Monthly Archives: January 2008

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Wedding day tip The First Dance

January 31, 2008 – 1:43 pm

Since we are in the off season, it’s a bit quite on the blog front, but I thought I would  share with you a wedding day tip.

Your wedding day is going to be filled with many beautiful and emotional moments that will make your wedding like nobody else’s. One of these precious moments is the first dance, so I have a wedding day tip for you.
Let it be about you and your husband, after all its your day, it’s your time to shine so don’t share the first dance. Instead have a second song for the bridal party, the parents and your guests to join in the festivities. Now here is why, the average song that is played during the first dance is a bit over 3 minutes, from a photography perspective this is the amount of time I have to capture all of my images that will make your first dance yours. Now if you cut the first dance in half and permit the bridal party, parents and guests to join in, the average amount of time I will have is a minute and a half to do this in, think about it 90 seconds. Again this is just a tip, I always do my best for my clients no matter how much time I have during any portion of the day. So what do you guys think?

Christos

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Huge turnout yesterday.

January 20, 2008 – 11:34 am

In my previous post I stated I will be heading on over to Saint Paul’s in Hempstead for the bone marrow testing for Michaella, and I did. Although we ended up getting there 30 minutes before it was over I was overwhelmed by the amount of people that were there. After speaking with one of the volunteers, she told me that it was packed the entire day with a constant stream of people coming in for testing of all ages. So naturally I had my camera with me and I grabbed this quick snapshot, nothing special but rather to illustrate the number of people participating 15 minutes prior to the end of the day.
Another testing site has been setup for January 22 from 2PM until 9PM at St. Catherine’s in Astoria. To verify the times and date call the church office at 718-728-1718. If you weren’t able to make it yesterday make an attempt to go on 1/22. Trust me the test is painless, and you will feel good about yourself when you leave. But most importantly just think if you are that one individual who is a match, what it will it mean to her and her family.

Christos

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Happy Birthday to my blog

January 14, 2008 – 8:00 am

Sing along now, Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear blog, happy birthday to you. It has been two years ago today I started blogging and what an interesting ride it has truly been. Now I have to wonder if my blog will be experiencing the terrible twos or not hmmmm.twos.GIFI would like to thank all my super cool clients for spreading the word about Christos and most of all my wife Helen for supporting me. Now with the blog turning 2 and 2008 looking like one awesome year you should be checking the blog with regularity just to see what the heck I’ve been up to. And hell you never know when I may plant an Easter egg in one of my posts like this one about to come. For all current clients if you tell me you actually read this stuff you will be getting an additional 100.00 print credit for free, that’s right nada, zilch as in free……. Oh yeah you have 24 hours starting now….. tick tock, tick tock, the clock is ticking.Take care folks and thanksChristos

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Help Save A Life

January 7, 2008 – 8:57 pm

Four year old Michaella, a Franklin Square resident, was diagnosed with MDS leukemia 2 months ago. This brave little girl needs a bone marrow transplant as soon as possible. Just a quick swab of your mouth and you may be the perfect match!

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This family is from the Cathedral of Saint Paul and at this time they are dealing with a situation that is a parent’s worst nightmare. Their youngest daughter Michaella (just turned four years old) was recently diagnosed with MDS Leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant as soon as possible. Her parents, siblings or relatives are not a match

therefore we need to find a candidate as soon as possible. As you can understand the expense through this ordeal is so great, that the family also needs our help with money. Please help save Michaella by getting tested. Just a swab of your inside cheek can determine if you’re a match. The procedure is a simple process of just giving blood.

Bone Marrow Testing

Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Paul Bone Marrow Testing

Saturday January 19th 2008

10:00AM to 5:00PM

110 Cathedral Avenue

Hempstead, NY 11050

Hellenic Room

Ages 18-59 Eligible

For further information please contact the church office at 516-483-5700.

Update an additional test site has been setup.Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

2:00 PM to 9:00 PM

St. Catherine’s Greek Orthodox Church ( School auditorium)

22-30 33rd Street, Astoria, NY

For further information

Please contact the Church office

718 728-1718

I will be there with my wife so let’s make this happen

Christos

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Elaine and Tom

January 6, 2008 – 3:00 pm

In closing off the last wedding of the 2007 season, I had the opportunity in shooting Elaine and Tom’s wedding. Now this wasn’t your usual huge Greek wedding but rather a smaller but yet extremely elegant affair. Now that we are 2008 my first wedding will be in February so until then i will share some specials moments from this years baptisms in the next couple of posts. Until then, keep it real.
Christos
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Happy New Year 2008 is here

January 1, 2008 – 8:01 am

Happy New Year everyone! 2007 has finally come to a close and I photographed my last wedding of the season this past weekend, all i can say is what a ride 2007 has been. Now with 2007 behind us it’s time to start looking into 2008, and what a year 2008 is shaping up to be thus far.   Now what is in store for 2008? New product offerings, cool brides, cool weddings and some great venues. To give you some additional information I’ll be taking on more portrait clients, hopefully and time permitting. Day after shoots, if you or someone that has recently been married wana go out and have some fun let’s schedule it, if you would like to receive additional information call me. And some more stuff that I wish not to make public yet. As for New Years resolutions let’s see.

  • Stop smoking
  • Lose some weight, you guys don’t make this that easy with those yummy desserts at your wedding
  • Spend more time with my kids and wife
  • Take a vacation
  • Capture the essence of your wedding
  • Give back more
  • New Blog design
  • Spreading the word.

I think that about does it. So I hope 2008 will be a great year for us all. Until next time. Christos 

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