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My daughter Julie Proudfoot and our friend Dawn Havrelock  attended the SYNC convention for Senior Photography in Florida.
Afterwards they were fortunate enough to  photograph Sarah and Chris in Ybor City for some romantic fun engagement images – in and around the city of Ybor.

What an opportunity – they did a great job and had a lot of fun.

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This is the video of our family visit with my daughter Tracy, her husband Rick and my darling 3 year old grandson Gunther in October of 09. We had such a fantastic time – a family BBQ, a day at the Zoo, A day at Blake’s Apple Orchard fun Yard, …and lots of time just playing and getting to know each other at home. Lot’s of great toys found from when my older grandson’s, Aaron and Steven, were little (They are 13 & 15 now). This is such a treasured time since they live in Alaska and just can’t get down here as often.

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See lots of images from their visit on my Flickr Account – it is best to use the sets on the right.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyspice/

Julie is so is excited and proud to have been slotted to be Vice President next year to the Detroit Professional Photographers Association!! That means she will be President in 2012-2013. “I look forward to helping DPPA grow! It is such a great association to be a part of!! ”

This is already her 3rd year on the board of directors. Her term as vice president officially starts in June of 2010, but this gives her the opportunity to start lining up some great speakers now, since that will be her main duty. She already has some great ideas. Then she will be President elect to work with the speakers she brought in the following year, and then she will be our president in June 2012 – June 2013.

She will do a fantastic job and I am so proud of her. She was such a great support to me when I was the president 2007-2008 and I will be so proud to support her through this amazing journey. 2 generations of DPPA presidents! What an honor!!
I am SO proud of her!!!

Along with her official duties as a board member every year, Julie has been our smiling friendly “raffle Girl” at DPPA for many years, she has perfected this position – this is her in charge of choosing the winners for the 50-50 and winners of the many donations we received from our vendors at the last meeting in August with David Humphry on senior high school photography.
It is going to be a fun adventure that she and all the members of the DPPA will enjoy.

Happy Fathers Day to the dad’s

Julie and I and Steven and Aaron (now 13 & 15) just got back from a little vacation in Florida. Julie has a friend who let us use his condo for a week and we couldn’t pass that up. We drove and Aaron did about 80% of the driving – it got old and boring even for him. It was about 20 hours total. We were able to stop and sleep and Amy and Rick’s house in Kentucky both ways – that was awesome – and we couldn’t have done it without that.

We had so much fun of course, so much fun and sun and lots of beaches and a great pool at the condo complex!
We have photos published and more will be to come.

You know those cute little hard drives that don’t need their own power source and are meant mainly for lap tops – well, I do not like them! I only use mine for travelling and the laptop and everything there is in at least one other place (always a good rule). I was walking it to the laptop and it slipped out of my hands (yup it fell aighhh) – but it was not on, so I thought it would be OK, but NO, it is not being recognized. I had the beginning pics on the main hard drive already, and the last stuff was still here, but I have to get some of the middle stuff from Julie – she has it all, we just have to get together –

Wally’s flickr  – I was even able to post a video of us swimming
2009 Florida Trip, June – link to slideshow of set
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyspice/sets/72157619935272971/show/
I’ll be adding more as I get the other images.

Julie made the first post on her facebook – these are albums anyone can see without having to be on facebook. This does include some of the images Julie has that I don’t have here.

If you are on Facebook and would like to “be our friends” -join us – we love it!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=26997&id=1260314900

I have 3 albums started – I’ll be adding more as I get the other images.

These are usually some of the same as on Flickr – usually fewer.

Travelling to Florida:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=25999&id=1417072807&l=919c7b207a

Pool and close by areas:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=26001&id=1417072807&l=3620e91676

Treasure Island area and Beaches:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=25997&id=1417072807&l=5b4f40dbba

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:

We designed some folios of our work and entered them into the  Detroit Professional Photographers Association in April in the 3 categories – wedding, portrait and illustrative – for both Julie and myself – Wally.  These were 10×20 single image photos on a hard cardboard backing.  This is the same size as an album spread and can also be framed.  There were quite a few entries; they were judged by our peers and we will find out the results at the DPPA banquet in June.

Wedding Folio category

Portrait  Category

Illustrative category

These are cards that I designed and made for myself and  for Julie.

Have a happy Holiday from Wally & Julie at Wally Spice Photography

Please click here to view our Holiday Video, made into a holiday card from the Animoto team. 

http://animoto.com/play/fQVWXa0pTFvmPCb9hdLt0A/greetings/holidays2008

These are from our very favorite personal images of 2008 – of our family here in Michigan: Wally, Julie her boys Aaron and Steven; my brother Gunther and his family as well as some from my daughter Tracy up in Alaska.  Some of these are from my trip last April to visit them as well as some of my favorite images that she posted on Flickr and I was able to download.

http://my.slideflickr.com/nE5NjKRn

This is a slideshow made from the images I have in my 2008 Holidays set at Flickr – taken from celebrations around Christmas.

My personal FLickr account is at  http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyspice/
It is easiest to view my images using the sets.
Tracy’s Flickr site in Alaska is http://www.flickr.com/photos/spicegirl
Lots of great images from my cute little grandson at 2 years.
Julie’s Flickr siste is http://www.flickr.com/photos/30828448@N06/3118625241/
We use these sites for our personal images mainly – since images can be directly downloaded in any size from the site.

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS – enjoy

Happy Mothers day to all the mothers out there.  Especially to my 2 daughters.  Julie who works hard with me is a great mom to her 2 boys Aaron and Steven ages 12 and almost 14.  Tracy is a terrific mom up in Alaska to her darling little guy Gunther. She is a nurse in Anchorage and has her hands full.

This mom is proud of her 2 “Mom” daughters!

Tracy – also a Happy Birthday May18th! 

I am the president of the Detroit Professional Photographers Association and March 11 we hosted Jerry Ghionis – a word renown wedding photographer and speaker  – from Australia. We were fortunate to get him to stop here on the way from Australia to Las Vegas where he will be speaking at WPPI – the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Convention.

We filled the house with over 200 photographers – and we all marveled at his phenomenal photographic talent, his passionate and entertaining delivery and savy business and marketing advice.  As the president, it was my priveledge to introduce him and run the program. He spoke all day and again in the evening for our regular meeting.  Julie is also on the board and did a great job as our raffel girl – we had so many great gifts donated by our vendors that everyone wanted to buy them.

Times like this makes me really proud and enjoy my role as president of this great  organization that does so much to keep photographers current on the latest advances and trends around the world.

Our state wide PPM organization held its annual convention right here in Ypsilanti this week and we enjoyed the programs, speakers, trade show, banquet etc etc -  all this had to offer at the beautiful eclectic ultra modern Marriott.  As president of the Detroit Professional Photographers Association, I was also representing our local DPPA.  There are 4 statewide local affiliate groups under Michigan, but Detroit is the largest one.  Michigan is then an affiliate of PPA _ which is Professional Photographers of America – which I also belong to.

We loved the modern lobby area and even took some time to take some images of each other with our friends.  We had a lot of fun!

I hope you are enjoying the holiday season and had a great slide into the New Year. My wish for all is Health, Happiness and prosperity in 2008!

As I sit here enjoying how pretty the snow scape looks outside, I wanted to catch up on some of my more personal holiday collages.  We have been so busy getting out all the wedding uploads, proof books, orders, etc. that I have just not taken the time to do so.
I have tried to take some time to enjoy my family here – Julie and her boys – Aaron who is now 13 and Steven who is 11. My brother and his wife Sandy and their daughter Candice who just moved into a new apartment in Northville.  Even my Ex – Russ, came over for the family Christmas party here on Christmas Eve, as well as his sister Pat, my brother in law Steve an their daughter Dawn home from California. As in previous years Aarom helped mw make the great German dish of rolladen.

All of my holiday images are on my personal Flickr site: www.flickr.com/photos/wallyspice/

Tracy’s Flickr site has lots of great images of their life with my little grandson Gunther in Alaska. I really miss being with them over the holidays. He is growing so much and you can really see his character developing in the photos. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spicegirl/ 

 

Hope you are enjoying the holiday season.  We have been super busy trying our best to get caught up and our weddings uploaded and orders out.  We are getting there and everything WILL br out before Christmas if it was promised.

We have desisgned quite a few holiday cards and I did take a little time to design one for my self. I love the bubble motif I can use in getting many little images in. It was fun getting in so many family fun images – especially of my 3 great adorable grandsons – Julie’s son’s Aaron (13) and Steven (11) and baby Gunther (1), Tracy and Rick’s son in Alaska

I also designed a card for the Detroit Professional Photographers Association.  As president this was the invitation from myself and the rest of the board members to the upcoming holiday party for all our members.

Don’t forget we ahave a new link on the main web site page for the 2007 Holiday specials and prices.  I am still getting out orders in time for Christmas, even Holiday cards – but please do try to get them in as soon as possible.

Julie had the honor to help photograph two weddings in Aspen over Labor Day weekend.  Last year at DPPA, it was our job to find photographers to speak to our organization.  We brought in Travis Broxton of Broxton Art, in Colorado, to speak.  He did a great job and we loved his work!!  Julie asked him when she could come photograph with him and after seeing our work he told her anytime! 

Travis is a very successful, high end, popular photographer in Colorado, this was a great experience for Julie to broaden her horizons and learn from one of the best.

Both of the below weddings were held at breathtaking sites in Aspen!!!! 

 

These images were taken around Aspen and Denver.

When we were in Aspen for the two weddings, Travis’s wife Pat and her friend Carolyn accompanied us.  That is the three of us girls in the Aspen images below.  Travis’s wife Pat is a great cook and after a couple of long days of shooting it was great to have home cooking.  Pat and Carolyn explored Aspen by taking some great hikes, etc. while we were photographing the weddings.

Travis took Julie around Denver on her last day there and took some great images of her around town.

Hope you are enjoying the holidays and the joys of this busy season.

We did some family images of our own immediate family here also. This is Julie and I and her sons Aaron and Steven.

My daughter Tracy and her husband Rick are great photographers themselves and it was Rick’s idea to photograph with the real bear skin run and moose antlers. Interesting & creative! Gunther is about 5 weeks old in these.

Julie is very involved with her boys in their school activities – as I am when I can.  Aaron is now in 6th grade in middle school right now and Steven is in the 5th grade. His class had a camp last week and Julie went along to take photos and document the activities.  She made a great collage that everyone loved.

Pat and Steve’s grand daughter Sherry Ann was visiting in July and spent some time with us for summer family fun. This is Fort Fraser playground by Julie – the 3 cousins had lots of fun playing together and I love being with my grandsons and family.  I love playing witht he camera even in normal settings – what better way to preserve the memories.

Julie’s nephew, Zachary Proudfoot recieved his First Communion on April 30th.  These images were taken at his party afterwards.”

Zac’s brother Shane is trying to take a picture while Julie’s son Steven looks on – ‘Aunt Julie always looks through the camera like this!!

In mid April,  Julie and Brian attended WPPI – Wedding and Portrait Photographers International in Las Vegas. The convention had 4 days of studying with phenomenal speakers from Australia, California, New York, England – all over the country and all over the world! – So Inspirational – This is how we stay on the edge and up to date with all the latest photography trends and techniques.  The 3 day trade show was also overwhelming with every album company, camera company etc etc – anything you can think about for wedding  and portrait photography.

Some  free time was spent walking – taking lots of photos – Julie especially liked taking some infra red images of the palm trees on the strip.