MikeThePhotographer's BLOG

Wedding Photography at MikeThePhotographer.com

2008-11-13T06:37:00.004-05:00

MikeThePhotographer can compliment your wedding day and make you look fabulous!!!

Mike's Website Design Service - Just added VIDEO to a clients Website

2008-11-01T09:59:00.003-04:00

Mike The Photographer also designs and builds dynamic and successful websites for my clients.

Prime Shower Door, a manufacturer of shower doors on Long Island installs their own shower doors asked me to add video to their website - http://www.PrimeShowerDoor.com/.

With the downturn in the housing market, construction has slowed down and the Website has been a boon to their business!

They use it to promote themselves
To prove that they are a real manufacturer, right here in New York
Also it is a great assistant - their clients use it to choose products, for directions and hours to their showroom and warehouse.

Images backed up and placed in a Bank Safety Deposit Box.

2008-10-26T11:14:00.006-04:00

MikeThePhotographer.com ensures your images are in good, discreet, and safe hands!

All images are backed up and placed in a Bank Safety Deposit Box.

Latest quarterly backup: 10/16/08

2) Next scheduled for: 2/16/09

3) Followed by: 6/16/09

4) And later: 10/16/09

MikeThePhotographer photographs TOWER OF HOPE Gala Benefit on Wall Street in NY City

2008-05-06T19:13:00.007-04:00

Carmel Veterinarian Attends Tower of Hope Benefit

Photo Mike Shampanier

Dr. Brian Green, a veterinarian from Carmel, is pictured at last week's Tower of Hope event with Dr. Henry Kissinger, a guest. Dr. Kissinger's Foundation, the Henry Kissinger Foundation, supports the Tower of Hope, and his wife, Nancy Kissinger, was a co-chair.

Dr. Green has offered free routine veterinary care to any dog sponsored through the Tower of Hope, an organization that raises funds to train service animals to assist combat wounded veterans with single and double-amputee injuries, helping them live happier more independent lives.

MikeThePhotographer.com goes GREEN!

2008-04-30T10:05:00.005-04:00

Going GREEN makes sense and saves cents!

I've card about the environment since I was a kid - vegetarian in college, don't purchase gas from Exxon, etc. Now that GOING GREEN is fashionable, it is just that much easier to be effectively GREEN and live a sustainable lifestyle:

1) Our food is organic, seasonal and locally grown!!! We are now members of the GREEN THUMB CSA (Community Support Agriculture) in Watermill, NY. Not only are we eating healthy, but we are supporting a fifth generation Long Island farming family right on Montauk Highway in the Hamptons!

2) We are replacing light bulbs, toilets, etc. from EFI.org, Energy Federation Inc. This organization is was the nation's largest distributor of quality conservation products...and, is run by a consortium of energy companies!

3) Want to try going GREEN on the cheap? Duke Energy sells an energy saving kit for only $25 that includes halogen bulbs, low flow-high yield faucets, etc.

3) Our company is 100% digital, elminating photo processing chemicals of a wet darkroom.

4) Landscaping is organic and carbon reduced (manual mower).

Additional RESOURCES: http://www.niagaraconservation.com/ & http://www.energystar.gov/

More to come...

MikeThePhotographer.com

Major Site Updates

2008-03-22T11:49:00.001-04:00

Website Design Now Available!http://www.mikethephotographer.com/services_WebsiteDesign.html

Digital Photo Retouching section updated!http://www.mikethephotographer.com/services_PhotoRetouching.html

Let me build YOUR website! New client Website online now for Prime Shower Door, Inc.

2008-03-20T15:27:00.002-04:00

Prime Shower Door, a manufacturer of shower doors on Long Island, since 1957 hired me to build their website. Within three days the owner told me that the site looked better than half of their competition!

Check out their new site - http://www.primeshowerdoor.com

See other sites I've developed - http://www.mikethephotographer.com/WebsiteDesign.html

NEVER SEEN! - Inside Finley's Pub

2007-12-15T16:45:00.000-05:00

Images from this special blog post have never before been seen.

Finley's Pub

I just love the color, the dark, rich wood, and the composition is just fabulous.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK - California's Big Sur Coast

2007-12-10T16:31:00.000-05:00

Week 2

Last summer, my wife and I spent a week+ driving California's Big Sur coast on Highway 1, which hugs cliffs and mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Simply breathtaking!

Archive Images

2007-12-03T21:03:00.000-05:00

These archived images are from my high school days. Owe a big thank you to Mr. Jim Hall, my high-school photography teacher. It was he who suggested I attend RIT for photographic illustration.

I guess he could tell I had some talent . . . what do you think?

PHOTO OF THE WEEK - Chiropractor's Human Tree

2007-12-03T13:14:00.001-05:00

Week 1

Every week a new image will be presented.

This week's image is of a tree that look like it has the back, shoulders and arms of a muscular athlete.

Originally taken as a commissioned assignment for...a sports chiropractor!

Charcoal Drawing

2007-12-03T09:25:00.000-05:00

Photographer tries drawing...

July 2007 we spent our honeymoon in Aruba. The month following I took classes towards my Master's degree in Visual Arts Education at SUNY New Paltz.

Having little drawing experience, and in a roomful of non-photographer artists, I felt humbled, and motivated. My esteemed drawing professor Chris, a talented artist with amazing technical skills, prodded me to push the envelope and create a drawing of my very own, based on multiple references. After much praise from my fellow artists, and successes from previous drawings, I felt inspired!

The resulting charcoal drawing existed in my memory of our honeymoon beach, but moreso it doesn't necessarily exist, except on paper...

Autumn beauty

2007-11-19T09:28:00.000-05:00

The other day was rainy, windy & gray - however, - the afternoon cleared to a beautiful Autumn day.

I took this photo as I was impressed with the colors of the tree, the school building, American flag, the bricks and blue sky were a perfect combination...of America!

OR Corp. Logo Design

2007-10-01T20:34:00.000-04:00

Below are the logos I created for OR Corp., a sportsman club in upstate NY.

YES, I even do logo design - interested? Contact me.