dominique & luke / married

this wedding was simply beautiful, beautiful people, beautiful location, beautiful details, beautiful memories…

location: ca d’ zan

coordinator: maria brady

florist: tiger lily

tent/chairs: us tents

Lighting, Tent Décor:  Affairs in the Air

Vintage Furniture:  mmd events

Linens: Linens by the Sea

band: deleon

food: michael’s on east

vintage car: vintage motors

the rain was threatening all day, but it held off long enough to let these two beautiful people get married.

this wedding started at the nicest hotel in st augustine the casa monica

the ceremony took place at florida’s oldest episcopal church, trinity episcopal church

allison and daniel then party the night away with a beautiful reception at the white room

a huge thank you to christina from christina kreations

i would all so like to thank kristina tejada for all of your help.

i am proud to introduce the best book ever. these books are all hand made with velvet covers by true artist.

each page is designed by me and then printed on hahnemuhle photo rag archival paper.

custom overlays can be printed on clear vellum.

the cover photo is hand-painted with beeswax, this is a one-of-a-kind piece.

velvet covers & hand sewn binding

cover photo is hand-painted with bees wax

shoot it, print it, shoot it again…

i’m always trying to create something different, so I had these 13×19 prints sitting around my office from a magazine layout that i did last year. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2176997063398&set=t.1116173039&type=3&theater

i all so have this wicked cool 85mm 2.8 “tilt shift” or (pc) micro lens.

so i put the two together, meaning i photographed the prints (copy work).

using this micro lens allows you to get very close and have complete control over the amount of “tilt”.

sometimes when you’re on-site, and the pace is fast and hectic you don’t have time whip out every gadget lens in your bag, so this a cool way to create something unique.

i even like the step down in quality that you get from doing this “copy work” it adds an element of grittiness to the image, high-rez digital can be too sharp, too smooth.

can’t wait to photograph this sweet couples wedding in may

this was such a fun session. i had my eye on this abandon warehouse on south westhore and i had been dying to shoot there and then i found jewels & turner…

after scheduling and rescheduling we finally got it done. two days later they tore down the warehouse.

these images are part of the home coming of wounded  clp. michael nicholson.

the 22 year old lost both legs and part of his arm in afghanistan, he has undergone 23-surgeries.

things like this are difficult for me to photograph, but i feel like have to do it.

some miscellaneous images all captured on film.

film is intentional.

unless other wise noted, these were captured with a pentax 6×7 and kodak portra 400.

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holga/portra 400

ansco rediflex/kodak 400tx 620 film

bella and her bird house

my new favorite photo

a little street shooting in st. petersburg fl

this is andy candy st petersburg fl

love this place

this is andy candy st petersburg fl

in august of 2011 the world championship dragon boat race was held here in tampa.

it made for quit a visual, especially fun to capture using a “tilt shift/ts” lens, all so known as a “pc/perspective control” lens.

some of these were captured using a nikon 85mm pc.

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