Here are a few beautiful moments I found from when we were in Venice at the end of our trip. It is truly an amazing city. I hope I have a chance to go back there someday with more time!

We were hearing that the weather might crap out on us, but we did our best with and tried to embrace it! They didn’t let it get her down. My gear got pretty wet – any advice on that other photographers?? My awesome friend Danielle second-shot the first part of this wedding with me, and I was so grateful. Her documentary off the cuff moments that she captured really rounded out their set of wedding pictures and gave them special memories to treasure. I think she is going to blog some of her images herself so be on the lookout!

Anyway – this wedding was soooo gorgeous. It had tons of beautiful little details, from the centerpieces which were hand-designed by Megan herself (an art teacher), and each one different, to the awesome vintage programs. The flowers were unique and gorgeous, and the bridesmaid dresses were a royal blue. Megan’s stunning classic gown was only her first piece -she changed into an awesome swing dress for the end of the reception! (Unfortunately I didn’t get many pictures of this part as I was off the clock)

I believe some of these pictures may be featured in the paper this weekend. I’m really excited!! What an honor! Here’s a few favorites, and there are tons more here and on facebook.

This was an invitation created for a GE reception held at a planetarium. It was really fun because I used a combination of vector imagery and photoshop with brushes to create a starry night, hill scene. The constellation is the leaf motif from the hybrid paint scheme. It also had a matching little thank you card!

The most recent edition of Stairways Magazine, UP created with the team. I was really happy with this one because the colors were really great (blues and teals, my favs) and it was a winter theme. My goal was also to get way more consistent with the design so I we have a really nice, not busy template and created something I think will be easily updateable each time.

We also are almost done redesigning our website, and it will be up very soon!

HAPPY FRIDAY!

I knew I wanted it to be flickr based since I rely so heavily on flickr and it is by far the easiest, affordable way to keep your photography and any other visual digital files organized and current. I tried downloading a few different flash type of players that would filter my flickr sets, but none of them worked as good as the tried and true rock — I am using the pictobrowser, and its simple and easy. 

I hope you all like it!

Visit my new site

I downloaded these so cute free flowers here @ You the Designer. I still don’t really understand how people have time create this kind of adorable, perfect art. But hey, I’m glad they do it so I don’t have to!!

I promise to have some photos and updates soon… I took some awesome ones this weekend because it was snowy but sunny and gorgeous. I went out on Lake Erie, frozen, for the first time in my life! The last two days have been so crazy from running to one thing to another that I have neglected the pure interest. Do you ever find yourself so overwhelmed by photo posting, organizing, touching up and flickring and blogging that you just DON’T? That’s kind of where I was at.

forgive me?

That being said… I randomly saw an ad on Face Book. I think this might be first ad I’ve ever clicked on on Face Book. This artist is young, but I absolutely love Moran Danan’s work. So warm, with beautiful composition, abstraction… it’s the kind of art I want hanging in my living room, and the kind I want to actually stare at and interpret. Unfortunately for me, anything above about $50 is too much for me to spend on anything decorative… however maybe one day I could own one of these pieces. Enjoy….

This is only a small sampling of her work… check it out!

photoshop brush viewer
I think this one will be a necessity for me as my big photoshop brush collection sometimes takes 20-30 seconds to load.

a really funky form builder
I’ll have to check this out to see if it really is as good as it seems to be. Aren’t the different colors so cute??

electrifying beams in photoshop
seriously? someone can teach me how to do the beams thing from the sprint commercials??

a similar light beams tutorial
from PSDTuts

really beautiful website design
nothing except to look at it for inspiration…

a logo design handbook
is it possible to have a handbook on how to design a logo? you’ll have to read it (as will i) to form your opinion

aaaight font!
Looks like a sharpie marker, handwritten kind

vintage photo effect
this is really cool, and i think could come in handy.

another beautiful light effect
in a cute coffeecup….

desktop wallpaper method
maybe i can try this on my next offering …

this logo design is so awesome
I guess it was “unchosen” which sort of sucks, but it was inspirational nonetheless.

Have a great rest of your Monday everyone Only another hour left to go… (for local readers)