Armor & Martel

I was in Newport this week photographing Governor Carcieri’s visit to Newport Biodiesel.  The company recycles and converts waste grease from restaurants and the like into a fuel that could help offset dependency on oil.  The RI company collects the waste grease from business’ for free, keeping it out of our sewers and landfills.  The company is seeking RI companies to increase its capacity.  One employee put it very succinctly- Rhode Island is basically sitting on it’s own oil well, it just needs to be tapped to increase output.  In Rhode Island it’s not drill baby, drill, it’s fry baby, fry!

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Last week I had a conversation with Jeremy Moreau, of Jeremedia. His local business specializes in converting and transferring your video memories on VCR and camcorder tape to DVD’s. I’ve been asked in the past if we do this at the studio, and never been able to refer anyone local for this type of work, so am glad to have met Jeremy. We at Armor & Martel know how important preserving memorable moments are, and so I offered be a drop off location for people in need of this service. We don’t receive any compensation from Jeremy for this, but I can imagine there are many of us out there with tapes stored away with precious footage on them we’d like recovered before time slips away.  Jeremy is local so there’s no need to ship your precious tapes through the mail. Jeremedia prices are reasonable, and if you’d like to stop by and pick up a brochure of his services stop by during our regular hours , Tuesday through Friday 9am-5pm.

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Fun pictures from the East Bay Chamber of Commerce’s Cruise this past week on Narragansett Bay. Chamber members can contact us for the passcode to see all the fun. Here’s the link

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Mario’s recent music release features some images from our publicity shoot a few months back. Great images for all applications are not beyond your reach – call me….

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A recent poll of Twitter indicated 85% of users would most likely follow a person whose avatar was a smiling face, over any other image. Does your web presence need a makover? http://virl.com/92c0d/

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Avatar (Websters.com) (n)  Computers. a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet.

Blogs, Facebook, Myspace, the Knot, websites, etc.  If you’re online you probably have one.  That little picture that defines your presence online.  If you do business online, it’s the equivalent to being your business card.  Some examples I’ve seen are cartoon characters, camera phone pictures, and pictures that LOOK like they were taken with a camera phone.  You know- crooked, goofy, badly lit, blurry.  Some are cool. Many are not. Some business owners and professionals don’t even have one.  Would you buy from someone you can’t see?   What’s your image say about you?  Would you put it on your business card?  A billboard?  If you are using it online you already have.  Don’t treat your online presence any less important than you do your printed materials.  At Armor & Martel, we have been creating personalized, unique professional images for clients for web, and print for years.  We understand the specifications you need for online images, resolutions and color too.  Email or call us to find out how we can help you stand out in the crowd online.  Even your avatar can be worth a thousand words.  Let’s make your’s the right ones.

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What comes to mind when you think of professional photography?  Is it portraits on the wall of children and families? Perhaps a wedding or fashion photographer clicking away? Your idea of the role of the local photography studio may be outdated.  This week we’ll deliver images by email to clients for website usage, images sized and created specifically for printed brochures as well as custom designed PVC Identification badges with names and organization logo.Full color postcards, greeting cards and business cards that feature authentic images of your business, not the cookie cutter clip-art available online. Today’s business climate demands you separate yourself from the pack. Call me to discuss how we can help with your image.

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