Rotary Club

Are you involved with a group or organization? There are so many to choose from. Small or large, together many hands make light work! Pictured here is the Perry Rotary Club. Taking time to mark a moment in their clubs history. We at Carlson's applaud the efforts of all who choose to get involved. You almost always get back more than you put into it. Funny how that works!

 

 

Perry Rotary Club 2012

Take me to the Prom!

(Ally and her boyfriend.)

The perfect dress [check] hair style [check] date [check…or maybe stag!] shoes, nails and flowers [check,check, check] now who’s going to take the pictures of you and all your friends on prom day?? 

 

 

 

Why not Carlson’s?! Even if the Prom Committee didn’t select Carlson’s as your Prom Photographer, doesn’t mean you can’t have Carlson’s Photos to capture the memories.

 Just this past Saturday Ally, our 2013 Senior Rep from Avon, invited us to be a part of her special day with all her friends.

(All the girls)

We all gathered at the Livingston Campus Park for a quick photo session before the prom which was just a short drive away at the Genesee River Hotel.  The girls all looked fabulous in their dresses and the guys were all very handsome in their tuxes. 

(boys will be boys)

(no one fell in!)

(All the guys)

The setting was perfect with little white bridges over a beautiful pond. Ally was the perfect coordinator for bringing a total of 21 people together for a Pre-Prom photo op.  We are so lucky to have her on our team this year to help launch our senior season. 

(Pictured are a couple of shots from the session on Saturday.)

Interested in Pre-prom photos like Ally's? Just call and ask if we have your prom date available, we'd love to take part in capturing your memories of this special day.

United Way 5th Annual Day of Caring.

Kevin recently had the opportunity to visit with and photograph some of the volunteers at the United Way Day of Caring event on May 16th. 

The first year the Day of Caring had 70 volunteers and covered 7 locations.  This year, numbers reached over 300 volunteers of individuals, businesses, and civic groups and even the Batavia Student Council covering 34 work sites from fixing up old bicycles for re-use to sprucing up the playground at the School for the Blind.

 Pictured are photos from the morning kick-off of the event where volunteers gathered for an inspirational message from a School of the Blind director about the amazing impact the Day Of Caring had last year.

They also listen to a story with a great pay-it-forward message about a boy and puzzles.  A young boy at school loved doing puzzles but didn’t like classwork and for that his grades suffered.  This teacher invited the boy to do puzzles in her room during his lunch period.  She encouraged him and offered up words of kindness.  One day she bought a 20,000 piece puzzle for him to work on.  His grades began to improve with her encouragement and by the end of his 7^th grade year he went from almost failing to a solid B student.  The next 5 years came and went with him visiting this teacher to work on the massive 20,000 piece puzzle but he didn’t even complete it by graduation.

He took it to college…Associates…Bachelors…Masters…and a Doctorate degree later her FINALLY finished the puzzle and wanted to share this success with his teacher that started it all.  She was proud of him no doubt, and thanked her for her encouragement because he recognized that without it he may not have gotten so far in life and achieved so much.  Her message to him was that it was now his turn to help someone else the way she had helped him. 

It just goes to show that, sometimes it’s just the little things you can do that make a difference.  Something as simple as kind words of encouragement can help someone in ways you couldn’t have imagined.

Senior Season

 It’s that time of year again…Senior Season! And we couldn’t be more excited about it.

 Senior Year is such a special time in our lives.  It’s a year of legend that we spend our whole high school careers working towards and looking forward to and then in the blink of an eye…it’s over.  Prom comes and then Graduation and you’re on to bigger things like college and jobs and seeing new people and stepping outside of the places you have known and into the unknown.  You only get to be this age once, and experience this transition from childhood to young adulthood and enter into the “Real World” that everyone has been telling you about.   

At Carlson’s we love to capture that “in between” stage you’re living in.  We love hearing about your future plans and getting a real sense of who you are.  It’s such an amazing experience for us to have the privilege of working with you in this special time in your life and hopefully capturing a sense of who you are to share with friends and loved ones to cherish for years to come.

Senior pictures are more than just a picture of what you look like at this age. They encompass who you really are, a compilation of the past 17/18 years of your life, and how you want to be remembered.  In 10, 20, or even 50 years from now when you take out that dusty old yearbook from the closet, what will your picture say about you?

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