Green Mountain PhotoShows is now a Preferred Vendor on BridalTweet

Green Mountain PhotoShows is now a Preferred Vendor on BridalTweet.  If you are getting married check out BridalTweet.  You will find all sorts of ideas and wedding vendors/companies who can help you design your dream wedding.  Click on the badge below & you’ll go directly to my listing and will be able to see a sample PhotoShow.  Love to have some feedback so please share!

Rutland Bridal Show 2012

Over 100 brides plus their bridesmaids, parents, grandparents & friends attended the Rutland Bridal Show last Sunday (Jan 22) at the Holiday Inn, Rutland VT.  Lots of ideas, freebies, yummy food samples, ceremonial cake cutting & bridal toss, and ZUMBA.  Curious to see what you missed?

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Bridal Show Preparation

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My company, Green Mountain PhotoShows will be the Rutland (VT) Bridal Show on Sunday, January 22, 2012 at the Rutland Holiday Inn.  If you are getting married this year or next year, why not go and get some good ideas and possibly win a door prize!  For more info:  www.rutlandbridalshow.com or www.vermontweddingassociation.

Some pointers if you’ve never been to a bridal show:  bring a friend or two–they can carry all the cool freebies you pick up from each vendor’s booth.  If a vendor is has a table raffle, giveaway–sign up.  You have a good chance to win.  Bring some preprinted address labels–use them to save you from writing down your name/address at each booth.  Make sure you are well rested so you have the stamina to meet all the vendors and absorb, absorb, absorb IDEAS.

Interested in finding out more about Green Mountain PhotoShows?  Check out www.greenmtnphotoshows.com.

Well, I’m off to work on my booth supplies–brochures, handouts, table prize, door prize.  Got a lot to do.  Enjoy the photos taken at previous bridal shows.

What will 2012 bring for you?

My goals for 2012 are to upgrade from PhotoShop Elements 6 to Version 10.  And I’m ready to learn more about photo editing.  The more I can do, the more I can do to make my Green Mountain PhotoShows better for my clients.  I’m also going to expand my territory to include the northern part of Vermont.  And I want to exercise more & lose weight.  Wow–I better get cracking cause the new year is just days away!

How was your Christmas?  Just a few photos highlighting Christmas in Vermont & New England.

 

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What is Christmas?

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  What does Christmas mean to you?  Is it the smells, the sights, the sounds?  For me its all those things.  Its continuing a family tradition of going to see the Christmas lights at the Shrine of LaSalliete in Enfield NH–it used to be with our girls and now it continues with their children.  Its baking my mom’s gingerbread cooky recipe–I used to help her make cookies when I was little.  Now my 2 youngest grand daughters help me.  It’s making homemade peanut butter cups with the two oldest grand daughters.  Its watching Rudolph for the umptnineth time as well as Miracle on 34th Street (original version) and White Christmas.  It is spending Christmas Eve with our girls and their families.  Its remembering all the great Christmases with our parents and wishing/hoping they are watching us from heaven.  Merry Christmas from Vermont.

Want to do a Family Reunion DVD?

Recently I crafted a family history dvd for my husband’s cousins.  Because he has a very large family keeping the dvd to a reasonable length required some decisions.  For their dvd, the focus was on the family starting with the great grandparents through to the cousins (the great grandchildren).  The resulting dvd was 55 minutes long.  I had a pile of about 650 photos to work with–most to be scanned but were sent to me via email or facebook.  The final version had about 300 photos.  There are still many more photos and generations to go–I’m hoping that the family will approach me to do additional family history dvds to continue to the children and grandchildren of the “cousins”.

Are you interested in doing a family history dvd?  If so, I can provide you with some pointers.

1. Decide on how far back or how far forward the dvd history will cover.
2. Alert family members to contribute.  Be prepared for a lot of fun conversations and long forgotten memories.
3. Start scanning–this could take awhile depending on your computer knowledge & scanner.  Remember that scanning photos will SCAN everything–dust, scratches, fingerprints.  Make sure your scanner plate is clean as well.
4. Photo edit–depending on the age/condition of the photos this can be time consumming, but well worth the effort.  Not only can you brighten up a dark photo or darken an over-exposed photo, you can crop, straighten, “mend” tears/scratches. I use PhotoShop Elements.
5. Dates:  use old family bibles/prayer books, have each family submit their info to you, contact your family’s “historian”.  I like to show the full names, birth date, marriage date and date of death along with a good photo of the family ancestor/member.
6. Next decide what you want in each section of the dvd history.  Example:  the original family home through the years, the grandparents with their siblings, Christmas get togethers, weddings, military, growing up, graduations….
7. Create the dvd.  Your dvd can be done simply by just putting the photos on a dvd and just playing on the computer.  Or you can use special slideshow software to creat a show with transitions, special effects and music.
8. Make copies and distribute to interested family members.  Show at the next family reunion.  Enjoy.

Still want a family dvd, but feel overwhelmed by the challenge?  Contact Green Mountain PhotoShows.  We can do it for you for a reasonable p

rice.  We love crafting photoshows that exactly meet our clients needs and style.  You don’t even have to live close to Vermont–we can use emails, postal service, facebook, flickr to get the photos from you to us.  We work with you!

Mystery Photo. Where is this? (Name the place)

Send your answer to us on facebook.  Our page is Green Mountain PhotoShows.

Vacations–close to home

Gas costs are steadily rising, but desire to vacation doesn’t decline.  Just a night away from home can sometimes seem like a week of vacation.  We already did our big vacation in April in honor of my husband’s 60th birthday.  But its summer & we wanted to do something for our 24th anniversary so we picked Sturbridge Village.  About 3 1/2 hours from home, but home to a living museum–1830′s America.  As always my camera was at hand & photo ops happened.  Here is the first one.  For $3 a person you can ride a stagecoach!  Great time but very bumpy ride.

Make it whimsical

Sometimes photography is just fun. Like seeing something unexpected. When I snapped this photo I thought is just was an orange parasail. Then when I downloaded it later I saw a HUGE happy face. Place: Lake George NY

Butterflies

This was amazing. Saw tons of these little butterflies at Texas Falls Park in Vermont