Paint by numbers…
A lot happened in 2009, that’s for sure. A lot of miles were traveled, a lot of shutter clicks were clicked, and a lot of things were blogged. And we thought it might be fun to paint you a picture of our 2009, in numbers… (Thanks Young House Love for this fun idea.)
Number of weddings we shot in 2009: 25
Number of weddings at which we assisted other photographers: 2
Number of portrait sessions we shot in 2009: 36
Number of different cities we shot in for work: 14
Number of images taken at weddings: 91,902 (maybe next year we’ll pass 100K)
Number of images taken at portrait sessions: 27,093
Number of images taken for fun or traveling: 12,126
Number of published blog posts: 347
Average number of blog posts published each month: 24 (not too shabby)
Number of (non-spammy) comments submitted by our beloved readers: 3,382
Number of spam comments stopped by our awesometastic filters: 1,892
Number of blog posts in which Becka has used the word “gorgeous”: 121
Number of blog posts mentioning “Anthropologie”: 35
Number of people who found our blog after searching “anthropologie photographers”: 6 (I WISH!)
The most time someone spent on our blog in one visit: 41 minutes
Number of countries in which our blog was read: 98
Most blog pageviews in a single day (thanks!): 1,471
Percentage of our blog readers who loyally keep coming back for more (love you!): 70%
Percentage of increase in subscribers when we moved from our old blog to this new one: 300%
Number of times our work was featured elsewhere online: 15 (that we know of)
Number of magazine publishings: 3
Number of magazine covers: 1
Average hours Nate put in per week over his 40 hour non-222 work week: 10.5
Number of cameras we grew to own: 10 (maybe it’s time for a garage sale)
Average weight each of us carried in camera bags (in pounds) at any given event: 15.2
Number of times Becka listened to her Beautiful Melodies Mix in iTunes while editing: 255
Number of hard drives we currently use: 5
Number of hard drives that we grew to own: 7
Number of tweets we both tweeted: 4,477
Number of lattes shared with clients: 59
Average number of cups of coffee Becka drank each work day: 3
Number of coffee makers we went through: 2
Number of miles to the coffee shop Becka liked to escape to: 2.8
Average number of bottles of flavored coffee creamer in our fridge at any time: 3.5
Percentage of certainty we both have that 2010 will rock even harder than 2009: 222%
And because a new year deserves a New Year’s Photo…
A shot from our New Year’s Eve wedding with Kristin and Travis
(one of our resolutions is to do more night time portraiture like this)
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I love this post, how fun! Many congratulations to you two on such a fantastic year, you deserve it! I can’t wait to see what this year holds for you :)
fanfreakintastic night shot!
Love this post idea! it’s great to see how much you guys did last year! I love the pic to, it makes me sooooo excited about our wedding photos sometimes I can barely contain myself!!!
You always have the best blog posts! :)
Since when did you become a numbers person?????? Ha Ha
Not being a numbers person, i didn’t know what to expect from this post. I should have known it would be a fun read, coming from you guys. 4 magazine features including a cover–excellent! Next year, I’ll hope to see that the ration of magazine covers to broken coffee makers increases!
Love the picture! I’m impressed with all the numbers! Makes me think I need to take more of the personal/fun pictures in 2010 than I did in 2009…looking forward to seeing what you do this year!