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As your wedding photographer, I will see all of the vendors you have chosen for your wedding. Or at least, I will see the products they have created to help make your event more personable and unique. For instance, I will see your wedding cake, but I may not see the individual who made the [...]

I’ve never been one for organization – that is until a Houston Professional Organizer, Susan Kluckman of It’s A Neat Addiction changed the way that I look at my office and my life company’s workflow. Susan Kluckman believes that everything should be neatly organized to affect your entire lifestyle. Recently, I hired It’s a Neat [...]

An amazing two day convention this December. Each speaker will speak for three hours! Purchase Your Tickets Here!

I just received a news flash from CNN that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple.  Now is a good time.  His health is fleeting, and he has made Apple one of the largest companies on the planet. I had to make a blog entry to remember the date. Thank you Steve. Aric C. [...]

After years of searching, and floating from one company to the next, I believe that I have finally found my Houston Bookkeeper for the years to come. Padgett Business Services. The owner of this particular location of Padgett is Bryan Brassell. He is highly professional, but very easy to get along with. One of the [...]

This is a charity event for the Berry Family started by the team at Copperfield Chilis managed by my wife, and I wanted to help spread the word.  Please share this with any of the social networking tools you find in this post to help it go viral.  Please leave a comment below.  Send people [...]

Aric C. Hoek BFA, CPP Professional Photographer

Our online photo shopping cart will be closed for about an hour as we install a large upgrade to better help serve our clients. Thank you. Aric C. Hoek BFA, CPP Professional Photographer

I love working on my company’s website. Today I cleaned up our home page, and have completely reconstructed the home page slide show. Please let me know what you think of the new slide show in the comment form below. Have a good one. Aric C. Hoek BFA, CPP Professional Photographer

I’m very excited about a project that I have been working on for some time now. Recently I traveld to photograph a client in New York. I created some fantastically stunning images, but on top of that my very good friend Mitch Daniels came with me. Mitch is to video, what I am to photography. [...]

There are many things that can make a wedding photographer popular.  The quality of their work of course plays a very important part, as can the price of their services. Whatever the reason, a wedding photographer’s time can become saturated rather quickly with reservations.  After all, there are only so many weekends in the year, [...]

The winner of our free monthly bridal session for the month of August is…….. Stefanie Kossegi! Congratulations Stefanie! Look for our email. Click here if you would like to enter in our next drawing for a free bridal session. Aric C. Hoek BFA, CPP Professional Photographer

For those of you who know me. you know that I am a bit on the ambitious side. I have started a new website called Ten Houston Wedding Photographers. It’s a resource for brides to locate ten great Houston wedding photographers on one page. No more hunting page after page on other sites listing hundreds [...]

Introducing our new Mini Location Child Portrait Sessions. Introducing our new Mini Location Child Portrait Sessions. Questions and Answers: How much is my session and DVD? $175. Add $25 for each additional subject. When is payment due? At the time of your session. What is on the DVD we receive? Your DVD will contain retouched [...]

Hi everyone.  My name is Ashley Esfandiari and I am an intern here at Solaris.  I’m excited to be working at Solaris, and I feel very fortunate to by learning as much as I am. Aric is helping to build my portfolio, so we need someone to model for us.  Preferably a bride in a [...]

One of my goals is to help other photographers, and one way I plan on doing this is by creating an additional 10 spots on the first page of Google through a website called Ten Houston Wedding Photographers.com Well, if only for a moment, the site was actually located on the first page of Google! [...]

I’ll be speaking for two hours on Tuesday of next week from 7-9pm to The Houston Photographic Society on how to transition from an amateur photographer to a professional photographer. It will be only a faction of what I will communicate in my all day workshop in April, but I promise everyone will walk away [...]

I have selected a date for my next in studio workshop. On April 2nd I will be holding an all day workshop here at the studio going over the business of wedding photography. If you are thinking of becoming a wedding photographer, you’ll want to stop what you are doing and sign up today as [...]

My mission statement is very simple and is composed of two parts. I want to help as many families as I can with my artwork, and I want to help as many photographers as I can with my knowledge. One challenge for many photographers today is to obtain a respectable ranking on many of the [...]

Straight from the middle-of-the-night keystrokes of Aric himself, Aric’s newsletters are full of thoughts and real world examples about photography and the business of photography from the point of view of Aric. No matter what the subject matter, there’s always a photographic tip or a new resource for you to discover. Aric’s newsletters are free [...]

We are proud to announce that Solaris has been rated by local brides and voted The Knot Best of Weddings 2008/2009 Pick. Please pick up a copy of The Knot Best of Weddings 2009 magazine and check our our listing. This is a back to back award for Solaris, both in 2008 and 2009, making [...]

Well I finished photographing the last of the 30 families yesterday, and I just want to say thanks to everyone! That was a bit of a large task. Many of you have already ordered your 8x10s and I hope they bring you years of enjoyment. I’ll be putting the rest of the images online as [...]

Below are the available times for members of The NWHMOM who had to cancel due to bad weather. Please leave a comment to schedule a time. The location has not changed and is still at Burnet Park on Telge. Saturday 4/11 9:00 am 9:30 am  The Terry Family 10:00 am  The Meyers Family 5:00 pm  [...]

Just to keep things straight, the following is a list of the families that have responded to, and are participating in The Northwest Houston Mothers of Multiples special. This special offer is limited to the first 30 families that respond. 1)  The Worster Family 2)  The Clynes Family (Studio) 3)  The Ciment Family   (Studio) 4)  [...]

So, I have a crazy idea, and I have sold my client on the idea.                   Her reception is at The Hotel Za Za in Houston, and we are going to create a once in a lifetime shot.  First Item: Two police motorcycle escort  Second Item: 1937 Rolys Royce Third Item: Red Carpet going from the [...]