Trash the Dress, Fearless Bridal or maybe just a romantic date night....

This Blog post is very overdue! Over the summer I had the awesome experience of photographing a "Trash the Dress" session... what is Trash the Dress you ask?
Wikipedia :  Trash the dress, also known as fearless bridal or rock the frock, is a style of wedding photography that contrasts elegant clothing with an environment in which it is out of place. It is generally shot in the style of fashion and glamour photography.  Usually brides decide to have pictures taken on a beach, but other locations include city streets, rooftops, garbage dumps, fields, and abandoned buildings.
 Got it?  Yay!
OK  to be perfectly honest I wasn't hired,  I asked this very beautiful girl I knew and her very easy going husband if they wouldn't mind having their pictures taken in their wedding attire, being romantic and a little daringly sexy with each other (I'm sure they didn't mind that part) amongst an army of red ants, the walls of a rusty old machine shop, an abandoned old church yard and, oh yeah, icy cold creek water to name only a few locations!  Ooooooo I had so much fun and they were so great, I can totally understand why this has become such a popular style of photography.
Some where along the way during this session I got an overwhelming sense that a photography session like this does not have to be about trashing the dress - you don't actually have to "trash" the dress!! - It is in more ways than one about the couple. The bride feeling extra beautiful again in her dress that she wore 1 year ago 2, 3 or maybe even 10 years ago.  The groom seeing his girl - his wife, lover, friend, mother to his children - as he did that first time on their wedding day and as he pulls her into his arms, kissing her again and again,  because I've asked him to :),  I watch them become ONE again, oblivious to me for the moment, oblivious for the moment, to the external forces of everyday life that test their love.  She is BEAUTIFUL and he is humbled and they are fearlessly in LOVE ♥.   I like the term "Fearless Bridal" the best... unless someone can think of a better name!

We are Family

The Studio has seen a fairly busy summer, with Bar/Batmitsvah's, Families, kids, babies, summer fun....and the Fall season is just starting to fill up with lots of great family sessions.   Here are some highlights from family session this past summer that was lots of fun and I got to try out my new, well not so new couch!  This family Rocked!  he he he

Milestones

It isn't easy sometimes to progress, we generally like to stay with the status quo, it's familiar, we've adjusted nicely, we are comfortable.  But inevitably time passes, life changes, it challenges our courage and ultimately makes us stronger, smarter, better.  Right?   RIGHT!!! 
There have been a few Milestones in our house this week.  I have opened a new decade in age and have pulled out the new list of "Things I would like to accomplish in life"  - I go by decades.  I think I might be one decade behind. 
I say this because my oldest child has begun school, yes according to my list he should have started a decade ago.  But here he is, his first day of Kindergarten under his belt, sigh.   It was great!  There were no tears - from either of us - just excitement for the road ahead.  I hope and pray that for every new road that lies ahead for us that we can smile with enthusiasm and celebrate it with cake ;)