18th Annual SPURS Cheer Competition

The team at MDAP is preparing for the final cheer competition of this year, the 18th Annual SPURS Cheer Competition, at the AT&T Center on December 18th.
Competitors will also attend the Spurs game that evening, with the top two competing teams performing during half-time.
Photo of Isaiah Gonzalez, at the Texas Cheer and Dance Championship held last Sunday at the Durbon Athletic Center.

NCA Alamo City Spirit Championship

Our team just finished shooting the NCA Alamo City Spirit Championship at Wagner High School in San Antonio. Thousands of images were taken during this great event. The parents loved the sampling of images we placed on our Flat Screen in HD. Nearly 50 cheer squads were captured during their outstanding performance during the competition.
Our team is looking forward to the next Cheer Competition, next Sunday!

Cheer Star Chooses Matrix Digital Arts!

Matrix Digital Arts & Photography is honored to be chosen as the official photographer for Cheer Star Productions of San Antonio.

We will be providing photography coverage for three important upcoming events: Cheering in the Spirit of Giving on November 14th; Cheer Star Texas Cheer & Dance on December 5th; and San Antonio SPURS Cheer Competition on December 18th.

MDAP is in the Cloud

Computer geeks will know exactly what we are talking about! But for those of you not current on today's massive web technology, let's explain. Matrix Digital Arts & Photography has teamed up with Rackspace Hosting of San Antonio. Our website is moving to a cloud web hosting complex. What does this mean for our customers?

"No more down time", says Michael Holeda, Executive Director for MDAP. "We have received far too many phone calls from our clients complaining that either our website was extremely slow, or wasn't even available."

"That's one of the disadvantages of using shared web services", Michael continued. "When your site is hosted on a server with hundreds of other companies across the country, customers experience slow response or complete outages."

The team at Matrix Digital Arts is very excited about this move. In addition to providing extremely fast response to our web pages during peak periods, we also now have another off-site safe archival storage for thousands of images. Plus, MDAP will have the most responsive email and scheduling service available to the business market today.

Bottom line? Better customer service on all fronts!

Transition to the new web hosting facility will take a few days to complete, and will appear seamless to our customer base.

Matrix Digital Arts Earns BBB Accreditation

PRESS RELEASE August 30th, 2010

This week, Matrix Digital Arts & Photography announced its recent accreditation by BBB Serving Central, Coastal and Southwest Texas. As a BBB Accredited Business, Matrix Digital Arts is dedicated to promoting trust in the photography marketplace.

According to BBB reports by Princeton Research, seven in ten consumers say they are more likely to do business with a company designated as BBB Accredited Business. BBB is a resource for the public, providing objective, unbiased information about businesses.

"We are excited to be a BBB Accredited Business because we value building trust with our customers, " said Mr Holeda, Executive Director and Co-Founder. "Our BBB Accreditation gives our customers confidence in our commitment to maintaining high ethical standards of conduct."

"Start with trust, the motto used by BBB is appropriate for customers looking for a photographer," says Eric Aaron, Co-Founder and Director of Special Events. "Customer Service is not a department with us," Eric continued. "It's an attitude!"

BBB Accredited Businesses must adhere to BBB's "Standards of Trust," a comprehensive set of policies, procedures, and best practices representing trustworthiness in the marketplace.

"This is very important to us," continued Mr. Holeda. "We are honored to receive this accreditation. In today's marketplace of photographers, consumers need to have the ability to check out a business for it's validity, and trust!"

The BBB seal will soon begin to appear on the company's website directing prospective customers to the actual current report on Matrix Digital Arts.

27 Tournament Basketball Games

On behalf of Texas Team Sports of San Antonio, our team of photographers covered 27 tournament basketball games over this past weekend. Friday evening, 5 games were shot at the Jewish Community Center; 15 games on Saturday, 7 games Sunday, at the Barbara Bush Middle School. Most of the games were semi-finals, and on Sunday, MDAP returned to cover the finals, "winner takes all!" Thousands of images were taken, over 60 gigs total. Now the real fun begins!

We Welcome Texas Team Sports

Our first assignment: Cover six youth basketball games in three hours!

This was great fun watching our future superstars play at their best.

Click Here to view a quick snapshot of the highlights.

Welcome Rob Dicus!

Matrix Digital Arts would like to welcome Rob Dicus as our new Associate Photographer. Rob brings to our team of photographers a new and different perspective to what he sees through the lens.

Currently a student of the New York Institute of Photography, Rob particularly centers his photography skills on portraiture and formal events. Recently Rob assisted Eric Aaron at a Quinceanera.

Rob and his wife live in San Antonio and are enjoying the company of their newborn baby boy.

Matrix Digital Arts Announces New Education Fund At Expo

During the Quinceanera Expo held on Sunday, July 25th at the San Antonio Event Center, Matrix Digital Arts kicked off a new promotion to help fund the future education of all Quinceanera and Sweet 16 Girls. With thousands in attendance, visitors learned that Matrix Digital Arts will return fifty percent of all on-line sales of photos for the Quince that occur in a thirty day period. A check representing half of all on-line sales from friends, guests, etc, will be presented to the father of the young lady as a contribution to her education fund. "Quinceaneras and Sweet 16 parties are held by proud parents at great expense", Michael Holeda, co-founder, remarked. "So we would like to make a contribution to her future education in appreciation of being selected as their photographer of this very important event in her life."

See Us At the Quinceaneras and Brides Expo

Matrix Digital Arts will have a booth at this year's Quinceaneras and Brides Expo at the San Antonio Event Center on July 25th. Be sure to drop by to meet our photographers.

Click Here to View Our Sweet 16 Quinceanera Page

Click Here to View a Recent Sweet 16 Video

Rugby Exhibition Game

We were commissioned to provide coverage for the San Antonio Rugby Football Club Exhibition game with the Bedlinog (Wales) Rugby Football Club on Sunday, May 30th.

We are honored to be chosen as the official photographers to cover this event.

Action-packed game. Photographers Eric Aaron and Michael Holeda covered the event with a total of about 1000 images. Click on the photo to view a collage sampling of a few photos.

To view the gallery, click here.

The Rush For Senior Portraits

The last couple weeks has seen a flood of requests at MDAP for senior portraits.

With graduations beginning in a week or two, many parents suddenly realized time was running out to get their son or daughter's portrait completed. The emails and phone calls started coming in.

"All of our shoots are done on location." said Michael Holeda. "Although we do receive a request from time to time for the standard cap & gown graduation portrait, but most of our clients want the new look for senior portraiture."

There are the usual popular places our photographers travel to here in San Antonio. From the Japanese Tea Gardens to the River Walk. But the photographers at Matrix Digital Arts like to seek out new and exciting locations, something fresh and different. Recently, a shoot was conducted at Randolph Air Force Base at the skate park. Another shoot was held in the countryside in a field full of antique farm implements and an old pick up truck.

Stay tuned for 2011! New locations a more creative styles are on the horizon.

Texas State Championship - Austin

We recently had the opportunity to shoot at the Texas State Championship in Austin. This was a tremendous event for us in many ways.

With around 500 athletes, Level 6 or higher, our photographers were able to catch the best in every athlete. David Racino decided he wanted to focus on the vault event. Many photographers at gymnastics competition will shy away from shooting this because it is the most challenging. David nailed the shots!
Rusty Ray, another one of our talented photographers concentrated on the P-Bars and High Bar. Like David, he too came up with many great shots of the competing athletes.
We want to thank the great folks of Star Gymnastics of Austin for asking us to shoot this event. We received many complements to our staff of photographers, and also requests to shoot future events, including regionals next year. As of today, we are presently booked for four state, regional and national events for 2011. This success is attributed to the professionalism of our event photographers, Erik Gustafson, David Racino, and Rusty Ray. Of course, we can't forget to include Janice Borgfeld and Eric Aaron. They were busy answering questions from customers at the sales booth, and communicating to our photographers on the floor via our wireless radios.

Houston National Invitational - Our Photographers

Appearing Left to Right: Erik Gustafson; David Racino; Eric Aaron; Joe Kabanek; Christina Moore; Janice Borgfeld; Jaime Rivera; Mark Muniz; Michael Holeda; Antonio Morano. Not pictured: Rusty Ray.

Our shoot at this year's Houston National Invitational was our largest ever effort. Over 2500 athletes, with as many as 22 athletes competing at the same time! With 10 photographers, thousands and thousands of images were taken. Fourteen hour days, but nobody complained. A tremendous experience for all of us. As a direct result of our team's professionalism, we have already begun to receive calls to shoot other events. Next: Texas State Championship in Austin!

Time for the Houston National Invitational

The team at Matrix Digital Arts is preparing for another important event, The Houston National Invitational. This year, we have been asked to shoot an additional event, with 1500 athletes, many past, present, and future Olympians. We will have ten photographers on the floor capturing the important competitive events of these young men and women from all over the world. Participants will have the opportunity to have their images applied to a special commemorative poster we commissioned to be designed for this event. The image on the right is our 39x80" floor banner.

This year, our photographers and crew will be wearing wireless headsets to ensure our ability to keep in touch with each other and communicate with the sales area.

Additionally, we will be launching our new storefront with a completely new line of products the parents will be able to choose from, including the ability to design their own poster on-line.

We are humbled to be chosen as the photographers for this special event. Watch our blog and our website for additional details.

High School Senior Portraits - Schedule Now!

Matrix Digital Arts & Photography has added a new line of photography service to its menu. We now shoot high school senior photos. These aren’t your typical year book photos. The photos are built around the personality and life of the individual high school senior and shot on location at the site of your choice. Some of our favorite locales for the ladies are the San Antonio River Walk, the Tea Gardens, and the McNay. Next month we are doing a senior shoot at a skate park at a military base for a senior that loves skate boarding.

We have developed 3 very competitive packages for you to choose from with the option of adding additional high quality photographic products.

Keep an eye on our website for samples of recent shoots. Contact us when your high school senior is ready for his or her shots of a lifetime.

We are your San Antonio Senior Photographers!

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Video Slideshows Now Provided for Facebook, MySpace, IPhones

All major shoot events now include a DVD slideshow presentation which is also uploaded to ShareIt.com. This gives you the opportunity to share it with all your friends by either sending them the ShareIt link, or posting it on your Facebook or MySpace. The following link is an example of a recent event. Sweet Sixteen
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