Saturday, April 30, 2011
Zach Arias on creativeLive? Weekend Win!
We spent the day sharpening our skills watching photographer Zack Arias on creativeLIVE.com's online classroom. Viva la internet revolution!
Rockstar Couple: Julie & John's Jazz-cool wedding at The Lyceum [Salem, MA]
We freakin' love these two. Great sense of humor and as easy-going as they come, Julie and John have some swagger and their classy, jazzy wedding matched that swagger perfectly.
We first met them last summer at their engagement session where The Great Ant Incident happened.
They delighted us by opting for The First Look on their big day (our next blog post will be all about the First Look, for those of you unfamiliar with this new take on tradition) in their room at the adorable Salem Inn.
From there we walked down the road and spotted a garden humorously similar to where we shot their e-session. We had some fun playing in the warm, setting sunlight.
How beautiful did she look? Seriously.
And the shoes...so great...
I took this when we joined the boys to heckle them as John did his GQ thing for James...not a competition-winning composition but I just love her smile.
They held their ceremony and reception in the recently renovated The Lyceum Restaurant in Salem, MA and were married by Julie's adorb friend, Nicole. I took about 20 photos of her because she was so cute and always smiling.
I don't know why but I love the walking-away-officially-married shot, it's so...triumphant. Like YEAH WE DID THIS THING!!
Everything was warm, elegant and decidedly cool...like Sinatra cool. They had a live band, Back Bay Rythmn Makers, who missed no opportunity to grin at my camera and kept the dance floor swinging right up until we left.
The upstairs of the Lyceum is split into two areas, the dark wooded and high-beamed dance room where finger food and dancing gave a very jazz lounge kind of feel and the dining room which was a lighter, more social atmosphere. The latter held more food, a hysterical slideshow of baby photos and cheerful shots of the smiling couple. The real gem in the social room though was the photobooth done by Seemonkey. You might recall us invading the booth.
(guests got to take home copies of their booth photos as favors!)
And then there was the butter thing. Apparently Julie began this tradition with her girlfriends that at each other their weddings, the others would have to knock back one pat of butter in its entirety...making for the greatest wedding triptych ever.
See? Great sense of humor. I love our clients.
Thank you, Julie and John for allowing us to document your marriage and invade your photobook. James and I hope the laughter between you lasts a lifetime.
We first met them last summer at their engagement session where The Great Ant Incident happened.
They delighted us by opting for The First Look on their big day (our next blog post will be all about the First Look, for those of you unfamiliar with this new take on tradition) in their room at the adorable Salem Inn.
From there we walked down the road and spotted a garden humorously similar to where we shot their e-session. We had some fun playing in the warm, setting sunlight.
How beautiful did she look? Seriously.
And the shoes...so great...
I took this when we joined the boys to heckle them as John did his GQ thing for James...not a competition-winning composition but I just love her smile.
They held their ceremony and reception in the recently renovated The Lyceum Restaurant in Salem, MA and were married by Julie's adorb friend, Nicole. I took about 20 photos of her because she was so cute and always smiling.
I don't know why but I love the walking-away-officially-married shot, it's so...triumphant. Like YEAH WE DID THIS THING!!
Everything was warm, elegant and decidedly cool...like Sinatra cool. They had a live band, Back Bay Rythmn Makers, who missed no opportunity to grin at my camera and kept the dance floor swinging right up until we left.
The upstairs of the Lyceum is split into two areas, the dark wooded and high-beamed dance room where finger food and dancing gave a very jazz lounge kind of feel and the dining room which was a lighter, more social atmosphere. The latter held more food, a hysterical slideshow of baby photos and cheerful shots of the smiling couple. The real gem in the social room though was the photobooth done by Seemonkey. You might recall us invading the booth.
(guests got to take home copies of their booth photos as favors!)
And then there was the butter thing. Apparently Julie began this tradition with her girlfriends that at each other their weddings, the others would have to knock back one pat of butter in its entirety...making for the greatest wedding triptych ever.
See? Great sense of humor. I love our clients.
Thank you, Julie and John for allowing us to document your marriage and invade your photobook. James and I hope the laughter between you lasts a lifetime.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Woah...did I just time travel or is it almost May?
I think that I may have lost a month! April was so crazy here at Casa de Visions I find myself stumbling into May gobsmacked at how fast the weeks flew by! We've given ourselves a lot of projects and work this past month and we're finally starting to finish some big tasks. We've got a finished wedding to share, a maternity shoot and another wedding coming soon and we're launching a new website in the next week or so! Don't get used to it though, we're shopping for a sleeker design and new host that will allow us to do some really fun things...we're hoping to unveil the site makeover by Fall.
Anyway, there's been some fun in between the work and I thought I'd say hello to our neglected blog readers and share some photos from a few Spring outings.
James and I took our first official photo cruise of the year, to our favorite spots...except the one we suspect may have been a hallucination as we couldn't locate it again to save our lives. I'm pretty sure it was real last year...glitch in the Tiverton grid of the matrix? I should stop watching movies for a while...it's definitely time for summer!
What was I doing? See this is why I lose entire months of time...onto the photos!
Check out this handsome fella...I should get his number...
I know I'm biased, but my son is pretty damn cute. Just sayin'.
For anyone who has ever wondered why I don't post as many photos of my beautiful daughter as I do my son...it is because my beautiful daughter has been eaten by a far too beautiful tween who makes this face at me when I take her picture.
Can't say she isn't her mother's daughter!
I've got so many photos to share in the next week, lots of blog posts to come including a peek into a new wedding tradition: The First Look!
Anyway, there's been some fun in between the work and I thought I'd say hello to our neglected blog readers and share some photos from a few Spring outings.
James and I took our first official photo cruise of the year, to our favorite spots...except the one we suspect may have been a hallucination as we couldn't locate it again to save our lives. I'm pretty sure it was real last year...glitch in the Tiverton grid of the matrix? I should stop watching movies for a while...it's definitely time for summer!
What was I doing? See this is why I lose entire months of time...onto the photos!
Check out this handsome fella...I should get his number...
I know I'm biased, but my son is pretty damn cute. Just sayin'.
For anyone who has ever wondered why I don't post as many photos of my beautiful daughter as I do my son...it is because my beautiful daughter has been eaten by a far too beautiful tween who makes this face at me when I take her picture.
Can't say she isn't her mother's daughter!
I've got so many photos to share in the next week, lots of blog posts to come including a peek into a new wedding tradition: The First Look!
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