I have heard from brides and grooms that the clinking of glasses in order to get them to kiss can be overdone.
One alternative is to have your DJ or band leader announce that in order for the bride and groom to kiss, they must be serenaded by their guests. This is fun and involves all the guests as I have seen table by table stand up and sing.
I have a passion for photographing birds, particularly swans and hawks. An exhibit in NYC titled “Ornithology”, www.jenbekman.com/shows/ornithology has work of other artists, both photographers and painters.
Here are two recent pieces that I have done in platinum palladium.
I wish to recommend The New York Guide to a Healthy Birth. The new edition is out and it is free. It is No.3 of a series and is valid for 2008/09. It is published by Choices in Childbirth, 212.983.4122; info@choicesinchildbirth.org.
My photo of Ellen has been chosen to be published in this edition.
The reason I have titled this post “Engagement Palladiums” is these are special prints that I offer to clients. Two weeks ago I photographed Maria and John on The Brooklyn Bridge. I photographed them with my 4X5 large format camera. Here are the palladium prints I produced from our session. I did one set as a diptych. I hope you like the beauty of these prints.
Here are new prints I recently made. They are from New England, Maine to be exact. They are of early summer when wildflowers are in bloom and early mornings are foggy before the heat of the sun lifts the fog.
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For this Father’s Day I am offering gift certificates for photography. Make this Father’s Day a memorable one. With summer here and the outdoors beckoning, we have wonderful opportunities to catch dad at play with the young ones.
This past Saturday I participated at the Eco Fair in JJ Byrne Park in Brooklyn, sponsored by The Old House, Park Slope Parents, and the Park Slope Civic Council. Face painting the children who lined up at the Park Slope parents table was incredible fun. Letting children inhabit characters, animals, and super heroes of their choosing gives them the opportunity to play and imagine. Here are a few photos:
I offer my clients a wonderful option of the fall-back box for storing and exhibiting their treasured photographs. This box can hold the photographs from your wedding and expand for your maternity, baby and family photographs. The photographs are matted in cotton mats. This cotton paper is archival and the same paper that I use in my albums. The box is covered with Japanese fabric and a photograph, usually in palladium, is inserted into the cover.
The first photo is a close up of the cover followed by the box opened with matted prints to show the variety of sizes that can fit.
This wonderful short film will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival this Friday. It is the story of a young woman’s pivotal life forming moments as it weaves between her past and present life. Below are some of my still photos and the link to this movie is: http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/filmguide/Gods_Beach.html
Because I offer platinum/palladium prints in addition to silver gelatin black & white prints to my wedding and portrait clients, I often find that my clients desire to learn more about photographic processes. This past weekend I attended The AIPAD Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. AIPAD stands for The Association of International Photography Art Dealers. At least 75 galleries from the United States, Europe and Japan exhibited photographs.
I found myself totally immersed in beautiful, meaningful work. One gallery, Hackelbury, from London impressed me with the photographs showing nature in ways that inspire. When I went to their website I saw that they had a page devoted to defining photography terms: http://www.hackelbury.co.uk/read…glossary.html. This glossary is from “On Collecting Photographs”, copyright by AIPAD 2001. I hope this information will help explain the variety of photographic processes available.
Here are some examples of my platinum/palladium prints from my work.
