Day 2 Part Two:
DOYLESTOWN, PA – MARCH 26: A man stands at the podium speaking to the audience before the start of a Spring Equinox program at Pebble Hill Church March 26, 2014 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Cain Images) (William Thomas Cain)
Day 2:
HARTSVILLE, PA – MARCH 26: A snow covered umbrella cap rests upon a teak dining table March 26, 2014 in Hartsville, Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Cain Images)
Photographed Edward Hanko, FBI Special Agent in Charge of Philadelphia as he spoke to the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce in Buckingham, Pennsylvania. Ran into a client at the event that I hadn’t seen in a while. Hanko had some interesting things to say.
Pictures:
BUCKINGHAM, PA – MARCH 25: Edward Hanko, FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia division speaks at the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce quarterly CEO Global Briefing, an invitation-only event for high-level executives and business owners at The Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm March 25, 2014 in Buckingham Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Cain Images)
BUCKINGHAM, PA – MARCH 25: Edward Hanko, FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia division speaks at the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce quarterly CEO Global Briefing, an invitation-only event for high-level executives and business owners at The Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm March 25, 2014 in Buckingham Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Cain Images)
Read the story @ http://www.theintell.com/news/local/philadelphia-fbi-director-cybercrimes-a-growing-threat/article_01fb3c0f-77af-5f49-8938-74cd3f21868f.html
Shot a groundbreaking and was kind of irritated that all I had was some images of talking heads. So, I stayed a bitt longer then normal. The participants were standing around after the event having a chat about the project. They had left the shovels sticking out of the ground. As I wandered, I noticed a soldier standing behind one of the shovels and started to play with the idea in my head. I made my way over to the soldier, focused and then proceeded to place my camera on the ground for a low able view. I’m sure these guys thought I was crazy, but I was just looking for a more interesting way to show a routine groundbreaking. The editors must have liked, because that’s what they chose to use in the paper. 🙂
DOYLESTOWN, PA – MARCH 24: Robert Bray, US Army from Kansas City, Missouri stands near a shovel used during the Groundbreaking for the Global War on Terrorism memorial March 24, 2014 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Cain Images) (William Thomas Cain)
The US Army Field Band and Chorus performed Monday night at Bensalem High School with a free concert. The short amount of what I was able to see was pretty entertaining. The crowd seemed pleased. The band was flawless and the chorus even better.
Here are some images:
And a video:
FAIRLESS HILLS, PA – MARCH 15: Tom Holden, of Fairless Hills, Pennylvania marches as St. Patrick during the St. Patrick's Day Parade March 15, 2014 in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Cain Images)
FAIRLESS HILLS, PA – MARCH 15: Scott McIntosh, of Newtown, Pennsylvania marches during the St. Patrick's Day Parade March 15, 2014 in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Cain Images)
FAIRLESS HILLS, PA – MARCH 15: Dan Mcauliffe of Langhorne, Pennsylvania wears a green hat and shamrock sunglasses during the St. Patrick's Day Parade March 15, 2014 in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Cain Images)
On Saturday I photographed and made a short video of a soldier returning from Afghanistan and surprised his family at Sesame Place.
Video & stills from Pumpkinfest 2013 at the Moravian Tileworks in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
When I was at the Inquirer I photographed this event ever year and always had a blast. One of the bummers about this years event was that the assignment sheet said 5p. By the time I arrived at 5p, the sculptors had mostly finished their carvings. I made the best of it and got some nice images.
Click the images to see the gallery. 🙂
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of photographing Sandy & Don’s wedding at Peddler’s Village in Lahaska, Pennsylvania. Click the link to see the beautiful images we captured that day.
http://cainimages.photoshelter.com/gallery/Sandy-Don-Lahaska-Pa/G0000UOrH20irlWM/
Watermarks. I’m not a fan and really don’t like using them. But, when it comes to protecting our copyrights, incidents of late have made me rethink our whole policy.
While I can appreciate the fact that someone likes and wants to share an image, I can not allow theft of our images. There are sharing icons under an image for just that reason. If a person shares our images via one of those links, they and I can be assured that whomever sees the image will be viewing it as intended and that our copyrights are protected. One of the features of our host for galleries is those images can not be downloaded. In the past that was enough of a deterrent.
Recently, someone that we photographed made a frame grab of an image on one of our galleries and uploaded it to Facebook. They didn’t attribute the image, just posted it. Aside from the fact that the person did not have permission, one of the problems I have is the fact that the frame grab is not a finished product and totally misrepresents our work. The image file size is at least 3,800 pixels wide when I upload to my site. Most times when viewing on my site the image will display at at least 900 pixels wide. Those images are optimized for viewing on the site at that size. Then someone views the image on their iPhone and makes a frame capture of that picture. That image size is roughly 400 pixels wide. When posting the image on Facebook it looks nothing like we originally intend or want.
When we do find that someone has posted one of our images on Facebook without permission, we immediately report it and have it removed from Facebook.
There is a huge expense in producing high resolution images. Each camera costs at least $3,000 and then you factor in travel time, fuel, tolls, insurance, car insurance, etc., it adds up quickly. We can’t allow people to STEAL images from our site and post them somewhere without our permission.
We reserve the right to control how an image is reproduced because that is how we stay in business.
It seems that people generally do not understand that when we make a picture, we own the copyright of the image as well as the right to reproduce that image any way we see fit. We may chose to have an agreement, in writing that the client can reproduce the image, but that is at our discretion. And the client NEEDs to have permission via a written LICENSE to reprint pictures.
So, for those reasons, you may see some of our gallery images now feature a watermark like the one above. Proof CD’s will also now come with watermarked images.
Print orders will not be watermarked.
I do apologize for any inconvenience, but we need to protect our work and copyrights.
Please do not infringe upon our copyrighted work.
I made some nice images the other day of a little guy at the Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown, Pennsylvania for his mom.
Full gallery @ http://cainimages.photoshelter.com/gallery/Lowenstein/G0000U_7XFv.EaBc
After looking around for an interesting place to make pictures of this lovely couple, I found a bar area near the pool that had a mirror behind it.
A great place to make a reflection image.
Full gallery online @ http://cainimages.photoshelter.com/gallery/Ahmad/G00003ex92UdHA7c
Shot this little one on the beach in Avalon last week. Other pictures from the family shoot can be seen in the full gallery @ http://cainimages.photoshelter.com/gallery/Pizzillo/G0000XprAXA0Vxn8
Playing with some old images and made a photo illustration as a demo for my Surreal Digital Photography class.
This is the kind of stuff I wanted to create while attending University of the Arts. Problem then was that it was frowned upon to use photos in illustrations. A while back I had to photograph one of my old professors at the college who told me that this is all the students do now. The illustration was created using Adobe Photoshop CC.
Looks like I was ahead of my time. 🙁
Fun shoot with the Wicks family.
Full gallery @ http://cainimages.photoshelter.com/gallery/Wicks/G0000u8FBEl2RFtE