"Swamp The Dress" session in the swamps on Louisiana!

That's right!

Only open to 10 people, as per airboat capacity.
I was lucky enough to be one of those 10.

What an amazing experience! Surrounded by the beauty that is the swampy area of louisiana, just outside of New Orleans. Also surrounded by amazing photographers who took on the bride by storm! :)

The model (bride) is our friend and fellow photographer from Atlanta, Shari Zellers.
She married the love of her life last month and volunteered to "Trash The Dress" ("Swamp The Dress" - as all of us are calling it) for the entertainment of all of us. We had such a great time!

The other amazing photographers who were involved were all friends of ours, part of our amazing Pictage family. Some of us had never met in person before, though we had been talking and collaborating online for many years.

Photography conferences like PartnerCon are amazing opportunities to get to know other fellow photographers in person and to shoot alongside them and to participate in talks to better our businesses and approach to our work. There is always something to learn and there are so many people who inspire us to be better and to grow as a business entity.

This past week spent in New Orleans was a week to remember. Every year, it happens, and every year, Josh and I will be attending. We can't wait for PartnerCon 2011!! :)

THANK YOU Chris Williams, Chris Pike, Shari Zellers, Monty Jessop, Jessica Del Vecchio, Alex Abercrombie, Kelly Segre and Mike (our airboat captain, who was willing to do anything possible for us so we may have the perfect locations and light for photographing Shari!).

A Product We Love: Wedding Guest Book!

Amber & Ben's guest book!

I love designing these... and love seeing it filled in with wedding guests' words of wisdom and of congratulations during the wedding!

This particular book is a very large 13x11 inches, hardcover, 40 pages and containing 60 images. Yep! Its a big one! ;) After all... we photographed 3 separate engagement sessions with them with lots of photos to choose from! Regular guest books are 8x10 inches in size which is plenty large for those couples who had one engagement session. 

Scroll through the book by clicking on each image. Fun!

~ Alice (& Josh)

{Engagement Session!} Traci & Chad Rockin' Portland's Eastbank Esplanade!

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** UPDATE **

148 images are now edited and available to view in the slideshow embedded at the bottom of this blog post!
Friends and Family: you have access to Traci & Chad's online gallery where you can create favorites folders and order prints as well! Click to get there! :)

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What can we say about our new friends Traci & Chad?

Nothing but great things! They are in love, fun, funny, and beautiful; plus, yesterday (when we did the shoot) was Chad's birthday! Happy birthday Chad!! ;)

Their wedding will be on August 14th, 2010 (Josh's Birthday!) at Camas Meadows Golf Club, Camas WA.


I know that a "sneak peek" blog post of a shoot should only have a handful of images as a "tease"... but yesterday's engagement [break-the-ice] session with them was SO perfect and SO fun that we simply can't narrow down what to show! Soooooo... this sneak peek post is a longer one than usual! Hope nobody minds! ;)

This is a side of town we not often go to. Not sure why. Its beautiful over there: the Eastbank Esplanade.

We met up at 4:30 under the two giant Weeping Willows by the Hawthorne Bridge, on the East side of the river. Started off with the trees, the floating dock, the trains, the overpasses, even Portland's Firefighters! That's right! Josh asked the firemen if they could open the garage up for us to use the trucks for Traci & Chad's photos and they said: "of course!". Just an added little photoshoot backdrop bonus we hadn't planned on using! FUN!

Then we walked all the way to the Morrison Bridge, all along the gorgeous path, looking for photogenic and fun places to stop and shoot. Our awesome photo karma even had the Morrison Bridge's draw-bridge open up for a barge that was making its way through! After two hours passed, we realized we were all starving! So we stopped shooting and decided to go to our favorite Italian restaurant on NW 21st & Flanders to grab some food, a drink and to chit chat for another couple of hours!

We are serious when we say that with every single new couple we add to our summer wedding season, we also gain new friends. Everyone we meet, we end up bonding with in ways more deep than in a simple working relationship kind of way. The confidence and the openness of this kind of relationship is a perfect way for wedding photography to be even more smooth and fun and casual. We broke-the-ice with them for sure!

Here are a few of the images from the engagement session, with SO many more to come! :)

~ Alice & Josh

{Inspiration!} Flower arrangements! Photogenic, fragrant, beautiful and so diverse? Here are the bouquets we had the pleasure of photographing in all of 2009!

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With the 2010 summer wedding season approaching... many brides will still not have decided on flower colors and arrangements! No fear... here is a slide show of the gorgeous arrangements Josh and I photographed this past summer 2009 :)

The possibilities are endless! Depending on your wedding date, some flowers will be more readily available than others... every season, every month for that matter, has its own perfect flowers and colors...

Have fun with this part of the planning! I know I always look forward to seeing the creativity of the flowers at every wedding we shoot! We're looking forward to seeing what you (our brides) decide on for the upcoming weddings!

Hugs to all!

~ Alice & Josh









(click on any image to enlarge it, then keep looking through the gallery... 96 images at your disposal!)

{Engagement!} Holly & Manny in Downtown Portland OR!

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Holly & Manny are awesome! Hip, fun and open to anything!

They were one of the very first to book us for our summer 2010 wedding season, so this engagement session has been in the making for a while! We were waiting for the perfect weather to grace us for at least a couple of hours and we sure got it!

The goal was to look for gorgeous spring blooms in an urban setting. We found some blooms in the Pearl... and they are gorgeous! Then, we made our way to the waterfront and bridges and tracks... how much more urban can we get??

Here is a sneak peek of the engagement session... we have SO many to show! This is just a taste of what's to come :-)

Love,

Alice & Josh

{Holly & Manuel's Friends & Family Should Click HERE to see ALL of the images!

Create folders of your favorites, order prints or albums, view as slide show... lots of goodies!}