Archive for the ‘News!’ Category

For years, Apple has been wildly successful with their “I’m a Mac” campaign, but recently PC has been hitting back with their own version. However, would you believe that the PC ads were made on a Mac!!!

After 5 days, power is finally restored at my home! With any luck, the power is back on at day care, and at the studio as well.

Houston looks like it is on the edge of current projected landfall possibilities. I found this link which can keep you up to date on the storms current direction. Time will tell if I need to start rescheduling my meetings and shoots. Keep Safe. Aric Aric C. Hoek BFA, CPP Professional Photographer

Today I’m very excited about the launch of my new website! There are still some corrections to be made here and there, but I’ve been working on this for so long and I was just so close to completion that I couldn’t resist launching. I do want to give a shout out to the designers [...]

As of today, all new posts are being transferred to the following address. Of course you can just click on any link marked Blog on our site to take you to the new location as well. All of the posts found on this blog are currently being transfered, one by one to the new address. [...]

We had a massive hard drive failure here at the studio over the weekend due to an explosion, and production has been delayed. No images were lost. No weddings were lost. All back-up systems were in place and running at the time of the crash. Everything has been restored and production is starting again. First [...]

I hate it when I’m shopping online looking form information about a product, and I’m unable to find that information. My standard response to a site that does not provide me with the information I’m seeking is to just find another site that will! So, I have decided to Zig, while my competition Zags. Standard [...]

My good friends David Jones and Mitch Daniels and I have been off and on now for lunch at the Museum of Fine Arts. It’s something that we have been doing on Fridays for I guess the past three years now. We like to call it Fine Art Fridays. There have been times when others [...]

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It’s a long night for me. Just got home from a wedding and it is 12:55 am. Before I go to bed I have to get my images downloaded and backed up. My rechargeable camera and flash batteries need to be recharged as Liz and I have to be back at the studio at 11:30 [...]

Well, I haven’t made an entry in a few days as we have been really busy here. I think I have enough entries to do one a day now for about three weeks though. So let the writing begin! I figure it will be best to continue where I left off, and that is with [...]

Today was a 15 hour day. It started as a location shoot for a bridal magazine for their cover. I really haven’t had the opportunity to really go through tem as of yet as I had another shoot this evening. After that I had an event to shoot for an Indian wedding. I am really [...]

I have been so busy as of late, which of course is a good thing. Today I am writing from a hole in the wall BBQ restaurant in Sugar Land. I am sitting here enjoying a nice sandwich as I am about an hour early for a Bridal session that is to take place down [...]

I am backing the studio after braving the ice storm in San Antonio which delayed my return by one day. There are over 30 messages on voice mail, and way to many emails to even comment on. So, if you have left a voice mail and are waiting on a response I will be getting [...]

Beth and I will be out of the studio starting today at 2pm until Wednesday morning. I am leaving to attend a continuing education conference and trade show in San Antonio hosted by the Professional Photographers of America. I go to multiple shows each year, but I always make a point of attending this particular [...]

What Is That? Is that light at the end of the tunnel? Not a problem, I’ll just snuff that right out. A quick review. Over the past two weeks Beth and I have successfully photographed our first 16 families! WOW! Not to mentinon two weddings. And according to my schedule, we have another 8 families [...]