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It may be a little late to be saying this but seeing that we are only into the second month of 2012 the year is still pretty new, so.. HAPPY NEW YEAR! I am blown away at how quickly 2012 came upon us! I mean seriously I thought 2011 was fast moving but 2012 has already proven to be a sprinter right out of the gate. Don’t get me wrong, I am loving it, I just can’t help but feel I am starting to neglect some of the things I love the most. This blog being one of them!
This blog has not only been our little corner of the photographic world but a place where we have aimed to put our selves “out there” in order for you get to know us better. I feel so excited when I log on to our analytics and see that people from all over the world are coming to check in on us and the stories we are sharing. What I love most is hearing from some of you about how even the stories of our couples have touched your life in some way. That is what it is all about after all. Not only bringing attention to us and our work but sharing stories, and celebrating the uniqueness of each one. It’s humbling really, to know you are out there, reading these very words. Thanks to all of you who come back from time to time to check in and see what we’ve been up to, I can’t tell you just how motivating it is for us to keep doing what we are doing. If you don’t hear from time to time you should know we aren’t ignoring you, quite the contrary… you are always on our minds. It’s more likely that we have been up to a lot:) We may not feature everything we shoot but we try our darndest to do so. We have so much we are still wrapping up from 2011 and we can’t wait to share it all with you. Until next time…
Cheers!
D+K

kevin and i have had the privilege of working side by side with janean over the course of the last few months.  truth be told, janean and i go way back.  our love of art, culture, and all things unconventional link us still today.

All Aboarrrd, Let’s Go!  It’s time for a vacation!  (Or in our case, more like a staycation.) That is right, Kevin and I are taking a little time to relax and make some memories of our own!  That usually consists of some quality family time, the occasional hike, a winter blockbuster or two, and a whole lot of not getting out of our pajamas and streaming some smutty television show off of Netflix.

It’s been one crazy year for The Why We Love.  We still have so much to be finishing up, delivering to our clients, and sharing with you our friends and followers.   To visually recap this year’s amazing couples and such is not an easy task to do.  There were so many wonderful stories that were captured and moments throughout the year that it will take some time to go back and relive it all.  I am looking forward to doing so. We will get to showcasing that work in time but for now we are taking some time for ourselves.  This time of year is a favorite for many reasons.  The Holiday’s, the celebrations, the time with family and friends.  I also love the opportunity it brings to us to rest a little bit, to reflect on the past year and prepare ourselves for the year soon to come.  So that is what we will be doing in the coming days; resting, reflecting, an preparing ourselves for the next part of the ride.  We have so, so, so much to look forward to in 2012.

Cheers,

D+K

Our Friends the Scheidlers are that family you just love to spend your days with!  Sarah is a fellow photog friend and lover of all things creative.  It’s always a bit intimidating when asked to shoot for another artist but with a host of smiling faces and amazing personalities, these kids… THIS FAMILY was a joy and privilege to capture.  We love documenting Life Stories and visually showing the uniqueness of families.  Thanks guys for allowing us to be a part of documenting your awesome growing family!

Cheers

Nick and Katrina are the epitome of sweetness!  We’ve  been looking forward to their love story session from the time we first met over sushi earlier this year.  After spending a few hours with them wandering around The Arroyo we are even more excited for their awesome wedding in Orange County this coming summer!

We shot their Love Story session recently and are in love with so many moments shared between these two.   We couldn’t wait to share just a few with you. And yes… Katrina is the ultimate of cuteness with her ban.do red sequence heart and luscious curls!  We were also excited to test out some new processing thanks to the innovative team at VSCO.  Visual Supply Co. offers some pretty awesome film emulation software for post processing and some amazing resources for photographic creatives.  As most of you know, Kevin and I have a deep love and special place in our hearts for film.   Just like listening to our old LPs, we will never give it up and nothing will ever takes it’s place. That being said, we love what digital photography offers us in the way of creative freedom and immediate gratification (amongst other things).  This post is just a glimpse of how (for The Why We Love) both digital and film photography work in tandem for us as a way to tell a complete story.  People often wonder why we don’t just shoot one vs the other.  For right now the short answer to that question is… because we don’t want to, nor do we have to.  Thanks to our rad pals over at RPL, we always get the most amazing quality in our film processing.  When we get our film back it is our bar, our standard, and our base line for how we process the rest of our digital images.  Then with a combination of our own processing techniques and now some help from our new pals at VSCO we can create digital images that help convey the core of what we aim to communicate as story tellers.  After all, that is our first priority… being present in the moments that help us capture and tell the story of love and beauty.

Digital BW processed with VSCO Illford HP5 / Grain +

Digital Color processed with VSCO Fuji 400H / Fill Light +

Color Film Fuji Pro 400H processing and scanning by Richard Photo Lab