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Ashley and Brian – South Florida Wedding Photographer – Sneak Peek

We’ve been looking forward to this wedding for a long time. I remember clearly meeting Ashley and Brian and Brian’s mom at our consultation nearly a year ago. It may be a coincidence but I think I’m seeing this pattern where the more likely one of our brides is to have her mom or her fiancee’s mom come to the consultation… the more likely the bride will be to effortlessly dodge the inevitable curve balls on the wedding day. That observation nonwithstanding, we love it when we meet with brides who are being helped by mothers or future mothers in law – I guess we find those clients to be the most aligned with our very strong emphasis on family in our coverage priorities.

The wedding, at the gorgeous Addison location did present Ashley with plenty of opportunities to panick due to schedule issues serious enough to force us to split the family portrait sessions into THREE chunks… yet Ashley was the image of calm. Brian is indeed a lucky man… he got himself a gorgeous bride with nerves of steel!

Here’s a sneak peek of the wedding. Enjoy those photos.

I hope you enjoyed this sneak peek. The full set will be ready within the next 5 or 6 weeks.

Jennifer and Stephen – Miami Engagement Photographers – Sneak Peak

Fastest sneak peek ever! We actually finished shooting this session not two hours ago… but I decided I’d do whatever I could to try and beat the clock and get a sneak peek out while Jennifer and Stephen were still at their engagement party they went to immediately after the session. Here’s to hoping I made it 🙂

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.

Andrea and Adam – Miami Wedding Photographer at the South Beach Ritz Carlton – Sneak Peek

One Lincoln road.

Everyone in South Florida knows that address and dreams of a Wedding at the Ritz Carlton South Beach. Andrea and Adam and their guests flew a combined 2,537,790 miles to all be here for Andrea and Adam’s wedding.

Ok, so I may or may not have made up the number there, but a lot of guests flew in from the U.K. and a lot of others flew in from all over the U.S. I’m pretty sure the only ones who drove to the wedding were Lisette and I 🙂

The wedding was spectacular. If you’re friends or family of the couple you already know what a stunning and cute couple they are. The bridal party and many of the other guests at the reception were welcoming and fun… I had a blast with the guys when they were getting ready … we had the long-tie crisis, which resulted in a lot of laughs and eventually in a solution so astonishing I can’t even bring myself to write about it.

Ok, I’ll stop talking now. Here’s the sneak peek from Andrea and Adam’s Northeast US meets UK wedding at the Ritz Carlton SoBe.

Enjoy!

Mari Ann and Harold – Miami Engagement Photographers – Sneak Peek

First time out after the system switch. Yup you read it here first. Gone is the Canon Gear, we’re Nikon shooters now. Doesn’t matter to the clients… both systems are amazing, we just switched because it made sense for us, the Nikon gear seems to fit better with my way of doing things 🙂

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.

Jennifer and Stephen – Miami Engagement Photographers

One of our largest engagement session posts ever. We had SO MUCH FUN with these guys and managed to get so much variety in the set that I just couldn’t bring myself not to share all of our favorites 🙂

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.

Josie and George – Engagement in Miami

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: