Since Julie & Remi hail from the frozen North of Canada, they chose to do their Day After/Trash the Dress Session at a place decidedly Floridian - the beautiful Venetian Pool in Coral Gables!

We started the session with some portraits around the beautiful grounds of the pool, and ended with Julie & Remi taking a dip in a secluded area under a small waterfall. The entire location was so beautiful and though open to the public, was still a very private & easy place to take photos!

Here are my favorites from our session:

Julie & Remi, we had a lot of fun spending time with you both! I know you have many great memories of your wedding week here in Florida, and hope to see you again the next time you come visit The Sunshine State! :)

Here are some of the photos I took of Roz, another model that I had the opportunity to work with in Tampa to do some bridal/trash the dress portraits with. She was fun to work with and had a great style!

This one is a little "out there" for a bridal portrait, but I still like it anyway. :)

And finally, this is my new friend, Chelsea Elizabeth, an awesome photographer from California. I had a lot of fun shooting with her!

I've made a new page all about Trash the Dress, so if you had any questions before and were hesitant to set up a shoot with me, hopefully this will help answer them!

Adrian and I are back from the Digital Wedding Forum convention and Imaging USA. DWF was by far one of the most amazing and worthwhile conventions I have ever been to! Everyone I met was so wonderful and willing to share, and I got to hear some of my favorite photographers speak, like Jesh de Rox, Jessica Claire, the Bebbs, the Radlinskis, Michelle Turner, Susan Stripling, and SO MANY MORE!!! I also made some wonderful new friends and it was awesome to finally meet all the people I've been chatting with online on the forum for the past year!

On Sunday, one of my fellow photographers, Alicia D'Amico, organized a Trash the Dress shoot. She got some incredible models from the Tampa area, which is where we were all staying, and we ran around the hotel shooting and exploring and practicing what we had just learned in our seminars.

Here are four of my favorite images to start, from a model named Krystal who was definitely not afraid to get wet! More will be coming from the other model I worked with, as I process the images.

Hope you enjoyed these as much as I enjoyed making them. For those of you who care, I edited these with a mixture of the Boutwells' Totally Rad Actions and my brand new Sallee Solutions actions which I purchased at Imaging USA. :)

There's been lots of buzz about "Trash the Dress" sessions lately, and Adrian and I were really excited when Jen approached us and asked us to do her TTD session as a gift for her husband. She's married with kids, but never had the big wedding dress and always wanted to do a fun bridal session - but I don't think she expected to have this much fun!! This session was done at Bill Baggs State Park on Key Biscayne - it was a beautiful and secluded location - perfect for a photo shoot!

The term "Trash the Dress" is actually kind of a misnomer - the dress isn't really being trashed. In most cases, the bride is just doing something a little whimsical in her dress or simply allowing herself to have fun and not care whether the dress gets a little dirty. In fact, what happens to your dress is nothing that a trip to the dry cleaners couldn't take care of.

Anyway, on to the pictures - Adrian and I had the opportunity to be creative with this photo shoot, and as such, that's certainly reflected in the style of editing I chose to use. I wanted to achieve a really carefree, dreamy, fantastical look, and I think I succeeded! Please feel free to comment with your thoughts.

Some friends that I showed these photos to asked me how Adrian and I were able to get a few of these shots, particularly the ones in the water... so I decided to include two photos of us on the job!

Here I am photographing Jen and wearing my new Shootsac, a lens bag for professional photographers:

Adrian was a little more adventurous than me this time around (mainly because he'd actually remembered to bring a change of clothes, while I'd forgotten!), so I got this great photo of him in the water:

You can see more Trash the Dress examples from all over the country and learn more about it by visiting TrashTheDress.com.

If you're interested in booking a Trash the Dress session, please give me a call at 954-724-8321. I promise it'll be loads of fun!

Adrian and I recently went for a bridal photography session in Coral Gables with several other wedding photographers. This is a beautiful area of South Florida that is known for its Spanish style and coral rock. Here are two of our favorites from this session:

A few weeks ago, we did a bridal portrait session with Megan at Bayfront Park in Miami. There was a lot of construction going on, so we hit up that area for a more industrial type of look, and then we had some fun on the carousel. Here are two of our favorite photos:

Karen and I went on a quick shoot with Jessica in downtown Celebration before our trip out west last month. Here are my two favorite shots from the extremely rapid shoot...





The second shot was captured from the road. Literally, I was on my back in the middle of the road with my head on the asphalt trying to get the words along side her.