Catherine + Steve

Catherine and Steve are neighbors and artists. We actually purchased some art from Steve for our house and got to know them as a couple after visiting their studio. Their wedding was a real act of love as friends and family pitched it to create it. I don't know if they used any vendors at all. It seems everyone they know is artistically talented from the food and dancing, to the music. At one point a hour long jam session formed and the whole bridal party played and being musicians they were amazing. Plus the whole wedding took place a couple of blocks from my home. I doubt that will happen again.

As they are a both spiritual and playful couple I utilized those attributes in their video. I am especially fond of the second portion of the video because I was able to use Tom Waits' version of I don't want to Grow Up. I aged the footage a bit and just had fun with it. I think it captures the emotions of the day pretty well.

Enjoy!

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You can video my vimeo page for Catherine and Steve here.

You can see some of Steve's art on his site here.

Joanna + Aaron Trailer

I'm proud to present the latest film in the 2009 Summer Series. Here is highlight film for Joanna and Aaron's wedding. As they are still away on their honeymoon you guys will be able to view it before they do.

Enjoy.

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Joanna & Aaron

Here are a few untouched video captures from Joanna & Aaron's wedding last week. It was an awesome spot and no rain despite a 99% chance for it. I hope to have some video up in the next week.

Courtney + Dimitri's Video

Here is the video of Courtney and Dimitri's wedding. The day went by in a flash and it was a lot of fun to create a video highlighting the day. Enjoy!

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Courtney & Dimitri

It was a wedding blitz on Saturday. Two weddings and amazingly the weather held out for both. I'm checking out the footage now for Courtney & Dimitri's wedding and it looks awesome. This will be a fun edit. I hope they are having a great time on their honeymoon. Here are a couple of quick screen grabs.

Things are heating up

It's been a relatively quite spring. It's given me time to check out new equipment and focus a bit on having fun with photography. Here are a couple offerings from the last month or so. I have thousands of pics up on my flickr page. Link is available on the right.

April Stuff

After a somewhat slow start, the summer is booking up fast. It should be an exciting season with weddings from New York City to Northern California. It's fun checking out new places and meeting great couples every week and to think just a couple years ago I was working in a casino.

I haven't had a chance to post anything recently, because I really haven't had a chance to film anything. It's been busy on the non-wedding film work front and a great way to bring some of those techniques to your wedding films. I have some great ideas and can't wait we hit the wedding season full speed.

I'm also looking for couples to do a "love story" basically a non-wedding music video. But from what I've seen these are really cliched so I'd want to get creative with it and do some really fun stuff. Let me know if you are interested.