Posts Tagged ‘Families’

We are on a production kick here at the studio and we are turning out album designs like crazy. Truthfully we are running about a month behind right now and we are looking to get caught up next week. So. Get ready for a few days of posts containing our newest album designs! Today I [...]

Katy and Joshua have been fabulous clients, and they are so easy for me to work with. Love em! Their engagement session was taken behind The Wortham Center downtown and some surrounding areas. I hope you enjoy them as much as they do. Shadows galore in this session due to the time of day, which [...]

Courtney and Jason were the lucky winners! I can’t begin to tell you how many frantic inquiries I received over the past few months from couples wanting to reserve my services for their wedding on 7/7/7. I’d like to think that it had something to do with the quality of my work, but I know [...]

For some time now I have been toying with the idea of starting a senior portrait division. For those of you out there that don’t know, high school seniors have their portrait taken to remember a time of transition in their lives. There are really two things that are appealing to me about senior portraits. [...]

What a day! I love Bridal Portraits. I really am given the time to be creative and not be rushed, and when you combine that with a beautiful bride and a beautiful location, well you just can’t go wrong. Vivian and Paul will be getting married at The Corinthian later this month, and absolutely magical [...]

Well, I have been absolutely swamped! A good customer came back to us last week wanting me to create an image of her for her husband. We got the session done and she came in to look at her images today and she loved them! While the images are for her husband, I still wanted [...]

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 [...]

What will be on display at the entrance of your reception? If you have been deciding between an engagement session or a bridal session, then I would suggest an engagement session. This will give you both time in front of the camera before the wedding day, along with giving both of you and your family [...]

Here are a few images from a recent event. Thank goodness I make it a point to show up to my events 1.5 hours before they begin, I got held up in some serious traffic, but I still had an hour to spare. Enjoy. Aric C. Hoek – The Master of Shadows Solaris Studios 713-524-3303 [...]

Laughter and snickering is normally the first response I get when I tell my perspective clients that we offer professional photography during their honeymoon. The laughing suddenly subsides once they have seen the images though. Aric C. Hoek – The Master of Shadows Solaris Studios 713-524-3303 Use the Subscribe Me button to make sure you [...]

It is important that I surround myself with good people as my business grows. Liz Bandy is the latest example of that rule. As the popularity of the studio grows, so do the number of wedding inquiries. Keeping as busy as I do, I find that I must refer out many inquiries as I am [...]

Normally the images I like to display online are dramatic and moody. But today I will be giving you a bit more fun. There is still some drama at the brides house, and at the church during the ceremony, but mostly the entire day of shooting was one long party. Enjoy. Aric C. Hoek – [...]

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 [...]

As a member of the Professional Photographers Guild of Houston I am very up to date on what’s happening in Houston’s photographic industry, and I just received an email sent out to the entire organization from one of it’s members containing a warning that all of my future wedding clients need to read. If you [...]

I wanted to share some behind the scenes shots from the trip in Banff. Brandon sent me some images that Cameron took of me while I was photographing Christy and Nathan last weekend. Aric C. Hoek – The Master of Shadows Solaris Studios 713-524-3303 Use the Subscribe Me button to make sure you never miss [...]

Now, I am no Rembrant. One characteristic that I like in his work is of course his use of light. When you look at a Rembrant, you know there is a light source just outside of the image, but you are not allowed to see it. Aric C. Hoek – The Master of Shadows Solaris [...]

The votes are in and two of my four entries scored high enough to earn merits! The two images that scored the highest were Heaven on Earth (the trees) and Kiss Me Here, Kiss Me Now (Paris). I can guess why the remaining two images did not score as well. If you have ever taken [...]

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 [...]

Well, this was a first for me. I am sitting here going through my phone messages that have pilled up since I have been away for the PPA convention, and I come across a really strange phone number. 000-001-2345. I of course think it is going to be a solicitation. It turns out that it [...]