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indian summer honey farm

shipra — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:05:27 +0000

A few weeks ago, our homeschool group visited Indian Summer Honey Farm in Webster, Florida. We took a tour, fed some goats, watched the bees, got our fingers sticky from sampling honey, and came home with huge jars of the most delicious orange blossom honey. Aaaaand….I shot some ektar 100 on my hassy. All in all, a pretty terrific day

Colin & Crystal ~ Seabreeze Point, Lake Buena Vista, Florida wedding

shipra — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:18:50 +0000

Colin and Crystal planned a destination wedding at the Seabreeze Point pavilion at Disney’s boardwalk. Less than 20 people but lots of lightness of heart. This one was a ton of laughs!

See their cheery wedding feature on Martha Stewart Weddings

first dance

shipra — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:03:37 +0000

To me, this image conveys so much emotion and movement and is far more beautiful with all its imperfections than it would be if I used a flash and everything was crisp, defined, and static. (Reason #13 I don’t like to use flash unless absolutely necessary.)

I’m trying really hard lately to stay true to photographing things in a way that I find beautiful and moving even if it’s not necessarily technically the most advanced way to make photographs.

Missy & Pancho ~ Afton Mountain Vineyards ~ Virginia Wedding

shipra — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:28:54 +0000

Sarah of Sarah Der Photography is a lovely young woman who came into my life a little while ago, and someone I instantly recognized as a kindred spirit. Not only is she wonderfully talented and a source of inspiration, she’s also funny, a foodie, open-hearted, and extremely generous.

She’s the reason I was able to be a part of Missy & Pancho’s incredibly special wedding last summer. Knowing that I wanted (desperately) to photograph something (anything) with mountains in the background, and to photograph a wedding primarily using film, she invited me to tag along as her second shooter to a beautiful wedding with the Blue Ridge mountains in the background, and to use as much film as my heart desired (love you, Sarah!) You have to adore friends that help you live out a dream!

These are a mix of film & digital images from the wedding I photographed with her at the Afton Mountain Vineyards in Virginia.

personal

shipra — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:08:12 +0000

played around recently with portra 400 film and a few double exposures. Here’s a little of what I came away with. Film scanned by Indie Film Lab

Shannon & Cyrus ~ Orlando, Central Florida

shipra — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:12:30 +0000

Introducing the fun and fabulous Shannon & Cyrus…

I’m slightly obsessed (ok more than slightly) with Shannon’s incredible eyes. Their Fort Lauderdale wedding can’t come soon enough.

a little prettiness

shipra — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:48:49 +0000

I spent some time this week putting together a collection of images for my vendor profile listing on the beautiful wedding inspiration blog Elizabeth Anne Designs. I wanted to be consistent so I used only vertical images laid out in pairs, and I tried to pick ‘pretty’ shots (in keeping with the Prettiness that Elizabeth Anne Designs tends to favor.)

Since it’s been awhile since my last blog post, I thought I would share them here as well.

1 year, 1 month, & 1 day

shipra — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:26:32 +0000

Yesterday marked the date that Christine and Zach have been married 1 year, 1 month, & 1 day.

Happy Anniversary!

Akiko & Yoshi ~ Tokyo, Japan

shipra — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:16:32 +0000

A few days after their wedding, Kiki, Yoshi & I got together for a ‘just-because’ session. They took me to visit an historic shrine in Tokyo and out for some real ramen at this hole-in-the wall place Yoshi used to go to all the time when he was in college. It was incredible and quite an experience. (the freeze dried stuff we find here at the grocery store is a travesty!)

I posted some personal work from Japan earlier. These shots are from the hotel room before we headed out. I’ve been enjoying shooting indoors a great deal lately. More to come.

Susmi & Ashish ~ Indian wedding ~ Hyatt Grand Cypress, Orlando Florida

shipra — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:06:50 +0000

Part 3: Continuing on from my previous two posts, here’s a glimpse from Susmi & Ashish’s wedding ceremony at the Hyatt Grand Cypress.

The first post can be seen here. The second post is here.

Several images below are thanks to my lovely friend, Sarah who shot this wedding alongside me. My favorite shot from the entire day was hers (the one in the car when when Susmi’s father-in-law has his hand on her head for a blessing. It’s such a powerful moment….Sarah, you are so good!)