Wonderful Brockit clients – thank you so much for your business, your friendship, your support, patience, and loyalty! Without you, we’d just stand around taking pictures of ourselves! With you, we push ourselves artistically and technically to provide the best imagery of you, your families, your businesses, and your art. Thank you to our hard-working crew of photographers, office staff, models, interns, and gear sherpas that make it all happen. A sincere Happy Holidays!
If you know us well, we’re all about gloss & glam photos for clients, but you also know that we are passionate about the community and spend a lot of time in and out of the studio helping with foundations, benefits, and fundraisers all for the greater good. Shooting for the Keweenaw Family Resource Center and their fundraising efforts for a children’s indoor, winter park (to be called the Treehouse) was a pleasure for us. Read more about their efforts, the event, and the park here. Its a great cause!
Families can select the link below for galleries of candid and semi-candid shots. Digital downloads and physical prints can be ordered easily and immediately, with a percentage going back to help KFRC’s efforts with the winter park.
http://brockit.smugmug.com/Clients/kfrc
Special thanks to Brockit intern Rebecca for covering the majority of the event!
Ah – the KBC… We have a great relationship with the folks at the Keweenaw Brewing Co. and have been working with Dick & Paul and their lovely wives for a while now. Oh – and lets not forget their awesome pig-tailed manager, Christine Young, who not only hooks us up with races like the legendary ChainDrive, but hosts a permanent Brockit photo gallery in the KBC – how cool is that?! Seriously, the brewery is a great place, full of ecclectic folks, and strong, tasty beer. My 6-year old Kora calls the couch & fireplace area the ‘living room’ which is either really good, or really bad… We are working on a couple projects for the KBC, a set of studio shots of their cans, as well as a play-by-play of the brewing process which will result in a series of large format prints for display in a local museum and eventually the KBC walls. Some studio highlights and details below. Free beer if you can guess whose arms these are…
arranging cans
a lone blonde has been liberated
simple and effective
art, or a crime?
A very beautiful wedding at Castle Farms in Charlevoix, MI. Larry and Alison did great at their engagement session, so we had no worries that they’d be a very photogenic couple. Add a location like Castle Farms, and pretty much all we had to do was point the camera in their general direction and hold the release down. Thanks so much to Kristi Bauer from Rogers City for assisting in Charlevoix. This part of the state is great – sand dunes, breakfast diners, cherries, and a nice breeze off of Lake Michigan.
Castle Farms has an interesting history: it was constructed in 1918 by Albert Loeb, who was the President of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and it was designed by Arthur Heun. Loeb built Castle Farms as a model farm to showcase livestock in addition to new farm equipment that was sold by his company. in 1927, the farm was closed and rented out for storage until 1965. It was then turned into an art studio by John Van Haver. In 1969, it was sold to Arthur and Erwina Reibel and was mainly used for rock concerts. If you were around at this time, you might vaguely remember acts like Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, or The Beach Boys. Its a crazy place for sure.
Many congrats to Larry and Alison – you guys had a beautiful day!
Check out their slideshow, or view some highlights below…
A reminder to add the Brockit Inc. page to your Facebook feed to keep up with events, requests for assistants / models, and of course – images of YOU!
Images are up!!! 2000 shots of swimmers, bikers, and runners – and all of you getting wet on all three events! As always – incredible athletes – very inspiring, and intimidating! Thanks to Terry and the race organization for inviting the crew at Brockit Inc. to serve in an official capacity again this year. Thanks also to studio manager Captain Meghan who organized the logistics of equipment and shooters for this event – on a day where we also had two teams covering weddings! This year’s Copperman was notable for the ‘rain event’ – whoa… I’m not sure where everyone was for this part of the race, but assistant Whitney and I took shelter under tree branches and Gore-Tex, sheltering gear for what can only be described as a torrential downpour while intern Emily jumped into the back of the timing trailer at the finish line. Again, you all are die-hards. Always so great to see some of our favorite athletes from Copper Harbor to California that come up for this event. Thanks also to Gowtham who joined the Brockit team for the weekend of shooting. Gallery here!
Also – check out the highlight slideshow, featuring 150 images of rock-star triathletes. Click on the image directly below… and again: the full gallery is here showcasing 2000 images from the race for purchase as digital or print.
