Showcasing a gorgeous wedding held at The Bretton Woods. From their website, their name goes as The Mansion, but it is more commonly known as The Bretton Woods. Located in Morris Plains, it’s an elegant colonial mansion surrounded by beautiful gardens.
Al Ojeda Photography – New Jersey Wedding Photographers – Covering the TriState Area – Destination Weddings
Contact info: ida@alojeda.com – 908 240 3240
A colleague sent us an email with the following suggestion:
Subject: e-scam
Thank you for posting the e-scam – this person recently contacted my studio.I submitted a report to the FBI which you might want to post the link onto the site for these other photographers to report the same:Much appreciated!
This is one of the emails that us and many other photographers have received with few differences for the locations:
“PHOTO SERVICE REQUEST
Greetings!
My name is Joe and my wife’s name is Pamela, we live and work as wine sellers(wholesale/retail) in England and China and will be relocating to the State of New Jersey, USA on the 12th of October,2010.
I came across your contact information on the internet after my online search for a photographer and I hereby write to request if you will be available to offer 4hours of photographic services for the celebration of our 5th wedding anniversary on our arrival to the States. Myself,my wife,my lovely daughter-Debbie and about 12 family members and friends will be present.
Could you please provide answers to these questions if you are interested in this offer
1)Will you be available to provide this service on any date between October 15th and 20th? if so what precise date will be fine for you so as to include this in our plan?
2)What is your address location in New Jersey so as to estimate how close you are to us ?
Should you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact me on my phone no: +447405591742 +447405591742
Regards,
Joe Akins
27 Camberwell Green,
London, SE5 7AN”
Another email received:
“comments = Dear Al Ojeda,
This is a requisition for your fotography services. I am Steve Huso. Based in London. My wedding is coming up on October 9, 2010. Pleese I will want to hire your service to be the photographer on my wedding day in London. I am sorting an america photographer because I really want to make the wedding event a wonderfull day for my American fiance.
You will cover the whole events from Getting ready, Ceremony, and the Reception. I want you to capture the atmosphere of the event so that we can relive the special day moment by moment, photo by photo, for a lifetime. Capture all those little moments that make the wedding day incredible. Also, I will want you to make an album from the event.I will prefer popular flush mount albums that are custom designed.
I am of the opinion that you are capable to provide the incredible services as requested.Please accept my sincerest appreciation on behalf of my fiance, in advance for your willingness to render your services.
Kind Regard,
Steve Huso”
So our fellow photographer’s suggestion is to take a couple minutes to report them to the FBI… it might be a good idea to do it… though we know they will be back in another shape to try to get us…
Besides photography, music has been one big thing in my life, I guess making a circle on my passion to arts.
In my early stages, I studied flute a couple years, didn’t start young enough, and also had to work a regular job to pay the bills, so I had to let it go against my deepest feelings…
Years later, I decided to become a full time photographer. At some point, I started working on the idea of doing an essay of these two arts that were so close to my heart.
I went to Luis Szarán, who is the Director of the Asuncion Symphonic Orchestra, and ask him to allow me to go to their rehearsals and shoot, he kindly agreed…
Here are some pics of what I called “The Music in Movement”. It was shown first at an art gallery on March, 1999, and a couple months later at the inauguration of the Symphonic Orchestra’s Season that year in Asuncion, Paraguay.
All pictures were taken in film, so I scanned the proofs. This was one of my last essays before coming to USA.
I hope you enjoy my vision…
Al Ojeda
A note about Luis Szarán:
Conductor, Composer and Musicologist. He studied in Asunción with José Luis Miranda. Then in Santa Cecilia’s Conservatory, Rome, with Massimo Pradella and Piero Belluggi. Perfected in international courses as: “Teatro Colón” from Buenos Aires with Hans Swarowsky; “Academia Chigiana” of Siena with Franco Ferrara; “Institute Francesco Cannetti” with Luciano Berio; “Bayreuth Festival” with Zwinieg Rudzinsky, to mention a few. From 1990 he has been managing the Symphonic Orchestra of the City of Asunción (OSCA), and is also the Director of the Chamber Orchestra Philomusica de Asunción. He has conducted noted orchestras worldwide, earned numerous prizes, national and international recognitions, and is also dedicated to spread the music amongst young neediest on the Paraguayan countryside through his organization: “Sonidos de la Tierra”.
Featuring a wedding held at The Avenue… The bride got ready at The Bungalow, a stylish hotel located in Pier Village, Long Branch, just a few steps away from The Avenue and the beach.
The ceremony and “cocktail style reception” was held at the Nuit located at the top of the roof of The Avenue… The Nuit is a modern sleek beachfront chic place, great option if looking for a relaxed style wedding, not the traditional sitting down dinner…
Weather permit, summer beach weddings are for gorgeous blue sky photos… Here to showcase Alida and Don’s, we decided to go different in B&W. Of course, the couple got all their photos in color and B&W…
The Avenue Wedding Photos – Jersey Shore Wedding Photos
Al Ojeda Photography – New Jersey Wedding Photographers – Covering the Tri-State Area – Destination Weddings
Contact info: ida@alojeda.com – 908 240 3240
Wedding photos taken at The Shadowbrook in Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Lovely couple… Lovely place.
The Shadowbrook Wedding Photo
The Shadowbrook Wedding Photo
The Shadowbrook Wedding Photo
The Oak Room, The Shadowbrook Wedding Photo
Al Ojeda Photography
New Jersey Wedding Photographer – Covering the Tri-State Area – Destination Weddings
Contact info: ida@alojeda.com – 908 240 3240
It looks like scammers are working hard to get us, in less than a week we got another one. If you receive an email similar to the following, don’t respond:
comments = Dear Al Ojeda,
This is a requisition for your fotography services. I am Steve Huso. Based in London. My wedding is coming up on October 9, 2010. Pleese I will want to hire your service to be the photographer on my wedding day in London. I am sorting an america photographer because I really want to make the wedding event a wonderfull day for my American fiance.
You will cover the whole events from Getting ready, Ceremony, and the Reception. I want you to capture the atmosphere of the event so that we can relive the special day moment by moment, photo by photo, for a lifetime. Capture all those little moments that make the wedding day incredible. Also, I will want you to make an album from the event.I will prefer popular flush mount albums that are custom designed.
I am of the opinion that you are capable to provide the incredible services as requested.Please accept my sincerest appreciation on behalf of my fiance, in advance for your willingness to render your services.
Kind Regard,
Steve Huso
We do have a wedding on the day posted, but anyway by curiosity, googled the request for photo services because it sounded suspicious… Brides and/or Grooms have a very different approach when looking for photo services…
Most Photographers know about them, but for those who have never gotten one, here is what we do: Whenever we receive a weird-suspicous kind of email resquesting photo services, we go immediately to google, type any address, name from it and check if anyone else has had received one of them. Usually, we are right, and can read in any photography related forum that someone else has received similar “emails”… Trust your guts, don’t be fooled.
Here is the email we received a couple days ago:
PHOTO SERVICE REQUEST
Greetings!
My name is Joe and my wife’s name is Pamela, we live and work as wine sellers(wholesale/retail) in England and China and will be relocating to the State of New Jersey, USA on the 12th of October,2010.
I came across your contact information on the internet after my online search for a photographer and I hereby write to request if you will be available to offer 4hours of photographic services for the celebration of our 5th wedding anniversary on our arrival to the States. Myself,my wife,my lovely daughter-Debbie and about 12 family members and friends will be present.
Could you please provide answers to these questions if you are interested in this offer
1)Will you be available to provide this service on any date between October 15th and 20th? if so what precise date will be fine for you so as to include this in our plan?
2)What is your address location in New Jersey so as to estimate how close you are to us ?
Should you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact me on my phone no: +447405591742 +447405591742
Regards,
Joe Akins
27 Camberwell Green,
London, SE5 7AN
We found this same email with different addresses on it. As you can see, ours is from somone located in “London” (the address is actually from Haart, a Realtor Company) whereas other colleagues have gotten the exact same but from some country in Africa, Asia, etc.
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