The session was nothing short of awesome, including such amazing things as getting chased off the premises by a barbaric hotel guard; falling into an incredibly dangerous man-eating-plant (that was pretty hilarious); and just creating amazing photos with these two beautiful peeps!

No more words.  Ladies and Gentlemen…. Jennifer and Stephen!

Guys, we had a fantastic time with you, thanks for trusting us to create these for you! Enjoy your party and your vacation!

Stephen, thank you for your service to our country.

We started off at the Morikami Museum and Gardens which is a great place to shoot, but it would be so nice if some of these places would have extended hours at least once or twice a week!

We finished the session on the beach, but of course you’ll have to wait for the full blog post in order to see shots from that

Now you see that last photo?  Same photo twice, one next to the other, right?  Think again!  It’s actually a reversed stroboscopic three-dimensional photo.  Yes, a 3D photo.

In order to see the 3d move about 4 feet back from the monitor and focus your eyesight at a point near your face (some people call that “crossing your eyes”, though it’s just what happens naturally when you focus up close) you will see the two images above shift until a third forms in the middle.  That one will appear to be a completely realistic 3D image.  Once you “got it” feel free to move in a bit closer to enjoy more of the details of the image.

Had a great engagement session with Mari Ann and Harold in Miami. Before I say anything else I have to share one image:

Now I know I’m not supposed to toot my own horn or anything… but

… damn that photo is HOT!

Last shot of the night too… a Steve Jobs if you will… you know “… one last thing”  – I even titled it on the spot in my head when I took it “Angels and Demons”

We finished the session in an INCREDIBLE apartment owned by a friend of the couple, which overlooks the city of Miami… here’s a shot from the window a few minutes before I started shooting them against the city lights.

More will follow in the full post.

Guys, what can I say… It was awesome being able to spend time with you guys. We really appreciate that you pretended that everything was going super-smoothly even though due to some “we’re new with this Nikon stuff” things were much much clunkier than they usually are! You were awesome. We hope you enjoy the photos and can’t wait to show you more and shoot your amazing wedding!

We hope you guys enjoyed your vacation and that you’ll enjoy seeing these now. Engagement portrait photography is one of our favorite things to do, and when the clients are as fun to work with as you it’s doubly so!

Of course you’ve probably seen a few of those in the sneak peek.  The complete set is uploading to the proof server as I publish this.   It will be available by clicking here and then going to the Weddings area.

Handsome dude, gorgeous girl a great setting and some amazing clouds at sunset. What else could we ask for?

The full set is now live on our proof site. Click the link and then look in the Wedding category (we put all couples in Weddings group even if the session has nothing to do with a wedding).

Thank you Amelia and Carlos for spending a few hours with us and trusting to capture some images of this wonderful phase of your life!

We met Amelia a while back as she’s a good friend of one of our brides and we had a great time with a portrait shoot during the World Cup. Amelia and Carlo came back for this session on the beach in Hollywood.

I’ll post more from this session in the coming days

Guys, thanks so much for your patience around the crazy holiday season!

Super-classy couple, they love to dance so we started out with some dancing shots to get the mood going… and then took it from there. My only complaint for the session is that it lasted far too little, these guys were really fun to work with!

Thanks guys for trusting us with photographing your engagement session. We hope you enjoy seeing them as much as we enjoyed creating them!

All the images are on the proofs site. Just follow the link and then head to the Wedding area and look for Stephanie and Drack.

Here’s a shot I just had to share…can’t wait to put this one on the portfolio… do these guys look amazing or what?!?!?

I’m posting this other shot as a testament to backup equipment. You know… the “Extra Stuff” that you should expect your professional photographer to own and carry along. Stephanie’s engagement ring is a unique black pearl with two white pearls around it. About a half hour into the session I decided that I wanted to take a ring shot. In the process of getting the camera body with the macro lens the camera ended up dropping on the asphalt… the lens was torn into three pieces and the body took a hit on the memory card door which would no longer open.
While it’s never fun to see an expensive piece of equipment lying on the floor in pieces, what would be even less fun would be having to hand the ring back to the bride to be and saying “sorry, my macro is busted, so I can’t take a ring shot.”

Backup equipment rocks!

I’ll post more from this session in the coming days

Update:  full set is up!

We might do a post about the name change… we’re thinking to even include a little background on how the new branding evolved, but that’s the subject for another day.  Today we’re excited to show you the very first product to sport our new branding … and it’s something we’re very happy about since it’s the highest quality, nicest Wedding Guest Book we’ve ever done.  Which is kind of the point with the new branding anyway

So let’s start off with that logo… for the very first time ever in print:

And here are some shots that show off the wedding guestbook:

we can fully customize the incredible canvas cover with photos from our client’s engagment sessions, or with their Wedding Photography if the book is being purchased as an add-on coffee-table book to have ready for your friends to browse through.

Notice the spine allows for lay-flat viewing

Here you should be able to see a detail of the amazing textured paper. It’s fantastic for your Wedding guests to write on but it’s also just an incredible tactile experience even for a coffee book that will not be written in.

and a few of the spreads…

as you can see we designed some of the spreads for your wedding guests to write in and some are simply display spreads featuring images.

This guestbook is a 14″x11″ horizontal layout, the largest, most amazing one we offer our Wedding Photography and Portrait Photography clients. We also offer smaller sizes.

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Had an AWESOME time photographing and spending time with a great couple down in Miami a couple of weeks ago.  I thought I’d start the set with a silly “look at us play supermodel” because this couple was so much fun and had such great chemistry that I figured I’d start with something silly … obviously decided to complement the over the top expressions with some very in  your face over the top processing

The engagement shoot started at Virginia Key Beach.  I’d never been there before and it was quite the treat to see all the great photo opportunities hidden there.  Where do we start…  ok let’s see:

Gorgeous people amongst the vegetation:

more gorgeous people, vegetation… and FLARE!

peek-a-boo… I see you

orange, orange, everywhere! …. and you know I like my orange right?

a change of outfit and a quick stop back in the “jungle” part of the beach…

and then off to the beach itself…

Back into the previous outfits and off to another location for some sunset photos….

and dancing with the moon

a quick change into eveningwear and the engagement photography session moved to Lincoln Road in South Beach.

We saw this cool elevator with a glass back and decided to take some playful shots with that…

after shooting from the front of the elevator we moved to the back where we shot quite a few “caught while otherwise distracted” shots   Here’s one we turned into a panoramic sequence

and here’s one that was super-steamy…

Now the thing was that due to the speed of the elevator and how dark it was I had to prefocus the camera and basically wait for them to appear out of nowhere and take the shots…. of course we had a few surprises… for instance this one time they were supposed to go by while wrapped around each other like pythons in love (if you found this page while searching for information about the reproductive habits of leg-less reptiles don’t blame me, blame google) but instead they showed up with a family:

and of course they played their own jokes on me as well… behold… SuperGeorge and WonderJosie!

Once we were done with the elevator we headed off onto Lincoln Road where we found a few nice spots to shoot in…

Josie and George,

Thank you so much for being the awesome people you are… I am so glad Joe put us in touch (Joe you rock man!)  I can’t wait to shoot your wedding in May… Josie, you’re going to be a spectacular bride and George… well you’re already on heck of a lucky guy so I guess you’ll be a lucky guy in a tux

You can see the rest of the photos on the proofs site

I close the set with one of my favorite photos ever: