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One of our brides just let me know that a few of our portraits from engagement shoots in the snow were featured on Weddingbee! We love it when our photos are used on wedding sites or blogs–if you’re considering using our photos or see them up somewhere, please give us a shout–we love to see them, and will happily resize the images for the site’s needs!
And speaking of snow…check out the snow at our wedding last night!
Posted in Engagement Portrait Photographer, News, Wedding Photographer
Dec 31, 2008
When I travelled to New York to photograph Shelli and Chris, I flew out Monday evening so that I could enjoy wandering the city during the day. I had a bunch of places that I wanted to see, and very little time to do it, so I prioritized and ended up with cupcakes, rice pudding, and shopping. :)
Here are some of my personal pictures from the trip.
From our time in Central Park:
I had read about the Marie Antoinette wedding theme trend, but hadn’t seen if for myself until I saw this shop window…
Cupcakes and the window display at Magnolia Bakery:
I completely fell in love with the West Village and would give my right arm to do an engagement shoot there. When I got there Monday morning I spent a fair amount of time punching myself for not taking Shelli and Chris there the day before.
It was all decked out for Christmas:
A stop at Pearl River Mart in Soho was a must. I brought one of these happy cups home for Willie:
I love boxes and neutrals:
Because I came with only my camera bag and an exceptionally small carry on, I knew I was going to have a souvenirs problem. My best idea of the whole year was planning a trip to the Post Office at the end of the day to stuff a priority mail flat rate box full of goodies. Priority mail flat rate box? $10. Checking luggage? $30 each way.
My box was stuffed with some goodies from Anthropologie. (In college I lived within walking distance of an Anthropologie, but it had been years since I’d gotten to go inside one!) So here’s a happy Traci in the Anthropologie dressing room (after I got back from the trip I learned there is one in Denver, which sorta killed the awesomeness of the experience for me):
One of the things I was most looking forward to was a trip to Purl Soho and their sister fabric store. I’ve shopped there online for years and was looking forward to seeing it in real life. Nothing could have prepared me for how TINY it was. I got some yarn for new gloves and fabric for newborn shoots.
I thought this was a brilliant idea. I have a terrible fabric stash addiction slight but totally normal love of fabric, and think this would be a fun way to display some of my favorite fabrics.
My last stop (besides the post office where I made a fool of myself because I’ve never before experienced interacting with postal employees that were behind bullet-proof glass and refuse to just take a box from me like a normal human being giving a box to another normal human being) was Rice to Riches, a rice pudding lover’s heaven. It’s like Cold Stone Creamery but with rice pudding. I had gone with Shelli and Chris the night I arrived, and knew I needed another stop before I left. Total yumminess.
Right before I jumped in the cab I snapped this shot. I loved all the sidewalk Christmas tree vendors. The big trees seemed sort of ridiculous, but these little ones seem just right for an apartment!
Posted in Personal
Dec 29, 2008
This fall two new adorably little sample albums came in. I’ve been meaning to share them here, but I actually have a backlog of album pictures to share! Hopefully I’ll get all caught up in the next couple of weeks.
The first is our new engagement photo album meant as a guest sign-in book. It took me a long time to come up with something that met my standards but is still affordable enough to be a guest sign-in book! A custom designed 10 spread 5×5 album is $350. We need about 2 months notice to have these in time for the wedding.
A sample spread:
The second is my new favorite product–the mini flushmount. We’re been offering them all year, but I finally got our sample this fall and it is just so cute and little! It’s barely bigger than an ornament!
I am really happy with the detail retained in even the smallest photos.
A sample spread:
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