Brian's Blog

Latest Competition Results!

Brian C Idocks — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:31:21 +0000

This has been an exciting week!

In about a week and a half I will be attending the Florida Professional Photographers Convention in Orlando. Its a full week of print competition and education. In addition to individual competition among photographers, during this week there is also an Interguild Competition. Essentially, Each guild in the state (there's 12) competes against each other. Guilds choose 4 photographs from all their member's entries and they act as a team to get the highest score from a panel of judges.

I'm happy to announce that 2 of my prints were chosen to represent both the Bay Photographers Association and Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association. That means I have a one in six chance of winning! :) It's a real honor to be included in this.

Last night at Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association, we had our monthly competition as well. My Mom was in from Pennsylvania and she attended as my guest. I guess she's a good luck charm, here's the results:

Social Function Category -- First Place

Portrait Category -- First Place

Unclassified Category -- First and Second Place

I couldn't be happier. These results and the results from the earlier part of this year put me in a very good position to be named "Photographer of the Year", If this happens, that makes two years in a row! I'd be the second person to ever win this title more than once!

After checking the scores, it appears that I will better my score from last year as well. Last year was a record-setting score, so this is a grrrrrrreat year!

Thank you to all my customers and supporters, I really couldn't do any of this without you!

Christina & Richard

Brian C Idocks — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:09:21 +0000

Last night I photographed Christina & Richard's engagement session. We went down to Bayshore in Tampa and walked around and created some awesome photographs. Then we headed to Jackson's Bistro and used the entire area! This is such a great couple and we had a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to this wedding!

Jennie & Mike

Brian C Idocks — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:03:04 +0000

Here's a very special couple of photo shoots! Jennie & Mike are getting married in Richmond, Virginia next June and Melissa and I are photographing the wedding. They were in town last week and we did Jennie's Bridal Portraits and their Engagement Session. Wow, lots of photos! But.... these are very special to me because Jennie used to be my assistant! She moved to Richmond to pursue her own Wedding Photography business last year. Here's their sneak peek!

Jennifer & Paul's Wedding

Brian C Idocks — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:48:33 +0000

Jennifer and Paul were married on Saturday at The Kapok, damn I love shooting there! The grounds are just so incredible for photos! Jen is simply beautiful and they are one of the nicest easygoing couples I've had the pleasure to work with. While Melissa and I were there we got to see another of my previous couples, Caitlin & Garrett, and Caitlin is pregnant! Looks like some baby photos coming in three months?

Bonnie & Adam's Wedding

Brian C Idocks — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:35:10 +0000

This one was pretty special since Bonnie is a friend of mine. The wedding was at Safety Harbor Spa (YEAH!) and it was really beautiful. Sorry it took so long to get this ready, but if you read the post below, you'll understand!

Anyway, I think it was worth the wait!

Too Long since I updated the blog!

Brian C Idocks — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:20:34 +0000

Wow, it's been a couple of weeks since I wrote anything here. Well, I had a major computer issue and had to rebuild the entire setup. I'm happy to say not one photograph was lost thanks to good backups, but I did lose e-mails, so if you sent me a message and I didn't respond, that's why. Please send it again!

We had our monthly Tampa Area Professional Photographer's Association Meeting and Competition last week. I did pretty well:

1st and 2nd in Unclassified Category

2nd in Portrait Category

2nd in Social Function Category

As of right now, I'm in the lead for the prestigious "2008 Tampa Area Photographer of the Year". Those of you who come here a lot will know this would make it two years in a row! YEAH!

This past Monday was the Bay Professional Photographers Meeting and Competition. I received a FIRST PLACE! They only have First, Second and Third every month, no categories. I think I'm in the running for "2008 Bay Photographer of the Year" as well!

I'll be putting up a sneak peek of Bonnie and Adam's wedding really soon!

Lauren & Chase

Brian C Idocks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:44:00 +0000

On Saturday Melissa and I got to photograph Barbie and Ken's wedding! Well, their real names are Lauren & Chase, but they might as well be Barbie & Ken. I mean really, just look at them!

The ceremony was at Sacred Heart in Tampa, and the reception was at the Kapok. What an awesome place!

Jessica & Nick

Brian C Idocks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:39:14 +0000

Jessica & Nick's engagement session was interesting. It stormed about an hour before the shoot and I wasn't sure if it was gonna happen at all. We got really lucky and it cleared up just before we started. The session went great and they're an awesome couple to work with! I'm looking forward to their wedding!

It was bound to happen......

Brian C Idocks — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:33:59 +0000

I photograph a lot of weddings, so many that I see a lot of different things happening. One of those is not enough time to fully capture the story of the day. After a lot of thinking and nervous anticipation, I've decided to do away with time based packages. Instead, I'm offering full day coverage only. This still includes an engagement session and one other session of your choice, some Signature Reprints, a custom proof book, and of course the high resolution images on a disk, but now nobody has to watch a clock.

I've kept the album prices the same and you can still opt to purchase an album with your contract or not. There are some new sizes though and cover options as well.

Medium albums can be 7"x10", 10"x7" or 8"x8"

Large albums can be 9"x12", 12"x9", or 10"x10"

Extral Large albums can be 11"x15", 15"x11", or 12"x12"

There are now, in addition to the 50 cover choices already, new cover styles. These include full photographic wrap covers, acrylic photographic covers, and metallic photographic covers.

I've also updated my Reprint Collections with full descriptions and samples. There's some pretty cool collections for reprints now.

Whew! That's enough change for one day!

Matt & Erin's Engagement Session

Brian C Idocks — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:15:56 +0000

Yet another hot engagement session this week! Matt & Erin are so good together. Erin was really cute, she was afraid of the things I would have them doing during the shoot, but you can't tell at all!