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Irving Penn

T'ai and I will be in chicago tomorrow to see the Irving Penn Tribute

at the Art Institute- I'm so excited!

Irving Penn

Oh- and Happy Halloween!

random book pages

yep- I left my shoes in this one

I know it's going to sound braggy, but I love this book from Emily and Troy's wedding. I've done nothing but design it for days now...I'd post all the layouts but I don't want to ruin the surprise :) The grey is just from taking screen shots of the layout...not really there.

Larry Fink and etc

I didn't know that Larry Fink shot weddings- how exciting! I've loved his work forever--B&W, square, lit so nicely...plus he's my facebook friend :) Looking at this site really puts me in the mood for some B&W film.

Also- excuse the blog mess. I'm going to be doing a bit of remodeling in the next couple of weeks and I lost my header somewhere along the way. I think I can live without it for a bit though. Happy Monday!

Brooke and Nick 10-17

Brooke and Nick had a fantastic wedding at Woodstock on Saturday--and I'm excited to post some photos so I'm posting way to many of course...

I got there a bit early and was walking around when I noticed all the old B&W images in the bar- those pictures really inspired how I shot this wedding and I decided to shoot some of the ceremony in B&W with pretty harsh and direct flash- like an old newspaper photos. I think they turned out really vintage-y and I just love them :)

Congratulations you guys- it was an amazing wedding- fun and elegant and perfect.

And thank you to Trinity for running the photobooth, and Rayna Traylor for being so nice and helpful and making everything beautiful (their coordinator).

more food from this week

A few shots for an upcoming cookbook- thanks Pat and SarahKate :)

 

food photography, Indianapolis, IN

Emily and Troy

A surprise wedding at a Mexican restaurant with another party later at a bowling alley...yep- doesn't get much more fun than that :) This is kind of a lot of photos for a blog post- and I could post a ton more, but really I need to stop. it's already kind of epic. Congratulations you guys- you pulled it off and it was so great!

And many thanks to my friend Barry Lewis for running the photobooth too!

An Italian restaurant

a couple from day 1 at Ambrosia--they are getting a new site and new marketing materials so they needed some new photos--fun project with Amy Peddycord.

 

food and interior photography Indianapolis IN

in the stages of grief...

It seems like I've heard the stages of grief- maybe there are like 5 or 7? Not sure. On Monday we heard that Gourmet was closing down. I was shocked---lovely, beautiful Gourmet? Gourmet with the prettiest food photos in the whole world? Gourmet that I have never worked for, but aspire to and dream about?

Well yesterday was a dreary day and it's not like I thought about it all day, but maybe once or twice. Today however I'm really mad. Really really mad. Pissed even. Who made the choice to close down a magazine that's been going for almost 70 years? That's who I'm mad at. I know the economy is not great, but figure out another way. Close something else- or cut your adverting rates or beg subscribers for donations...I don't know.

SO that's where I am in my grief over Gourmet- I'm at the pissed stage. Maybe I should look up the other stages so I'll know what to expect, but I just wanted to state here on the internet that not everyone is understanding about your choice to close up- some of us are mad.