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Dance for Hope!!
We had a ball at Holly Cross College, I am happy that the Dance for Hope raised about $10,000.00 for there foundation to help people with cancer. Carl Beane was also there to help the Dance for Hope raise money,THANK YOU Carl.
If you don’t know who Carl Beane is well let me tell you just who this wonderfull man is, 
Carl Beane is best known as The Voice of Fenway Park. He has been the Public Address Announcer at Fenway Park since 2003. He was fortunate enough in his second year to be able to announce the first two games of the World Series and to see the Red Sox become the Champions for the first time in 86 years. Once again in 2007 Carl had the great honor to announce the first two games of the 2007 World Series.
Carl was born and raised in Agawam, Massachusetts. He is a 1971 graduate of Agawam High School and a 1972 graduate of Career Academy School of Broadcasting. Carl knew at a very young age that he wanted to be a radio broadcaster.
Carl has been a Sports Radio Broadcaster since 1972. He has worked for a number of radio stations and also has done national updates for such outlets as ESPN radio, Sirius Satellite Radio, Westwood One, Associated Press, and MetroNetworks. Carl taught Sports broadcasting and Play-by-play classes at the Connecticut School of Broadcasting in Needham, MA until it’s untimely closing in March of 2009.
Carl’s voice can be heard in “The Baseball Experience” at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
A recent role for Carl is that of a national spokesman for The American Diabetes Association. Carl is also a narrator for Talking Books at the Perkins School for the Blind.
Although Carl was not the only celebrity there that night 
Michael Creeden and Jessica Spink are professional ballroom dancers in the American Smooth style. They have been dancing together competitively since 2002.
During their amateur careers, the two competed across the country in the American Rhythm and American Smooth ballroom styles. The pair was the 2009 USA Dance Amateur National Champions in the American 9-dance event held in Baltimore, MD.
Together, Michael and Jessica accumulated a number of amateur titles, including World Masters Amateur American Smooth Champions at the 2009 Yankee Classic held in Cambridge, MA and Amateur American Smooth Champions at the 2010 Manhattan Amateur Classic held in New York, NY, making the pair the top Amateur Smooth couple in the Northeast.
In April of 2010, Michael and Jessica were finalists in the American Smooth style at the USA Dance Amateur National Championships in Los Angeles, CA; they announced their decision to begin their professional competitive careers shortly thereafter.
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A Perfect Affair
A Perfect Affair - 6 Hrs. of Coverage
1 – CD of High Quality Images
1 – DVD Slide Show
Meeting with the Photographer
Complete Reception Covered
Formal Wedding Portraits with Family
Complete Wedding Ceremony Covered
All images can be viewed on-line
All images are professionally edited and color corrected and cropped
A Perfect Affair Price …………………………………………………………………………………………….. $ 1530.00
A Perfect Affair wedding is just right for a young couple looking to save some money, these day that can be quite hard to do. Your wedding will be covered for a full 6 hours. Now on the CD you will get about 800 to 1200 images of your wedding. A Perfect Affair also includes a DVD Slide Show.
REMEMBER to check my website, there are four other wedding packages and as always if you don’t see a wedding package that does not suit your wedding needs, give me a call and I will make a package for your wedding.
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Why do Professional Photographers Cost so MUCH?
Shooting professional photography is a skill, acquired through years of experience. Some of the equipment that I use like my cameras average $4,000-$5,000 for just the body, and a lot of my lens are in the $2,000 range, taking professional portraits involves much more than a nice camera.
Most Professional Photographers take years to go from buying their first decent camera to making money with their photography. In addition to learning the operation of the camera itself, there is a mountain of other equipment involved, as well as numerous software programs used to edit and print photographs, run a website etc.
And let’s not forget that you actually have to have people skills, be able to communicate, make people comfortable in front of the camera – and posing people to make them look their best, yet completely natural in a photograph is a skill all by itself.
Think of it this way – the next time you pay $100 to get your hair done, a pair of scissors only costs $1.50. But you gladly pay a lot more to hire a Professional to actually do the job.
What about the cheap studios at the mall?
Please don’t compare us to the chain store studios. Apples & Oranges!!! But if you must, consider all of the time and work that we put into our photographs, compared to what they do. Good luck getting a two hour photo shoot at a chain store. Not to mention they won’t come on location for you! And of course, look at our work compared to theirs. You get what you pay for.
The truth is, most of the mall and chain store studios lose money. In fact, in 2007 Wal-Mart closed 500 of their portrait studios because of the financial drain they were putting on the company. What the chain stores bet on is that you’ll come in for some quick and cheap photos, and while you’re there, you’ll also spend $200 on other things. They don’t have to make money, they are just there to get you in the door.
Conclusion
I hope that those who have taken the time to read this page will have a better understanding of why professional photographs cost so much more than the ones that you get from your local drug store.
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Why do Professional Photographers Cost so MUCH?
As a professional photographer, I will be putting several post with different events broken down for people to see what you are paying for when you contract a professional photographer. For this post I will be talking about a four hour wedding.
1. ( Time X ) Talking to the client to see what they want for the wedding.
2. ( Time X ) Traveling to the wedding venue.
3. ( Time X ) Setup and preparation for the wedding.
4. ( Time X ) Typically I take about 1000 to 1500 image from a four hour wedding.
5. ( Time X ) Breaking down any equipment from at the wedding.
6. ( Time X ) Traveling from the wedding.
7. ( Time X ) Loading the 1000 to 1500 images onto the computer.
8. ( Time X ) Prepping your work in Photoshop or Lightroom.
9. ( Time X ) Uploading the images so the customer can see and order them.
10. ( Time X ) Checking with the customer to see if they have any other need or changes.
As you can see there is a lot of work involved in producing a great wedding images for you and your family to enjoy for many years. Here you can see that a four hour wedding for the photographer very quickly turn into an 40 to 60 hour week. Now you may think you are paying allot for a professional photographer but after all is said and done the photographer is not making what you think they are making, but the end result is that you will be happy with your images.
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Why do Professional Photographers Cost so MUCH?
As a professional photographer, I will be putting several post with different events broken down for people to see what you are paying for when you contract a professional photographer. For my first post I will be talking about a one hour portrait session.
1. ( Time X ) Talking to the client to see what they want for the image.
2. ( Time X ) Traveling to the session location.
3. ( Time X ) Setup and preparation for the session.
4. ( Time X ) After the setup and preparation is done take the images.
5. ( Time X ) Breaking down the equipment from the session.
6. ( Time X ) Traveling from the session.
7. ( Time X ) Loading the images onto the computer.
8. ( Time X ) Prepping your work in Photoshop.
9. ( Time X ) Uploading the images so the customer can see and order them.
As you can see there is a lot of work involved in producing a great image for you and your family to enjoy for many years. Here you can see that a one hour portrait session can for the photographer can very quickly turn into an 8 to 10 hour day. Now you may think you are paying allot for a professional photographer but after all is said and done the photographer is not making what you think they are making, but the end result is that you will be happy with your images.
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