#themcallenphotographer – February 2020 update
What have I been up to?
The question should be what haven’t we been doing.
Honestly it’s been really three things:
- Building websites here in McAllen – Yeah I was a web designer in a previous life and have been building websites since 1996-ish. I can’t remember EXACTLY when I started, but all I can say I kinda backed into the job as I had to do a marketing presentation for an advertising class.
Long story short I had an advertising class that required a group of us to build a marketing plan for a fictional company so we went with a web design theme as it was before the dot com bust and everything was going online. We’re talking about a time where yahoo was king and google was just being mentioned in the search engine community. Always the project went over so well and the professor loved it that she recommended us to do something together as a team on our own. I was the only one crazy enough to do it so off I went, and the rest is history. Now flash forward 20+ years and the world has changed so much. There are so many agencies trying to get your attention and hold it so they can look at what ever they’re selling or advocating for. Social media wasn’t even on anyone’s radar back then, heck even the place I graduated from has changed from UTPA to The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
- Shooting commercial photos – Part of what we do (I say we because there are other people helping me out behind the scenes) is make sure the images that you want on your website / print products match what the vision. We’ve crafted fun headshots all shot on location or the clients’s homes/offices to showcasing one of a kind products right in the warehouse. They never had to bring anything over to our studio here in Mission. I learned the hard way almost 20 years ago that it’s just easier if we go to you, we take the lights, backdrops, and of course the cameras,
- And the root of it all Video work (That’s where I started). With God’s grace we’ll start production work again on a huge 5 part series for a local boot company. I can’t say too much about it as we’re still finalizing the details but it’s going to be a lot of fun. What I LOVE about video is the creativity you can place onto a story. Every one has a story and it’s awesome that we live in a world where we can share more about what fuels us, our triumphs, and even the day to day details of what makes a great company.
And that’s really about it. I’ve never been much for blogging but I’m trying. It’s not going to be perfect and I’m trying my best as writing has never been one of my strong points. I read one of Dean Graziosi‘s books a while back and really hammered on how other people’s opinions were holding him back. He’s a great speaker but by his own words, he’s always had trouble putting his thoughts down onto paper for various reasons. But when he just tried it all changed for him. I figured why not. I’ve put this thing on the back burner too long and I’d like to share a little bit more of what I do and some of the great people I get to work with.
Here’s to a good year.