Merry Christmas!

I just wanted to take a quick second and wish you all a Merry Christmas. Everyone we have had the opportunity to work with this year has been amazing. You have all helped us grow throughout the year, not only in our careers and business, but in our lives. I truly believe I am a better person from meeting you and working with you all. For all of our 2012 couples, I look forward to working with you all next year!

Enjoy the holidays. Relax. Recharge and get ready for 2012.

A bit about the image: This was taken the other day at Red Arrow Park. I brought out my Pinhole camera, which I haven’t shot with in a long time. If you are not familiar with a pinhole, basically it is a box with a hole in it. My pinhole is made of wood. So it is a wood box with a hole in it. That is all. It is the simplest form of photography… even more simple than cameras such as the Holga (which you can see images of in the last couple posts). There is something freeing about walking around with such a simple camera… something refreshing. It takes a long time for an image to be made with this camera, which is also peaceful. You need to set the camera up on a tri-pod, compose (as well as you can, since there is no viewfinder), and expose… This photo took 6 minutes to expose. Some images I have made with the camera take 30 minutes – 1.5 hours… yeah, that’s a long time to make a photograph… But in that time there is a peace I don’t find many other places. There is nothing I can do but wait near the camera with a stop-watch. It is time to think and reflect.

I just realized that my last few posts have all been images from toy cameras. If you just stumbled here and are looking for something specific, like wedding photography, feel free to filter the blog posts over on the right there… you can see just wedding photography, personal work, engagement sessions, etc…

Kate, I am sorry about that.

We met Kate and Jason last November, and Jason was working on a killer stash for Movember. Simon and I, of course, tried to convince him to keep growing his mustache until the wedding… and I think that almost lost us this wedding Kate and Jason heard about us because Kate was in Liz and Dave’s wedding… which I had the honor of shooting about a year ago. It is such an honor when someone that works with us on another wedding or project hires us for their own wedding or event. It means a lot and I think it speaks to the experience and product we provide.

Jason shaved for the wedding, so he looked good. Kate needed nothing, she already looked good and was ready to go. Take a look at some of my favorites from their day:

Here are my favs from our shoot:

And what set of serious awesome-ness would come without a side of Crazy Booth?

The day was wonderful, and here are a few of my favs: