FSB082: Christine Tremoulet

My favorite blogging program is WordPress (the blog you’re reading is a WordPress blog). So, I was excited and surprised to learn that today’s guest, Christine Tremoulet (weddidng and boudoir photographer, and a self-admitted geek) is the person who came up with the name WordPress. Christine is a good friend of Matt Mullinweg (the lead developer of the platform) and at the time he was developing it, she suggested the name (she’s even mentioned in Wikipedia under her maiden name Selleck). At the time she had owned her own blog hosting company and was active in the whole internet developer scene. But ever since high school she was in love with taking pictures. She just never thought she could make money at it. So, after selling her blog hosting company, she determined that was the best time to pursue her passion.

Today’s show is a fun and enlightening look at Christine’s life and the world of Web 2.0. As someone with almost 3,900 Twitter followers, she has a thing or two to say about the topic. She talks about the importance of blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and how they all give her clients a sense of comfort and who she is. She even gives us her take on how the proliferation of digital photos on Facebook is affecting the photography world. If you’re wondering if all this talk about blogs and Twitter are worth it in your photography business, this interview will put you at ease. But perhaps the most amazing thing we learn in this interview is that despite being a geek, until only a few years Christine did not know that Luke and Leia were twins. (Scary!) You’ll have a lot of fun (and learn a bunch too) with this one.

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Next week we have celebrity music and commercial photographer Jeremy Cowart. Just nine months after starting his commercial photography business, he got to interview Sting. ‘Nuff said. Don’t miss it

Find the FSB RangeFinder Ad and Win Prizes

Are you ready to win some valuable prizes? We have a couple of fun contests coming your way where you can. Here’s the first:

FIND OUR AD

F-Stop Beyond has an ad in the April issue of RangeFinder Magazine. Find it, Tweet about it on Twitter, and be entered into a drawing at the end of the month to win some very cool prizes. Here’s all you have to do:

1. Find the ad in the April 2009 issue of RangeFinder Magazine.
2. Note what page it’s on. (Hint: if you use the index, look for the new name of our company. It’s no longer Cinematic Studios).
3. Then on Twitter, enter this tweet: @rondawson The F-Stop Beyond ad in RangeFinder this month is on page xxx — where “xxx” is the page number (note, the page number isn’t necessarily a 3-digit number). You must enter the @rondawson part correctly or else I won’t be able to see your tweet when I do a Twitter search for it.
4. You can tweet as many times as you like. Do it once a day if you like. Every hour even. You can use a free service like Tweet Later to schedule multiple tweets (they have a lot of other cool features too).
5. Every qualifying Tweet will be entered into the drawing. You can win multiple times!
6. The drawing will be held a the end of the month.

OUR SPONSORS

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Photographers’ Round Table/The Longest Day Season DVD

We’re going to produce a DVD of the photographer’s round table that we taped the day after filming “The Longest Day.” Over twenty of the country’s top pro wedding and portrait photographers share with us their secrets and how they deal with this economy. Mediated by Skip Cohen it’s an excellent educational tool. The DVD will also include all episodes from “The Longest Day” as well as some bonus videos which didn’t air during the season run. We’re going to add this to the prize list as well.

So what are you waiting for. Start tweeting today!