Congratulations to all the Flagler Technical Center graduates!! Good luck in your future endeavors. Here’s a link to view you photos from graduation night. If you have any questions or concerns about your photos please feel free to contact me via my website or phone.

http://purchase.photosbydwayne.com/FTC_Graduation_1.21._g121.html

Sincerely,
Dwayne Fleming

Wishing everyone well in 2010! It should be a great year.

I will be on a business trip to Jamacia August 27th though 31st. I will have limited access to email and phone service. Please feel free to contact me via email or phone and I will contact you as soon as I have access again.

I will be on vacation July 6th through the 10th on a cruise to the Bahamas. I will most likely not be reachable during this time period, but feel free to contact me via email or phone and I will return your inquiry as soon I have access to do so.

I will be on a business trip June 16th through the 23rd in St. Thomas Virgin Islands. I will be reachable via email or phone since AT&T has good service in the area.

Congratulations to all the Flagler Technical Center graduates!! Good luck in your future endeavors. Here’s a link to view you photos from graduation night. If you have any questions or concerns about your photos please feel free to contact me via my website or phone.

http://purchase.photosbydwayne.com/gallery.php?gid=118

Believe it or not folks I am indeed here. I realize this blog has had very little activity as of late, but between family concerns and actually shooting my photography sometimes the “blogging” part of my world comes to a grinding halt. So rest assured I am indeed and active photographer so that limits my time for updates. I hope to have some new updates from the last two recent weddings up soon…

Sincerely,
Dwayne Fleming

I was looking back over some images searching for a particular photography and ran across my first paid job that “marked” a start to a paid professional photographer. It was for a mere $150 for a beach wedding. Say what you want about the pricing on weddings…a market exists for low cost beach weddings and someone has to cater to that in my opinion. Sure “Uncle Ed” can do them for that price, but for starting photographers it’s a good way to “get your feet wet”.

This was a beach wedding in Flagler Beach, FL a young couple on a small budget. I actually had fellow photographer Forest Egan with me on this shoot since he was “pondering” getting into the wedding photography. (He was already an awesome wildlife photographer in my opinion.) So both of us took are “version” of shoots for the wedding and burned everything to CD for the clients and gave it to them. (I know, I know….we can start the “CD Negative” debate all over, but that is what we did back then.)
The client proceeded to Wal-Greens eager to print photos from the wedding. (Even after being advised that they should use a professional photo lab.) So they tried to print them from the self-print kiosk and decided the photos “sucked” essentially. (dark, blurry, etc.) The bride called me all upset and after assuring her the photos on the disc would print fine I had an 8 x 10 printed and mailed to her at no charge. After a few days I called her to follow-up and told me she told me how great the photo I sent looked. I assured her all her photos could be printed properly if she took them to professional lab.
Then a few weeks later I got this from my bank….
Needless to say the client would not response to emails or phone calls.

I really had no recourse for this client since I had provided them with the negatives etc already.

Can you say…”Lesson Learned”….

Most of the website updates have been completed to allow a new look and provide more examples of my photography online. This is always a ” work in progress” since I’m the photographer, graphic artist and web designer.

I’m currently working on some blog and website updates. Out with the old and in with the new.