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Christopher Duroseau’s SNAPprints App Aims to Change the World of Mobile Photography
by Mellissa Thomas
If you’ve been in downtown Orlando lately, you’ve probably seen hot models in #DOFW tees plastered on club, bar, and restaurant windows. They’re all over our website and Facebook page, and even used in our recent event listings on sites and magazines like Todays Orlando.
Duroseau captured this smoldering shot of local model Katharine Seay at the DOFW photo shoot.
We have Christopher Duroseau to thank for most of those glamour shots.
And while we are thankful for the promotional work he’s done for us, it turns out he’s got bigger things afoot than photographing gorgeous models.
(Nothing personal, ladies. Or gentlemen.)
Instead, he’s working to revolutionize how we experience events, how we photograph them, and, in the long run, how quickly Apple improves its camera devices.
Meet SNAPprints.
Duroseau’s taking his photography passion and spinning it on its ear to help people witness events in their fulness. He’s spearheading the development of SNAPprints, a mobile iOS event photography application that hits the market in the next week.
“[With SNAPprints] people will be able to share their event pictures with other people at the same event across iOS devices,” he told DOFW in a recent phone interview.
In essence, you get to experience an event, regardless of scope, from various perspectives. In real time.
Here’s how it will work: you go into the app and enter an event’s details, making you the event organizer, whether the event is public or private. If the event you’re attending is public, it’ll be visible on the SNAPprints website, complete with a map of the event venue and the pictures taken. If private, it won’t be.
As the event organizer, you control how many photos are uploaded from the event, which is good, because many iPone and iPad owners take hundreds of shots in one night, and not all of them are presentable enough to be shared.
But it almost didn’t get made.
SNAPprints wasn’t sudden. It was an idea in Duroseau’s mind for quite a while, but the research took some time, especially considering the price points. He asked several sources how much it would cost to develop an app. “I was told it would take thirty to fifty thousand dollars to make one,” he noted.
However, one company he spoke to referred him to Code for Travel, an entrepreneurial venture headed by Andrew Kozlik. The two connected and hit the ground running. “Drew’s been very instrumental in making the [SNAPprints] app,” Duroseau said.
Kozlik designed a SNAPprints landing page while the website is still in development, so if you’re interested, go there and leave your email address to stay updated. He has also worked with Duroseau to complete the Facebook fan page and Twitter account (@SNAPprintsHERE) to help people connect with them easily and learn more about the app.
Who They’re After
Duroseau said the SNAPprints app is great for the college-aged crowd (early 20’s-35 years old). “Your phone is an extension of you now. The phone is the next camera,” he said. “Why not use the individual as another viewpoint to your event? Twenty or thirty people will capture something the hired photographer won’t.”
Companies, SNAPprints welcomes you, too. Companies may want not just one, but a series of photos from an event, so SNAPprints will soon be a photo source for them as well.
Duroseau’s got big plans for the app. “I want it to become a household name, like, ‘Did you SNAPprint that?'”
So who the heck is Christopher Duroseau, anyway?
Christopher Duroseau pauses for a shot at the DOFW photo shoot.
The Long Island native is humble and straightforward. He’s pensive and quiet in a room full of people, only speaking when he needs to. All essential traits for his day job in the finance world.
Duroseau’s been in the investment business for ten years, juggling stocks and bonds, thanks to a New York friend who gave him an opportunity to work for a stock firm after he graduated from Florida A&M University in 2003. He was originally going to pursue his Masters in Physical Therapy, but he enjoyed finance.
Duroseau’s also a husband and new father. His six-month-old daughter Presley Marie put her two cents in once or twice during our interview. According to him, little Presley inspired him to pursue a business. “I became an entrepreneur to make something for myself, and see how far I can take it.”
He met his wife in college, managed to reunite with her a few years ago in Miami (she was living in Orlando at that point), then he got a job in Orlando three years ago, so he moved here. The two have been married for two-and-a-half years.
Like most entrepreneurs (and new dads) this man gets little sleep. He works his day job until 6 p.m., spends time with his family until about 8 p.m., then burns the midnight oil (literally) to market the SNAPprints app. Oh — and he’s taking courses at a time to complete his Marketing MBA from Nova Southeastern University.
You’ve probably never heard of him or found him online because he keeps to himself. He’s a rare type of young’un: one with no social media account whatsoever. None.
(He’s slowly changing that now for the app’s sake, though.)
Furthermore, despite his avid photography skills (both as a hobby and professionally), you’ve never seen his work. “I’m not a fan of critics, so I don’t publish my stuff.”
Though he could if her really wanted to.
Duroseau’s been a photographer since his youth. He got back into it five years ago in relentless pursuit of improvement. He’s taken classes at Crealde School (on Aloma Ave.), and has accumulated about sixty credit hours from community college adult classes, learning Photoshop, black and white photography, and other important skills. He’s done a wedding or two and is considering full-time photography, but will only do that when the SNAPprints app takes off and is successful.
Duroseau Meets DOFW
Duroseau found out about our weeklong event through his wife, who is a Delta Sigma Theta member. As it turns out, so is Jessica Henlon, Ready Inc.’s Chief Information Officer. His wife always looks for photo opportunities he can get involved in, so she found about it from Henlon, told him about it, and he attended a volunteer information session, which is where he found out about the DOFW t-shirt photo shoot.
“I brought my camera just to bring it,” he said of the photo shoot day. “[Harry, the main photographer] had a whole lighting setup and was getting detailed shots with each model, so while some other models were waiting, I took one into the other room asked, ‘Do you want your photo taken?’ She said yes, so I took the pictures, and more models gravitated to me. If I would’ve known, I would’ve brought my lights and everything.”
Which is why the ubiquity of his DOFW model photos surprised him. “I barely edited those,” he admitted. “I took an hour to edit the two hundred photos I submitted. I honestly didn’t think they were going to get used. I’m my own worst critic, and like I said, I don’t share my work ’cause I don’t like critics. If I had known they were going to use them, those pictures would’ve come out looking way better.”
I encouraged him that, for what it’s worth, the pictures still came out looking good, which is why they’re so popular.
Want to know more about the SNAPprints app? Itching for the chance to try it during Saturday’s fashion show if it’s available? Remember to visit the landing page and drop off your email address to stay in the know and be that first adopter when the app releases. Also, don’t forget to “Like” the SNAPprints Facebook fan page and follow Duroseau on Twitter at @SNAPprintsHERE.
You take pictures on your iPhones and iPads anyway, why not potentially get paid for it?
Christopher Duroseau photo taken by Harry Tsang of Mr. Harry Productions, LLC.
SNAPprints logo and blue concert image courtesy of SNAPprints.
Model Katharine Seay’s DOFW photo taken by Christopher Duroseau.
About the Author:
Downtown Orlando Fashion Week Chief Editor Mellissa Thomas is a Jamaica-born writer. She’s a decorated U.S. Navy veteran with Entertainment Business Masters and Film Bachelors degrees from Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL.
She’s currently available for hire, writing content for websites, blogs, and marketing material. She also writes poetry, screenplays, and ghostwrites books.
She has published three books, all available on Amazon.com, with her fourth, “Faded Diamonds”, set to release on Amazon.com and all digital devices in early January 2014.
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WINTER PARK, Fla. (Florida National News) – Mister Rogers’ Week of Kindness, inspired by the children’s TV host and icon, comes to Orlando in March 2023. This week-long series of events was announced today at the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation in Winter Park.
“Fred McFeely Rogers devoted his entire life to reminding us of some of the most important ideas of what it means to be human among humans: love, respect and kindness,” explained Buena Vista Events & Management President & CEO Rich Bradley. “Many of us find that nearly 20 years after Fred’s passing, it is important to focus on his teachings once again, perhaps now more than ever. This is a week to re-engage with his massive body of work with some folks, and to introduce his teachings to others.”
Mister Rogers’ Week of Kindness begins March 20, 2023, the date which would have been Fred’s 95th birthday, and concludes on Saturday, March 26 with the Red Sweater Soiree, a community dinner to recognize ten ordinary members of the community who inspire and exemplify the affinity that Fred Rogers had for showing kindness to our “Neighbors”.
Mister Rogers Week of Kindness coming March 20-26, 2023. Photo Credit: Mike Brodsky (Florida National News)
Activities planned for the week will include early childhood education activities and faculty training, as well as events open to the public.
“The events will be offered free or at low cost,” continued Bradley. “This week-long celebration is not a series of fundraisers, but rather about once again remembering and sharing some of the great work that Fred Rogers created, not only in early childhood education, but in reminding us that we are all part of one big ‘neighborhood’. Fred taught us the importance of accepting our Neighbors just the way they are and engaging in kindness with our interactions. I can’t think of another period in my lifetime where we needed to reflect on those messages again more than today.”
“There are three ways to ultimate success,” Fred Rogers was once quoted as saying. “The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind. Imagine what our neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.”
Many of the activities of Mister Rogers’ Week of Kindness will be attended by members of the cast and crew of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 – 1975, and again from 1979 – 2001. David Newell, known as “Mr. McFeely,” the “Speedy Delivery” man, appeared at today’s media conference via video, and looks forward to visiting Central Florida next March.
David Newell, “Mr. McFeely.” Photo Credit: Mike Brodsky (Florida National News)
Mister Rogers’ Week of Kindness is supported by the McFeely-Rogers Foundation, the Fred Rogers Institute, and Fred Rogers Productions. Details regarding the specific activities and venues will be released over the next few weeks.
For more information on the events, visit https://www.BuenaVistaEvents.com or https://www.MisterRogersWeekofKindness.com.
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