Enjoy the slideshow below as well as some of my favorite images from their day.

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After an hour of wandering around in this maze, I finally got smart and pulled out my iPhone and cheated.  Oh well.  It was getting dark and the kids wanted to play in some of the other mazes.

I shot a few photos that afternoon of the kids. Enjoy!

Here’s Haley on the sandpile with the tire maze in the background.

Geez, Lauren is getting big. She’ll be 11 next year in March.

We also had a gorgeous sunset that day.

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I also had the privilege to work with some new wedding vendors and some old ones too. Here’s a partial list of the vendors:

Berry’s Floral & Catering – flowers and catering

SoundSations – Kevin McClelland (no website)

Old Government House – Carla McNeely

Dianna Tornow Cakes – wedding and grooms cake

Elite Media Inc. – video services

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Here’s my some my favorite detail shots:

To see more of the photos, view the WEDDING SLIDESHOW here.

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Enjoy the sneak peek and come back Monday to see more.

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This was my first wedding where the didn’t wear traditional wedding dress type shoes.  She stuck true to who she is and wore her cowboy (or cowgirl) boots.

Check out their engagement photography we shot at the same farm in June.  CLICK HERE

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Coming soon is our upgrade to our client proofing site.

Recently, I was working with the Google Webmaster Central and came across Google’s archive of all their holiday logos. I thought I’d share some of my favorite ones from the past year. You can also see all of the holiday logos here.

Google Thanksgiving Logo from 2008

From the Perseid Meteor Showers

From the 2008 Beijing Olympics for Swimming – they had many from the Olympics but I liked this one the best.

Mothers Day 2009

The 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

Google logo for the 2009 American Independence Day (4th of July)

From Halloween 2008 – this was drawn by the twisted mind of Wes Craven

Grandparents Day 2009

2009 Eclipse

2009 Earth Day

Google came up with a new logo for September 9, 2009 at 09:09:09.  Pretty cool!

And who could forget Google’s 10th Birthday.

Creating this wedding albums is one of the most fulfilling parts of being a wedding photographer.  Seeing the end product come together and seeing joy and excitement on the clients face is wonderful.

Here’s the 10×13 landscape album in all it’s glory.

The really like the indented photo here..

Here’s several shots of all three recent albums: the 10×13 vertical and landscape as well as the 10×10 square.

I also like the fact that Finao is going the ‘green’ route with their album presentation material.  Save the earth. Save a tree.

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Here’s a few images of the square 10×10 album.

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This week I received three wedding photography albums for albums.  I got a 10×13 landscape, a 10×10 square and a 10×13 vertical.  All three are wonderful.  I will be show all three this week, starting today through Friday.  This one is the vertical 10×13 book.  It’s covered in Opaline from the Basics Collection.

Every ONE album comes securely packaged and wrapped in the “green” packaging material.  It’s such a nice touch to the finished product.

Neatly finished corners

An example of the square spine option.

All in all, this is a beautiful album.  Come back tomorrow to see the square album.

I wasn’t until I heard Becker say that if you we’re a professional wedding photographer that it was unacceptable to lose someone images from their wedding.  And he was 100% correct.  It is unacceptable.  I mean these photos and photos in general are priceless.  That’s why I’m such a fanatic about backing up many times to all sorts of media.  I’d like to go through the process I use to backup all of my photos (and some video) to make sure nothing will happen to them.

First of all, I don’t really have a fancy system and it doesn’t take much money to accomplish this for yourself.  After I’ve downloaded my cards onto the main Apple drive, I backup all (and I mean ALL) the files, even the ones I know will be trashed later, to my primary backup hard drive which is a Western Digital Green Drive internal drive placed into a MacAlly Aluminum Drive Enclosure.  Everything goes onto the primary backup drive and then I clone the primary drive to another Western Digital Green Drive as my secondary backup.  So now I’ve got two backups, safe and sound.

Some might say, well that’s enough, right?  WRONG!

I take it even further than the two hard drive backups.  After I’ve had a chance to go through the images and pick the ones I want to keep and the ones I want to delete and make my Level 2 adjustments, I then write my adjustment data to the image via XMP data and burn the originals RAW+XMP files to one or more DVD’s.  The freshly burned DVD’s go into off-site storage, which is usually at my parents or grandparents house.

So now I had three backups. Whew, that’s a lot of work.  Not really, the computer does all the work and come on these are priceless photos of your clients and your personal photos.  Protect them!!

For a while there, I sufficed that that was enough.  Until I realized it wasn’t.  Yes, I am a backup freak.  But it’s important.  I needed one more reliable source.  One that would protect them images no matter what.  That solution was online backup.  Sending all of my file to the web.  I quickly realized that the “cloud” was the way to go.  Highly advanced and redundant backup and hosting solutions were out there but who do you choose.

I immediately thought about SmugMug.  SmugMug is a photo and video hosting company that allows you to host your photos and videos for the world to see and even buy.  Their galleries and endless customization options looked oh so nice.  But I wasn’t completely sold until I found out that SmugMug didn’t compress and resize my images like most other service.  Also, their storage capacity was unlimited, even their basic plan.  Also, their plans are cheap, only $39.95 per year for unlimited storage.  That’s only $0.01 per day.

I immediately signed up for they’re Professional Plan, which allowed me to host HD video and sell if I wanted.  I organized my structure within their system and began uploaded massive amounts of images to them.  Usually one wedding took about 8 hours and put a tremendous strain on my connection, so I reverted to letting them upload at night.  I took me nearly 2 months of uploading every night to get all of my wedding, bridal, and engagement photos to SmugMug.  Lately I realized that I still had unlimited space with SmugMug and began to backup all of my personal photos with them.  Why not?

So that’s my backup startegy.  4 full backups – 2 local, 1 off-site and 1 in the cloud.  Your photos are safe! I can now rest.

SmugMug has been so much fun to work with.  Not only do I use them as my online backup solution, but they also feed the website galleries.  Those pretty galleries you see at lawrencekent.com and actually being produced and fed my SmugMug.  The Show It Fast and SmugMug teams have integrated their systems so the Show It Sites galleries are driven by SmugMug galleries.  How cool is that?

So here’s my plea to you.  Whether you’re a professional wedding photographer or just a avid photo taker, protect your photos.  AT ALL COSTS.

Get a backup drive, burn them to CD or DVD’s, backup to SmugMug or a like service, but back them up.  You’ll thank me later when a hard drive fails or you accidentally delete them.  If you want to use SmugMug as a solution, you can get $5 off by entering my e-mail address, kent@lawrencekent.com, when signing up.

It’s so simple, but very important.  Too many things are going completely digital and we all want to protect our priceless memories.

Cheers

U2 is one of the last remaining bands that have the capability to sell out the giantic venues.  Their set on this tour absolutely amazing.  They promise to give everyone a front row seat.  Go to http://360.u2.com and take a virtual tour of the stage set.  From all of the reviews I have read, everyone is saying this is their best tour yet.  Most concerts you see in Atlanta are either at Phillips Arena, the Gwinnett Civic Center or Lakewood.  This set is so big they had to use the Georgia Dome.  It’s mammoth.

Check it the video below that has footage from their opening night in Barcelona, Spain.

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Have a great weekend!!

They say God’s work is never done and this church certainly isn’t complete.

Work commenced on this intended replacement for St Peter’s Church in 1874 but bickering within the Anglican community coupled with severe storm damage caused the project to be abandoned.  Now acquired by the Bermuda National Trust, the roofless structure offers some good photographic opportunities.

The chuch is located to the north of St George, on the way to Tobacco Bay.

Here’s a few of the photos are shot.  All black and white.

The view from the Fairmont Southhampton Princess.  It’s a view of the Dockyards.  If you visit Bermuda, even if you don’t stay at the Fairmont, go have their breakfast.  It is the best.

You can probably guess that I love the hibucus’.  The Waterlot Inn had some awesome varieties.

And yes found some farm animals down in St. George’s.  Some guy came by and asked if we wanted some curried goat.  Ummm, sorry dude.  Not today.

An old door with so much character.

I just had to.

My cousin wanted me to shoot this area all week and finally on the day I was leaving we stopped.  One of the round-abouts was beautifully landscaped with sunflowers around the traffic signs.  All of the others round-abouts are just decorated with low growing flowers, except this one.

Come back tomorrow to see my black and white series at the Unfinished Church.

Also, at the same time I was there, it was Bermuda 400 year celebration and their Cup Match holiday.  Cup Match is the country’s big cricket match between the Somerset Parish and the St. George’s Parish.  We visited the Cup Match the first day, but I had no idea how cricket was played.  So I didn’t have much interest in the game.

Below are several of the photos I took last week.  You’ll immediately see the beauty of the island. And yes the water is that color.  I’ll have more photos on tomorrow’s post and then a special post on the images I took at the Unfinished Church.

Enjoy!

Here’s the view from my cousins front door were I stayed.

A shot from her beach were the water is always a sea surface temperature of 84.1 degrees.

A shot of St. David’s Island and the St. David’s Lighthouse.

My uncle Johnny! Classic man.

From Gibb’s Hill Lighthouse.

I thought this was cool. Bottle bottoms broken off in the concrete pillar at Fort St. Catherine’s.