While there are some photographers selling these videos to their clients, right now what works for me is providing the videos as added-value to my clients at no cost to them and without them even asking about it.  It goes a long way to re-enforcing the positive relationship I have with my clients.

Here are a couple of videos I recently uploaded to my YouTube channel.  yes, I have my own YouTube channel – check out these specific videos and my channel out and let me know what you think.

Anyway, I’ll keep putting these videos together and further establish strong connections and relationship with my clients and I hope you do the same.       Enjoy

Sali and Aharon

Michael’s Pics

The love they have for each other is so easy to see in these images and they were a blast to work with.  To me, Sali and Aharon’s love for each other seems to jump out of these images.

I have known Sali and her family for many, many years and they are a wonderful family.  Aharon is a very intelligent and engaging young man and I look forward to meeting his family when they come down for the wedding.  I can’t wait for their wedding this June -we should have alot of fun taking some amazing and memorable wedding pictures.

Each year, a select group of customers are honored with the All Star Award which recognizes customers for achieving exemplary marketing results  Eric Kleiman Photography results ranked among the top 10% of Constant Contact’s customer base and we are thrilled.   How cool is that. 

The award is based on measured results from: frequency of campaigns, events and surveys, open, bounce and click-through rates, event registration and survey completion rates and use of social features and mailing list sign-up tools.  To read more details, check out the press release

I have been enjoying working with Constant Contact and getting this award makes me feel even better about my decision to utilize Constant Contact tools for my communication to my clients, supporters, partners, friends and family.  Thank you to Constant Contact as well as a big shout out to my clients and supporters who actually notice and read my emails and newsletters.

In addiiton, the fine folks I work with that designed my website at Vision Design Group in Minnesota were also a winner of the award.  Kudos to Jill, Bill and their entire team for all of their hard work, knowledge and creativity.

As I expand my business to shoot more weddings, it became very clear that this target audience spends alot of time on Facebook and if I want to let more young couple know of my service I need to do a better job with Facebook.

I have now re-designed my Facebook page for Eric Kleiman Photography.  As part of the re-design and the launch of the page, I am introducing a new feature….We want potential brides, grooms as well as people that have been married for awhile to share their stories of how they got engaged with us.  It will be fun to share unique, romantic and funny stories with people.

Facebook can be very successful for people as long as they stay engaged with their customers and potential clients, so what better way to stay “engaged” than to launch a feature to let people share their engagement story.

Kudos to the fine folks at Big Splash Web Design .  I met them at an HNN Networking event and decided to work with them on this project.  They were alot of fun to be around and I enjoyed the experience quite a bit.

I hope you like the new Facebook page.  Please share with us your story of how you got engaged, or at least share with us your impressions of the page.  Please share the link with your friends and lets see what kind of fun and unique stories they come up with.  Enjoy.

This past weekend was evidence of the passion I have for photography as I had an absolute blast photographing Rina and Leon’s wedding.  They are an amazing couple.  I had so much fun captuirng wonderful memories for them.  

Wedding photography is a growing part of my business and I am thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to capture memories for so many incredible couples.  Rina and Leon were the best – so nice, respectful, so in love and so passionate about their new life together.  Here is just a quick “snapshot” of a few images from Rina and Leon’s wedding. 

You know, the other reason I like shooting weddings…it reminds me how lucky I am to be married to my beautiful wife Amelia..for almost 23 years and counting………….

Just a few shots of Rina and Leon from their wedding

Here’s the background – This lovely husband and wife have one son they are of course very proud of and in their hallway at home they have a large portrait of the three of them.  The son recently got married and his wife has always kidded with them that the family portrait is missing her.  The comment was “the family portrait is wonderful, but where’s the cute blond?”  As soon as I heard that while talking to the mother I just started laughing.  It was a great line and of course what we did was re-create the family portrait pose exactly how they had it before, but now we have the “cute blonde” in the portrait.

The young couple are quite extraordinary if you ask me.  They are both firefighters and students, so their schedules are quite busy and finding time when everyone could be together for the portrait sitting in the parent’s house was not easy.  We wish them all the best with their careers and a long and happy life together. 

Just Hanging Around on the Fence

 I then headed north to Conroe for a very special and fun family portrait session.  A family had purchased a portrait package that I had donated to a charity auction that was organized through Associate Pastor, Robert Nuttal, a true hero to his family and friends who is now working with April Sound Church.  Anyway, this family was alot of fun to shoot and as you can see we included the family pets, the two dogs and the horse.  Alot of driving to get there, but worth it.  They were wonderful people to work with.

A beautiful mother and daughter

It’s no secret I love my job as a professional photographer.  I meet alot of very cool and fun people and have had the opportunity to be a part of a tremendous number of special occasions such as weddings, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, family portraits and other special events.  

Owen and a VIP table - okay, you got me, they were all VIP tables.

Two weeks ago was no exception as I was honored to have been the photographer selected to photograph a very special event.  It was the Celebrity Server event with Owen Daniels and Friends at Mortons, Galleria, raising money for Owen’s “Catch a Dream Foundation”. 

Owen Daniels, All-Pro Tight End for the Houston Texans has been very involved in the community and his foundation has been very important to local hospitals.  The event was sold out and all of the guests had a good time and rasied money for a good cause.  Kudos to Owen Daniels, the guys from Prolanthropy. Joe Pogee from Strike Marketing and of course we couldn’t have done it with out the incredible team at Mortons, Galleria .   Check out this article in Culture Map about the event.

Noah at Temple Emanu El

I had a couple of really nice and incredibly fun Bar and Bat Mitzvahs to shoot this month.

First up was Allie - I have know the family for a few years and was lucky enough to have bene able to photograph Allie’s older sister Lauren’s Bat Mitzvah a few years ago.  I have actually know their mother, Marlene since I was 10 years old – we used to go to summer camp together – Camp Young Judaea    Allie was a wonderful subject to photograph and her party had a 60′s and 70′s theme, which was fun for everyone.

The next week I was honored to have the privilege of photographing Noah’s Bar Mitzvah.  In addition, this was the first Bar Mitzvah to be officiated by the new senior rabbi at Temple Emanu El, Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss.  This was also the first time I met Rabbi Scott. (as he likes to be called)   He was very nice and I look forward to photographing many more Bar Mitzvahs at Temple Emanu El.

Have a safe and wonderful Labor Day Weekend.

Allie at Beth Yeshurun

I have had the pleasure of working with some wonderful clients to help them design and launch their websites.  One of the most recent websites to launch was for SB Goodman Builders here in Houston, Texas.  Please check out their site at www.sbgoodmanbuilders.com.   When you go to the galleries to see their work, you will see my work as I was privileged to have been the photographer selected to photograph the work you see on their site.

These guys are incredibly talented, professional and are a pleasure to work with.  Steve Goodman and Moshe Even are the best.  They work on alot of homes in the Houston area and they specialize in high-rise construction, which is not easy and presents its own set of challenges.  They are simply the best in the business.  I have known them for years and have thoroughly enjoyed working with them.  Here are just a few examples of their work and you can see more on their site, www.sbgoodmanbuilders.com

This tpye of photography is something I have been enjoying as well, so check out the portfolio of my interior real estate work and let me know what you think.  http://www.erickleimanphotography.com/portfolio-detail/306/