Archive for February, 2007

I had an engagement session in the studio today. This particular couple is actually already married, so I am not sure that you can actually call it an engagement session. They are having their official ceremony and reception later this year. Because the couple is already married they allowed me some freedom to create some [...]

John and Carrie booked me to photograph their wedding earlier in September of 06, and their wedding promises to be fabulous! It is my understanding that it is to take place in a Budda Temple. At any rate, they chose to have their engagement session done in the studio and their appointment was for last [...]

Every once and a while I get a request for something a bit different. Here are a few images from a session done in the studio of a subject in yoga poses. Enjoy. Aric C. Hoek – The Master of Shadows Solaris Studios 713-524-3303 Use the Subscribe Me button to make sure you never miss [...]

It’s Monday morning at 6am and I am excited to be in the studio already. When I leave my house this early in the morning, I get to the studio so much quicker and I am in a much better mood that if I had been fighting traffic all the way here. The trek only [...]

Brooke and her fiancé Mike booked me last July to photograph their wedding while they were living in Tucson. They have since moved to Houston and we finally got around to taking their engagement session outdoors. One problem with having a session outdoors is that there are rain delays. I think we had to reschedule [...]

As you may or may not have noticed, I have made a few basic changes to the Solaris Blog in an effort to clean it up and make it a bit more like the rest of our site. I hope you like the changes. I wanted to share a few images with you today of [...]

As a business owner you need statistics to make sound business decisions, like knowing whether or not current advertising is generating enough business to support the addition of a second full time photographer. Every time the phone rings at Solaris, Beth or myself take the time to record where the lead came from in an [...]

Well, something had to give…. And the blog was put on a side burner for a bit. Things got just a bit to busy around here. Let’s review. The first weekend in January was The Bridal Extravaganza. Over 6000 brides in two days. Wow! The Two weekends later I went to San Antonio for some [...]