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Monday, July 12, 2010

The List is Growing... and I am LOVIN IT!

You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and our blog... Each logo will take you to the respective sites...





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You can also find us a featured advertiser on and in The Grand Strand Bride Magazine...







If you want to read what VisitSouth.com and Southern Pirates have to say about us...










For the greatest compliment of all is that we are a 5 Star rated photographer on Yahoo Local and we are also second highest ranked. Please check it out...






Thanks,
August

August T. Michel Photography
"We specialize in the Extraordinary!"
www.AugustTMichelPhotography.com

Updated My Client Feedback Page... and...

I was pleasantly surprised! I am second ranked on Yahoo Local and full 5 Star Rating with them. Here are the links for each page...




http://www.augusttmichelphotography.com/Other/Client-Feedback

I promise to keep up the great work and I am looking forward to many more of your comments!

Thanks,
August

August T. Michel Photography
"We specialize in the Extraordinary!"
www.AugustTMichelPhotography.com

Monday, July 5, 2010

Destination Wedding Photographer offering services for FREE this winter!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have a few dates open this winter and I am looking to book a limited number of Destination Weddings for FREE! There are no strings attached less for simply covering my travel expenses. If you are interested, please contact me through my website. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thanks,
August

August T. Michel Photography
"We specialize in the Extraordinary!"
www.AugustTMichelPhotography.com

CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO VISIT OUR WEBSITE






Saturday, July 3, 2010

Gulf Oil Spill Helping This Photographer

You know I never thought much about it, until I heard that Myrtle Beach has had some tourism increases due to the oil hitting some beaches in the Gulf. I really wondered how much that would help my business given that I am taking family beach photos here in the Myrtle Beach area.

Guess what? It was 2 weeks ago, when a call came in, it was a mom worried that her call was too last minute. I happened to have an opening and alls well that ends well.

During that photo shoot I was just being me, chit chatting, asking questions and they mentioned their vacation was scheduled for the Gulf this summer. Their particular location had some oil on the beaches so the rescheduled for Myrtle Beach. Looked on Yahoo Local for a photographer and that's where they found me.

So, the gulf oil spill has not been a black gold mine for me, but I can certainly say I have at least on customer that I did not have because of it. I think it is pretty interesting how all of these things come about.

Here are a few samples from that photo shoot... and click on any photo to see thousands of others.






Thanks,
August

August T. Michel Photography
"We specialize in the Extraordinary!"
www.AugustTMichelPhotography.com

Friday, July 2, 2010

Our Ad in the Grand Strand Bride Magazine

It's interesting to me how you develop friendships and working relationships with customers. I responded to an ad on Craigslist for folks looking for a wedding photographer. I replied and low and behold, we met to do an engagement shoot. It was a pretty chilly day, but they were SOLD on my photography. Heck I was even pretty impressed with some of the shots we got that day.

Just an FYI, I am building to a specific series of points.

When talking with this couple I find that he does a lot of work with web design and knows quite a bit about photoshop. At their wedding there is a woman there who is in dance classes with this couple and she is handling the video for the wedding. She turns out to be impressed enough with my work that she refers me to a friends, brother who is getting married. I do an engagement shoot with this new couple and get hired for their wedding.

Now, in and among all of this I take a leap of faith and offer my services for free for this cooking show called Taste!. At this show I meet a woman whom is later going to end up working with me in a sales and marketing capacity because she really likes me as a person and LOVES my photography. This woman happens to be best friends with the mother of the gentleman whom I referred to in the beginning that does web design.

I have some younger friends back north who were going to handle my ad for the Grand Strand Bridal Magazine and through circumstances, time lines were not met and I called upon this web design gentleman. The ad you are going to see below is his work. His name is Spike Cohen and even though he did not design my current website, I am looking for him to do some serious redesign on my site. He did a PHENOMENAL job on my ad and I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for graphic design or web related work done!

Here it is...


If you want to see a really cute blog they have and some of my photography, then stop by and visit them on http://www.spikelovestasha.com/ For a link to his web design company, then here it is... http://www.myrtlebeachwebsitedesigner.com/

Oh and here is one of my favorite photos from their wedding.