Not to mention the consistency and reliability.
We photographed South Tama's Damon Whitebreast a week ago Thursday. And as most clients of our expect and understand, especially this time of year at the studio... their pictures aren't going to be ready the next day.
Usually not the day after that either. Or the day after that.
Our focus shifted several years ago in this Instagram-esque We-Wanna-See-It-Now world we live in, from getting it out FAST to working as hard as we can to crank out the best QUALITY we can... and lots of it.
Per usual we had plenty of other jobs already on the back burner ahead of Mr. Whitebreast when the week began. But that wasn't gonna stop his excited mama, Hattie, from checking... JUST in case.
Tuesday she called. Ready?
"Nope."
Wednesday?
"No again."
Thursday?
"Negative."
I was unaware of the calls until Thursday as my secretary informed me of Mrs. Whitebreast's anxiousness.
I didn't blame her... I'd be excited, too.
I asked my secretary, Jennifer... "Did you tell her I haven't even STARTED on Damon yet?"
Jen responded, "I've just told her that we'll call her when they are ready."
After three such instances, Friday rolled around and I manned the studio solo yesterday.
10 a.m. rolled around... the phone rings. You guessed it. Hattie Whitebreast.
This time our super excited senior mom got a little more of an explanation and to her credit, she totally understood. The good news is that I finally started on the artwork that you see below here, and fortunately the light could be seen at the end of the tunnel.
She was pumped to see images of her son with his trusty "best friend" Toby the 17 year old lab/terrier mix. She couldn't wait to see his football/basketball college. She was stoked to see the images paying respect to his Native American heritage. Add in some fun shots with his main squeeze Kiley and a slew of other ideas, and you get the picture. There was a lot to be excited about.
I had to get Hattie up to speed with how our system works here at Stewart Photography to ease her mind a bit. There were already several images up on our core website at stewartphotography.net... and our world famous blog was forthcoming in short order. All perfect barometers as to where a senior's progress stands as they work their way through our system.
So here we are... the blog is nearly ready to be dropped. The much awaited images are complete and his book is ready. I assured Hattie that I had been getting up at 4 a.m. every day all week to get to this point, and she thanked me for my efforts.
At long last, her Nanaki (Meskwaki pronounciation "None-a-gee") was complete and her wait to see her son's images (at least the one's on the blog) was over. At 6-foot-3, 230 pounds, I had my work cut out for me to make the images be as big as this fella's stature and wonderful personality. I hope it was worth the wait! Rest assured, that phone call from Jennifer will finally come on our next business day which is Tuesday! In the meantime... enjoy Damon's blog! :)
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