I am posting this image today for just one reason: glow factor. As die-hard old-school as we can be—we do not intend to give up our retro babies (and by that, I mean our Hasselblad, our land camera, etc.)—our newest digital equipment is taking the old digital equipment to school, especially when it comes to strong low light and flare, which one can only love, if one is a sentient human being.
We are thrilled to have been featured on two different blogs this week. Amanda and Luke appear on the very lovely (indeed) Lovely Bride. May we use the word “lovely” again to describe this couple? We spent a few fun hours with them on Amanda’s birthday in and outside of the Ace Hotel, which is one of the hippest places to stay, grab a cup of coffee, or just sit in the lobby and feel sort of Euro and sophisticated.
Christina and John, who are featured on Once Wed, borrowed a friend’s loft in Ft. Greene for their intimate celebration. Christina is a paper/installation artist and John is a graphic designer—being quite a papivore myself, I knew even before we met that I would love to shoot their wedding.
The day itself was perfect. Beautiful people, check. Beautiful dress, check. Great decor, cool loft, stylish guests, T-shirts. Yes, I said T-shirts! John designed one of the best take-home gifts we have seen—T-shirts with an amalgam of the couple’s last names (”GRAFSKY,” from Graf and Pinsky) printed on the front and a sweet little heart on the back near the neckline. Picture coming soon, in my next post.
To add to the last blog entry, here is one of our favorites from Couture Books. The St. Tropez, with Coptic stitching, tan suede cover and stamping. Lovely!
Albums: We have a lot to say about albums! Where do we even start? We have spent ten years trying to find economical, quality albums. There are many cheesy albums out there! Albums from which to steer clear! And also some companies (like Leather Craftsmen and Queensberry) that make amazing books, but these are never cheap (to us OR to our clients), and they are very time-consuming to design and make. In short, it is hard to make a nice book for not very much money.
Our recommendation for a nice, economical book (especially for parents) is to go to Kate’s Paperie or some other place with nice albums and make your own! A homemade book can be the nicest kind. And now there are Apple Books and all kinds of digital options that are quite cute if you are working from scans and digital files.
Anyway, I have gotten away from my point, which is to introduce a new line of books that we just found. Please note, these are not cheap either, but they are oh-so-exciting and I imagine they are worth every cent! They are called Couture Books, and if you go to their website, be prepared for a heavy dose of glamour that is a little much for our humble selves, but DO look at their books, which are absolutely stunning and make me want to save all my pennies to archive ten years’ worth of personal photos into the various kinds of books they offer.
Download their catalogue here. We are particularly smitten with the Victorian, the Piccadilly, the French Line, the Himalayan, the Jaipur, the Tokyo, and the Madrid books—but oh how we would love to see them all in person. We will certainly be making some sample books this year, so ask us more about this if you share our sensibility on this!
We are also thinking about offering people a credit to swap out their proof book and get a small credit toward a more finished product like this. Something to think about….
Check out this link by tomorrow to win the coolest camera bag we’ve seen yet OR a Fuji Instax Mini Camera!
For posting some of our pictures from Pauline and Dean’s stylish wedding at the Harold Pratt House:
http://blogs1.marthastewart.com/weddings/2010/01/event-style-real-wedding-nyc.html#more
Pauline, a designer for Anna Sui, fashioned her own dress, and Dean, a chef at Bar Boulud, brought an entire team of his chef friends to create the most memorably outstanding food we have ever experienced at a wedding! (Thank you, Pauline and Dean.)
What we love most about the Martha Stewart blog is that someone scanned these medium-format black and white prints with the black edge showing off the old-school KODAK 320TXP and ILFORD DELTA 3200PRO. Oh, how we love that stuff (the film , the edges, the good old days)!
Here, a few images of the exceedingly lovely Lisa and Jim. With classic beauty on their side, we decided their engagement pictures should look a little vintage. The session took place outside our home in the country.
People smile, they laugh, by the end of the night, someone takes off their clothes. What can you do? It’s too much fun. It’s addictive.
In this video, we span the evening of Erin and Ken’s groovy wedding at Public, NYC.
May I just quote the bride?
“The photobooth was the shiznits, it was the bomb, it was totally and completely awesome. Everyone LOVED it!”
Just mention the word zipline to me and I get a little giddy; I feel like I’m nine years old, back at ropes camp, eagerly awaiting my turn. So let’s just say I got a little excited about Lauren Edelstein and Brian Cleary’s wedding at the amazing Club Getaway in Kent, CT (renamed Camp Cleary for the weekend). Friends and family escaped here for a weekend of flying trapeze, rock climbing, waterskiing and wine tasting, capped off by an intimate wedding ceremony, dancing under a tent and late-night s’mores.
Presents wrapped as care packages, wood paneling, so camp!
