Autumn was officially here in this Mid-September engagement shoot downtown, and couldn’t have been a crisper day! Nothing like getting a jump on their pre-wedding marketing material, the wedding isn’t until next August!
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Something I’m working on from last week I thought I’d post up early….This hotel (Belden-Stratford) had pretty damn good natural light bathing the Bridal suite for the 1st hour before the dress went on.
Arizona Late Summer Monsoon
WHEWWW!!
28 days – 8,000 miles – 13 states – 1 man and a Harley.
Finally returned from the mother of all road trips, with a ton of aches to boot. On the 27th of July I set out across America to do as much work as I could in documenting our National Parks and a handful of forests, parks and mountains. I think when everyone has the same reaction as to how much of a blast it must have been, and it was: I don’t believe anybody could imagine the stamina, attention, focus and emotion exerted that goes along with a journey of this magnitude. Being exposed to the elements for 300 miles a day for a month can take its toll, and after being home for a month now I am still feeling the effects of such an odyssey!
I think the most difficult task was ensuring the safeguard of my equipment: a camera body, 2 lenses, a MacBook and a small collection of chargers, batteries, mouse, memory cards and so forth. Most of the time they spent tucked away in my tailbag behind my seat, not much of a lure for prying eyes and thieves, but at the slightest hint of black clouds (and there were a lot of black clouds!) this sensitive gear requires rainproofing by a myriad of systems, the most useful being a state of the art – uh – Ziplock laundry bag.
Over the next few weeks I’m going to attempt to showcase a different segment of the country periodically. I suppose eventually a gallery showing may be in the works, that would require quite a bit of attention, something that may need to hold on until after the crazy wedding season!
I lobbied the ‘Image Police’ (the email name of their customer service 
to hurry up and rush my 1st demo book so I could help them ‘move ‘em off the shelves like hotcakes!’
At any rate, this is going to be a superb new addition to the montage-style album collection, with a seemingly infinite combination of cover configurations, options, materials etc. Image-canvases, glass covers, stripes, spines, leathers, brocade fabrics, linens, portrait, landscape, square….too much to list here now…
Don’t take my word for it, see a few shots of the 1st Finao sample in house here:
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Probably the last nice day we’ve had, this early September wedding was absolute perfection! Some clouds, some sun, back and forth. And a very fun trolley that brought us to the downtown haven of wedding madness. We must have waded through 6 other weddings down there but chose our sites wisely, as we managed to hit all the right lighting conditions and let the other weddings have the contrast in all the wrong spots!
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