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cut out for it
[no, this is not a picture from the event, but you get the idea]
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Jac & i have been sitting on what was initially a "good news" opportunity that has now turned into an "amazing/brilliant/incredible/no words for it news" reality.
early last week, Jac was contacted by a representative of LWT to see if we'd be interested in placing a bid to be the photographers for the annual Blue & Gray Colonels Ball here in Montgomery. what began as a "send us your bid soon!" quickly became a "let's meet on Wednesday" (last Wednesday) affair.
this was something wholly new to us, and frankly, a bit surprising. of course i know that Jackie has the talent and skill for this; the surprise was more in the "we've only been at this, full-time, for a little over a month now" department. we quickly wrangled together our resources and know-how (a huge thank you to Apple's brilliant app, Pages, for its part) into conceptualizing an eye-catching presentation for the meeting. the one big catch, however, was a pretty massive requirement: four photographers were necessary to cover the event. this is where its good to have friends in the business. we quickly came to a consensus (after five seconds) and called up our good friend Lori Dill of Appear Photography in Birmingham who (thankfully!) will be able to join us.
proposal: done.
the meeting was fantastic and the threesome that interviewed us and went over our bid seemed to not have enough words for how impressed they were with Jackie's work, top to bottom. they also were taken with our website (holla'!). every single thing was falling into place.
and then we waited. and waited. Friday was excruciating. all day today was excruciating. just waiting on a phone call or an email. Google Voice, through which we route the L.A.P. phone number, was acting wonky all through the weekend and through today. all very nerve wracking.
then the call came at 4.30pm, and it was Mr. Leonard from LWT, letting me know that we won the job.
we won the job.
i cannot, and i don't think Jackie can either, express how amazing this is to us as a burgeoning photo business in an incredibly crowded field of amazing Montgomery photographers, some of who've been at this (again, full-time) much longer than we have been. this is incredible when also considering that the BGCB folks have been using the same photographers for over 20 years. and we are their choice to take up that mantle.
i know for some folks reading this, it doesn't make much sense as to what all this means, and its sort of hard to explain in a concise manner what the BGCB is and what an institution it is in Montgomery. so... just trust me: this means great things for us, hopefully for a very long time to come.
happy Monday to us! this journey is getting awesome!
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i've been busy
apologies for ignoring you, dear blog. gimme a couple more days and we'll catch up.
holla', lukea collage
last night, i discovered we were running low on little acorn business cards, so i began making some new ones. the company we use for our card printing, Moo, has a unique & quirky offering (in addition to the typical card) called Moo MiniCards, and one of the neatest features is the ability to upload up to 100 different images for use on the cards. so, if maxed out, each card is completely different from the next.
i did it (only doing 85 or so because there were a few i wanted multiples of) and finished the job just a few minutes ago. i'm really excited to get these in the mail in the next couple of weeks.
but i was left with all these little pieces of artwork that i worked to crop down and place just so within the size guidelines and i felt it would be a secondary waste to just trash them. i fired up the not-ever-really-used-ever Picasa, imported all the images, and made a big ol' collage out of them. the result, i must say, is pretty freaking awesome. enjoy!
changin' things up
in the very near future, we're gonna be making some pretty big changes to what has (up till now) been the typical operations of LAP. i've been talking to a very good friend of ours in B'ham discussing strategies and business. with Jac's recent departure from P.I. (which has yet to fully sink in), we're beginning to recognize that a couple of facets of the operation need to be tweaked to sustain better growth. its all very exciting and we're hoping that it will help to open up wider avenues for business.
in other news...
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i've had a whole lot on my mind lately, politically speaking. i won't share too much, but i just felt it necessary to state that i'm exceedingly frustrated with both sides of the ball right now, some for obvious reasons, others, a bit more subtle. so there's that.
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and with that...
g'night.
clarification
i tweeted earlier tonight...
i'm tired of politics.like, really really REALLY tired of it.barely anyone has anything worth a damn to say anymore.[end rant]
and i do mean it, as stated in an earlier post a few weeks (couple months?) back.
what i mean to say is that i'm tired of the current state of politics. there are maybe... two (?) folks i know on the other end of the spectrum that are willing or able to have an open, honest debate that won't have their friends gang up or allow discussion to devolve into a weiner-slingin' match. its just gotten stupid, and it was evidenced moreso last week when America failed to bring the prize of the 2016 Olympic Games home to Chicago. i mean, cheering? really? we're happy that America failed to win hosting duties for the world?
did anyone cheer when New York lost the bid for the 2012 games? was anyone happy or willing to slag on about Bush's inability to bring that home? if they did, i certainly don't remember it, and i personally didn't revel in it. it was a loss for the nation, just as this is.
its just dumb.
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things on the home front are good. this is Jackie's last week of work for PI, which is at once incredibly exciting and liberating and jump-outta'-my-skin frightening. and i don't have much more to add to that. LAP is still very much a grassroots effort and we're depending on a whole lotta' word of mouth to get the news out there that we're available and ready.
a couple of jobs have trickled in from random strangers, and that's a very encouraging sign; it also makes me a little prideful that i've been going about this the right way as far as basic SEO and inserting the business into Google, Yelp, Bing, Yahoo, and Facebook search results. the Montgomery photography business is a crowded field, but i feel we have a few distinctive advantages (and tricks) versus other folks. its simply a matter of exposing those plusses to a wider audience without breaking the bank on advertising that will be a challenge.
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g'night.
