We Love A Party

We Love a Party
Photo-A-Day #1604

Tonight my cousin Josh married his love Megan. They threw a great party filled with moments of touching sentiment as well as pure excitement and fun. You could see in the eyes of Josh and Megan that they are so in love.

It was great and almost everyone from the family was there too. Because each of my Dad’s seven sisters were there we got a family photo with Dad, his sisters and my grandparents.

Dad's Family

And I realized that we didn’t have a photo of all three Andrew Bennetts and their wives so we got a photo of the three “Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Bennett(s)”

The 3 Mr. & Mrs Andrew Bennetts

And also I like to make sure that we get a photo of the three Andrews together as well.

3 Generations

The ceremony was a very nice one. You could tell that Josh and Megan were having a good time all night long. They both had wonderful genuine smiles all evening. they were having fun and enjoying their night.

My cousin Matt, Josh’s oldest brother was the best man and he gave a fitting and moving Best Man speech that put tears in many eyes. There was a heavy cowboy theme going on during the night as well, with the cowboy hats for the groomsmen and the references to Johnny Cash, we were ready to kick up the night. And knowing this family, well the title of this post says it all, “We Love A Party.

I posted my photos from the other night. I don’t have captions or descriptions yet but feel free to visit and comment. Josh and Megan’s Wedding Gallery.

Under-Promise and Over-Deliver

Under-Promise & Over-Deliver
Photo-a-Day #1603

When I used to work in implementation and as a Marketing Support Rep I always remembered the concept of “Under-Promise & Over-Deliver”. So what this means is if you can complete a task in an hour and you know it will take an hour you say that the task could take you up to 4 hours you “Under-Promise”. The person that you are working with expects that the job will take four house. Then when you turn around and complete that task in the one hour time frame you have “Over-Delivered”. The person who was expecting a four hour turn around time now has a what they want in one hour. You have one very satisfied and impressed customer.

I guess that I do this a lot. Partially because I do tend to downplay my abilities. When someone asks me if I can take a good photo I usually say that “I’ve been known to take a few.” When they get the photos that I take they are sometimes impressed.

Today I was at work and I was futzing around with my computer because it suddenly stopped doing anything useful. I had the conficker virus on it and I had to run a number of scans. After that I ran AdAware and Spybot Search and Destroy. Both times the searches kicked up trojans and other viruses. So I spent much of the day reading Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. I got to Chapter 5 and hope to finish this weekend. I’m really enjoying the book thus far. Some great ideas, some stuff I knew and I already do but other things that I am learning.

I get a phone call later in the afternoon from a co-worker. She asks me if I have a camera. Do I have a camera? I’m usually packing at least 3 of them including but not limited to my Nikon D80, my Canon SD800is and my Flip Mino HD. She told me that the president of the company and many of the top folks were having lunch with top people from a local college and alumni from the college that work at my company. Could I come down and take some photos. Sure. I love being able to do something that I enjoy and I have fairly decent proficiency in while I am at work. I attached the external flash unit and went downstairs to take a bunch of candids while everyone was eating and then some group shots after lunch.

Photographing people candidly is hard! I’m not exactly a people photographer. I need to do this more often to improve my skills. The really tough thing was that everyone was eating and I like to take good photos of people so I wait until people are not eating and take shots. I hope they came out okay. When the V.P. thanked me for taking photos I said, “No problem but this is tricky, I usually just shoot flowers, they don’t move as much.” It got the appropriate laugh and I think she will be pleased when she sees the final outcome of photos.

What can you over-deliver on? What task can you do well and quickly but others think will take a long time?