I’m not trying to start a heated debate or trying to be a male chauvinist pig but I found an interesting bit of social research on women changing their names.

Indiana University conducted a national survey to gauge the public’s point of view on women changing their names when they get married.  Surprisingly, 71% of the respondents agreed that women should change their name to the man’s name to provide a single name for the family.  The real kicker is that half of the respondents thought that there should be government regulation enforcing the name change!

To read more about this research you can visit the IU News Room. What do you think?  Leave a comment below!

I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Facebook.  I’m not totally convinced that social media is the cause for the next industrial revolution but an interesting argument is made here.  Watch this video and I’m sure that you’ll be shocked by at least one thing…



Leave your comments below… we’d love to hear what you think. Did you meet your significant other online or through social media? Do you rely on friends and relatives to recommend products and services to you or do you rely on advertising?

I think that everyone seeks success, so here’s the 8 secrets that lead to success.

So I took some time to reflect on how I’m doing with the 8 secrets…

1. Passion
   Our photography is a total labor of love.  We love documenting the happiest day of our clients lives – capturing that one special moment is a huge high for us!
2. Work
   Hard work has been my way.  Digging in and dedicating the extra hours to make it happen is worth it when we see the smile or tear on the faces of our clients.
3. Good
   We don’t judge our work against other photographers, but it has to pass our own test – does it make us happy?  Do we like it and are we proud enough of it to share with others?  We truly feel that we’re providing incredibly high quality products and services.
4. Focus
   Weddings, weddings, weddings.  That’s what we do.  We specialize in environmentally friendly wedding photography.
5. Push
   This is the hardest part for us.  Pushing through the shyness, self-doubt… it’s an area that I’m working on personally.
6. Serve
   Our clients come first – always.  But it’s not just about our customers.  It’s about our responsibility to the environment and to our community.  We take pride in our green business practices in addition to our community service and involvement.
7. Ideas
   While sometimes it feel like we’re beating our heads against a wall… we’re constantly thinking about what can be the next great style for a photo, or how to reduce our carbon footprint, or maybe the next greatest way to surprise our clients.
8. Persist
   Sometimes life gives you lemons and it’s hard to do anything but sit there and cuss about how you hate lemons.  Maybe I’m just a freek but I love lemons.  We do our best to look up over the pile of lemons and trudge forward with the next plan on how we can overcome our current hurdles.

All in all, we’re doing pretty good on the pursuit of happiness.  As photographers who love what we’re doing we’ve got an advantage… and we’re thankful every day for the great life we’ve got!

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So, count me in with the millions of other Americans that have failed on their promises to themselves to keep their New Year’s resolutions.  I was able to keep up on it for pretty much the entire month of January but some major life events were thrown my way and I fell off the wagon of taking a picture every day.  Once I missed one day it was pretty much all downhill from there.

That’s the bad news… the good news is that I’m routinely taking more pictures that I would have previously.  So, while I’m not taking pictures every single day I have been shooting quite frequently…

Here’s one that I shot on January 4th of our dog Abbey playing with cars on a race track set up in our basement.  As the cars would zoom by she’d go nuts barking and trying to nip at them.  It was a fun game for a while.