Hi, I'm Leldon Creel,
owner and photographer of Creel's Photography.
We here at Creel's, well
me mostly, are here to serve you!
With Creel's your satisifaction
is our goal. Whether it be an Elengant
Wedding Extroganza or
a simple intimate union we are there to serve you.
As with life itself, nothing
last forever.
As your Professional Wedding
Photographer I am there to make sure that
your treasured memories do last
forever.
Sholtly after your special day
all will be gone, the food, the Cake, the flowers, you've taken back the
tux and cleaned and stored your wedding dress, what's left? Your wedding
album!
You open your wedding album
and start to flip through it, you laugh, you cry, you taste the food, the
cake. Aaahhh yes, you,re there again.
This is what we at Creel's
strive for.
Making you unique Wedding memories
last Forever. |
If you want to know about me and the evolution of Creel's
Photography I think that the best way is for me to just ramble a
bit. I got started in photography as a hobby, with no intention of it ever
being anything more. In the mid eighties I bought my first camera,
a Canon AE 1 Program, sometimes I still miss them, and started taking pictures.
I met a couple that owned a one hour color lab in Cullman. The color lab
was an addition to their home. Norman more or less ran the place and Nancy
helped out between home and family. Over time in the process of doing business
we all became friends with a common interest, photography! In doing business
we always found time to talk. Well Nancy and Norman probably did more to
improve my photography skills in our discussions than any other single
thing. Nancy, having been a photographer for a national chain, and Norman
working with the developing, exposure and printing gave me all kinds of
invaluable advice. In a relatively short period of time we all could see
a remarkable difference in the quality of my new obsession. The more pictures
I made the better and more consistent the results were. Still just making
pictures, learning and having fun. Then one day Nancy asked if I'd do her
a favor. Nancy had promised to make her niece's graduation photos. Now
their business had really gotten hectic and she just didn't have the time
to take her niece out and do the photos. Nancy asked if I'd take her and
make the photos, she'd furnish the film and do the developing and I'd get
to spend an afternoon with a fine young lady doing what I loved. But this
time things were different, I had to worry about what someone else wanted
and no just what I wanted to do. Also this time the results did matter.
Someone else was depending on what I did. This time it would be making
photos not pictures. Thinking back I'd say this is the moment that I started
working as a professional photographer. As time went by I found myself
doing more favors for more people, still enjoying and still having fun.
Soon things had progressed to the point where I was "working" fairly regularly
at my obsession. While talking to another photographer one day they expressed
concern about my doing my photography and not having a "legal" business
and that they knew of a couple of other people doing as I was doing and
getting busted for running a business without a license. Well that did
it, I went to the courthouse and got my first business license as a photographer.
Shortly after this I joined the PPMA, Professional Photographers of Mississippi
and Alabama, and later joined the PPA, Professional Photographer of America,
I've gone to many seminar and conventions, listened to many of the countries
leading photographers speeches and participated in various workshops, all
to increase my knowledge of photography. All this in the last 20 years,
God how time flies. I still love photography and wish I could still do
it just for fun but we all have to make a living and that is where the
business part comes in. Money pays for the equipment, covers the time and
work but the real reward, to me, is the look of satisfaction or disbelief
in the clients eyes when they first look through the images. |