Kristy May Photography | New York City and Long Island Wedding Photographer

Rue Magazine Issue 3 Launch Party

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

I recently discovered the beautiful Rue Magazine and I just love their usage of photography. At must see for those interested in interior design and all things lovely. Somehow I ended-up photographing their issue 3 launch party at The New Traditionalists gorgeous Soho showroom on Monday!

Rue Magazine Party 1/31 – Images by Kristy May

Networking with ISES New York is fun, and tasty

Friday, January 21st, 2011

In November 2009, I attended Pictage’s PartnerCon in New Orleans. It was such a great event in many ways and I met a lot of great people. But just like with every conference or workshop, you leave so excited but a bit overwhelmed at the new information and the work you now must do. Better late than never, I’m finally implementing one of the pieces of advice I gleaned from a workshop by Atlanta photographer Shari Zellers. Shari suggested joining a professional organization like ISES or NACES which are composed of all kinds of special events vendors from florists, caterers to event planners and designers. She described how the connections she made with order vendors has helped her career and even more importantly also found her good friends. I was inspired at the time to join, but it just wasn’t the right time.

ISES

Since moving back to New York over the summer, I’ve been learning about the wedding and special events industry in New York. Quite a daunting, but exciting, task! I finally decided to check out ISES, International Special Events Society, and attended a networking event on Wednesday at the Helen Mills Theater with my new business cards in tow. It was such a great event. Should I have been surprised? The speaker Andrea Nierenberg was excellent! She even emailed everyone a list of tips after the event so we could better focus on what she was saying. A few things I learned:

• One should wear nametags on the right, not left, so when you shake hands it can be easily seen.
• Listen, more than you talk!
• Write Thank You cards. Just one a day, or a few extra emails a day can keep you on someone’s radar.
• Follow-up! Ask people what their preferred form of contact is.

The food by member Paul Neuman’s catering company, was delicious. (A reason to join right there!) I somehow managed to get the last cheesecake lollipop which was awesome. As were the mini lobster rolls, gruyere and mushroom pizzas and addictive flaky cheese sticks at the bar. Not that I had much time to eat, given all of the talking!

A yummy chocolate covered strawberry by Neuman's

Needless to say, I joined. I met lots of really interesting people and look forward to more events (with awesome food!) and meeting others who love what they do as much as I do. Somehow David Fletcher of New York’s Best convinced me to sponsor the next event in February!

Now to see what other gems of past workshop advice I can put to good use!

Oh, and the Moo cards were a hit!

What’s in my blog toolkit

Monday, January 10th, 2011

My New Years Resolution is to blog more. (hahaha, we shall see!) And to that light I’ve redesigned this blog. Here’s my toolkit.

Photo Plus Expo 2010

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Just back from Photo Plus 2010, and my feet are killing me! But it was really worth it this year. Discovered some great vendors, saw lots of friends and finally found a cheap place to eat/pick-up food near Javits! (Food Depot @10th and 34th) Wish I could have stayed a bit longer, but I’ve got to be up at 4:30 am tomorrow to catch the Huffington Post Bus to DC for the big rally! (I’m covering it for a newspaper, which means I won’t be allowed to laugh…:)

Back to Photo Plus and my favorite finds:

Cypress Albums – I WILL be adding these lovely albums and presentation boxes to my wedding product offerings asap.

Daylite and Billings – Billing and opportunity/client management software for the MAC and iPhone. I’m all about iPhone apps for productivity and want to sync, baby, sync everything.

Moo - Love the mini business cards with a different photo on each one, perfect for people like me who can’t decide on one! They also have mini stickers and lots of cool biz card holders.

Fro Knows Photo – I saw this guy with a massive fro hanging out at the Adorama booth wearing a shirt that said “I shoot raw”. Well, so do I! Jared Polin, aka Fro, sells them on his website. He has lots of other videos and goodies on his site too!

Vendors I already love, but love even more:

Adorama – So awesome, $50 credit to adoramapix.com for letting them scan your badge. Oh yeah!

Photoshelter – I was bummed they didn’t have a booth, only because I wanted to say hi. But then today I learned of their awesome plan to bring a burger truck to Javits and give out free burgers and fries! And current customers got to skip the line. Nice. I don’t eat meat, but I got some fries.

Things I didn’t like:

PLEASE STOP DISTRIBUTING PLASTIC BAGS!!! Nikon, really?

Paying $3.75 for a bag of tea and hot water.

Having to share a ladies room with models. So not fair. Mirrors are bad enough…..

Nuit Blanche – Bring to Light

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

Greenpoint hosted the first Bring to Light festival in NYC tonight. Very cool installations, projections and performances along West, Oak and Noble Streets near Franklin.

See more photos here!