Samantha, San Marco Magazine's Cover Bride!

Back in May I did a bridal expo downtown. At the expo I met Samantha and Robert who are getting married in April of this year. Sam is such an outgoing, funny, beautiful woman. I offered to give them a free "trash the dress" session with their package and they jumped at the chance. Sam was concerned with trashing her own dress but loved the concept. I happened to have a previously worn wedding dress in a size that would fit her so we went to Big Talbot one extremely hot day last year and got trashed!!!

When showing my work to the owner of San Marco Magazine she saw Sam's photos and said that her energetic, and beautiful smile would make a great magazine cover... I told her that I was sure Sam would be happy to have her bridal photos on the cover of a magazine, and I was right. I messaged Sam over MySpace and she jumped at the chance! We went to The Boyer House in San Marco. Since I'm good friends with one of Mr. Boyer's daughters (Kimberly of Once Upon A Memory) I got permission to do photos on the property. We also hit friendship fountain and River City Brewery on our fun day out!! Here are some of my favs from the day. More can be seen on both my website, and the full session in my SmugMug galleries.

Now the issue is how the heck do I choose favorites for the Editor she was 3-5 to choose from... and a collage of them all would just be too busy for the cover... :)

Magazine Cover!!!

Back in December I started advertising in print, I chose a small magazine in Jacksonville called the San Marco Magazine. While sitting down with the owner of the publication I also asked if she ever needed artwork for the magazine and she said yes. So I told her I'd love to help her out just to have my work out there. A few days after our meeting she called me asking if I thought I could do the cover of the magazine she gave me a theme and I ran with it... the result is at www.thesanmarcomagazine.com

The magazine is quarterly, so this cover has run from November till end of January so there will be a new magazine and a new cover in Febuary, so be sure to check back as my bride Samantha will grace the cover of the Feb-Apr issue of San Marco Magazine!

Her bridal session photos are coming either later today or tomorrow!!

My First Flush Mount Album

I'm just starting to realize how much I did not blog about back in the day. So, I'm kinda playing catch up over the next few days to make sure that everything is up to date.

Back in October I had the honor of photographing a Commitment Ceremony I did blog about! (you can read it here) A while after the ceremony they ordered their album, a beautiful flush mount album. Which was the first one I had ever ordered, so I was a little nervous about the company I had chosen and what the final product would look like, and when I received it I was pleasantly surprised... here are a few photos of the album.

I include these type albums in all of my wedding or event packages, I love the way they look. The pages are all nice and shiny!!! Sorry for the small photos, they were the ones I placed on my myspace page...