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We photographed a great wedding for Leslie and Dave June 28th. The ceremony was at the beautiful United Methodist Church in Birmingham, which we are very familiar with and really enjoy. The reception was at the beautiful Wabeek Country Club. Romantics on the grounds were a lot of fun and the reception was awesome – the dance floor was always packed and rocking – thanks to the great DJ Mac from Mike Staff Productions. We even worked with Michelle, one of their Video teams so it was nice working with vendors we know we can work together with.

The hit of the evening seemed to be the engagement sign in album we designed from their engagement session at the Henry Ford Estate earlier this year, This is one of the most sought after new products.  There were lots of great images and lots of open spaces for the greetings around them.

The slideshow for this album, with the designed pages as well as some images of the album as signed during the day is at: http://www.wallyspicephotography.com/LeslieDaveSignInAlbum/index.html
Take a look – we are in the process of designing several more of these for the weddings to come.

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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”.

OK, it’s been a long time since I posted anything about what is going on with my youngest daughter Tracy, her husband Rick and baby Gunther in Alaska.  She has been posting such precious images that I just couldn’t resist any longer! Gunther is almost 20 months now and just as cute as ever – not that I’m prejudice – as his “Oma”  or Grandma.

This is cutest or strangest story – He is in a Junior bed now since they had to cut the spindles on his crib to get his little legs out from being stuck. So, now it is so hard to go to sleep when you have the whole room to play in at bedtime.  One night – after everything was quiet in his room, Rick went to check on him and couldn’t find him – then found him sound asleep in the upright hamper – How on earth did he get in here!
They also have many visits from “Bullwinkle” – the neighborhood moose that comes around a lot. They sure were close.  I think I might have met him when I was there this last April. There are a LOT of moose in the area – especially in the mountain area behind their property.
Tracy posts all her images on her Flickr account -  http://www.flickr.com/photos/spicegirl
I have images from my spring trip on my Flickr account also  http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyspice/ 
We like this site because we can download any size of any image any time – love it – for personal photos.I have more on the Tracy in Alaska category here in this blog also.

June 20 of this year, on the summer solstice, the Detroit Zoo had their gala “Sunset at the Zoo” fund raiser for their benefactors and supporters. The Zoo stayed open into the late hours and it was certainly a great event and lots of fun.   Lots of major and regular sponsors, lots of food and beverage tents, live music from the great Jerry Ross Band, an intro by the anchors at channel 2, A live auction with phenomenal items to bid on, a silent auction, a sunset keys event, and frogs everywhere since this was the year of the frog.  Everything was donated by all the generous sponsors of the zoo.  We donated out photographic services so that they could have images for their marketing and we donated a “Portrait Session at the Zoo” to the silent auction. We even have a banner there all the time with one of our images from the event dining area.
We really believe the zoo is such a great cause and deserves our full support.  We sincerely appreciate their great referrals and give them any images they need for their sales and marketing.  We make up one of the hand outs they give to their potential wedding clients at the zoo – part of the “Say I do – at the Zoo” add campaign. This helps us both in promotion.

We were truly honored to be a part of this and really enjoyed the evening.

On June 17th, we held our anual banquet for the Detroit Professional Photographers Association at the Roostertail in Detroit for a “Night out on the River”. It was a great evening – Julie was the banquet Chairperson and did an awesome job – everyone enjoyed the food, the ambiance of a great location and the camaraderie of friends.

For me it was an ending to a great year as the president that I will never forget.  My gavel always looked so great on my display shelf among the antique camera collection.  But John Glass, the Past president before me, presented me with a new permanent gavel on a plaque for me to enjoy as “Past President”.  I will be on the board for another year as the Past President and look forward to serving this great organization another year.  Julie will be the secretary for the upcoming year and as she has been doing for so long so well – she will continue to be our “raffle girl”.

We thank our newsletter Editor Hugh McLean for taking our formal background photos and Brian McElhone for taking the candids. Thanks also to my brother in law and his wife Steve and Pat for taking some photos and being there to support Julie and I. Congratulations to everyone who received prizes and honors.

I have the files for all images taken, so if someone wants any, please contact me.

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