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a shout out to my 2011 brides!

January 23, 2012

“{Tampa,FL} – January 23, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce Life Writing Photography has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Photography!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, Life Writing Photography was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.

Life Writing Photography is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Life Writing Photography for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”

We are happy to announce that Life Writing Photography is one of the very best Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.

How are the winners determined?
The WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards ™ recognizes the top local wedding professionals from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism. Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the organization, the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ are awarded solely based on the reviews from over 1.2 million newlyweds. Awards are determined by a combination of four factors: Overall rating (quality), total number of reviews (quantity), review performance from 2011 (recency), and consistency of reviews from year to year (consistency). This year’s recipients represent the top 5% of WeddingWire’s vendor community, across all service categories and all regions throughout the US and Canada.”

- press release written by Wedding Wire

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As stated above, the award is given to the top 5% of Wedding Wire vendors based on reviews from their wedding clients. Thus, I have to THANK each of my 2011 brides who took the time to write raving reviews!! I LOVED working with each and every one of you and cannot thank you enough for the opportunity to photograph your wedding day. You are what makes Life Writing Photography what it is!!

2011 brides – each of you are uniquely gorgeous! Here’s your shout out:

The following bride {Stacey} you have not gotten to see yet . . . her April 2011 wedding will be published soon . . . we are waiting for a surprise, but here is a glimpse:

PS… If you have ever had photos taken by me and have never written a review (it does not matter how long ago your shoot was), please consider doing so. It takes 5 minutes and tremendously helps Life Writing Photography (plus, I give a free 5×7 for each review, so it is so worth it!)

Here are directions for where to post:

……….~ If you were a NON-WEDDING client (family, engagement, senior portrait session): (1 review, 1 post) Google Places Page

………..~ If you were a WEDDING client: (write 1 review and post to 2 places) Google Places Page and Wedding Wire Page.

Again – THANK YOU to ALL of you who took the time to write a review.

~ Janie

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St. Pete Times

January 4, 2010

Hi guys . . . so this is kind of an exciting thing for me: I was in the St. Petersburg Times on New Year’s Day in an article called “Creative people to watch . . .” The article focused on several different people throughout the Tampa Bay Area who are doing a variety of creative things. I feel honored to be among such interesting individuals and really excited that my photography is being noticed. If you didn’t read this blog, I would not have been chosen for the story . . . so thank you! I put a photo below that is a little closer because you can probably make out the caption better. The article is also on-line here with everyone’s little blurps. I‘ll paste mine below.

Janie Koike, the passionate photographer

CARROLLWOOD — As a student at Plant High School, Janie Koike loved to take pictures of her friends. At the prom. On camping trips. Movie night at her place. She has armloads of scrap books to prove it.

“I’ve always loved capturing those moments,” said Koike, now 26.

In the years since, Koike has taken that love and developed it into a business with a focus on nature and the simpler things in life.

“Like a tree bark,” she said. “If you look at that it’s not very interesting, but if you take a picture, it just comes to life.”

While she does photograph weddings and other special occasions, Koike’s online blog is filled with candid pictures from a variety of natural settings. She often pairs the pictures with prose and music.

In an entry titled “How He Loves Us,” Koike features pictures of swaying plants and trees. David Crowder’s song of the same title plays in the background.

She recently snapped pictures of gentle waves rolling up on the sand at Long Boat Key. The grandmother of her husband, Kenzo Koike, had just died, and she wanted to reflect the mood.

“They were peaceful,” said Koike, who works full time as a volunteer coordinator for the Red Cross Tampa Bay.

She uses emotion and color to create her own style. In a blog post about hope, she pairs vibrant pictures of purple, orange and pink flowers with lyrics to Christian singer Brandon Heath’s songWait and See.

“It’s a passion coming to life,” she said, “and it’s so fun.”

Nicole Hutcheson, Times staff writer

Photo by Edmund D. Fountain of the St. Pete Times

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