Another new painting

Another new painting, originally uploaded by Steve Goldhaber.

Quote of the day

I'm usually always focused on listening to what the customer wants, but I really like this quote. It makes me re-think my approach...


"If I listened to what my customers wanted, they'd ask for a faster horse"

- Henry Ford

New artwork

New artwork, originally uploaded by Steve Goldhaber.

Charity Event Last Night

Last night I photographed a charity event at Cafe Brauer which was for The Auxillary board of Lincoln Park Zoo. What exactly is the Auxillary Board? Funny you should ask... the Auxiliary board supports the Lincoln Park Zoo through personal donations and creative fund raising events that range from creative black-tie galas to community service and special events.

Special thanks goes out to the talented Erin Dahl for pulling off another fun event. Erin and I worked with each other last year for a wedding at Park Newberry. She's awesome!

By the way. Did you know this is the year of the frog?

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True wedding story?

This story has been going around the intranet, and I think it was even mentioned on Jay Leno recently. I don't know if it's true, but I thought I would share it either way...

You got to love this guy... This is a true story about a recent wedding that took place at Clemson University . It was in the local newspaper and even Jay Leno mentioned it.

It was a huge wedding with about 300 guests. After the wedding, at the reception, the groom got up on stage with a microphone to talk to the crowd. He said he wanted to thank everyone for coming, many from long distances, to support them
at their wedding.

He especially wanted to thank the bride's and his family and to thank his new father-in-law for providing such a lavish reception. As a token of his deep appreciation he said he wanted to give everyone a special gift just from him. So taped to the bottom of everyone's chair, including the wedding party was an envelope. He said this was his gift to everyone, and asked them to open their envelope

Inside each manila envelope was an 8x10 glossy of his bride having sex with the best man. The groom had gotten suspicious of them weeks earlier and had hired a private detective to tail them. After just standing there, just watching the guests' reactions for a couple of minutes, he turned to the best man and said, 'F---you!' Then he turned to his bride and said, 'F--- you!'Then he turned to the dumbfounded crowd and said, 'I'm outta here.'

He had the marriage annulled first thing in the morning. While most people would have canceled the wedding immediately after finding out about the affair, this guy goes through with the charade, as if nothing were wrong.

His revenge--making the bride's parents pay over $32,000 for a 300-guest wedding and reception, and best of all, trashing the bride's and best man's reputations in front of 300 friends and family members.

This guy has balls the size of church bells.

There's hope...

I'm not sure about you, but this is the time of year I start getting a case of the winter blues. It's been snowing and cold for the last couple weeks and I'm starting to think that I've back living in Minneapolis. But wait.... there's hope for all of us who live in Chicago. Check out this average temperature chart. According to this, it's going to start warming up soon. Hang in there.

Purdue Basketball Game

My brother and I decided to go to the Purdue game on a whim this morning. They were playing at Northwestern, so it was close and last minute tickets are really easy to get. We walked in about 15 minutes before the game and got two seats. They were towards the back of the stadium, but with the stadium being pretty small, they weren't that bad. The 1st half was pretty close, but Purdue picked it up in the second half and won. I'm surprised that Purdue is doing so well this year. They will most likely win the big ten this year. GO BOILERS!

Here are a couple shots I took at the game. It's hard to believe that we were in row NN. I love my 70-200 zoom lens! You can get really close in when you need to.

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photo.jpg, originally uploaded by Steve Goldhaber.

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We're at the u2 3d concert at navy pier. Rock on!!!

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photo.jpg, originally uploaded by Steve Goldhaber.

Happy Birthday Joshua Goldhaber

Earlier today we went over to Joshua's house for his 2nd birthday party. It's amazing to see how fast he's grown up in just over a year. I think it's fair to say that Josh now has the largest collection of Thomas the Train engines and accessories in all of Cook County. Here's a slideshow from the party...


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Here are some sample pictures I took yesterday. I'm really impressed with the camera so far. I'm amazed at how fast it is!

Kicking it up to the next level

Ladies and Gentlemen... let me introduce you to the Canon Mark III. I bought this camera a couple days ago and it just arrived today. I've been playing around with the camera a little bit and I'm pretty amazed at what it can. It can shoot 10 frames per second. That's crazy! I'm going to take some shots this weekend, and I'll post some of the pictures on the blog later on

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photo.jpg, originally uploaded by Steve Goldhaber.

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photo.jpg, originally uploaded by Steve Goldhaber.

Wow. A foot of snow!

Wow. A foot of snow!, originally uploaded by Steve Goldhaber.

DAY 4

Today was more about meeting with clients and how to present information to them in an effective way. We had an afternoon shoot with a new model. When we jumped in the van to drive to the shoot, it started to rain and I wasn't really looking forward to it. But, it actually was more interesting to shoot, and the rain added to overall feel of the pictures. Most of the pictures you can't really even tell it was raining. I've included some of my favorite pictures below.

After the shoot, we went over to Mike's house to see his studio. We then stayed into the evening to watch a slideshow of highlights from all the photographers at the workshop. Mike's going to post it on his blog, so check it out in the next day or so.

And then, to top off the day, we played Texas hold em poker with about 12 people. And who would have guessed it... I won the whole thing! It was a really late game and we actually finished up around 2:15am.

The last 4 days have been an amazing experience and I am so thankful that Carolyn bought this for me. I really think it is going to change so many things about how I shoot and really take things up to the next level. I even feel that the pictures that I've taken in the past couple days have been that much better.

DAY 3

Today I had some one on one time with Mike where he reviewed my work and gave me a lot of shooting tips. I cannot say how impressed I am with Mike over the course of the workshop. He really has a genuine interest in teaching other photographers and wanting to help them take their work up to the next level.

In the evening, we went on a night shoot to mix things up a little bit. It was raining, so we decided to go to parking garage so we were partially covered. We had two different modeling couples to work with this time. Here are some of my favorite pictures...

DAY 2

Today was all about marketing. Mike walked us through the approach he's taken over the past 10 years. The shoot in the afternoon was with a bride and groom that had a destination wedding, but wanted to take some pictures in California (they weren't really happy with the pictures from their wedding day, which were taken from another photographer).

Here are some of my favorite shots...

DAY 1

Every day we spend time in the clasroom and then we go out on shoots.

The first day was an engagement session with Rosanna and Jerod. Here are some of my favorite pictures I took...

The Mike Colon Experience - 4 day workshop

The past week has been an unbelievable expeirence! Carolyn surprised with me with a wonderful present this past holiday. As you may know, Mike Colon has been a photographer I've followed for a while and I've been at his photography workshop for the past 4 days. The exerience has been great. I'm going to blogging about each day and posting some of the images I took. Stay tuned...