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{Engaged} Jessica + Dustin

November 30, 2014 8:49 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

I posted a some Polaroid photos from my session with Jessica and Dustin a few weeks ago. Now, on to the main event!

When I do engagement photos for a couple, I like to hear a little bit about how they met, what the proposal was like, and similar details about their relationship. In my opinion, those details of Jessica and Dustin’s relationship sound like they come straight out of a rom com movie: Meeting at a drive-in movie to which they’d both been invited by a mutual friend. A proposal that was to take place at a Rockettes’ performance at Christmas – complete with Dustin’s plan nearly being foiled by unseasonably warm weather and Jessica being confused about the fact that Dustin insisted on bringing a coat along anyway (to conceal the box containing the engagement ring, of course.) Thankfully, the plan to propose was not foiled and Jessica said “yes!”

 

We decided to win the whole “engagement photos” thing with these photos

Just a little voguing during our session…

Trapped!

^^^More winning of teh internets/engagement photos 

I hope you can tell how much fun I had with Jessica and Dustin during their session. We laughed a lot. They’re pretty awesome*.

 

 

*Totally awesome

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{Instant Engagement} Jessica + Dustin

November 3, 2014 10:18 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Last week, I did an engagement session with the (delightful) Jessica and Dustin. I’ll soon be sharing more photos from our afternoon together, but I thought I’d show you a few instant photos I took during our session first!

  Polaroid SLR 680 SE • Impossible Project BW 600 Hard Color frames film

 

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{Something’s Brewing} Muddy’s Grind House

October 27, 2014 8:58 am ⋅ 2 Comments ⋅

I’m SO excited!

There’s been one burning question Memphians have been asking for years: “Will there be a second location of Muddy’s?” That question has finally been answered, in the form of a Muddy’s spin-off shop: Muddy’s Grind House! A coffee shop!

I was asked to do some product photography and photos of the shop, which has been in its soft opening stage. The Grind House is located in the Cooper-Young neighborhood of Midtown Memphis.  They carry a small selection of items from Muddy’s, such as cupcakes and pie, but they have new goodies just for the coffee shop: coffee cakes, biscuits, scones, and more. It’s wonderful!

I’m just going to give you a few sneak peek photos from the day of this shoot- you can already see some more of them on the Muddy’s Grind House website!

P.S. I tried all the baked goods you see in the photos – I’m still dreaming of those coffee cakes 🙂

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{Pretty in Pink}

August 24, 2014 12:11 pm ⋅ 2 Comments ⋅

Who would have ever thought that I’d like pink film?

When The Impossible Project announced their special edition magentatype film, I didn’t think I’d have any interest in it. This was actually their second special edition film that was a colored monochrome; Impossible Project did a cyanotype film prior to releasing magentatype. Even though I wasn’t that interested in this pink film, magentatype happened to be on sale when I was making an order of some other IP films. I decided I might as well throw a pack of it into my shopping cart!

I’d bought this order of film as a birthday present to myself, so I actually planned ahead of time how I’d use the magentatype film.  My sister and I have birthdays that are exactly seven days apart. That means we usually have some joint birthday outing (or two) during our birthday week. This year, it just so happened that The Princess Bride would be showing at The Orpheum in Memphis in the middle of birthday week. Perfect! Once we’d planned to see that movie, I knew going downtown to that beautiful theatre would be a great way to spend my special pack of film. (It was!)

I even watched the film Pretty in Pink that day at home in preparation for using the magentatype film for this series of photos, because I knew I’d name the series “Pretty in Pink.”

Team Ducky. Forever.

Testing 1-2-3…my test shot in my sister’s office at work

Dinner time in Midtown MemphisThe ghost of Elvis(My favorite place in Memphis)The prettiest in pink (though she’d never wear pink)Kenny G’s star on The Orpheum’s “Sidewalk of Stars”The grand lobby in the theatre

I will say that the scans of these photos don’t do them justice. Given the hit-or-miss nature of the revived instant film format, I was really happy with how these turned out. They made me “birthday happy” the night I took them. Well, the photos made me”birthday happy” in addition to the fact that we had so much fun seeing The Princess Bride on the big screen in my favorite place in Memphis!

Polaroid SLR 680 SE • Impossible Project Magentatype 600 film
August 1, 2014 • Memphis, TN

If you ever get your hands on some magentatype film, it’s a bit worrying initially because the film looks cyan as it’s developing. But never fear! It turned pink once it was finally developed properly!

 

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