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2011 Where Hast Thou Gone? | Wedding Photography Rochester NY
January 11, 20122011.
So I was faced with a dilemma about 2011.
How to talk about it. How to show you my work. How to make you happy to see it. (I’m still working on that one! ::grin:: )
Do I talk about the new studio?
Or how we’ve grown in leaps and bounds?
Or my team?
Or the cool projects I’ve gotten to do this year?
Or the traveling?
Or what I’ve learned?
Or what’s new?
…. I could. But then the blog entry would be 156 pages long and you’d be here until Sunday morning reading this. And I’m frankly, not that interesting. 
Then I thought, well, maybe I can post a lot of photographs and talk about each one…but I want you to watch all the way to the end, right? (Yes Tam, all the way to the end. Gheesh!) I don’t want you to get overwhelmed, or bored, and stop mid-story. Fail.
So my dilemma was (and always is, btw) — how can I present images in a way that pushes a little bit? …in a way that draws you in, makes you think and engages you from start to end?
This is the result. It was a huge CHALLENGE to put together because (and you’ll see this if and when you watch) it had to flow — so we had to edit down brutally. That infuriated me — but sometimes…less is more, eh? Tell me less is more. So I have forced myself to stop fretting over how much I COULDN’T show you. Or this would be 4 hours and 37 minutes instead of just a couple. I am exercising restraint. Someone had to!
So I am disproportionately proud of the final result. It’s EXACTLY what I had in mind when I was scribble-scrabbling for the right way to present 2011.
Be prepared. It made ME cry — and I TOOK the images.
Also — I just had this headshot done by the RIDICULOUS Carla Ten Eyck — and I LOVE. So I’m debuting it just because I think it’s perfectly ME.
So in order to see the review you have to click on my head. ::laughing::
Or…if you absolutely don’t WANT to click on my head (we can discuss the implications of this later… ) – then click here.
(And please do not judge the fact that I cannot figure out how to embed a video on this blog to SAVE MY LIFE. ) Now on to 2012. BRING. IT.
I have ALWAYS wanted to make one of these videos: have you ever seen the Amazon ad for Kindle? Yeah. So inspiring.
These little clips are not new — there are some AMAZING artists who are creating some absolutely INSANE stop motion clips.
Cool, eh?
How could I NOT want to make one?
All I needed was some victims…erm…willing and wonderful clients who wanted to try something completely different.
Enter: Melanie and Mark.
Lesson: Stop Motion takes A LOT LONGER than you will ever expect it too. Plus, since we hadn’t tried this before — we faced a lot of “unexpected” challenges…nothing a good roll of duct tape couldn’t fix — but still — we were problem solving ON THE SPOT all day long. ::laughing and shaking head::
Here’s our final product. To put it into context — Melanie and Mark watched fireworks on their first date…and our challenge was to incorporate that experience with the theme of their wedding “Van Gogh’s Starry Night”. Yeah, right? FUN!!
Hope you LOVE this. It was AMAZING to put together and thank goodness I have an amazing team working with me!!
I did my best to embed the link here — but being less proficient that I thought and VERY IMPATIENT — you have to click the picture. But then it will be awesome. I promise.
Stop Motion Save the Date
Kuddos Tammy… you aimed big and landed in the world of amazing! I’m sure you’re clients are thrilled! xoxo
awesome girl…..loving every thing youve been posting….im so proud of everything ive seen lately…..”U Da Wo-Man”, ha ha ha!!
e-mail me, lets catch up!!!!
1.14.2012
I love that photo. Your video is just perfect. I sent it to my daughter as she is in Costa Rico and I need to remind her to wear her sunscreen.
1.15.2012
Love the video…so many incredible photos in there! And I’m also a huge fan of the accompanying poem
Congrats on a wonderful 2011.