Celebrating 2024: A Year in Photography and Creative Projects

I’d like to start off by thanking each of my wonderful clients in 2024 for making this the best year in my photography business! I had a busy year to say the least. I created over 213K images (and this does NOT include what I created for photojournalism).

I had the pleasure of working with over ten dance studios in 2024. They were all fantastic to work with and I look ahead to working with them in 2025 as my schedule permits. Two of them have already booked their recital portraits for 2025. Please get on my calendar if you are not one of them!

Voorhees High School Drama Club presents ‘Addams Family’ November 2024. Photo by DAVE DABOUR Photography

I continued working with Voorhees Regional High School Theatre in 2024. Their Spring show was phenomenal (Les Miserable) followed up by their fall musical Addams Family. My photos from the show were used for publicity and resulted in all performances being almost sold out! I look ahead to working with them again this year!

I started my official Dance Ambassadors program in 2024. There have always been a select group of dancers that I’ve always considered my ambassadors. In fact when I asked one of them if they would be interested in doing this they replied ‘I though I already was! LOL’ We had some great sessions and made some fantastic art. I look forward to working with them in 2025

I continued working with Lehigh Valley Youth Phantoms ice hockey league! I also created banners for their seniors and now working on a yearbook fundraiser for their organization.

The video side of my business also continues to do well. So well that I’m almost running out of online storage space on my platform!

My photo booth was very busy in 2024 as well! Schools love it at dances and special occasions like Sweet 16’s and weddings.

Looking ahead to 2025 and my schedule is already beginning to fill up. I urge everyone to get on my calendar sooner rather than later, especially during peak time from April into July. Please contact me ASAP.

I plan on offering snow portraits again next year. Our weather looks to turn cold and snowy in the new year so hopefully there will be opportunities to create some beautiful art! I have a list started of dancers that are interested. To sign up and find out more about snow portraits please visit here.

Another reminder to please get on my schedule for your dance studio, sports league, theater show, senior portraits for Spring 2024 as soon as possible. Some key dates are already full and I want to make sure I can fit in as many existing clients as possible!

My rain machine experience was VERY popular in 2024 and will be back again in the summer of 2025! To get on my list so you will be the first to find out about dates for the 2025 rain machine please visit here. I will be offering groups specials this year as well as expanded sport portraits in the rain machine!

Let me wrap up my 2024 summary by saying I will be having a couple of model calls in early 2025 to test out some new portrait photography sessions I want to start offering. I can’t share any details yet but I’m sure you will love at least one of them if not all three! Please contact me if interested and I will reach out to you if selected.

2023 Year in Review

I’d like to start off by thanking each of my wonderful clients in 2023 for making this the best year in my photography business! I had a busy year to say the least. I created over 166K images (and this does NOT include what I created for photojournalism – I use a different computer for that).

I had the pleasure of picking up four (4) new dance studios in 2023. They were all fantastic to work with and I look forward to working with them in 2024 as my schedule permits. One of them has already booked their recital portraits for 2024.

Photos of Delaware Valley Regional High School Theater production of “Addams Family” March 2023. Photo © DAVE DABOUR

I also started working with DelVal Regional HIgh School Theater in 2023. Their first show was phenominal and went on to win awards at the NJ Rising Stars awards ceremony. My photos from the show were used for puclicity and resulted in all performances being sold out! I look forward to working with them again this year with Newsies!

I welcomed back Greenwich Soccer league this year. I photographed their league for many years but last year was skipped do to a communication issue. I’m glad to have them back and look forward to covering them and more of their sports programs!

I was extremely happy to start working with Lehigh Valley Youth Phantoms ice hockey league! I also created banners for their seniors and now working on a yearbook fundraiser for their organization.

I also upgraded my main video camera this year. In the past my video equipment upgrades have been minor. I’m extremely happy with the performance of this new camera with it’s larger sensor and may add another one in 2024.

My photo booth was very busy in 2023 as well! Schools love it at dances and special occassions like Sweet 16’s and weddings.

Looking ahead to 2024 and my schedule is already begining to fill up. I urge everyone to get on my calendar soomer rather than later, especialy during peak time from April into July

I plan on offering snow portraits again next year – that is if it will snow enough to close the schools. Molly was the only one determined to make it happen on a school delay morning. Most teenagers would welcome the extra time to sleep in the morning. Molly got up and braved the snow so we could create some beautiful art. And then she quickly changed and went to school! I have a list started of dancers that are interested. To sign up and find out more about snow portraits please visit here.

Another reminder to please get on my schedule for your dance studio, sports league, theater show, senior portraits for Spring 2024 as soon as possible. Some key dates are already full and I want to make sure I can fit in as many existing clients as possible!

The rain machine will be back again in the summer of 2024! To get on my list so you will be the first to find out about dates for the 2024 rain machine please visit here. I will be offering groups specials this year as well as expanded sport portraits in the rain machine!

Let me wrap up my 2023 summary by saying I will be having a couple of model calls in early 2024 to test out some new portrait photography sessions I want to start offering. I can’t share any details yet but I’m sure you will love at least one of them if not all three! Please contact me if interested and I will reachout to you if selected.

2015 in review

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A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,900 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 32 trips to carry that many people.

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