photography and David also donated 2 session for his company “Masters Photography” in Flint.

The big main auction had to switched to the big tent with weather threatening and still did terrific. I believe they raised at least 100,000 just for that.

As the auction finished the rain really did start and we were all warned to leave because of a huge very severe  storm coming – and it did – rained so hard and so much lightning and thunder.  We were all very much the drowned rats when we finally got to the cars.

It was still a great evening, the rain held off until the end, lots of people still came, the Zoo still raised a lot of money and we had fun. It is great to help such a deserving charity as the Zoo. We love it!

Some photos soon to come!

After 6 years on the board of directors,this last year as Past president was my last. It is such an honor to serve such a great organization and I will never forget this time. I was honored with my Service award medallion (now I have a “dangly” also), presented by John Glass, Past president just before me, and presented a surprise one to Steve Post. I presented Clint with his Past President’s plaque and enjoyed being up at the podium quite a bit. The biggest surprise was that I received the 2009 Wedding Album of the Year award – a beautiful award to proudly display! It was for my FINAO album from the zoo ( On my web page album menu link – 2nd album down) http://www.wallyspicephotography.com/bridalalbums/bridalindex.html Julie and I also both received 2nd place awards for our Folios – Julie for the portrait category with Ella’s Day in the Life, and mine in the Illustrative category with the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska

See my face book album:

I have been blogging since 2006, starting with the help of my cousin Dawn in California on her “Tafoni” server.  Now we have moved everything to my own and that has worked great. Anything going to the old url  is automatically forwarded to www.wallyspicephotography.com/blog.  It is off her server!.  However, I just realized that although all the actual old posts are all here – the photos and collages are not.  So anything older than the summer of 2008 does not have the photo collages associated with that blog post.

I am working to resolve this -  just bear with me please….

Happy 2009!

We wish you all the best for the New Year.  I am optomistic that it will be a huge improvement over 2008 – how can it not be!  With a new popular president about to take office – with an optomistic energetic plan – maybe we can get back on track.

For us, we already have  many bookings for 2009 and are excited to work with all of them and look forward to even many more. We are embarking on some new oportunities that are also very exciting and promising.

Here’s to a great new year – PROST!

This is one of my favorite winter views of Tracy’s view of the mountains in Alaska.  That’s not too hard to take – even in the depth of winter – she is experiencing lows as low as -20 and more.

Hope you are enjoying the holidays – are  working on the blog to make it look and work better.

We realized that what I had worked on earlier was showing up great in the Firefox browser, but not in Internet Explorer.  We did figure out the problem and I re-uploaded the posts. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you – Wally

We have been working on moving my blog to our own site.  After a security scare basically shut us down for a while on the old one – that is resolved thankfully,  we are all set to go again.

I do intend on updating this blog with posts and collages on the many weddings we have done since the last post on the Tafoni blog (8-8-8) – we have photographed at least 10 since then – October has been a very busy month for us.

So this is a test to see if everything can be uploaded without a problem to my own server site.

I just uploaded a slideshow from the wedding we just photographed November 22nd for Kelly and Brad- we did an urban shoot that included not only our normal Comerica Park Tiger and The Fox – but also the Campus martius area – included being ON the ice rink, by the huge Christmas Tree and inside  the  Compuware building with the highest waterfall in our area.

Take a look at:  http://www.wallyspicephotography.com/KateBrad/Slideshow_HD.html

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We just love the new Canvas wrap around frames we just ordered. The are huge – up to 24×30 and they can go even much larger. These are real art canvases, fully sprayed and protected and then wrapped around a wooden frame – there is no other frame needed – Take a look – everyone just loves them.

We have been very excited and proud to add the great FINAO albums to our line of digital coffee table albums. They are based locally out of Saline and the albums are made in the USA. We have known Christine Perry Burke, one of the owners, for many years as a trusted friend and mentor as she headed other similar companies and is now doing phenomenally following her own passion. She knows the market and has a great pulse on what is in demand and popular.  They pride themselves with being cutting edge – great leather cover combinations, lots of very contemporary cover options.  They are also so easy to work with. The pages themselves are a little thicker, coming in the regular thickness (very substantial) and the magazine style pages – even these are sturdier than what I have been used to.  They are also very proud of the fact that they are all “Green” They even come with a “Green Card”. Take a look at their site www.finaoonline.com.  We are using the “One’ series – as One can make a difference.  We have also used their “Elements”.

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