The St. Pamphile Adventure

I know I haven't posted much and I won't attempt to make any excuses but I did have time yesterday to get out and explore a beautiful wooded area in Maine that many of you might not know about; The North Maine Woods. It was a great day trek. If your interested in finding out more about this adventure, please click the link:   St. Pamphile Adventure - Off-Road trip - SpotAdventures

Until next time............................

Sunrise iPad Case from Zazzle.com

I decided to update our Pelletier Island Photo product line on Zazzle and just designed this great case for the Apple iPad. Check out our online store and see it. Just follow the link: Sunrise iPad Case from Zazzle.com

It's been awhile

Hi everybody,

I know it's been awhile since I last posted to the blog but I wanted to check in to let you know that I am still around. As my career always seems to get in the way of my photographic endeavours, I have not been able to keep my blog up to date.

Since my last post I have been jetting around the country for work (my real job) and I now find myself in the Big Easy until the end of the month. While I have been on the road (or in the air), I have been able to capture a multitude of images which I hope to publish to my website by the end of October. In the meantime I have published some of my rough edits to my facebook page. Feel free to check them out.

Until next time ............................

The Albert Mazo Collection

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last post but I have been busy traveling for work and just haven’t had the time to write anything.

With today’s post I would like to introduce readers to a new Gallery of images that I hope will bring a part of history to life.  The Albert Mazo Collection is a gallery of Black and White images taken during World War Two by Albert Mazo as he traveled through the China Burma India theatre of war with the US Army Air Corps.

Who was Albert Mazo you may ask?  He was my father and in my opinion, a talented photographer in his own right having learned the art of capturing images from my grandfather, Alfred Mazo.
Albert carried a camera with him wherever he went and that included when he went to war.  He captured his fellow soldiers as they went about daily life and of the people he met on the street as he traveled the war zone.  Each picture tells a story about a time that most of us have either forgotten or never heard of.

When my mother passed away in 2001, I inherited a large collection of images (prints,negative and slides) from both my father (Albert) and my grandfather (Alfred) which I have decided to share with the world.

The current images that I have posted to the gallery are print scans of people and places in India which were taken by Albert in 1942.  As I continue to scan prints and/or convert negatives to digital images, they will be posted to the gallery.

I hope you take the time to visit the Albert Mazo Collection on the Pelletier Island Photography website.
As always I encourage feedback on our image and blog postings.

Until next time ……….

The Reasons Why Photographers Charge What They Do!

Although photography is NOT the current source of my livelihood, I would like to move in that direction upon retirement from my current career (in a little over 2 years). In anticipation of that move, along with encouragement from family and friends I decided to test the waters a bit by creating the Pelletier Island Photography website. The site has been up and running now for awhile now. I have had thousands upon thousands of hits on my website. People (“fans”) have told me they love my images. Yet, I have not sold one image. Why is that?

I decided to look for an answer. I was reading the Martin McElligott Blog this morning about why Professional Photographers charge what they do and found it. The answer was in front of me the whole time.
The reason I haven’t sold anything yet is because of a lack of education. Many people think I just snap a photo and throw it up on my website with a price tag. They don’t realize what goes on “behind the scenes”.

I have rewritten and rearranged some of the reasons from Martins blog and listed them below in attempt to illustrate to my “fans” why I charge for my images.

1. I have the knowledge and the skill to make images look the best they can.

2. I don’t just snap a picture, I create an image . I understand positioning. I understand lighting. I understand placement. You’re not just paying for the ability to place a finger on the trigger and snap a picture. You’re paying for the experience it took to create the perfect image.

3. I spend hours producing one image. Time can include:

• Setting up for an event
• Drive time to and from an event
• Time for the actual photographing
• Processing the image
• Retouching the image
• Posting the images online
• Follow up work

Add it all up, and you can see why one image may include hours worth of work.

4. I have professional equipment. I didn’t just pick up a point-and-shoot from Wally World and declare myself a photographer. I have spent thousands of dollars getting camera bodies, lenses, flash equipment , tripods, light stands, etc…

Maybe this post will help but if it doesn’t at least I got the issue out in the open.

Until next time ……………………….

Blog Redesign

I am currently working on the redesign of the Pelletier Island Blog to be more oriented towards the photography aspect of my entrepreneurial interests.  The blog will be a work in progress as I try and find the right content to attract new followers and hopefully buyers of my images.

Please feel free to comment on any of my posts. Without feedback I will never be able to gauge what you, my friends in cyberspace are looking for.