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April 26 - 2019

The Importance of Official Team Photos.

Why official sports pictures are so important! It’s league picture day! This is the time when your young athlete has his official picture taken, by himself and also with his/her team. League picture day is a tradition that goes ...

April 26 - 2019

Prom Pictures Today. Family Heirlooms down the road.

Why Professional Prom Pictures Stand the Test of time (and turn into treasured family heirlooms) High School Proms have been a tradition for generations. Professional prom photographs have been a tradition forever, also. Nowadays, ...

January 24 - 2019

It's Head Shot Season

With the New Year comes New Year's resolutions. A lot of people do it, myself included. It's a good way to organize the improvements that you'd like to make in your life in the coming year.One resolution that you might want to consider ...

October 16 - 2018

Class Reunion Photos

Class Reunion Photos in the Poconos Reunions are a tradition for many people. Be it high school, college, military, family, or any other groups. If you’ve bonded with a group of people who have all moved on ...

July 20 - 2018

Photography for me

Personal work… I don’t write about my personal work much, but I’m going to talk about it today. I’ve been passionate about photography for 40+ years now. My love of photography started at Stroudsburg High ...

May 3 - 2018

Now, for Something Completely Different!

Having a professional photography studio certainly brings in interesting clients. Our bread and butter is youth sports photography, senior pictures, and professional business portraits. But the professional business portrait that we shot ...

February 17 - 2018

That was easier than I thought it would be

A lot of people are anxious about having their portraits made. A part of that comes from past experiences with photographers. Another part of that is people tend to focus on their physical flaws, either real or perceived, instead of their ...

January 29 - 2018

Volleyball pictures in Stroudsburg Studio

Recently we took volleyball pictures at our studio in Stroudsburg! Not actual game pictures because we don't have a volleyball court in our studio. But pretty cool action photos that will be used to make an incredible sports composite to ...

January 25 - 2018

Shawnee Business Portrait

We had the pleasure of photographing Sandy this morning! Sandy is the Operations Manager at Wyndham Shawnee Village. She needed a business portrait in a hurry for a resume project that she was working on. So we fit her in bright ...

January 18 - 2018

Firebird Light Painting near Snydersville

I have a friend, Herman, who has a classic car. Herman is my age, more or less, and has had this Firebird since he was in high school. So that means that he has owned it for over 40 years. I asked Herman if he would be interested ...

January 4 - 2018

The Business of Business Portraits in the Poconos

Update... Since this blog was first posted the Dreher Agency added a new employee. Using the system discussed below we easily dropped the newest person into the composition without having all of the rest of the staff return to be ...

November 27 - 2017

Free Family Portraits for Poconos families that adopt.

Recently Jeff and I created some free family portraits for families that adopted kids. We ventured to the Wesleyan Church in Stroudsburg where the Monroe County Children and Youth Agency held an annual party celebrating adoptions that occurred ...