Bride, groom, cake, bridesmaids, groomsmen, dresses, tuxes or suits, location, food, drink,you name it, everything gets done to the ‘T’ on the wedding day.  But the one thing that will always stand out are the flowers.  Done well, they add to the event like frosting to the cake.  After all, without frosting, all a cake really amounts to is sweet bread that cooked a little too airily.  Done poorly flowers will..you know what, I won’t even go there for fear of the jinx ;-)  Read on and see some more work from Carla at Elements in Old Lyme… Jennie and I have been shooting around at different locations with diferent couples putting together a portfolio of what our vision is.  We were lucky enough to have met Carla from Elements flowers very early on when we started this venture.  She wanted great images of her flowers because she never seemed

Wedding dresses to me, have a personality all their own.  At least they do since Jennie and I have been loaned eight of them.  Each dress gains a nick-name as we begin to work with it and muster ideas about where models should showcase them.  The dress in the picture after the jump is one that gained a nickname for me as soon as I saw it.  Having never seen it worn, nor ever seeing an image of the bride in this cute little number, I can assign a personality to it unhampered by preconceptions.  Jennie laughed at my name for the dress, but I think it’s grown on her because it has certainly stuck.   Click more for the jump…

Once in awhile Jennie and I will have a big idea.  The Midsummer Night’s dress shoot was one of those.  The idea, 5 dresses hanging over a beautiful stream.  Smoke blown into the trees was to capture the streaming sunlight painting ethereal rays over the scene.  Well, mother nature didn’t agree with our plan.  A calm early morning gave way to an unreliable, omni-directional breeze.  No amount of smoke would fill the canopy and if it did, it would have found it’s way in front of the dresses ruining the image.  It did work for one image…click on ‘more’ below the image for the rest of the story…