The photography of Jim Denevan almost doesn’t seem real. He uses vehicles, walking sticks, chain link fences, rakes, etc. to create these amazing large-scale drawings. Each drawing is inevitably erased by water and weather, but captured in these surreal photos.
(via Slow Lane Notes)
Professional family and wedding photography has definitely become an art. Just look around Nathan’s photos here on the fyrefly blog, and I’m sure you’d agree. (This is not Nathan, by the way. This is Jessica, the stealth blogger.) But as the market for professional photography grows and the wedding blogs fill up with dream photos of dream weddings, (which I love of course) it’s always refreshing to take a break from all that and get inspired by someone who does something really different with photographs- someone who makes them into art just for the sake of art. So from time to time I’m going to try to introduce you to some artists around here who make you think, “Wow, how in the world did it occur to them to do that? Awesomeness.”
I’m in love with these bright and nostalgic pieces from New York artist Sebastiaan Bremer.
“Using various inks, he draws directly on slightly blurry C-print enlargements of photographs, and often adds splotches and streaks of photographic dye. Almost always, the underlying photographic images have much to do with personal and family history: a best friend from Bremers teenage years, a shot of himself as a kid, a view of a room taken from under his grandmothers piano, his family on vaction, a former girlfriend.” via bumbumbum
If you’d like to see more, check out his site here, and a great interview here.
These are all from For the Love of Color, a blog that takes pictures of food, art, interiors, landscapes, etc., and picks out the key colors. Each post is a beautiful color scheme taken from one photo. I love this idea. Color scheme is often the jumping-off point when designing anything- a room makeover, an outfit, a quilt, a garden, a party, a wedding.
You could really make your wedding colors meaningful by choosing them from a beloved photo- you and your fiance’s favorite meal, the site of your first date, a piece of art you both love, one of your parents’ old wedding photos, or even one of your engagement photos…. hmmm, yet another reason to get them.
Fyrefly has done a fair share of newborn and baby shoots. But I recently came across three photographers with a whole new take on snapping baby shots. These are more conceptual shoots, but the thing they have in common is they capture such emotion on these little baby faces. Little miniature human emotions…
These are by Edward Mapplethorpe- instant heart melting. He only takes pictures of the babies on or near their first birthday, and then he only shows the parents a couple shots to choose from. Brilliant.
Bettina Von Zwehl did a series of all baby profiles. I would love to sit in on a shoot like this and see just how you get them to stare at one thing long enough to snap the perfect profile.
These are from Thierry Bouet’s series of 50 newborns in their very first hours. They all looked a little freaked out upon entering the world. How come the ones they take at the hospital never come out this great?
(All three found at the lovely Cup of Jo.)
For those of you who didn’t get the reference in the title of the post…it’s a variation on the best baseball quote of all time…Google it:)
We love it when couples take their wedding and make it all about their personalities and things that are meaningful to them. This couple met playing softball and baseball in college, so they took the baseball theme and ran with it. The amazing part is, it’s really fun while still being elegant and even a little girly. Something like this would be perfect for two crazy Reds fans here in Cincy!
See more of this wedding here at Style Me Pretty.
