The "A" list - best of KC

I almost forgot! Creative Video has been nominated for the Best Videographer in KC - The "A" List. It is kind of a neat thing, and I would love your vote!

it only takes a minute and it would be pretty cool to win! Click here to vote!

Thanks so much!
Maura

Busy September

I just keep waiting to see if things calm down. They don't. It has been a VERY busy month! It has been a GREAT month for us on a variety of levels and I am very excited about some great things coming up!

I will be getting the keys to my very own studio in a few days!!! As many of you know, I was sharing a space with a fellow photographer in the Crossroads for some time, and it was wonderful! It was just the push that I needed to realize that I couldn't continue doing all my work out of my home. I will miss the Crossroads and that vibrant art scene, but the benefits of having my own space to meet my clients in and will reflect my own work and style outweigh the cool-factor of the Crossroads. The new space is in Waldo, and I really think this part of town has its own special feel and organicness (is that a word?) that is exciting. Not to mention Waldo Pizza and 75th St. Brewery right around each corner. Oh, and McClane's Bakery! Those cupcakes! yummy. The place needs a little painting and some lovin, but we are ready to get messy, so bring it on! I will be meeting video clients there, there will be a photography studio for my growing baby/child photography work and we will proof those clients as well in the space. I will still office out of my home studio, but I think for now this is going to be good.

Another exciting thing this month is all the workshops I have gotten to attend and will be going to in a week! I had the opportunity to attend the One Light Workshop in KC last week and it was WONDERFUL!!! It was geared for photography, and I learned some great things for the portrait side, but light is very important in video as well and I can transfer so much of what we did to video. It was refreshing. I have a week at home and then off to another workshop in New Orleans the first week of October for some really intense video stuff. I hope to come back with some great new ideas and insight - more super8 stuff to come! 2009 will be a great year for Creative Video.

Now for some fun stuff - Sam and I recently got home from the best week IN THE BAHAMAS! Now, I am not a beachgoing kind of girl, WAY to white skinned for that! But turns out I loved it. We had a great time and I would highly recommend Atlantis to all honeymooners. This was a business trip for Sam, I sort of tagged along, but it WAS spectacular! Here are a few little pics.

I just had to include this one - we spent one day on a snorkeling trip/shark feeding extravaganza. That is a good sized shark he is wrestling with - many MANY more right behind it. After this wrestling match we geared up and went snorkeling. Yes, in the same area! Mabye not the most brilliant choice in the world, but I was somehow comforted that none of the guys/guides had any "shark scars" on them. :-) It was an amazing trip! Sorry, no video on this trip - I can ONLY imagine what the salt and sand would do to one of my cameras! YIKES.

More videos to come soon - I have been working HARD on my first HD edit - there are a few tricks to this HD thing, but I think we've gotten it figured out.

Carolyn & Gerard Short Film

Thanks Carolyn and Gerard for a beautiful day! This was a very fun wedding with some wonderfully personal details! Gerard's brother married them and they had two fellow family members who are priests officate as well. One of them I recognized from St. Gregory's in Oklahoma where my Dad attended high school and junior college. I grew up listening to WONDERFUL stories of St. Gregory's!

Gerard currently is an Offensive Lineman for Kansas State University, and Carolyn played on the Women's Basketball team for KSU and lead them to be the Big XII champions in 2008!

They had a beautiful ceremony in Bucyrus, KS and reception on the Basketball Court! It was perfect!!! As a KSU alumni, I enjoyed the all the purple and LOVED Carolyn's hightops!

This is a clip of their short film, something I will be offering with my new 09 packages. Let the video load for a minute before you watch it, it is a little longer and will play better if you give it time to load.
Untitled from creative video on Vimeo.

details:
ceremony - Holy Rosary Chruch, Wea, KS
reception - Holy Rosary
photographer - Paul Versluis
florist - Craig Sole
coordinator - Patti Gehring

super8 superman birthday boy!

Just a little fun with my kids! Cole's birthday party happened to be the same week that I got my new (old) super8 camera. So I had to play. Sad it took me 4 months to edit it. I would love to tell the story of Superman, next time I see you and don't have any kids around, remind me to tell you. It is very funny!

Happy birthday Superman Cole!


coles birthday 4 super8 from creative video on Vimeo.

something exciting

I can't disclose too much here - just excited!!!! More news to come - for those of you who haven't met my office partner, this is Ned on the door.