To start off

We are starting the blog here at Champion Photo because... well because everyone else has one, 

The real reason is, I've started following a few blogs myself and while doing so came to realize that this would be a great way of sharing information with our customers.

I have a few ideas for content, 

1. After every event, as soon as possible I go through all of the images and flag my favorites, these are the ones that end up on the slide shows that you see. I'm going to include one of our favorite images from a recent event on most of the posts and call it "From the Favorites."
2. Tips, I thought this would be interesting to some, there are an infinite amount of photography tips on the web, no doubt, the uniqueness would be that the tips contained here would mainly be relative and geared towards our content. Examples would be a bunch of tips on dealing with the "No Flash" rule during gymnastics events.
3. Questions and suggestions, I thought this would be a good place to open up for questions for us like "why do you always shoot beam at Tri-Star?" and suggestions like "how about shooting something other than beam at Tri-Star."
4. I'm also hoping this will be a good place for marketing, possibly mentioning products or services that you may not be familiar with or announcing new things as they come along. A perfect example of this is the multi photo collage prints that we have started getting very busy with. We always did them, but never really marketed them until recently, and the comment that we keep hearing is "OH I didn't know you did these," this would be our fault for not letting you know we did them.
5. We're also kicking around ideas of little contests, like, if your gymnast is featured here in the blog as one of our favorites, and you send us an email saying "My gymnast's photo was the From the Favorites this week." we'll send you a 5 x 7 of the image. ←so keep that in mind.

"From the Favorites"

So, heres the first "From the Favorites", let me start off by saying that picking a favorite from images that I have shot is always a process that takes too long. For this one I gave myself guidelines, and it helped. The guideline for picking this image was, pick a shot from bars. We shot bars at sectional #1 this spring during warm up and came up with a lot of great images.

If this is your gymnast, send us an email saying "Hey my gymnast was the From the Favorites picture this week, and we'll send you a 5x7 of the image.

Let us know what you think by commenting, and suggesting here. If there is something you think would make a good addition to the blog please tell us.