My job is most fun when I get to photograph a great couple in a new location. And what a great new location I discovered whilst searching for areas that would be in bloom. The lovely bride-to-be is really into flowers and color- and in April everything is just starting to sprout.
Add to that, I always look for a place that won’t be crowded with people (picture Boston Public Garden in the Spring). But I think I stumbled onto location-perfection here at the Wellesley College Botanical Gardens. The campus itself looks like the creation of a movie producer creating the look of what an ideal campus should look like. Lots of old buildings, sprawling lawns, cultivated garden areas, courtyards, arching trees… A photographer’s yummy stuff for the lens.
I could have stayed there for the whole afternoon.
But enough about the location… Check out this super sweet couple. I can’t wait to photograph them this summer! Thanks guys for the perfect afternoon.
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Engagement session at Wellesley College Botanical Gardens
Printable DIY wedding invitations (and more)…
I just stumbled upon this site, e.m.papers, and thought I would share it with my some of my clients and friends. For those of you looking for higher-end design and quality invitations, this site has a lot to offer. What caught my eye today was the *free!* printable wedding invitations that come as an editable PDF. You can download and update with your own information. Then all you need to do is find some nice paper to print on, address the envelopes and send. Take it from a person who hand made and folded all of her own invitations… Unless you really like crafting, folding, and papercuts, this is a great way to go. DIY printable wedding invitaions by e.m.papers
The above Black and White one is free to download, but there were many other collections that you could choose from that may fit your style better, and why not support a site that does all of the heavy design lifting for you?
Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica
A few rainy-ish hours is not nearly enough time to capture an area, but here is my attempt. We had an amazing guide named, Jose, who delivered the entire tour in Spanish and some bird calls thrown in for good measure. He was actually able to call over some birds that he heard off in the distance, who who flew over to check out our little group. The bird below is a Violaceous-Trogon. Yes, I had to look that up when I returned. My Spanish is a bit lacking.
After a bit of a walk up through the forest, we took a aerial tram through the trees to gain a different vantage point. From up above we were able to see a rather small and unassuming looking snake that we were told was an eyelash pit viper. They are typically yellow and very poisonous, but this one was a juvenile, brownish-gray and impossible to get a photo of while we were on a moving tram shooting into the dark under-canopy below. So you will just have to take my word for it that we barely escaped with our lives…
Let me make a bit of a note about traveling with photo gear. Packing for a trip that offeres photo oportunites, but not much time to spend actually setting up shots, is ridiculously hard for me. Sort of like packing for a trip with my real children, starting in the snow and moving to a warm climate. And making sure all of the items I bring with me will fit in a carry-on. Parents of young children out there will understand this dilemma.
So this is the type of trip when having a really fast lens makes all the difference. Also one with a bit of a zoom. I brought 2 with me on our trip. My Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L, and I opted to take my smaller, but longer, Canon EF Zoom lens 70 mm-300 mm, F/4.0-5.6, which I find disappointing because of the flatness of the images it produces and lack of control I have over light with such a slow lens. But it beats carrying around my far nicer, but much heavier Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8. I think in retrospect I should have sucked it up, but, what can you do? My poor friend, T, already had to stand there in the middle of the rain while I switched from my short to long lens so that I could go from capturing an orchid to the sloth that was hanging around up above.
