The wedding madness of 2010 will soon begin. For those of you (brides!) who haven’t decided about their flowers yet there is something new and exciting out there that I wanted to bring to your attention. Please have a look at these absolutely gorgeous fabric flowers offered by Milkpod Studios.

…is the one you have with you.” These words by Chase Jarvis are to live by! So true! Just wanted to quickly recommend something to all of you iPhoneographers out there. An amazing collection of inspirational images and thoughts, small book by the aforementioned master of creativity. A truly fantastic example of how everything really [...]

Photobooths have been getting more and more popular at weddings, and for good reasons. Guests are having tons of fun taking their own pictures and brides have resolved the question of wedding favors! Therefore wedding photographers are trying to get more creative satisfying the demand. Some are offering setups where guests are indeed “pressing a [...]

The engagement season is slowly gaining it’s momentum. Right after Thanksgiving is usually when wedding photographers start getting flooded with inquiries for their services… because the Seasonal Sweetness is in the air, families get together and many guys pick that time of the year to take that precious ring out and get down on their [...]

Wedding photographers face lighting challenges almost at every event they go to. If it’s not the harsh sunlight in the middle of the day then it’s heavy overhead tungsten lighting during ceremony mixed with different color temperature daylight coming through the windows…or it can be a dark reception room with black walls and ceilings. We [...]

Ever since I invaded local grocery stores with Jennifer and Tim several months ago I was hoping I would get to have another engagement session this season in an unusual location. When I was talking to Michelle on the phone right before their engagement shoot she mentioned “IKEA”. “Yeeeees!” I went in my mind, without [...]

…said George the security guy at a local supermarket in New Windsor, NY when he was kicking us out. “No photography in the store!” – begging did not help. We had a strong desire to shoot something really different. After visiting a metal scrap yard and a high rise railroad bridge we simply wanted to [...]

Engagement sessions are probably a subject that is still unexplored. As wedding photographers we love being creative. Sometimes during a wedding shoot we feel like there is less time for creativity that we would like to have – for obvious reasons. During an engagement session however, the situation is different. Most of the time we [...]

Rings. Wedding bands. They symbolize belonging, unity, trust, love with no end. They are probably one of the strongest tokens associated with the very idea of marriage, a sign of the unbreakable vows. Most of the time they are also an important detail for the photographer. Creating a ’special’ image of the rings for each [...]

I don’t really know how many weddings I have photographed in my life. I never really counted them. I do have a record of each one, an entry in my calendar and of course copies of all the images taken. My rough estimate, based on how often I was shooting during the past seven [...]