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The cold, blue waters of the St. Lawrence River, draining the entire basin of the Great Lakes, are currently the scene of a great seaway development program--a program destined to bring increased material wealth and population growth to New York State's second seacoast. Such cities as Buffalo, Rochester, Oswego, Ogdensburg and Massena cannot help but benefit from such a program. With this new industrial impetus will come an acceleration of related construction activities: new homes, shops, schools and churches. Also needed will be additional highways and park areas to insure that the increasing population will always have access to the benefits and aesthetic values offered along the shoreline. This applies not only to the St. Lawrence River but to the Great Lakes as well.
The extensive St. Lawrence State Park will be established on lands created by the Seaway, and New York now has 23 other state parks located along the 775 miles of shoreline covered by this report. However, lest this picture be misleading, it should be stated that 12 of these are closely grouped in the Watertown-Thousand Island Area, and six others are closely clustered along the Niagara River, leaving only five parks scattered over the remaining shoreline. With more and more people flocking to the shores every year, there is no denying the need for expansion.
To many people, the Thousand Islands and the St. Lawrence are synonymous. The island-studded river and surrounding country have long been a tourist mecca; and most of the islands, even the most ludicrously small, are occupied by private homes ranging from modest summer cottages to palatial mansions. This "granite knob" country is of great geologic interest, for here the ancient Pre-Cambrian rocks linking the Adirondacks to the Laurentian Highlands are exposed.
A large mainland study area and island have been designated by the Survey on the St. Lawrence--not through any lack of existing parks, but because the preservation of a major natural area is particularly desirable in this region. The mainland portion offers excellent opportunities for preserving natural biological and geological attributes of the St. Lawrence scene. The island has wildlife value as a rookery for great blue herons.
Nearly half of New York's mainland frontage on the Great Lakes system is on Lake Ontario. From the St. Lawrence River, this shore extends westerly and southerly for 294 miles to Fort Niagara at the mouth of the Niagara River. For the purpose of convenience, it might be best to think of the shore in terms of three segments: from the St. Lawrence River to Pulaski, from Pulaski to Rochester, and from Rochester to Fort Niagara.
The St. Lawrence to Pulaski region can be broken down a second time into a northern section of low lying limestone headlands, bays, peninsulas and islands; and the sandy beaches and marshes south of Stony Point. For retention of natural values, this segment of shore is the best on Lake Ontario. Two study areas occur here: one in the limestone areas at Stony Point and one in the sand beach and marsh portion referred to as Sandy Creek Beaches.
The Pulaski-Rochester region lies along the northern edge of the largest drumlin field in the United States. These curious, glacier-moulded hills lie on a north-south axis. Along Lake Ontario, particularly east of Oswego, the waves of the lake have truncated these hills, leaving a series of high shore bluffs alternating with bays, streams, ponds or marshes. The two study areas of this portion of shoreline both contain drumlins. One is a recommended extension of Fair Haven State Park. The second area is a wave-eroded drumlin with high scenic values and geologic interest.
Except for a few drumlins around Braddock Bay, the region from Rochester to Fort Niagara is characterized by post-glacier lakebed topography. The land, rising gently back from the lake, is affected by the moderating influence of the lake on the region's climate. Consequently, this is one of the great orchard regions of the eastern United States. It is a pleasant country of prosperous looking farmland, orchards and woodlots. The lake shore, however, is backed by shore bluffs, and beaches are narrow and largely of cobble. The three study areas of this section are all tied in with the projected extension of the Lake Ontario State Parkway; two are extensions of existing state parks, and the third provides for scenic overlooks along the Parkway at strategic intervals.
The Niagara River, with its world famous falls, has no study areas designated because of ample coverage in the existing state parks. The 77 miles of Lake Erie shoreline in New York have already been developed to such an extent as to nearly preclude further possibilities. Two state parks already exist along this shore.
On Lakes Erie and Ontario, New York has but slightly over 11 miles (less than two percent) of mainland shoreline in state parks. The total water frontage of the various island and mainland parks on the Niagara and St. Lawrence Rivers raises the total to 50 miles. In this report, eight study areas with 28.4 miles of shoreline and 11,400 acres of land are recommended for further study as inclusions within the state park system. This would give the state a total of 78.4 miles of the over-all 775 miles of shoreline. Yet this would amount to only slightly over 10 percent, still far short of the 15 percent considered optimum to satisfy public recreation needs.
LOCATION The study area lies on Lake Ontario in the extreme northwest corner of Niagara County, New York. It extends along the shoreline for 2.3 miles from the present Fort Niagara State Park to the mouth of Fourmile Creek. Niagara Falls is just over 12 miles away and Buffalo and Rochester are about 35 and 85 miles distant, respectively. State Routes 18 and 18F traverse the study area and define its southern boundary.
DESCRIPTION The 648 acres of proposed extension comprise a linear area, about 1,000 feet deep, along the shore of Lake Ontario. The beaches fronting this 2.3-mile stretch range from narrow to practically nonexistent and are composed of sand, cobble and clay derived from the eroding shore bluffs behind them. In spite of attempts to control it through concrete groin construction, active erosion on these 20 to 30-foot bluffs has proceeded to the point where some structures near the edge are in danger of being under cut.
The nearly level land behind these bluffs is broken at two places by the outlets of Fourmile Creek and a smaller creek about one mile to the west. Fourmile Creek widens to about 200 feet near its mouth but is constricted there by a sand bar typical to streams in this vicinity.
PRESENT USE Within the bounds of the study area there are approximately 100 summer cottages and permanent homes, a few of which are of fairly substantial quality. These are primarily clustered into four groups separated by orchards and farmland. A fairly extensive amusement park occupies about 20 acres at the west end of the study area just outside the existing boundary of Fort Niagara State Park.
ANALYSIS As a result of increased power output from Niagara operations, industry is spreading north along the Niagara River and investigating expansion possibilities along the Lake Ontario shoreline. Fort Niagara State Park, presently squeezed into a small triangular area at the mouth of the river, needs additional space.
The area encompassed in this report would serve as a buffer against the impending industrial expansion. Although its natural values are limited, additional lakeshore frontage is also badly needed. Careful landscaping could restore the natural appeal, and a swimming beach could be created by sloping the bluffs and effectively utilizing erosion control measures to create sand fill.
LOCATION The three study areas are all located in Orleans County in the path of the proposed westward extension of the Lake Ontario State Parkway. They lie along a 16-mile stretch of shoreline between Lakeside and Kendall. Number One is 3 miles north of Kendall; Number Two is adjacent to and west of Transit Road, roughly 4 miles north of State Route 18; and Number Three is paralleled by State Route 18 east of Lakeside. In aggregate they contain 821 acres of land and 4 miles of shoreline.
DESCRIPTION The region of Orleans County in which the Parkway Overlooks are located is former lakebed topography. The land has little relief except along stream courses. The three Overlooks have been largely cleared of their original forest cover, as, indeed, has most of the surrounding land. Only Number Three has any forest cover, the remaining timber being mainly beech, maple, elm, hophornbeam and ash.
Like much of southern Lake Ontario, the shoreline along the Parkway Overlooks is being gradually eaten away by the relentless action of the waves. Consequently, shore bluffs are a common feature. Overlooks One and Two are fronted by 10-foot bluffs, while Number Three has bluffs to 40 feet high. The beaches below these bluffs are narrow and formed primarily of cobble. The lake bottom along the shore is rocky and during May of 1958 was covered by unsightly growth of green algae.
During the spring, thousands of migrating Canada geese and gulls are an attraction along this portion of Lake Ontario.
PRESENT USE The three sites are given over almost entirely to farmlands. Number One has two farmhouses with attendant outbuildings. Number Two has four cottages, and Number Three has no structures. Bathing is not a feature along the shore because of the narrow cobble beach.
ANALYSIS Routing the Parkway through these Overlooks offers the motorist sweeping scenic vistas of the lakeshore and Lake Ontario with its ships and water birds. Thus variety is added to the inland sections of right of way where views may be restricted by the flat topography and adjacent developments. Only Overlook Number Three would be developed for such active uses as picnicking, swimming and camping.
LOCATION Devils Nose lies between Troutburg and Hamlin Beach State Park at the present western terminus of the Lake Ontario State Parkway. This area would add 1.5 miles of shoreline to Hamlin Beach State Park. There are approximately 190 acres in the proposed addition.
DESCRIPTION Devils Nose receives its name from a 75-foot high bluff projecting out slightly into Lake Ontario. The bluff is primarily of sand but rests on a resistant projection of conglomerate just above the water line. Most of the gently undulating topography atop the bluff has been cleared and is occupied by about 65 acres of orchard. Two woodlots remain near the shore of the lake, aggregating 20 acres. Though they are small, the woodlots are attractive additions to the study area.
Fronting a shallow shoreline indentation east of Devils Nose is a sand beach. It is approximately a half mile long and is from 75 to 100 feet wide. This beach is significant because it occurs along a stretch of shoreline generally devoid of bathing beaches and would be a significant addition to Hamlin Beach State Park.
Backing the beach is a steep, sandy bluff averaging 40 feet in height. Along the top of the bluffs, large colonies of bank swallows have excavated their nesting holes. At the time of field investigations in late May, a constant stream of gulls were moving west along the shore, making use of the updrafts along the shore bluffs. In April, large flocks of Canada geese were observed near the shore along this same general region.
PRESENT USE Nine cottages are grouped at the east end of the beach. Orchards occupy about a fourth of the area. The remainder of the land, except the woodlots, is cleared but fallow.
ANALYSIS This area is needed as an extension of the Hamlin Beach State Park. The Lake Ontario State Parkway will eventually be constructed through the area. Scenic lake views, picnic areas and day use of the beach would be the important features of the area.
LOCATION The study area is located 8 miles from Wolcott off U.S. Highway 104 on the road leading to East Bay Park. The total shoreline included in the study area is 1.3 miles. The bluff itself fronts on the lake for 1/2 mile. Approximately 150 acres comprise the study area.
DESCRIPTION Like Sitts Bluff in the Fair Haven Extension study area, Chimney Bluff is a wave truncated drumlin. The resultant erosion is the most spectacular on Lake Ontario. The rim of the bluff stands 130 feet above the water and extends inland 500 feet from the shore in a series of knife-edged ridges and chimneys. From the beach and from trails along the rim, scenic views of the bluff, the surrounding terrain and Lake Ontario may be obtained. Because the drumlin is exposed in cross section, it is valuable to geologists in studying the manner in which these interesting glacial deposits were formed.
The land contained within the study area is covered with an attractive and vigorously growing hemlock-hardwood forest. Large maple, ash, elm and hemlock shade an open understory containing a large variety of interesting forest floor species. Along the rim, hophornbeam is a common tree, and eastern columbine is a common spring flower.
The area is not large and could not be expected to support any but the smaller and commoner species of birds and wildlife. However, along the bluff, a large colony of bank swallows has excavated their nesting holes in the safety of the nearly perpendicular banks. During the summer months, their coming and going animates the natural scene.
PRESENT USE The only structure in the main area is a tavern; however, in the shore extension to the east are one or two houses. Some timber cutting is occasionally done, but the area probably receives practically no use except informal sightseeing.
ANALYSIS First of all, the area's primary value lies in the scenic qualities of the strangely eroded drumlin. Preservation of these features is important. The small size of the area suggests county or local administration which can supply day-use provisions for picnicking, and trails above and below the bluff for hikers. A low lying area extending along the east boundary might possibly be developed for beach use, thus adding to the area's drawing power.
LOCATION The area lies adjacent to Fair Haven Beach State Park near the village of Fair Haven in Cayuga County. It can be reached by McIntyre Road via Sterling Center and Old State Roads from Fair Haven. The Extension would add 1-1/2 miles of shoreline and 386 acres to the state park.
DESCRIPTION Between Oswego and Rochester lies a portion of the largest drumlin field in the United States. The landscape is distinctive, particularly along Lake Ontario. In the maturing of the shoreline the waves of the lake have eroded away the headlands and stretched barrier beaches across the mouths of shore indentations. The resultant shoreline is one of high bluffs alternating with a series of ponds, swamps, marshes, bays and streams.
Fair Haven Extension would include Sitts Bluff, the highest drumlin along the entire shoreline, rising 164 feet above the lake. It would also include an interdrumlin area containing Juniper Pond--an 11-acre body of water adjoined by a fine heath bog--and a section of marsh along Sterling Creek. The beach is narrow and composed mainly of cobble and small boulders. Since the importance of the area is as a natural area extension for the present park, this is not a discouraging factor.
On the steep back slopes of Sitts Bluff is a vigorous second growth hemlock-hardwood forest. In the spring this hillside is covered with trillium, columbine, may-apple, violets, foamflower and other flowers. Because of the variety of ecological niches, a variety of wildlife can be expected to occur, particularly birds, but also deer, smaller mammals, amphibians and reptiles of an innocuous sort.
PRESENT USE Some logging and grazing occurs, and probably hunting and fishing. There are no structures in the area.
ANALYSIS The present state park is already largely developed. This extension is needed to supply a completely natural area and to preserve a unique and interesting landscape. The diversity of the area would lend itself to an interpretive program designed to explain the drumlins and other features. Hiking or nature trails could serve to introduce the park visitor to a varied and highly interesting flora and fauna. The addition of this extension would greatly enhance an already extremely attractive, but heavily used state park.
LOCATION This long linear area of beaches and marshes begins about 10 miles north of Port Ontario in Oswego County and continues north almost to Stony Creek in Jefferson County. The area may be reached from a number of access roads feeding off State Highway 3. However, much of the area is accessible only by boat or on foot. The length of the study area from the south end of North Pond to the north boundary is 12.2 miles. Of this, 3.4 miles are excluded because of intensive development, leaving a total of 8.8 miles of shoreline in the study area. Seldom more than a mile deep, the area contains 2,969 acres, mainly marshland.
DESCRIPTION The eastern end of Lake Ontario contains not only the finest beaches on the entire lake, but also the finest wildlife habitat. The study area encompasses the best of both. The main marsh area is four and one-half miles long and one-half to one mile wide. Ponds and open meandering channels are interspersed with the marsh vegetation, and are popular fishing areas. Bird life is abundant both on the marshes and along the sandy beaches. The inland edges of the marshes are generally without development, and border on farmland. Around North Pond, however, cottage development is heavy.
The sand beaches, ranging from 75 to 200 feet in width, are among the finest found anywhere on the Great Lakes, and are backed by a line of wooded, partly stabilized dunes up to 40 feet high. Along practically their entire extent they are bordered by marsh or water areas, a factor hindering cabin developments.
PRESENT USE Aside from the developed areas which have been ringed and excluded from the study area, the principal uses would be hunting, fishing and swimming. Fishing is an important use on all open water areas behind the barrier beach. Only a few, low class structures are found on the barrier beaches. No ownership data was obtained for the Oswego County section, but the rest is all private land with 13 principal owners.
ANALYSIS Important to both migrating and nesting waterfowl and to marsh birds, muskrats and other wildlife, the area is of prime importance for wildlife refuge or game management use. The beaches should be maintained for day use with only the barest essential development for providing access and maintenance. Campers could stay at Stony Point and commute to the beach.
LOCATION Stony Point lies 7 miles west of the town of Henderson in Jefferson County and is accessible by road via State Route 178. The study area comprises approximately 1,600 acres with 3.9 miles of shoreline on Lake Ontario.
DESCRIPTION Stony Point is the southernmost extension of the limestone region of eastern Lake Ontario. It is a region of little marked relief, but forms a series of islands, headlands and bays which add variety to the landscape.
The study area lies in a transition zone between the central and northern forest regions and possesses species characteristic of each. Much of the area was formerly occupied by a U.S. military reservation and considerable land had been cleared, resulting in large meadow areas. In places, these are growing back profusely to white and red cedar. Deciduous woods and boggy depressions occur.
The entire area rests on glacier-scoured limestone which forms scenic cliffs to 60 feet high near the north boundary. Southward they subside to low bluffs and finally to flat, gently shelving beaches of solid rock. Glacier transported boulders on the south end of these rocky shores add geological interest. No sand beaches occur. The alternating patches of meadow and woodland create an edge effect favorable to birds and other wildlife. Many species of songbirds nest in the area and small mammals, such as cottontail and woodchuck, occur. The rich limestone soil grows an abundance of wildflowers.
PRESENT USE Stock grazing is the obvious use at present. The cottage development on Gravely Bay has been excluded from the study area but the lighthouse at the south end has been included. Besides the five acres of lighthouse property, the remainder of the area is divided between three owners.
ANALYSIS The area has considerable charm and would serve well as a natural area. The over-all area is also large enough, and topographically suited, to also supply an abundance of campsites so vitally needed to meet the growing demand in this general region. Such a development could also be utilized in connection with the recommended day-use of the beaches and fishing opportunities at Black Pond and Sandy Creek Beach.
LOCATION Crooked Creek lies adjacent to Kring State Park on the boundary of St. Lawrence and Jefferson Counties. The study area contains 4,425 acres and 4.1 miles of shoreline. Most of the area is accessible only by foot or boat.
DESCRIPTION The Thousand Island region has long been known for its scenic beauty. Here, the St. Lawrence River cuts through an area of glaciated crystalline rocks that forms an isthmus between the ancient Laurentian Highlands of Canada and the Adirondacks of New York. This "granite knob" country, though low in relief, has a jumbled topography that gives the countryside a picturesque appearance. The St. Lawrence flowing through this area creates the Thousand Islands.
The area is in a mixed deciduous-coniferous forest that has been logged or cleared for farming in the past. Boggy areas occur in the hollows, and pink granitic rock is exposed on the prominences. White pine is the prominent shoreline tree. The soil mantle is shallow, and little glacial debris occurs. Spring flowers are abundant and bird life is varied.
The marshes of Crooked Creek and Goose Bay are significant for wildlife: muskrats, waterfowl, shore birds and waders. Ironsides Island, included in the study area, has a large nesting colony of great blue herons. Fishing for bass and perch is popular in the river, and Crooked Creek yields good catches of bullheads.
PRESENT USE Kring State Park, to which Crooked Creek is a recommended addition, occupies a rocky peninsula at the extreme southwest end of the area. This small park is utilized almost completely for camping. Running northeastward for two miles from the park is a strip of shoreline with considerable development; this has been excluded from the study area. Elsewhere, a small commercial fishing dock occurs on Crooked Creek, and a number of cottages have been built along Goose Bay. The bulk of the area is privately owned with about 20 principal owners.
ANALYSIS Because of their high values for camping, wildlife and botanical preservation, Crooked Creek and Ironsides Island should be added to the overused Kring State Park. The inclusion of Ironsides Island would not only assure protection to its large heronry, but give the State of New York title to an entire island in the St. Lawrence for primitive camping.
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It's festival season, and with that comes, sunny days, amazing music, and an extreme fear of missing out if you haven't bought yourself a $300+ ticket and traveled to the desert.
Oh, and the start of your Q2 sales cycle.
At first glance, these two events don't seem to have a lot in common; besides the fact they're both in April. What does going to the Palm Springs desert have anything to do with you closing deals?
As I talked to our sales team (and lived vicariously through the ones that attended Coachella last weekend), I came to the conclusion that there is a lot you can take away from a music festival experience which you can apply to your own sales process. Here are the three parallels I drew that you can apply to up your sales game:
What's the point of showing up to a concert if you're not going to listen to the music? When you step into a desert for a three day festival, there are a ton of distractions. There's food, ferris wheels, t-shirts, crazy statues, and all of that can often distract you from what's important. You're at a music festival! It's time to go listen and take the music in.
The same thing applies when you're on your sales calls. So often we get so caught up in distractions, chit-chat, and small talk. Get to the point, set up the right questions and then LISTEN. Take in the music that is your customer talking and telling you all that is important to them.
When you take it all in and listen to the vibe, you'll know what your customer is looking for, and more importantly why. Sure, everyone is looking for a solution to optimize, enhance, and make their company more efficient (blah blah). But for closing deals, you'll need to explore why the solution hasn't already been in place. Here's how you can listen better:
It's not by chance that concerts always begin with the phrase, "How's everyboddyyyy doing tonight?"
When there are 100,000's of thousands of people squeezing under a tent, or 100,000's of thousands of sales professional calling a decision maker, it's hard to stand out in the crowd. No matter how badass your outfit is, or how awesome your company is, it's hard to have a loud voice. Unless you're on center stage, you will be forgotten. Names blur together, companies get confused, and even the best salespeople become numbers. Here are tips on how to stand out:
The term Social Selling can apply here.
Standing in the desert sun is similar to being exposed to a cold call. If you're talking for too long/ standing for too long, you'll run out of steam. Hydrating your call with fresh AND relevant content is the most important thing you can do. Being a mini expert in your space will make your prospect have more trust and understanding when learning about your product. Here's how to get fuel:
At the end of the day, Sales-chella and Coachella come down to the same thing: spending time with the people that matter.
-It's about finding the right people to call (or the right stage to go to).
-It's about listening to the top artist or the top decision maker.
-It's about winning the deal, and winning in life.
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A British woman who's become a celebrity in the U.K. because she was born with two fully formed vaginas may finally be able to cash in on her crotch ... TMZ has learned she's just been offered $1 MILLION to bone on camera.
Her name is Hazel Jones -- and the 27-year-old beauty has been making the media rounds across the pond to discuss "uterus didelphys" ... a condition which caused her to develop 2 sets of female reproductive organs. In other words, two vaginal canals with two openings.
Hazel recently told British tabloid The Sun that she's not shy about her condition -- insisting she and her husband have shown it off at sex clubs around the U.K.
Enter Vivid Entertainment honcho Steve Hirsch ... who heard Hazel's story ... and immediately reached out to the woman with a MASSIVE offer to film her double hoo-ha in action.
In the letter, Hirsch writes, "You are obviously an extraordinary woman and I would like to make you an offer to star in an upcoming Vivid production. We would pay you up to $1 million for your services."
For the mathematically challenged, that's $500k per vagina.
To sweeten the deal, Hirsch says Jones can pick any XXX partner she wants in her movie -- adding, "We would fly you out to L.A. as soon as you are available and provide you with first class accommodations."
We're told Hirsch has not heard back yet.
Hirsch has offered others $1 million and they only have one vagina. He should offer her no less than $2 million. Cheap porn s*** that he is.
As for watching it? Eh, I could take it or leave it. Sex is not a spectator sport.
Does the baby get to pick which vagina they come out of?
I've always loved twins.
This would be great, women could save the one for thier significate other and the other one could be used for everybody else that they give it up to. this way, we could really know who the baby daddy is!
This story is beneath even TMZ....
do we have to be exposed to this...
She should be offered TWO million. Two.
She's once, two times a lady!
do we have to be exposed to this...
This is unbelievable, I have 2 ****s, I want to meet her
This is not a rare condition, when I found out I had the same condition when I was 16 it was nothing new. I have to uterus' and what they called adeviated vaginal septum. 1 in 50,000 women have this so it is not rare at all. I will say that having a child is not easy and it can make you unable to get pregnant. Surgery is required in most instances. I got pregnant when I was 20 and had to have sugical procedure to form one vagina after I gave birth, but I do still have 2 sets of female organs. I asked how they knew what uterus I carried my children in and they said they could tell at my autopsy, lol. But this is not rare and everytime I hear a woman actually come out and say they have it and the audiences are shocked, like on Tara I roll my eyes. IT does make for having A LOT of students witness every feminie thing you do though I do not mind that much anyore.
This is awesome. I have two full-time jobs and have a hard time supporting my family, but a woman who can vaginally service two hard ****s at the same time is about to come into a windfall of money. Nice.
So if she only has sex in One vagina, is she still a virgin?
If she is showing it off, she and her husband are nothing but trash.
I can feel the vomit beginning to form


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Beija-flor Events had the pleasure of meeting the wonderful make-up artist Grace Moschetto, from Grace Professional Cosmetics. We asked her about all those tips and tricks that you should know when preparing for your wedding day!
She has styled for celebrities and her work has been featured on TLC, the Merrimack Valley Magazine, and Sports Illustrated On-line
She has been highly rated on the Knot and the Wedding Wire for several years and has received the Brides Choice Award.
Grace knows that the key to a great look is to enhance each bride's own beauty. As she likes to say: "If it comes from your heart you will wear it well!"
Hello Grace, what a treat to talk to you again!
Let's share with your readers a little bit about your background. What was your inspiration to become involved in the beauty business and how did you start?
I love art and I have always been attracted to color! When I was 13, I was allowed to start wearing make-up and at that time my mother was selling Mary Kay. I remember she hosted a make-up lesson at our house, so all the teenage girls could learn how to apply make-up properly. That event kind of got me started on trying make-up and playing with it.
I also danced: tap, ballet, and jazz… and did theater and was always drawn to the hair and make-up part of the productions. I loved that!
At some point, I was living in San Diego working in a theatric production where we would run a show for 6 weeks from August until mid-September. I was doing a lot of make-up on men, stage and set make-up. As soon as our show stopped running, we would rent our costumes for Halloween and a lot of Drag Queens would come by to take the gowns.
In 2003, I got my formal education as a Professional Make-up Artist and I started working at weddings. Later, I branched out to other work like runway shows, hair shows and even ballroom dance competitions.
What are your top beauty tips for brides? Are there any skin care 'don'ts' that a Bride should be aware of when she's planning her pre-wedding skin care schedule?
I usually advise anybody who is attending an event, and more specifically brides, to follow their normal routines.
In other words, don't get a facial a couple of days before the wedding, but keep your skin care routine pretty even.
When you do a facial, toxins come out of the body, and if a bride isn't very used to drinking lots of water before and after the treatment to flush all those toxins, it will only make matters worse – her face can become a blemish central on the wedding day!
I usually recommend that facials should be done at least 30 days prior to the wedding.
The best advice for skin prep, is what doctors will tell you: eat right, drink lots of water and sleep, sleep, sleep! And keep your stress levels down the best you can.
I suggest that brides drink plenty of water and add lemon, lime or tangerine squirts to it. It is a really quick way to absorb vitamin C. Lemons are also natural preservatives. Skin care starts on the inside, and if you put good things in your body, good things will be seen on the outside: in your hair, your skin and your nails!
Let's talk about the make-up trial. What lessons are learned from the trial for both the bride and the make-up artist?
Well, for the make-up artist it's always about listening to what the bride wants.
Every bride is different, every face is different and as the artist going into the trial, you want to hear the bride's opinions, take the information that is given and then translate that into technical terms. How is that look going to appear on the wedding day and how will it photograph?
We have to craft it so while we are giving a bride what she asks for, we are also aware that this particular look is going to work with the camera – we have to speak technical and speak "bride" correctly!
What the brides normally learn from the trial is that they are wearing a little more make-up than they normally do. That is ok, because we are applying make-up for a specific event. On the wedding day, the energy is completely different, their hair is done, they have their dress and jewelry on and it becomes more like a costume, if you will. It is a huge transformation! Plus, light sucks color from us, and we need to compensate for that.
From the trial the bride might look at her face and see all face, but keeping an open mind and relying a little bit more on the professional, will be beneficial.
It is very important to have open communication – we want to give the bride what she wants and put a big smile on her face!
What's trending for brides with hair and makeup looks, right now?
I like to create personal trends for each bride I work with. But in terms of what is trending in the industry, I would say red lip is always a favorite and vintage – the recycling of the decades, anything from the 20s on – is big right now. Also, Gatsby – we are definitely still riding that cycle.
The other thing is that there are sub-trends within the trends and we cannot forget about the offbeat brides, the pin-up brides and brides with a ton of piercing or tattoos.
Also, weddings of same sex couples are definitely increasing.
But, for me, every person I see, I feel like they are the ones setting the trend. Bringing out their personal style is what I love to do!
How long should brides allow in their day-of schedule for make-up application?
It is usually better when a bride has a trial prior to the wedding, as we can plan how long it takes to apply the make-up with more accuracy. That being said, many times people just book us and we come in without ever having met them.
For the most part, however, we determine when the photographer is going to arrive and space the time out so that the members of the bridal party have a solid 30 minutes and the bride has from 45 min to 1 hour for make-up.
But, it can sometimes take less time. It depends on skin situations: if we have to do a lot of corrective, if we have to cover scars or tattoos… although, I am finding that people don't really cover tattoos as much anymore. They are either showing them or getting them in strategic places where they won't be seen as easily.
Do you recommend that the bride provides her own makeup?
I provide all of my own brand make-up. It is a professional stage and set make-up that was formulated specifically for the motion picture industry.
This make-up is hypoallergenic and also non-comedogenic, which means it does not support bacterial growth.
I have had a huge success with it and I like to use it. However, I do not deny anybody bringing their own make-up if they know for a fact that they have specific allergies or are hypersensitive.
But, I like to package everything with one price and it is built in the price. We are the professionals so we are bringing everything and using our expertise. The fewer stress factors we add on, the better!
What if the bride wants a look that you know does not suit her? How do you handle this situation?
Well, that goes back into the trial part. The trial is playtime and at that point I will provide the look that the bride requests so that she can see it for herself. If she is happy with it, than that is how it is going to be. If she then decides: "Oh, you know what? This really doesn't look that great, I don't like it!" Then I will say: "Well, let's change it up!" That is what the trial is all about. We want to 100% achieve the look of her dreams!
If the bride decides on the wedding day that she wants to change the style, there is also no problem. I have enough skills in my bag of tools that I can pull of different looks!
What would you tell to a bride who is considering doing her make-up herself?
I offer discounts to brides on my make-up, so I would probably invite her to purchase some of my products and with that I would offer her a class or give her some tips and tricks!
I am open to the idea of brides doing their own make-up because I know that there are people out there that love to do their own make-up. Either they love make-up, or they want it done exactly a certain way, or they don't like other people touching them. Whatever the reason is, I don't take it personally.
I am a make up artist with a big heart and whether the bride is using my services, buying my make-up or not, I would still offer advice, absolutely!
What has been the most challenging wedding you have done?
My most challenging wedding…Well, I had one wedding that had a lot of people in the bridal party, which of course is a little challenging, but the difficult part was that they had a room with almost no space. I had to do make-up for 9 people all on my knees. That was uncomfortable!
On top of that, there were children running around with food on their hands while the curling irons were on, the lighting was also not good…it was a combination of many components that was not the greatest.
But after that wedding, I developed a list of tips that I give to all my brides, so that they can prep before hand. It is a good thing as it contributes to the safety of everyone involved.
How do you keep cool under all the pressure of a wedding day?
First of all, I have the passion to be in this industry and I feel very blessed because I get paid to be myself and do what I love. Secondly, it's the bride's day and her family's day so I remove myself from that equation. I feel very privileged that they allow me to share such an important and happy occasion. It is very intimate. I am behind the scenes and I feel honored that I get to have that bird's-eye view of what is one of the most special days of someone's life. I really care about my brides and that feeling keeps me calm.
Also, I am naturally a grounded and peaceful person and I am also a Reiki master teacher. I can actually feel the energy in the room and I am able to sense a situation before it happens. I practice what I teach.
Lastly, experience is important. I have been in the business since 1986 and I have experienced several sides of a wedding – I was even a DJ! So, I have learned over the years how to be professional. Now, it is second nature to me.
I know you have your own make-up line. Can you tell us about the collection and what inspired you to create it?
I came across this make-up when I modeled years ago. At the time, there was no one doing our make-up. The owner of the modeling agency gave us this make-up and I instantly fell in love with it!
So, when I started my own company, I contacted the manufacturer and he told me that I was allowed to brand it, so that is what I did.
Again, it is a professional make-up line made for the movie industry, and all the products are made here in the US with the exception of the pencils, which come from Germany and Czech Republic. They are national and local products, even the labels are made locally in Lawrence, MA.
The make-up is highly pigmented, so a little goes a long way. And it is actually hydrating which is beautiful and you don't get that heavy caked on feeling.
Using what was available from the manufacturer, I have experimented and narrowed down my selection to a core line and that is in my catalog and website for sale.
Soon, I will be developing seasonal collections, bridal collections for different types of looks and, something I am very excited about, we are also going to be providing funds for charitable causes in different collections. I don't have to go through a committee to do it and we can customize the products and reformulate the colors a little bit – it is pretty exciting!
Tell us 3 things about yourself that are unrelated to beauty.
I once had a job serving rice balls. I was 17 years old and I worked, for part of the summer, at a little shack in Salisbury beach. I went in at 10pm and got out at 2am. This place was right down the street from all the clubs, so we had a lot of intoxicated people coming in for those midnight munchies… It was certainly a character building experience.
I also have an art background. I took classes in North Andover in 1994. And a year later, I found myself teaching fine arts at that very same studio.
And… I am looking for true love! Working with all these brides is amazing … and I am looking for something true!
To see more of Grace's lovely work check out her website and her Facebook page!


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CAPE CORAL, Fla.- Cape Coral Police Narcotics Detectives arrested a pair of cocaine dealers on Thursday night after serving a search warrant on their home for the 3rd time.
Delshon Evans and Jeremiah Evans of 2205 SW 1st Avenue were arrested by Detectives after the SWAT Team served a search warrant on their home. Both men were charged with 3 counts of possession of cocaine, 3 counts of sale of cocaine (2 of the 3 sale counts were within 1000 feet of a school). They are currently in the Lee County Jail.
This is the 3rd search warrant that Cape Coral Detectives have served on the house. Jeremiah Evans was currently out on bond for a previous arrest for sale of cocaine.
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A self-proclaimed beauty addict and over-the-top girly girl, Lara Ramos has been dedicated to living a pretty lifestyle since birth. Her blog, The Glossarie, highlights ground-breaking beauty products and little laid-back luxuries. This week, in Lara's second appearance as a guest blogger, she shares the newest items that have caught her eye and her personal must-haves.
Take a peek at my desk and you're sure to see a bundle of beauty products that changes from one day to the next. This week, it's littered with four products awaiting their turn for the top spot on The Glossarie.
1. Murad Gentle Acne Treatment Gel is currently serving as my night cream. It's been perfect to help heal my summer breakouts quickly, without wreaking havoc on the healthy skin on my face.
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Earlier this year, as you might recall, a scandal broke at the Australian Defence Force Academy: several male cadets were disciplined for filming a consensual sex act between two of their peers and distributing, without the consent of the woman in question, via Skype.
Today news broke of yet another sexual assault or harassment scandal at the ADFA, and this one involves technology, too. The Herald Sun reported today that "ACT Police were called to the academy late on Thursday night after a 21-year-old female cadet found a mobile phone hidden in a vent above her shower cubicle. The phone's video camera had been filming her."
The Australian reported that the cadet has been charged with "an act of indecency in the presence of a victim."
To say that it has not been a good year for ADFA would be putting it very lightly indeed. During investigations into the Skype scandal, however, it was alleged that the accused cadets were manhandled and denied sleep by investigators. Six separate inquiries into the culture of the Academy and specifically into the treatment of women, were launched in response to the Skype scandal.
In the months since ADFA made the call for cadets to come forward to register complaints about sexual misconduct at the Academy, more than 1000 complaints have been made. In June, a former cadet came forward to say that she had been gang-raped by three fellow cadets, and that when she reported the rape to investigators, they threatened to ruin her career unless she stated on the record that the encounter was consensual.
This latest incident should serve as a reminder that enquiries and commissions and committees to advise and so on and so forth are great first steps toward changing a violent and misogynistic culture. But that's all they are: first steps. Forming a committee won't stop men from violating their peers. Only changing the culture in which that violation is encouraged, expected, allowed and ignored will do that. And changing a culture takes time, and patience, and the kind of two-steps-forward-one-step-back that this incident represents.
That's not to excuse what this cadet did, of course. It's simply to say that we should not be surprised that, a few months after the lid was lifted on this ugly, violent culture, the sunlight hasn't entirely disinfected it yet.


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Opening day for the Colorado Rockies is a week away. As spring training wraps up, Walt Weiss' bunch is full of optimism like every other team in Major League Baseball.
But what are real expectations for the boys at 20th and Blake?
There have been several different opinions on the Rockies since spring training started. They have run the gamut from 90 wins to another last place finish. No matter what, no one really knows what the Rockies are going to bring to the field.
The expectations seem to be extreme on both sides. Are the Rockies going to win 100 games this season? Probably not. Are they going to lose 100 games? That is a little crazy as well.
High hopes started for the Rockies in February when owner Dick Monfort answered questions on Twitter. He believed that with a healthy roster the Rockies could win 90 games. That win total would put Colorado right in the middle of the division and wild-card races. He also feels the Rockies have four N0. 1 starters on their pitching staff.
But health has always been a problem for the Rockies especially with their star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. He missed time last season with a broken rib. The shortstop was on the field for 126 games which was more than the 47 he played in 2012 but still not enough for a face of the franchise.
No matter what, if Tulowitzki is playing the Rockies are better. And Colorado is at its best when Tulowitzki is on the field with the other star of the team — Carlos Gonzalez.
The outfielder battled a finger injury for a lot of 2013 and played in only 110 games. Much like his partner in crime Tulowitzki, Gonzalez still had a stellar season. He hit 26 home runs, made the All-Star team and won a Gold Glove. The two just never seemed to play together.
The duo started only 66 games together last season and played in a total of 81. Since 2009, Colorado's record is above .500 at 210-188. It is a fact that the Rockies are a better team with the two of them playing.
Monfort could be right though. If the team's two stars are healthy, the Rockies are as potent as anybody with their two stars, young talent like Nolan Arenado and Wilin Rosario mixed in with veterans like Michael Cuddyer and Justin Morneau.
There is also the other side of the spectrum. Colorado has finished in the cellar of the National League West the last two seasons. Its win total has increased from 64 in 2012 to 74 in 2013. Another 10 game jump would put the Rockies over .500 for the first time since 2010.
Even with stars like Tulowitzki and Gonzalez, questions still surround the team. The pitching rotation was good at times last season with Jorge De La Rosa, Jhlouys Chacin and Tyler Chatwood but after the top three the Rockies got nothing. Also, Chacin is sidelined until May with shoulder problems and Chatwood and De La Rosa were shelled in the last two spring starts.
Lefty Brett Anderson was brought in to bolster the rotation but he has injury questions as well. Franklin Morales, Juan Nicasio and Jordan Lyles are battling for the other spots in the rotation but all three are puzzling. They could have no-hit stuff for four innings and then give up eight runs in the fifth.
So even with all the talent they can put on the field, the Rockies are full of "what ifs." The realistic expectation is improvement but nothing more that 81-82 wins. The National League West is not an easy division especially with the Los Angeles Dodgers on top and looking to make a World Series run.
So fans of the Rockies will probably have to wait another season for a postseason run. Colorado will get better and with some luck and health should be a good team to watch. A .500 season would be a complete success.
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The Mineola girls varsity basketball team defeated Jericho's Lady Jayhawks by a score of 55-48 to win its first conference championship in over 30 years. Sophomore Kerry Medlock led the team in scoring for the second time this season with 15 points and junior Krystie Kern had a break-out game with 12 points as she drove hard to the hoop making Jericho's defenders get into foul trouble early and often throughout the game.
The Corpus Christi boy's third grade basketball team concluded their very successful 2009-2010 basketball campaign against St. Mary's of Manhasset at the St. Mary's Girls High School gym.
The Mineola Portuguese Soccer Club will be celebrating their seventh Long Island Soccer-Futebol League championship on February 20 at the Mineola Portuguese Center (306 Jericho Turnpike, Mineola) with a gala and fundraiser. In addition to a live band and both American and Portuguese cuisine, the event will include the 2009 MPSC Hall of Fame inductions, appearances by former MPSC players who have since played professionally, the owners of the sponsoring companies, and local politicians. The price is $35 per ticket, with limited seating. Any donations are also currently being accepted. For more information you can call Marco Dafonte at 385-0363 or visit www.mineolasc.com.
The Muttontown Preserve will host a guided "Winter Trek" hike on Sunday, Feb. 7, from 10 a.m. to noon.
Open registration for Spring 2010 ice skating classes at the beautiful indoor ice skating rink at Cantiague Park begins the week of Feb. 8 and runs through the start of classes the first week of March. Open registration is for patrons who did not participate in the Winter 2009-10 classes.
Athletes and families of the Corpus Christi CYO sports program experienced a very special day together as they attended Mass, enjoyed breakfast and then played several basketball games!
The day began as the players, families and friends gathered for the Corpus Christi Church 10 a.m. family Mass. The players proudly wore their CYO team jerseys as they celebrated mass together.
It was an exciting day for both the boys and girls Mineola varsity basketball teams as both teams came out on top in two fascinating wins on Reggie Carter Night on Friday night, Jan. 15.
Reggie Carter Night consists of two memorial games played in dedication of former New York Knick-player and Mineola High School vice principal at the Mineola High School gymnasium.
The Mineola Booster Club, which supports Mineola athletics, is holding its 8th Annual Mineola Mustang Stakes fundraiser on Saturday, Jan. 30 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus, 186 Jericho Turnpike in Mineola.
The Mineola High School girls cross country team won the conference championship this past October, the first championship for the program in 35 years.
The boys team won the conference in 1974 and the 35 years without a championship for the program served as great motivation for the girls. They went through the season undefeated in their division, being crowned the division champion.
As part of its mission in the community, St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center will be conducting free cardiac screenings of high school student athletes. The purpose of the program is to detect and assess potential cardiac abnormalities that can put a strain on an athlete's heart particularly when he or she engages in strenuous physical activity.
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With "Transformers: Age of Extinction" opening Friday, viewers may be wondering what critics for The New York Times had to say about the previous installments in this enduring saga of flying robot battles. Wonder no more. If you want the current review, it is here.
"Transformers" (2007), the first film in the live-action franchise, was released a couple of weeks before the original iPhone was introduced.
Part car commercial, part military recruitment ad, a bumper-to-bumper pileup of big cars, big guns and, as befits its recently weaned target demographic, big breasts. – Manohla Dargis
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (2009), like the first film, was directed by Michael Bay:
Make no mistake: Mr. Bay is an auteur. His signature adorns every image in his movies, as conspicuously as that of Lars von Trier, and every single one is inscribed with a specific worldview and moral sensibility. Mr. Bay's subject — overwhelming violent conquest — is as blatant and consistent as his cluttered mise-en-scène… The French filmmaker Jacques Rivette once described an auteur as someone who speaks in the first person. Mr. Bay prefers to shout. – Manohla Dargis
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" was released in 2011
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" is among Mr. Bay's best movies and by far the best 3-D sequel ever made about gigantic toys from outer space. I apologize if this sounds like faint praise, but let me provide some perspective. The second of Mr. Bay's "Transformers" movies, "Revenge of the Fallen," released in 2009, struck me as not only the worst movie of that year — measured in raw box office dollars, it was certainly among the most popular — but also as irrefutable evidence that our once proud civilization was in a state of precipitous decline. Perhaps my own enjoyment of "Dark of the Moon" is further evidence. I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference? — A.O. Scott
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Lasting 166 minutes — though it feels much longer — "Age of Extinction" makes clear what has always been true of the Transformers movies: Although they may look like soulless corporate studio product, they are really examples of personal cinema, expressions of the will and imagination of their director, Michael Bay. The narrative incoherence is a feature, not a bug. — A.O. Scott
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Big win for the Gunners this weekend – did you catch the 2-1 result against Manchester United? Sadly, the victory was marred by Nicholas Bendtner's bizarre modified mullet situ. Let's give him a week or so and hope his hair choices improve.
Red Devil fans, don't despair. You can still take pride in your team's ability to wear the hell out of a tuxedo.
See: Ryan Giggs at the United for UNICEF charity dinner. We think he's ripe for a spot in our Hot HOF, don't you?
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Quote: I repeated that I would not do business with any ignorant w@nker who questioned my integrity in that way.
Straight to the point do not p--s about with people like that.
if you ever move from North of the Border to Yorkshire I might need a customer relations person who speaks my language.
I cannot cope with people who think I am ripping them off when all I ask is a living profit.
I think you should read the context of the telephone conversation along the lines of.............
"We love your work, your photos are great"
Real meaning; we love your work, can't really afford you. Would probably book you if you were £500.00 cheaper.
"Seeing loads of others as well."
Real meaning; That'll worry you knowing we are seeing loads of other photographers! Let's see who we can screw down on price first to meet our budget!
Sunday weddings are no different to Fridays or Saturdays. They both mean you are working all weekend whatever the time of year.
Next year we have weddings on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays so it really makes very little difference to me what day of the week it is any more.
how about, when asked to discount your rates...
"please write, in no less than 500 words, the reason why you feel I should offer you a discount"
you'll no doubt not win their business, but if you're not in to giving discounts anyway, you've nothing to lose and could get some funny replies
We offer Sunday discounts as most venues discount so we're coming into line with the kind of client booking a Sunday...works a treat.
"Several other togs to see"...cheerio, I work for people who want me for what I do.. not for my discount price...
So everyone in this thread would pay the price displayed on a used or new car without question; or has not looked at a product in a shop and then bought on line at some time at lower cost and probably free postage to boot? If you differentiate between customers by price based on your time, costs and profit, then state the price up front for what you offer. Those that cannot afford you will not approach you; those that want your product will call; and those that wish to chance their arm can be given a polite 'sorry but I am unable to do it for any less'. No dramas.
well said - I put a lot of effort into the few weddings I do, and want to know they value it
I've never actually been asked for a discount and done the wedding
I have however seen the shots the couples got for their discounted price, and they got what they paid for quite embarassingly bad in some cases
Just to clarify a point raised by a few people , I do state my price up front in great details on my website which is how people find me, so the asking for a discount part comes knowing full well what the price is and what it includes. I normally go down the route of moving up and down packages with people who ask for discounts as i find its the easiest way of getting across the point of ' this is what i charge '
I also completely agree with another comment made that it is in fact rude to just ring up and ask for a discount without making the time and effort to have a meeting or discuss things in detail.
The sooner people stop bowing to this sort of media driven haggling nonsense the sooner we can all just get back to making a half decent living.
I do like the '500 words' idea though and might just try that one !
Lets all do it and share the replies here
I actually get quite a few messages from people saying "I've given my friend your details, they're looking for a wedding photographer", I send them links to my wedding pages and the package page, which filters out the chaff.
All the info is there, nice diagrams for people who like them, everything explained and lots of example shots.
saves a LOT of effort dealing with "tyre kickers" who are just foraging for a cheap deal.
I can make more in an afternoon shooting commercial stuff than a budget wedding - and those jobs are invariably less hassle and you build your network of business contacts in the process...
There are wedding venue managers who also act as a wedding co-ordinator (photographers, menu and place card manufacturers, discos etc,) who offer discounts for mid-week weddings, but I have never heard of Sunday discounts.
Once you start discounting you are degrading your work as well as yourself. Someone said if you go to buy a car you always ask for a discount, well yes, but try getting a discount on one in Tenerife.... NO CHANCE. Not one dealership would give me a discount. There is always someone willing to undercut you, but what's the point of giving someone your experience, quality of service and a far higher quality, than some chav who is willing to do it at a silly price. These people work during the week and do this on a part time basis for pocket money. They have no overheads or declare there earnings to HMRC. To them, it's just cash in hand. Let these people walk away and finish up with poor photographs of their special day, because it will serve them right.
"I'll quite often 'haggle' for a discount and use anything I can to leverage that, expect it and price accordingly, usually if there is no 'wiggle room' I don't buy, as simple as that.
I quit work at the age of 34 because I could but before that I used to get annoyed with folk that saw the customer as an adversary, they are not, without them you have no business!"
That means you would not be riding in a car here then, but peddling around on a bike!!! Yeah and you'd have no photographs of your wedding neither!!
Quote: Once you start discounting you are degrading your work as well as yourself.
What a load of self important twaddle!
I do not advocate working at a price that does not permit a business to function, the reason I was able to quit work at the age of 34 was because I was able make a career and business function in a way that worked both for me and my customer base. In my experience building 'wiggle room' into a service encourages customers across a range of provisions to 'feel better' by securing a discount and as such were then less aggrieved at the thought of giving me their moolah. How on earth does that degrade myself either professionally or personally?
I still cannot understand why there appears to be so much angst about difficult or indifferent customers along with competitors - better, inferior or otherwise. The wedding photography industry is a market the same as any other with all the usual problems of standards, variations in pricing and photographers of all standards entering and leaving all the time.
All contributing here appear to offer a great service with excellent websites, layered pricing to meet a customers wishes and a pricing point below which they will not go. In addition, there is an alternate line of business so spreading business risks across more than one line of business and recommendations from previous customers (the best adverts in my experience of most purchases). If customers are not prepared to pay the price and then employ someone not as good as those here then 'caveat emptor' applies - buyer beware. A subsequent disaster for them, while regrettable, can hardly be laid at your door.
I just don't see it as an insult to you or your skills if someone asks for a discount as it isn't a loss to your business because you declined it for all the reasons written above, along with some choice descriptions of those customers who do ask; a polite no is all that is required. Some customers may be inarticulate and rude, yet I have met many wealthy people who are far meaner than those of modest means or poor by comparison; are they tyre kickers or chavs also, or just more thick-skinned at forcing deals and walking away if rebuffed. As long as you have customers prepared to pay the price you ask for your products and which keeps you in a business you enjoy, why the difficulty with other photographers serving other segments of your industry, or eating into yours, it's all part of the market place.
No market stays still and other photographers may well provide the product as well as you for less - the customer is not interested in the type of camera or businesses overheads etc - just the product (look at the supermarket versus high street example); then you may have a problem unless you, in turn, change your business model.
I can't believe there's a photographer alive who hasn't been asked for a discount or free photos. I had an email from a band who I'd taken some shots of at a festival asking for free photos for their Facebook page as they hadn't got any from the festival. I very nicely said they could have free photos if they would agree to play at my daughters 18th birthday party for free. Didn't hear back!
If I did weddings I think I'd add a discount into my prices if you don't get asked for one great but if you do you can look nice and offer one and it not cost you anything.
The supermarket and high street analogy is not a good one to use ! We now have hundreds of farmers out of business and we are importing food from countries 1000s of miles away , towns everywhere are now attempting to revitalise their high streets and get people back from supermarkets and out of town shopping centres. Following recent findings of all sorts of rubbish in foreign meat we are now attempting to only sell british.
So the fact people go where its cheapest is not the answer.
The vast majority of your purchases today have a price tag and thats what you pay. Go and ask for money off your groceries or your next diy purchase, buy something from an online retailer - you dont get too haggle, the price is already where it needs to be, you pay it and leave.
So the old adage you don't ask you don't get is just plain out of date.
Asking for money off things is just pain rude, lots of people inc myself have done it, but don't try and justify it with talk its simply being cheeky and you will either get away with it or get told where to go. In some cases i think people just do it purely for the challenge and are not even bothered about a discount, some primeval urge fulfilled in robbing someone of some money. Maybe instead of asking for discount you should just stick a balaclava on and demand it for free !
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Paul Walker: How 'Fast and the Furious' Changed His Career from Hunk to Action Star
The first time audiences really set their eyes on Paul Walker was in the 1998 dramedy "Pleasantville," about two siblings (Reese Witherspoon and Tobey Maguire) transported inside a 1950s sitcom. The world they encounter is a cookie-cutter, black-and-white suburb straight out of "The Donna Reed Show," and Walker played the handsome high school love interest for Witherspoon. With his hair slicked back and Ken doll dimples, Walker, 24 at the time, brought to mind a young Tab Hunter. His character was meant to be a squeaky-clean boy next door, but he didn't stay that way. On a drive-in movie theater date, Witherspoon lunges at him and he experiences a sexual awakening.
Walker, who died on Saturday at 40 in a car crash in Valencia, Calif., was the dreamboat of choice for a generation of girls (and some boys) raised on "Saved by the Bell" and the WB Network. It's no coincidence that he starred in two back-to-back films with "Dawson's Creek" alumni. In 1999's "Varsity Blues," he's the cocky quarterback in the football drama headlined by James Van Der Beek. A year later, he played a member of a Yale-like secret society in "The Skulls" opposite Joshua Jackson.
His other breakout role was as the sidekick to Freddie Prinze Jr. in 1999's "She's All That," a modern remake of "Pygmalion" which grossed $103 million worldwide and launched his career in the teen genre. Although many of the best friend parts were just as cookie-cutter as that "Pleasantville" town -- and Walker's line readings sometimes bordered on soap opera camp -- that wasn't the point. Paul Walker was comfort food to post-"Breakfast Club" audiences: the all-American prom king who never took himself too seriously.
Walker grew up in the Valley as a child actor with small roles in TV series "Highway to Heaven," "Charles and Charge" and "Who's the Boss?" Before "Pleasantville," he co-starred in a Disney movie, "Meet the Deedles," which critics dismissed as a rip-off of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." (As Phil Deedle, he was stuck with dialogue like "What do you say, bro?" and loved to surf, a true-to-life hobby.) Walker's chiseled torso often featured enough of a role in his films to deserve its own shout-out in the closing credits. The marketing campaign for the 2005 surfing film "Into the Blue" featured Walker sans shirt on billboards and buses. When he disrobed for a nude scene in the 2001 thriller "Joy Ride," ABC News ran a lengthy interview about it.
Walker could have easily disappeared in the 00s, but he managed to restart a second act in his career with "The Fast and the Furious." The first car heist thriller, released in 2001, cast Walker as a typical Paul Walker hero -- the affable undercover cop Brian O'Conner, assigned to chasing down (and later befriending) Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto. Director Rob Cohen shared with Variety last night the memory of running into Walker on a Maui beach in 2000 and offering him the role. "He committed on the spot," Cohen said. "We shot the film that summer and he and Diesel were just the perfect duo for me. His American beauty, his athleticism, the directness of his approach to the character, his effusive, down-to-earth personality brought joy to me and everyone around him."
Walker sat out the third chapter, but he later returned to the series as it continued to grow into a pop culture phenomenon. Under Justin Lin's direction, the car chases became operatic sequences to enthrall the series' rabid fans, who hooted at every fiery explosion at midnight screenings. The sixth movie, released last May, grossed $789 million worldwide. The eerie circumstance surrounding Walker's death in a crumpled Porsche (he was in the passenger's seat) will make it hard to watch the seventh installment, which comes out from Universal next summer. Walker spent the second half of his film career trying to stretch in films like Clint Eastwood's "Flags of our Fathers," gritty crime thriller "Running Scared" and a handful of indies. But it's the low-key, goofy Paul Walker that audiences loved and will miss the most.
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Monday, 15 September 2014
New Work!
I've not posted here all summer, I've been busy what with MoTMA being in Bolton in July as part of THIS and I've also been working on the below picture called EVERY TAKEAWAY ON THE A6 (through Salford & Manchester) AND MOST OF THEIR MENUS. It's a single picture which is nearly ten metres long so it's took a while. It's 60cm by 940cm to be precise. You can see it in more detail on my website HERE.
It is of course influenced by (ripped off from) Ed Ruscha. Alfred Wainwright and the drawings he made of his walks also played a part. I think of it as a map as well as an historical record. At least one of the takeaways have already closed and another couple changed their name.
The menus and dots along the top relate to takeaways on the left hand side of the road and the ones along the bottom to the right hand side of the road as you head along the A6 from Bolton through Salford and Manchester and towards Stockport a distance of around sixteen miles. There are eighty-two takeaways.
There is a book to follow.
Saturday, 24 May 2014
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Harvey Benge Has Great Tips.
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Photographer, artist, book maker and kiwi Harvey Benge recently posted his guide/ pointer/things to consider list, when making a photograph. I think this list may be of some use to lots of photographers. Even with this list I know I could never take the kind of effortless (looking) pictures that Harvey takes. Anyway if you want to have a go at being a photographer/poet (and this is the Holy Grail) then take a look at the list below.
1. The content, have an idea and think about what the pictures say.
2. The form, think about what the pictures look like.
3. Consider the context of the pictures, enough or too much.
4. Consider the sweet spot or punctum.
5. Consider the value of signifiers.
6. Avoid making decoration.
7. Don't make boring pictures.
8. Don't make a picture that somebody else has made already.
9. Don't make obvious photographs.
10. Avoid making cliches.
11. Don't make silly juxtapositions.
12. Avoid the one trick pony type of photograph.
13. Make pictures that are intelligent not clever.
14. Avoid fashion for fashions sake.
15. Make the work for yourself, if a few other people like the work, that's a bonus not a given.
2. The form, think about what the pictures look like.
3. Consider the context of the pictures, enough or too much.
4. Consider the sweet spot or punctum.
5. Consider the value of signifiers.
6. Avoid making decoration.
7. Don't make boring pictures.
8. Don't make a picture that somebody else has made already.
9. Don't make obvious photographs.
10. Avoid making cliches.
11. Don't make silly juxtapositions.
12. Avoid the one trick pony type of photograph.
13. Make pictures that are intelligent not clever.
14. Avoid fashion for fashions sake.
15. Make the work for yourself, if a few other people like the work, that's a bonus not a given.
Saturday, 17 May 2014
Ten Ten Big Rubber Ducky Photo Fucky.
When I was about thirteen I had a friend called Ian who was a couple of years older than me. I say friend but in reality he just used to beat the fuck out of me. I'd put up with the beatings because he had a CB radio and for about two weeks in the summer of 1980 I was obsessed with CB radio's.
We would sit in a old Ford Escort at the end of his drive next to an old caravan that was even more beat up than me and talk complete bollocks into the handset. We seldom spoke to truckers who were trying to out run the police. No for some reason the demographic group that liked to use CB radio in North-West England at the time was fat sounding housewives with twenty Benson's voices.
They would have names or handle's like Angel or Mother Bear, never just Debbie or Pauline. Over time you would get to hear the same names popping up again and again. A hierarchy emerged. When some people were "on air" there would be loads of other CBer's trying to talk to them, where as I would sit there lamely shouting "come back" till I was blue in the face and red in the arm where Ian had suddenly remembered to give me another dig. Ultimately I got fed up with CB radio (and casual violence) and moved on to my next two week obsession, fishing.
What's this got to do with photography? Nothing, and everything. What with blogs, social media and photo festivals it takes me back to CB radio. "The online photo community" I keep hearing it called. Do me a favour "The online photo community" is often little better than a couple of little dicks sat in an old motor chatting shit.
This ones for SB.
Saturday, 10 May 2014
STILL LIVES: Still lifes for all...
Ongoing at www.markpagephotography.com
Friday, 2 May 2014
Fat Fuckers...
Jamie Oliver the patron saint of the middle classes as Grayson Perry calls him, was banging on again in the papers about us poor people being fat and it all being down to takeaways.
Anyway in view of this piece of wisdom I thought I would make a takeaway menu for the Michelin star restaurant that he trained in. No war only Class War as they say.
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Even A Play Museum needs A Gift Shop.
Exit through the gift shop and all of that. Every cultural institution worth it's salt needs to make a quid and MoTMA is no different. Go shop. www.takeawaymenumuseum.blogspot.com
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Remember Kids....
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Grown men Playing silly buggers.
I love the fact that my old mate David Dunnico sent me a brilliant new flyer for MoTMA in an envelope addressed as such. You are never too old to play museums and galleries...
Thursday, 27 February 2014
The Rotary Dryer
New set of pictures over at my website www.markpagephotography.com
It's a landscape set and I like to think it's in the great British tradition of landscape.
Monday, 30 December 2013
HALAL SYMBOL SPOT PICTURE 2014 after Damien Hirst.
This picture has now been added to the collection over at www.takeawaymenumuseum.blogspot.com . There seems to be three strands of work emerging over at MoTMA . There is the archive of actual takeaway menus which now number several hundred and that will continue to be added to over the coming years. There are the photographs that explore cultural institutions and are helping to create the myth of MoTMA online.
The third strand is where the above picture fits in and that's making art work from the menus. Trying to tie these three strands together in the future will be the challenge.
Oh yeah Happy New Year, My highlight of 2013? Got to be Mrs Thatcher dying albeit thirty years too late. The only good thing that bitch did was stopping kids school milk. I hated drinking that shit...
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Introducing MoTMA....
My attention has been else where. New blog www.takeawaymenumuseum.blogspot.com It's a spoof museum, although a real archive. It's as genuine as most museums, started with the same good intentions to collect, conserve and celebrate something or other. In this case takeaway menus. The MUSEUM OF TAKEAWAY MENU ART or MoTMA for short has a collection of several hundred menus dating from 2008 until the present day and will continue to collect. The museum only exists as a website, a blog. The blog is set up as though for a physical institution. It will be used as a vehicle to explore the world of cultural institutions. It may become a photo series or book, or both. This is art.
Monday, 7 October 2013
Image copyright Mark Page and THE SALFORD & DISTRICT TAKEAWAY MENU MUSEUM.
The above image is a 2 metre by 1.5 metre digital collage which is made up from takeaway menus that have been posted through my front door over the last five years. I now have several hundred of these colourful little pamphlets which is why I have decided to form THE SALFORD & DISTRICT TAKEAWAY MENU MUSEUM.
It is a bit tongue in cheek but I do also think that they do or at least will form part of our social history. I believe that there is a pencil museum somewhere so come on! It's also a chance to take a look at the workings of institutions such as museums and galleries.
If you have menus to contribute and they are from Greater Manchester then please send me them, email me for an address.
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
'When Anish Kapoor Came Round For his Tea' by Mark Page.
This story starts in the spring of 2013. I was sat eating a Babybel cheese one night and as I was playing with the red wax I thought to myself, "bloody hell Mark, that wax looks like the stuff Anish Kapoor makes his sculptures out of". So that summer I spent much of my time imagining what other things found in an everyday kitchen could have inspired Anish Kapoor. I liked the idea that a great artist of international standing would come round to your house for tea but just couldn't stop creating Art.
Towards the end of summer I had a set of photographs. Earlier that same summer it had been announced that Anish Kapoor was to get a knighthood. I thought it would be nice of me to make a little book out of the pictures and send them to Anish as a way of congratulating him. And so a book was made, a jiffy bag bought and off it went to Sir Anish's gallery in London.
I didn't have time to forget all about it, as within the week I got an email back from Anish saying how much he had enjoyed the book and how kind it was of me to invite him to tea. (He also wanted to order more copies of the book which is always nice),
and he was also interested in what else we could do together with the book and I am now in touch with his studio.
And so the story continues..... Fact coming out of fiction. The moral of the story? Always eat cheese before bed.
Saturday, 6 July 2013
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Not At Arles in Body but........
It's Arles next week, I've never been. My work's been there twice now. First Semi's went to a little fringe show in 2010 and next week Art is Godd is going as part of ROAST BEEF presents. If you are going and you get the chance please go and have a look. It's at 8 Rue Favorin, Place du Forum Arles. It's on between the 1st and 4th July. More details in the previous post.
I've never been to Arles but I have an image in my head and I made the above still life in honour of the inaugural ROAST BEEF presents. As with my other still lifes it's 80% made from images sourced from the web.
I've never been to Arles but I have an image in my head and I made the above still life in honour of the inaugural ROAST BEEF presents. As with my other still lifes it's 80% made from images sourced from the web.
Saturday, 1 June 2013
ROAST BEEF presents....
Good old line up, I think I'm on it because it's my ball so to speak. We hope ROAST BEEF presents will become an on going way to get British photographers work shown overseas. So Scotland if you go for Independence that's just one more opportunity you are going to fuck up.
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Rhodri Brooks
I only stop by this blog and post when something catches my eye these days. Rhodri Brooks pictures really made me smile, they are so fucking silly in a good way. I had to add to the photographers list at the side.
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Makes Me Scream.
I hung this picture by FRANCIS Bacon at work yesterday, Strange Coincidence. I bet it's why this fella picked the name Francis in honour of Bacon cos he knows how much Bacon loved his Popes.
The BBC News has become obsessed (or maybe it's possessed ?) with all this Popey stuff. Why? I'm not sure. It's not like we are this great devout nation. We decide we didn't like their type in 1534. Maybe the BBC has had a change of heart. After all the Catholic Church and the BBC do have lots in common...
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