A Splash of Color and Creativity

I know many destination brides enjoy DIY projects to flex their creative muscles and make their wedding a little more personal - as well as to help stay within their budget. Hence let me introduce Christie as one of those gals!

Christie and Daryl booked me to photograph their 2010 destination wedding (I also photographed a hot engagement session of them earlier this year), and so Christie sent me a copy of the DIY invite she created. Love the individual touches like her logo on the popular boarding pass theme, and her colors really POP! Thus I decided to share the love and show a little tease of their invites...be sure to watch the rest of the "peep show" on my Facebook page. ;o)

Cheers!
B.

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Yoli + Christian {sneak preview pt.1}

When: September 2009
Where: Oahu, HI
What: Engagement Portrait Session

Holy cow, Batman!

Yeah, that is one of the many thoughts that went through my head as I photographed Yolanda (a.k.a. Yoli) and Christian during their recent engagement session. When Yoli and I had emailed back and forth about scheduling an engagement session before their wedding, she mentioned that her and Christian are rock climbers so wanted to have part of their session around that theme. I'm thinking 'sounds good'! I'm always up for something new, but little did I know that they would take me to an actual rock climbing spot here on the island and "hang out".

They of course were happy campers and right in their element, but I have to admit I am a tad afraid of heights (o.k. maybe just a bit more than a tad) so photographing them while leaning over the side of a cliff was quite the adventure. :o) But after all is said and done, I would not hesitate to do it again in a New York minute!

Check out the teaser photos of their high flying love below - I'm so lucky to be photographing their wedding this weekend which I'm sure will be as much fun and exciting as their portrait session.

Cheers!
B.

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Santa Fe Workshop - Part 1

I know - things have been silent on the blog lately mostly because I have been furiously trying to catch up on a backlog of processing. It was time to put my poor old PC out to pasture and get another...and let me tell you the new bugger screams! :o)

Anyhows, I am mostly caught up now so decided to start posting some of the images I shot during the creative workshop I took in New Mexico. The instructor of the workshop was the amazing Joe Buissink, who was listed by American Photo as one of the top wedding photographers in the world. Even though the workshop was being taught by a wedding photography master, the focus was not on weddings. Rather it was to allow the professional photographer to get their creative juices flowing in new directions. Joe helped this process by lots of encouragement, constructive criticism, and showing his non-wedding work. I was especially keen to take this workshop because the focus was more than just wedding photography, it was about challenging yourself and looking within as a photographer to find a new creative side within ourselves.

Besides having Joe there to help us on our creative journey, we got to work with some fantastic models. And as I process the photos from my trip, I'll be sharing more about them and what an honor and privilege it was to get to know them and work with them.

In this post, I'd like to introduce Asia. Asia is a relative newcomer to modeling, but man she already rocks! The girl was up for trying anything to help us get the shots we "saw". She was always positive, and as you can see really worked the camera! And yes, that is her kick ^%$ car - when I saw that I knew I had to use it as a prop and Asia was kind enough to oblige. If you are a photographer and ever out Santa Fe way - definitely look her up.

Cheers!
B.

You can check out more photographs from this workshop and Santa Fe in general on my Facebook page.

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Chris

I had such a lovely experience working with Chris last night. She's a beautiful person, inside and out. Chris is a writer, and needed some portraits for her blog. (I'll be happy to link it here when it's ready to go!) So we met at her beautiful home and photographed her in some of her favorite places. I've just begun the editing/processing, but here's a little sneak peak:

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