I wanted to share one of my latest holiday card projects with you. I shot this Monday and delivered the printed card’s Thursday, thats just how we do things here. I love shooting stuff like this, it’s so fun and creative. You may remember this families card last year, if not click here.

Enjoy-
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Here is what the front looked like.

The inside top, all kids names and ages.

The inside bottom, every year “Papa” dresses up as Santa.

The back, how could I not ask these kids to throw the dough?

For 25 years Albany Medical Center Foundation has been raising money for their children’s hospital with an event named Dancing in the Woods. This event always takes place the first Friday of December every year since 1983. Joe Elario Photography has been part of this event since the beginning. Four years ago big Joe shot his last one passing the baton off to me. For the last three years I’ve been shooting this party full swing with my own crew assisting me, however I’m no stranger to this event I think maybe one of the first times I helped out I was maybe 12 or 13 years old.

The theme of the party has always been pine trees and snow so I thought for the 25th I would go that direction only with an Elario twist. I setup a little studio and photograph couples all night long. It’s kind of like an adult prom photo but not posed corny. Usually the same people come up and get their picture taken every year and joke with me that they get to see themselves age. It’s a tradition to these partygoers to come by and smile for me. There are always new faces year after year as well. I’ve always enjoyed this shooting this event and thank everyone for coming to see me.

Anyway I shot a little time lapse for fun of Kris Ann & myself setting up my set this year. Thought it would be fun to share on the blog. I’m constantly thinking of things to blog. As I said I wanted to put an Elario twist on it so I got this sweet red seamless paper and used my wrap around lightning style just to give it a little edge. You’ll see the whole thing come together in under two minutes in the video below along with a few shots for fun, I just can’t stand blogging without showing something visual.

Also check back this week for the wedding we shot on Saturday-
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dancing in the woods time lapse from joe elario photography on Vimeo.

Kris Ann & myself posing a little bit.

Christina Primero is no stranger to this event either. Thanks for helping out.

When Kristina from Cameo Couture contacted me about doing another shoot for some new accessories they needed photographed I was excited. I always enjoy photographing their stuff. So we shot last Monday and I had the pleasure of photographing Mariah again. You might remember Mariah from this post. She’s slowly becoming the face of Cameo Couture. Of course this shoot would not have been possible with out the talents of Alayne Curtiss, owner of Make Me Fabulous. Alayne always kicks butt.

Enjoy, check back this week for more updates-
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Look at Mariah killin it here…

Such a beautiful smile.

I thought I would share some moving images with you today. On our way to do portraits in downtown Albany I noticed my father had his Canon G7 with him so we decided to snap some quick and dirty video shots while I photographed Melissa & Tim. Now we’re not videographers of any kind so don’t grade us on the “off the hip” point and shoot video. Just something fun for Monday, check back later in the week for their official blog.

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