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exciting news! one of our favorite weddings from this year is featured over on snippet and ink today!

heather and barry are so adorable and sweet and
were such a complete joy to photograph! two artists in love who trusted
us completely. we smiled the whole day as
we captured their tender love, beautiful details and twinkly reception.
we are just tickled that they are featured on such an inspiring wedding site today! am thinking that starting your day off with
lots of exclamation points is really the best way to go!!! read
kathryn's post on "snippet and ink" over here and all of my blog posts on their awesome laguna wedding here and over here. i especially love these shots created with one of jon's homemade lenses named big papa. in addition to today's feature, jen over at "green wedding shoes" created a beautiful layout with our photos from heather and barry's wedding a few months ago. anyone who loves weddings will find inspiration in their thoughtful details, stunning locations and amazing chemistry!!!!!!

last weekend a group of talented and stylish wedding bloggers met up in brooklyn for an event called the B-List. the event was a way for all the women to meet in person, face to face and introduce themselves to each other. a chance to talk about
blogging and weddings, and to share tips and ideas with each other. it was a huge success and plans are being made for more B-List events in the future! we really wanted to jump on a plane and meet all these wonderful women when we first heard about it. but we had two weddings the same weekend so decided to sponsor the event if we couldn't attend. part of the sponsorship was providing info or samples for a goody bag for each one of the attendees. we started brainstorming immediately over dinner. from one idea to the next we jumped around until we both fell in love with the idea of a small toy camera or a viewmaster with our photos on a reel. it took a lot of time, research, trial and error but we managed to figure out a way to bring both ideas together into one.    

one.) find little plastic viewfinder toy cameras online and order a ton. luckily we did because out of the five colors per pack we only like the pink and yellow.

two.) tear apart the camera and see how it works and see how teeny tiny the slide/wheel is inside.

three.) design our own wheel using our favorite wedding photographs.

four.) print our tiny wheel on transparency and realize the dot per inch thing is ruining our brilliant idea.

five.) think.

six.) figure out that we need to shoot the wheel on slide film to get the image quality that we need.

seven.) print the wheel out large, hang it on a wall and photographed it with slide film.

eight.) test a roll, check size, scale and exposure. fire off several rolls once we've got it right.

nine.) cut the film in a perfect circle, punch necessary holes

ten.) take cameras apart, replace image wheel and put it all back together again.

eleven.) smile and pat ourselves on the back!

The The B-LIST bloggers: if you are planning a wedding or just like pretty things you must visit these blogs!

100 layer cake, blue orchid designs, brooklyn bride, elizabeth anne designs, from "i will" to "i do",  green wedding shoes, iDiY,  oh so beautiful paper, once wed, perfect bound, santa barbara wedding chic, the bridal wishlist, the bride's cafe, little white book, vintage glam weddings, wedding bee, junebug weddings,  with this ring, the ritzy bee blog

 

some define photography as "to paint with light". we love that definition. understanding the magic, the wonder and power of light is what keeps us so intrigued in this medium. we are often surprised and delighted by how our cameras translate light. both photos below have a very special feel, the light is so lovely that it actually becomes one of our subjects.

 
 

12×16 beeswax collage panel
paper, paint, vintage lace, gold leaf and lots of little jewels.

14×14 beeswax collage panel
paper flowers, natural wood background, textured wax and jewels.

am always looking for a spark when starting a new mixed media piece.
couldn't resist these two dream like images. the first one is from
petra and evan's stunning ocras island wedding.
one can never have too many glowing paper lanterns in their wedding
tent. and the next from the enchanted forest wedding of elly and
stephan at a washington state park. to see more on my mixed media pieces please visit my website or these posts on the blog.