new york city

IT IS SPRING TODAY! …i say ‘today’ because earlier this week we were experiencing snow flurries in the ATL and i don’t want to get ahead of myself and say SPRING HAS ARRIVED. i just don’t want to jinx anything, you understand.

anyway, today it is beautiful- sunny & 70 with a light breeze. i could live this day over and over and wake up smiling every morning. i hear this means we should really just pack up and move to california…but that conversation is for another day…

at the moment, matt and i are getting some work done in a little coffee shop in greenville, SC, waiting for lauren’s bridal shoot to start later this afternoon. my inbox is down to THREE and i’m taking a moment to clean up my desktop. messy desktops make matt crazy so i’m doing this for him. i really couldn’t care less if images i’ve pulled of pretty flowers and crafts i’d like to try are not in their correct folders but matt does. i’m a much better person because of him!

so as i was organizing and tossing lots into the trash when i cam across NYC pictures from earlier this month and started experimenting with them in photoshop. matt and i get a lot of questions about our editing and to answer the questions all at once i just have to say it’s all trial and error! we’re always experimenting with our personal pictures with different tweaks and only when we’ve created a ‘look’ that passes the test on our personal pictures, do we add it to our wedding actions list!

first up, from the plane on the way in! i was so busy taking a picture with the phone that i almost missed grabbing one with the real camera! obviously, i take seriously being able to update with quality twitpics! the bizarre vignette here is actually just the edge of the window not some crazy new action we’re going to apply to your bridal portraits ;)

cal, matt’s roommate from college, took us through the area where he usually runs around the reservoir. what beautiful scenery he sees when he runs! makes me almost want to run there too! or at least walk like i mean it…

to have taken this image means that matt had already squeezed through this chained fence. i thought the chains meant stay out- apparently what they actually meant was please come in! i introduce you to cal:

i spent most of the trip with not just my bangs, but the entirety of my head of hair, in my eyes. and mouth. this made sipping cappuccino not the easiest thing but i pushed through that obstacle. THIS is the photo i was trying to send here.

while the brooklyn bridge is stunning, i love the manhattan bridge that runs beside it. the detail is beautiful and i love the greenish/blue color!

look left from the manhattan- the brooklyn bridge! photography heaven. this next shot is my favorite. and the one after that is matt’s. funny, we got shots without this wall in the foreground but these ended up being our faves. i think because just getting a small peek of such a majestic bridge allows the eye to really focus on the details of it. or maybe it’s because the ones without the wall had lame cars and construction in them…

a little banksy perhaps!? and again, the ever-present WIND.

all the single ladies!

this next one matt is making me post because he said it looks like it’s from the shining or something. i think it’s just a sad picture of me realizing my feet are going to KILL me in the morning.

cal, thanks for sharing your life with us for a few days, it’s always great to see you!