Penny & Will’s Lake Placid Destination Wedding

Penny and Will held their wedding near their first and favorite vacation spot - Lake Placid NY.  Penny and Will are silly and full of love for life and each other while they brought their friends and family together to celebrate this shared love.  Will was excitedly explaining to me how he wanted to drive to the top of Whiteface mountain to take pictures between the ceremony and reception and I was hesitant to make any promises knowing that the weather on top of a 5000ft mountain in the last days of May in Northern NY is as likely to be snow as sun.  Again this day the universe smiled on me and gave us good weather while on the summit of Whiteface Mountain.  Here are a few of my favorites from up there.

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Canadian thank you card thanks

Here’s the design for Morgan’s “Thank You” card design:

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Vintage Canadian Toronto wedding thank-you card design

And here’s what Morgan said about the card:

Thank you so so so so soso much I am so excited to have our beautiful wedding in the paper for all to see! I also meant to tell you that when I sent out our thank you cards, I have never gotten more compliment on anything inmy whole life! My one friends husband had gotten it while she was at work and he put it up on the fridge and when she got home that night and saw it on the fridge she thought it was a jewellery ad! SHe had to look a few times before she even noticed it was me! Another friend thought it was an ad from Nordstroms! Everyone said how gorgeous the photo was. Thank you so much for that! 

For the back of the card I found an authentic antique postcard and scanned it to give the piece a unique believable look.

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3D look into Neil’s work

I found this funky online image viewer app

- take a look through my images in a 3d space!  You really want to click the button on the top right!!

Come back next week, and you’ll see a different portfolio of images loaded from my flickr stream.  Enjoy this funky portfolio view and see what images you discover!

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A slow moment slideshow

Let your clock die, Reclaim Your Time is an article I read the day I made this:

PSSST - You’ll want headphones to savor this 4min experience.

The slideshow track is by John Martyn - Small Hours from the album Sweet Little Mysteries: The Island Anthology

Many of the slides on this slideshow are longer than 10 seconds.

I enjoyed stretching the rules and am beginning to feel the space between the photos more fully.

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This was my last wedding in Lima, my once-upon-a-time hometown, where Liesl and I bought our first house, and where the sky invites the face of god. It reminds me of the amazing tropical thunderheads I’ve seen in Puerto Rico and the Bahamas.  I am so grateful I was blessed to experience this August evening.

Just a technical note of interest - the web is the best place to view these photos because of the amazing Electric Magenta, or Fucia color of the sky.  It is nearly impossible to reproduce that coloring in a print as explained by wikipedia:

Electric magenta vs. process magenta

When electric magenta is reproduced on paper, it is called fuchsia and it is physically impossible for it to appear on paper as vivid as on a computer screen. In order to reproduce it, a small amount of cyan printer’s ink must be added to printer’s magenta to make fuchsia, and therefore fuchsia is not a primary color of pigment–it is the color of printer’s magenta that is one of the primary colors of pigment (along with cyan and yellow).

The name fuchsia was chosen as the alias for electric magenta because that is the color name for the color that in printed reproduction is its equivalent.

Since prior to the introduction of personal computers magenta was synonymous with printer’s magenta, colored pencils and crayons called “magenta” are usually colored the color ofprocess magenta (printer’s magenta) shown above.

So while we experience it - it’s not yet something that we can fully capture!

I just thought that was a beautiful analogy to a photograph.

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Vintage 1941 wedding thank-you card design

Wow, the wonders google can bring up, I got a lot of inspiration from this site on 1940’s vintage wedding styles to inspire my design for Bill and Deanna’s Thank You postcard design.

Vintage 1941 Wedding thank you card front

Vintage 1941 authentic antique postcard back design

I made a stop to my local New York Antique shop and picked up some choice authentic postcards. A quick scan later and I’ve got Deanna a real vintage look for the back of her postcard to match that beautiful shot sitting on the groom’s lap in thecockpit of the P-40 Warhawk.

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