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Engagement Photos in Maui

Jan 25
2012

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Are you thinking of popping the question and or already have and are now planning to get married this year? Have you considered having engagement photos taken?

Many clients ask me why they should consider doing engagement photos and I’d like to point out a few reasons why you should consider it. The first reason is an engagement shoot will help in establishing a relationship with your photographer and will help make a difference in the outcome of your wedding images.

During the engagement session, I generally like to spend about an hour or two with my couples watching them, listening to them, having fun with them, getting to know them, and photographing them all at the same time.
I take note of how they interact with each other, their individual personalities, and how the compliment one another. During the session, I make mental notes as well as get ideas of images to capture on the wedding day that are unique to that couple.

Your engagement session should take place at a location that fits you both and or can be a place that has some meaning to the two of you. This could be a place you got engaged or a first date, it could be at a place you both like to spend time, or something you like to do together such as a shared interest. Some favorite places on Maui are: The Beach, The Park, Iao Valley or even hiking through the Bamboo Forest in Hana.

The advantage of this is that you can let your photographer know ahead of time if there are shots or angles you do not care for, also you can let your photographer know the things that you do like. The more communication you can have with the photographer the better.

Once you have your engagement images there are many things you can do with them. They can be given, as gifts to the family, parents especially always appreciate photographs of their children. You can make thank- you cards, for your wedding guest, choose your favorite image to enlarge and use for your guests to sign at your reception. You can create a small album or a coffee table box for yourselves. Most of my clients order some sort of wall collage or portrait to hang on the wall in their new home. I find my couples would rather have an engagement image on their wall instead of one in their wedding attire, however some do both. There are numerous things your can do with your engagement photos and these memories will last a life time. If your popping the question, we can arrange for me to hide from a distance to capture his/ her expressions and then have them for a surprise gift afterwards. Believe me when ever I’ve planned this out with a someone it’s been well worth it and the extra thought you put into it sure goes a long way, A SURE WAY in scoring points.

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Wedding Ideas For A Summer Wedding

Jun 07
2011

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Wedding Ideas For A Summer Wedding

Looking for wedding ideas for a summer wedding? Getting married any time of the year and you are almost assured the wedding will be great. However there is just something special about summer weddings. Perhaps it is the brightness, the freshness or the warmair that the summer months have that draw people towards it.
Wedding ideas for a summer wedding can be endless once you get the big decisions made.

You can then focus on the items that scream summer. Items such as:
- Flowers
- Cake
- Your Colors
- Wedding Favors

In any event, it’s your wedding. Plan the wedding of your dreams, but pending on the time of year, you should take the following into consideration when making decisions.

Flowers
When choosing a summer wedding its best to pick flowers that will stand up to the heat and maintain there freshness through out the day. Particular flowers that have a lot of staying power, and will maintain there brightness and colors, are roses, orchids, birds of paradise, tiger lilies; just to name a few. You should discuss the type of flowers with yourflorist to decide which is best for your summer wedding. It is also best to buy local and in season, that way you have a better chance of the flowers lasting your whole special day.
When maintaining your flowers its best to have them delivered the same day and to tryand make sure there’s a refrigerator on site to keep them fresh. Also try to rememberwhen taking pictures to keep the flowers in the shade when not in use or between photos. It’s also a good idea to have a squirt bottle on hand so that you can give your flowers alittle cool mist every now and then to keep them from wilting.

Cake
There is so much you can opt for in a summer wedding cake, but the best thing is to gofor fresh flavors and brilliant colors. One suggestion when picking your ultimate summerwedding cake is to go for the fresh tastes of the summer such as fruits or fresh berries thatare in season. These can be used for the filling instead of the traditional butter cream. Thecolor of your cake depends on what you want. You can go bold and have bright greens with a mango color or go for a more subtle approach with a summer yellow and fresh clean white.

To decorate your cake you can have your cake designer match the flowers from yourbouquet and add them to your cake or you could do a sunflower motif. In addition, youcould use cute little honeybees, which are all edible. The key is to embrace the beautyof summer and be a bit more subtle in using what’s in season to bring freshness to your unique summer wedding.

Colors
You would think that choosing colors for your wedding would be an easy task. However
it’s more difficult in the summer because there is so much to choose from. Sometimes that could be a good problem to have. When you choose, consider colors that matchyour venue or your wedding theme, if you have one. A couple of good theme ideas for a summer wedding would be a Hawaiian luau. Your colors could be bright pinks with somegreens or you could go more subtle and have a beach theme with soft yellows and crisps whites. The groomsmen could wear khaki suits with a punch of color for the bow ties.

Wedding Favors
This is wear you can really use your imagination. For example, you can have little sunflower card holders that may include miniature little picnic baskets that you could fill with candies or candles. You can also add seeds for your guests so that they can grow their own little flower garden that will represent your garden themed wedding.
For a beach style wedding you could have sea shell candles with cute flip-flop key chains or palm tree card holders with ocean bath salts. For an outdoor reception you could havepersonalized fans with some cute bubble favors. The sky really is the limit.

Keep in mind, the summer months are also the most popular months to get married, so ifyour dream is to wed during the summer, you will need to plan in advance. Especially ifthere is a certain venue that you have your heart set on. So go ahead and take advantage of the warmth and romance that a summer wedding can bring, and remember to have fun!

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20th Century Pictorial Photographer Mary Devens

May 19
2011

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Born 154 years ago today, on 17 May 1857 in Ware, Massachusetts, Mary Devens was considered one of the ten most prominent pictorial photographers of the early 20th century.

She was listed as a founding member of Alfred Stieglitz’s famed Photo-Secession.

“The Ferry, Concarneau”, a photograph by Mary Devens, c1904, Camera Work, No 7, 1904

Devens developed an interest in photography sometime in early life, with a strong interest in printing techniques that could be manipulated by the photographer, including ozotype, gum bichromate and platinum printing. She mastered the gum bichomate process so well that she gave a lecture on it to the Cambridge Photographic Club in 1896.

Mary Devens met Boston photographer F. Holland Day in 1890s, who personally submitted five of her prints to the London Photographic Salon of 1898 and was responsible for introducing her to photographer Alfred Stieglitz, with whom she would regularly correspond for many years. Day also promoted her work in his famous lecture “Photography as Fine Art” at the Harvard Camera Club in 1900 and included several of her prints in his 1901 exhibition “The New School of American Photography.”

Mary Devens – Charcoal Effect. Photogravure published in Camera Notes, 1902, c1901, Camera Notes, Vol 6 No 1, July 1902

In 1900-1901, several of her photographs were added to the important Paris exhibition of women photographers organized by Frances Benjamin Johnston.

In 1902 Devens was elected to Britain’s Linked Ring, and Stieglitz listed her as a founding member of the Photo-Secession. That same year Stieglitz also listed her as one of the ten most prominent American pictorial photographers in an article in Century Magazine.

About this same time Devens’ eyesight began to fail rapidly due to an unknown cause. After 1904 she showed only a few prints in exhibitions, although Stieglitz included her work in the in augural exhibition at his Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in 1905. She is not known to have engaged in any photographic activity after 1905.

Devens died on 13 March 1920 in Cambridge.

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Go Outside Magazine, Maui Photographer

Apr 16
2011

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Go Outside Magazine, Maui Photographer – Nicole Sanchez photo makes the cover a major magazine.

It’s been a bit hectic for me the last few weeks and I am finally getting around to posting some updates as to what I’ve been up to lately. I wanted to announce a recent photo session I did for Go Outside Magazine (Brazils version of Outside Magazine) which features two BRAZILIAN ATHLETES that live in Hawaii. It comes out May 1, 2011.

I’m very excited to let you all know that I received an e-mail from the art director announcing that my work made the cover of the magazine. In addition to the cover shot, I have two inside spreads which feature both of the athletes I worked with. One of the athletes just so happens to be one of my dearest friends, Andrea Moller- Bowens a awesome water woman who deserves to be recognized for her accomplishments as a water athlete. Making the cover shot was the topper for me not to mention the magazine actually did an interview with me, Very exciting… news for me and am happy for my friend who’ll be featured on the cover of this major magazine in next months issue. Here’s the cover shot and I’ll share more images later.