The wild world of Blogging!

Well I'm taking the plunge of creating a web log. It's a little scary to know I can share my thoughts with so many in such an open environment. I must admit my desire to start a blog came after I read Daniel's, my brother-in-law, blog for a couple of weeks. I was amazed how open he was with his thoughts and I decided I would do the same.

I currently reside in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My wife and I have a Wedding Videography company and enjoy the benefits of working together. I do still have a full time job at WilTel Communications as a Production Manager overseeing the daily crisis of system outages. The name of our company is Take 5 Video. We like to make MTV style music videos. Not only do we really enjoy the faster music, but our clients seem to enjoy having something unique and different to share with their friends and family.

As someone who works with video everyday, I must say it is just amazing what can be done with a single frame of video. I think the most rewarding part of what we do is seeing the looks of our clients when they first see their final Wedding Video. To this day, I'm still blown away at the power of video of all other mediums.

Owning a business of any kind is difficult. You don't really think about profit and losses or revenue streams in your daily life, however it is the name of the game when you are in business. I have found some great resources that help the local videographer get started and advance. To help us we joined WEVA, the Wedding and Event Videography Association. WEVA offers insight from videographers across the world. For my local support I'm a member of the Oklahoma Professional Videograhers Association, OKPVA.

I've only been a member of the OKPVA for 1 year when I was nominated and voted in as the 2005 President. Talk about an honor. It feels really good when your peers ask you to help lead them and the organization through the year. We are now in March and I was excited to tell everyone the OKPVA would be visited my Matrox to show off some tools to help videographers create more complex video segments. This visit is so exciting because vendors just don't stop by local associations in Tier 4 or 5 markets, which Tulsa is a Tier 5 market. I hope the membership will get value from Matrox's visit.

Well that's a little about me. I'm now more excited then ever to keep sharing!

--Jesse