I am super excited to share the news that some of our photos of a wedding shower that was hosted at Tipsy Cake were featured on Brenda's Wedding Blog!
This was a truly beautiful wedding shower. Tipsy Cake did an amazing job preparing all the delicious treats and decorations while Pistil & Vine created truly amazing flower creations.
Check out those photos! The purple color theme really worked so well here from flowers and deserts to incredible purple chips:)
http://www.brendasweddingblog.com/blogs/2012/3/23/modern-pink-and-purple-bridal-shower.html
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Jesse & Anthony were referred to us by a last-year bride and her mom - Jackie & Karen. If you would like to see the photos from the amazing wedding at Narnia Estate of Jackie & Tony were posted some time ago.
I knew right away that Jesse & Anthony's wedding will be a family and love affair because they came for their initial wedding consultation with Jesse's parents and siblings. It's such a great idea to bring your loved ones to meet us because the better friends we all become the more fun and special the photos we can produce.
Jesse is a hairstylist and Anthony is a carpenter...
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We wanted to share a few wedding photos from Jackie & Tony’s wedding that we photographed back in October! Jackie and Tony’s wedding was at Narnia Estate in Lemont, Illinois. That place is simply breathtaking with its beautiful mansion, classic statues everywhere, gorgeous gardens, and small private lake.
Jackie’s dream was to have a fairy-tale wedding and she had to work hard for it.Besides getting all of the details for the wedding she had to research different religions to pray to every god possible to have amazing California weather on their wedding in Illinois. As we were...
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Few days ago I had a pleasure to photograph our local R&B singer Anita Oak. Anita is coming up with a new CD . We met on a Sunday afternoon to shoot some photos to be used on the cover of her new CD. It was a pretty windy day in Chicago so setting up the light was pretty challenging. My lastolite ezybox was trying to fly away so we had to use some serious tape to keep it attached to a fence:) A total McGyver of photography!
The photos turned out really nice and I am super excited to share them with you. Anita has the amazing Indian beauty so it was hard not to get beautiful photos of her!...
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just wanted to share the slideshow a small wedding of Priscilla & Daniel I had a pleasure to photograph. The preparation and ceremony was in a chapel on Northwestern Campus in Evanston right by the Shakespeare Garden. After the ceremony we took few photos around Northwestern and then we drove downtown for few more photos. This is was a intimate wedding as Priscilla & Daniel will have their true wedding reception in Michigan where their families live.
Priscilla & Daniel describe themselves as classic/traditional - with a twist :) They LOVE the outdoors. They actually lived in Colorado...
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So we just found out that our flight back to Chicago got cancelled and we won’t be flying back till tomorrow. We have a “wonderful” night to spent at the Las Vegas airport. I thought I would take the time to write a post about Sasha’s and mine experience at WPPI 2012. So let’s start from the beginning… For those of you that don’t know what WPPI is, it is the biggest wedding and portrait photography organization. It stands for Wedding and Portrait Professionals International. I have been a member of WPPI for over a year and this was the first WPPI conference that I attended. The event...
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I just wanted to share some exciting news that I got few weeks ago that some of my photos got published in the WeddingWire blog. Those photos were taken in Vivo restaurant in Chicago. Vivo is one of my favorite place for Italian food. They also have "above vault" table that has been voted one of the most romantic places for dinner in Chicago. So if you thought of a nice place for a date dinner this is definitely the place:)
Here is the link to the Wedding Wire post: http://blog.weddingwire.com/index.php/weddings/winter-inspired-style-shoot/
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For those that know me personally, you know that I am often artistically chaotic or in other words disordered:) But I am aware of it so I continuously try to fight it. One way to get more organized is to have a wedding photographer checklist before photographing a wedding. I am always paranoid that I will forget something so ended up putting together a checklist for myself so I knew I didn't forget anything. Since many of us should use it as well but we are too busy to create one I thought I would share mine with everybody. So here it is. Feel free to share it with others, forward the link etc.
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Julie & Caleb wedding is not till 2012 but since Julie is an event planner at the SAX Chicago Hotel I knew everything will be nicely planned ahead of time:) So two weeks ago we scheduled Julie and Caleb's engagement session. After meeting couple of times and discussing what Julie and Caleb had in mind we decided on the Chicago Landmark theme. Chicago has so many landmarks that it was challenging to figure out which ones we wanted to include in our session. We narrowed down the list to about 12 places. Our list included the Soldier Field, the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, the Planetarium,...
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Last weekend I had a pleasure to be taught advanced high end retouching techniques by Solstice Retouch. Solstice, based in New York, is one of the best retouchers I know. His portfolio includes covers and editorial work for such magazines as FHM , Maxim, Marie Claire, OK! Weekly, VIVID, Playboy, Viva and many more. Ah, not to mention the extensive list of celebrity photos Solstice retouched. The list is pretty long but some of the names are Halle Berry, Paris Hilton, Cameron Diaz, Rebecca Hardy, Ellen Page, Xavier Samuel, Sarah Mclaughlin, Brooke Hogan, Ursula Mayes, Dania Ramirez, Marcela...
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