A few weeks ago I shot an event at Dave & Buster’s in the new Tempe Marketplace.  What a fun place!!!  The event was a one day retreat for all the United Blood Services donor recruitment staff.  They are a hard working group of people and definitely deserved a fun day away from the office.  The role of this department is literally to go out into the general public and get donors to give blood . . . through whatever means necessary.  Often times this means long days, evening and weekends and lots and lots of “No Thanks”.

The purpose behind the event was to motivate the staff and thank everyone for all their hard-work in 2007.  The staff at Dave & Buster’s lead the group in a couple of really fun games which made for some great photo opportunities!

It was fun watching the employees cheering each other on

A little B-Ball action

Photo Booth Fun

Score!!!!!!!

And down the stretch they come!

I loved the reflections in this shot

We’re talking SERIOUS FUN here people

Looks like somebody hit the jackpot

The day ended with a sparkling apple cider toast and the presentation of awards.

And of course a little silliness . . .

Click here to see a slide show of the event. Thanks for letting me shoot this one – it was really a fun event!

Phoenix Wedding Photographer shoots United Blood Services holiday blood drive.

As you can probably tell, I’m busy playing catch up on my blog from all the holiday activities. This is my 4th blog in 3 days with several more to come!

Before the Christmas bustle even began, I was busy planning an event for United Blood Services as part of my day job. The event was a big community blood drive hosted by the Phoenix Coyotes at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale.

As you may know, the holiday season is traditionally one of the most diffucult times of the year to maintain the blood supply for Arizona hospitals. With many regular donors vacationing and keeping busy with holiday preparations, blood donations tend to decline. What most people don’t realize is that it takes over 700 blood donors A DAY to maintain our state’s blood supply and that doesn’t exclude the holidays!

The event at Jobing.com was held in an effort to vamp up the blood supply for the holiday season. The event was a huge success! Over 1oo people came out to donate. I was in charge of the event, so I didn’t have much time for a lot of shooting, but I did get some fun shots here and there. Here’s a few of my favorites:

The Coyotes provided this super fun inflatable slapshot for our kids area. Here’s one of our volunteers testing his skills.

Here’s a shot of some of our staff hard at work.

A hockey league practiced on the arena floor while our staff ate lunch.

Thanks to all those who came out to give blood! It was really fun to see all the holiday spirit . . .

. . . and the Coyotes fans too!

Our talented graphic designer Chris, had taken time off for the holidays, but he and his wife Lori came by to donate at the event.

Overall, it was a great event and most importantly, over a hundred donations were made that will benefit Arizona hospital patients.

For more information about blood donation, visit www.UnitedBloodServicesAZ.org.

Phoenix Wedding photographer plays paparazzi for the day

Today I brought the old D80 along with me to my day job in order to document all the Halloween festivities at UBS. For my costume I decided to go as a paparazzi. I admit, its a pretty sad costume considering all I did was wear street clothes with my camera and tape a “paparazzi” sign on me. What can I say? I was keeping it simple. Anyhow, lots of my crazy co-workers got all decked out to celebrate the day. Here’s a few of my favorite shots:

Gotta love the self portrait! Happy Halloween everybody!