KB Photo Around Memphis

I do a bunch of work during the year for the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. They're my charity of choice, and I never charge them for it. A real bummer is that I was checking with my tax guy and he says that I can't even deduct the work as a charitable deduction on my taxes. That sorta stinks, but whatever, I like the people there.

So the other day I was dropping by a disc of the latest images I had shot for them and take a look at what I saw on the front of the museum.

Look a little closer at the picture in the bottom right hand corner.

Oh, yeah, baby!

Published Again

Some more of my images have been published in an international magazine.

A few months ago I shot some images for a friend, who happens to own EgglestonWorks. Their newest speaker line, the Nine, received a glowing review in the April/May 2008 issue of The Absolute Sound. These things are freakin' beautiful (and they sound even better)! Too bad I can't afford them, 'cause they sure would look and sound good in my TV room. (Are you listening, Jim?)

The only bad part: they didn't give me a photo credit. Losers.

Payment Options

My usual policy with regard to payment is that 50% of the order total (before tax) is due as a retainer fee at the time a contract is signed. Recently I started offering a new payment option that is turning out to be much more popular than I anticipated. I set up a payment plan for those who want to pay for their package with a credit card. We can now divide the total cost of a package up into any number of automatic equal payments, on the first of each month. Here's an example:

If your wedding is on November 29, and you want to purchase our Modern Package, the total cost is $3168.25 (with tax). The Retainer Fee, if paid by a check would be $1450, due with the signed contract. The balance of $1718.25 would be due two weeks before the wedding date. Under the new optional payment plan, a credit card payment of only $288.02 would be due with the signed contract. Then each month on the 1st, between now and November, an additional payment of $288.02 would automatically be charged to your credit card.

This option is great for those who are on a tight budget, or for those who really just don't want to have to remember to make their final payment. Of course, we will gladly take full payment at any time, but I figured this would be a convenient option for our clients, and a number of them have already opted for it. Let me know what you think.

Preview Albums

Here's a cool new product we offer with some of our wedding packages that make it a little easier to see all of your proofs. Preview Albums!

How cool are these things? I think they look completely awesome. Since we shoot so many images at each wedding, in most cases you would actually end up getting TWO books, like Anna Mary & Chad did here. The books are 11 x 14 inches, printed on archival photographic paper, spiral-bound, with a frosted-clear cover.

We still give you Online Previews with these packages, but the preview albums make it so much easier to select images for your final prints and albums, plus you won't have to wait for the images to download online.

Tell me what you think about them.

Wedding Show Thanks!

Yesterday, Jordan and I attended the wedding show at the Agricenter in Memphis. This wasn't my first wedding show (not by a longshot), but it WAS a first for Kevin Barre Photography.

I spent literally every spare hour (and some not so spare) of the last two weeks getting ready for the show. I had to run through all of the weddings I've ever done and select just the best images. As you can imagine, this was no small feat. I settled on 1222 images (from over 37,000!) to put in my slideshow. I put together some music to go along with it and showed it all on a 60-inch HDTV screen at the show, which I feel was really well received. We actually had people comment to us about what a great marketing decision it was, instead of using "old-fashioned" albums. Who would have believed that, even a few years ago?

It was a bunch of work (I got only 90 min. of sleep the night before), but I think it will be worth it. My phone is ringing off the hook today, so if you are one of the ones I spoke to yesterday about a specific date, you may want to think about booking us soon, as many of the good Spring and Summer dates are being taken.

Also, to any of those who stopped by to chat and get some info, I had a really great time meeting with you all and look forward to working with many of you in the future. Keep checking back with my site. I'm going to do some serious gallery updating this week, so there will be MANY new photos on my site.

The coolest thing about the show was hearing from one of the other photographers who checked out my site today. He called just to do a little networking, and in the process said this: "Man, you have a really great eye for this, I mean you just SEE it."

I'm pretty much speechless.

Anyone up for Beach Photos?

I will be in Gulf Shores, Alabama next week to shoot some family beach portraits. If anyone will be in the area, and would like to arrange their own session for either Tuesday or Wednesday (July 31/August 1), let me know ASAP. I will work you into my schedule.

BTW--HUGE update coming soon. Stay tuned.

Kevin Barre Photography Version 3.0

Woohoo! It's been a long time in the making, but I went live today with version 3.0 of my web site, which includes my all-new super-deluxe now-we're-cookin'-with-gas logo. You can see it on the top of this page.

I've spent the majority of the last month on the upgrade, so the blog updates have kinda suffered. Rest assured, there are some big updates coming. We're back into wedding season and I have been shooting a ton, so keep checking back for updated images.