You can see a fewe of the photos from Adam and Jacquie’s wedding by clicking on the image below to enlarge it. Thye rest of the photographs from the wedding will be availabel for viewing and purchase online in 2-3 weeks.
The photographs for the Stockton wedding are now online under the Customer Photos link on the website. Please use the User Name and Password that were passed out at the reception.
Lareen and I spent Saturday evening in Hagerstown with Shannon and Jason, the new Mr. and Mrs. Dartis. Shannon’s parent’s home was the beautiful site of the ceremony and reception. Shannon was absolutely beautiful. Everyone were very kind and cooperative and we had a great time. Great Music!
I made it all day without a crutch for the first time. I had my stiches taken out from my knee surgery on Wednesday and was pleased to find my self able to get around at the wedding without a crutch!
You can see a few of the photos from the wedding by clicking in the image below to enlarge it. The rest of the photographs will be posted online under the Custom Photos link in the next 2-3 weeks.
Well, I had my surgery. I had a tendon put in my knee from a cadaver, I am hoping that whoever owned that tendon before was more athletic than me, so I can at least be semi-athletic!
I severely underestimated how much this whole procedure would hurt. Wow is this painful! Stretching the tendon out is a long a painful procedure. After three PT sessions and home exercises I am able to bend my leg to 105 degrees, not enough to get along well, but a lot more than when I started. I think the person who owned this tendon must have had legs the size of a barbie doll! I still need a whole lot more stretching in order to be able to function normally again. I hope I am not rambling too much, it looks like I am running out of pain medication! Crap!
We were in Morrow Ohio on Saturday with Jennifer and Nathan, the new Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Jennifer was absolutely gorgeous! The wedding and reception took place at the Bel-Wood Country Club and the decor was beautiful. We enjoyed ourselves and the wedding party and families were kind, fun and gracious.
You can see a few of the photos by clicking on the image below to enlarge it. The rest of the photographs will be online in a couple of weeks under the Customer Photos link on the website.
Finally finished all of the teams for the Babe Ruth Basegall league. The Senior teams took forever to get done due to several things, not the least of which was the large number of thunder and rain storms we have had the last 4 weeks. All that is left is to complete the sponsor plaques and get them delivered. The off to the next sports league!
I am going to have ACL reconstruction surgery on June 22nd and will be off my feet for about a week. I have been planning for this surgery for a long time (since I dislocated my knee a few months ago) and my wedding schedule allowed for this specific date. Otherwise, I would have had to wait until late this fall. Having a torn ACL is quite uncomfortable and makes getting around difficult and dangerous, so I look forward to the surgery so I can get back to normal!
Lareen and I spent Saturday on Muncie at the wedding of Julie and Jason, the new Mr. and Mrs. Stockton. We had a great time. Julie and Jason, along with the rest of their family and friends were a lot of fun and were very gracious and kind. Julie was gorgeous, and the wedding and reception were beautifully decorated and presented.
You can see a few of the photos from their wedding by clikcing on the image below to enlarge it. The rest of the photographs will be availabe for viewing and purchasing online under the Customer Photos link in a couple of weeks. A week or so after that, you will be able to see the first draft of their Storybook Album.
I was helping someone load their pickup on Friday and as I was lowering myself over the side of the pickup bed (very slowly and responsibly I might add!), my right leg slipped, which was in the bed, and I came down on my left leg, which was sideways on the ground. The sound that my left knee made as it slowly slipped out of it’s socket still makes me want to get sick. In that moment between the injury and the onset of the pain, I noticed that my lower leg was about 30 degrees out of whack and I stuck my left foot under the back of the truck tire and pulled myself up until it went back into alignment.
Well, needless to say, I completely tore my knee up and will be finding it difficult to get around for several weeks. GREAT! I have 100 track athletes and 320 Babe Ruth player to photograph in the next 3 weeks. Thankfully I have great friends and family to help me get these jobs done!
I have posted Nolan’s photos online.
I have posted the wedding photographs from Megan and Kyle’s wedding. You can find them under the Customer Photos Link on the website. Please use the User Name and Password that were handed out at the reception. – Thanks
I am splitting off the sports photo business from Craig Bybee Photography. The new business is call Kid Sportography. Check out our new website at www.kidsportography.com . Gary Taylor has become a partner in this new business and is in charge of sales. We are going to be offering some new fundraising incentives and new products as well. Our guarantee is twofold: (1) All photos ordered from the photo envelope will be delivered within 5 business days and (2) All fundraising monies will be delivered to the league within 60 days of Photo Day.
If your team or league needs to raise some money and you need team and individual player photos, call Gary at 765-265-9877.
On Saturday, April 10, Lareen and I spent the day at Kumler Chapel and later at the 4th Floor Of The Blues Club with Megan and Kyle, the new Mr. and Mrs. Gillman. A great, great couple! Megan was stunning and Kyle wasn’t bad either. Even though the weather was a bit dicey, the wedding party had no problem getting the outdoor shots the Megan and Kyle wanted.
Even though their reception was at the same time as the final Butler-Duke game, it was a great party! Everyone had a great time. You can see a few of the photographs from the wedding by clicking on the image below to enlarge it. The rest of the photos will be available online under the Customer Photos link on the website in about a week.
Once again, my web host screwed up my blog. I am sorry that I was not able to post the collage for the Gillman wedding on Monday, but again, for more times than I can count, my web host had a problem which made my blog inaccessable. It took until this morning for them to fix the problem. SORRY- Craig
Lareen and I went to St. Augustine for spring break with another couple and their two teenage daughters. The weather was not the greatest, but it wasn’t snowing or icy like it was in Connersville! St. Augustine was pretty much a tourist destination with shopping, shopping and more shopping. There wasn’t anything to do that cost less than $20.00. We did travel from there to Daytona and Orlando to see the sights and everything was ridiculously expensive. You even had to pay to get out on a pier!
It was obvious that the economy was effecting the area as the spring breakers were hard to find. The one part of the vacation that stands out for me was seeing Richard Marx in a solo acoustic concert in Orlando. It might well be one of the best concerts I have ever been to ( or remember that well anyway!). The concert was like the Storytellers series on MTV and Marx is not only very talented, he’s really quite funny too.
Anyway, back to reality. Our first Wedding is this Saturday and we have soccer photos to get done on April 10th. Nice to be back!
I have changed the wedding slide who to include some on this year’s weddings. There is now an examples of a senior video under the Senior Packages link. The studio will be closed for most of Spring Break 3/19-3/26. We are once again setting up for the Enchanted Forest theme mainly for people who are part of our mailing list in Richmond and Oxford. It will run from 3/27 through 4/2. We have a wedding on 4/3, so if we cannot get everyone scheduled for the theme, we will extend it as needed.
We will probably be doing two themes in April, “I Want To Be A Rock Star” and “A Day With The Ducklings” The duckling day will be contingent on the availability of ducklings. We might be forced to improvise! Like maybe chicks??? We are being told that we will be able to get the ducklings, but you know how life works!
I recently broke out my home recording studio and while I was snowed in, I decided to record a song that has been rambling around in my brain since Lareen and I went to the Chris Isaak concert last month. This song was recorded with me doing the vocals and playing all the instruments along with a lot of magic from my computer software!
Some of you might know about Topix.com, a web site that provides a place where you can view your town’s news, weather and participate in a forum or discussions. If you are aware of Connersville’s forum on Topix.com, then you will also be aware that it is a place where the majority of topics and discussions engage in negative and hateful discourse.
A friend called and told me that I was discussed in a topic about wedding photographers. I, of course, went online to see what the scoop was. Now the problem with these type of discussion forums is that everyone is anonymous. You cannot tell what is true and what is not because of this. I have only looked at Topix.com three times and each time was to see something that somebody told me about. There are a couple of people discussing me as a wedding photographer, more people who are positive!, but at least one person who claims to be a past customer of ours.
This “past customer” claims that my prices are too high, they didn’t get the photos they wanted and I was very difficult to “deal” with, thus lending stress to their wedding day. I simply cannot stand people who are dissatisfied with something or someone and are too afraid to say anything about it at the time. Then this “supposed customer” goes online anonymously and makes complaints. If you are a customer of mine, then I have complete faith that you know what really happens at weddings We shoot, and what our work is like.
I have seen people all over this town being slammed, libeled and attempts at having their reputation ruined on this forum and most of the discussion and accusations have been obviously false and completely unprovable. I sincerely believe that most of my customers would not be the type of people who participate in that form of entertainment. Also I believe that the majority of my customers would not have any problem coming to me about anything, especially regarding my work for them. Regarding my prices, well I believe they are reasonable and 90% of my customers say the same thing.
Due to recommendations from some friends, I have looked at the forums for other towns in our area and the difference between their forums and the one for Connersville is like night and day. Most of the towns around us use the forum in a mostly positive way while the huge majority of the topics discussed in Connersville forum are hateful and juvenile. I still haven’t figured out why.
So I guess I have finally made it in Connersville by being on Topix.com. Better people than me in town have been slapped around on that forum. You gotta love the internet!!!!
This year we are going to change some of the things we do in the studio and with our wedding packages. The first announcement is the Wedding Photo Premier Party. For those wedding customers that live in a 60 mile radius from the studio, we will be holding a Wedding Photo World Premier Party complete with food and drink. This party will be scheduled before the wedding date and the couple will be able to invite their family and the wedding party to our studio to see their wedding photos presented on our big screen . Typically the party would be scheduled for an evening about 3 weeks after the wedding.
The party will be a great way to have the couple see their wedding photos and possibly their Storybook as well. There will be surprises for the wedding couple as well! So, for all our new weddings in 2010, we are giving you a party to bring all your wedding memories back to life and share them with the ones you love!
The Storybook album for the Gribben wedding is now online. You can view it on their page in the Customer Photos link. The Storybook link is at the bottom of their page. You can CLICK HERE to go there now.