Indian ceremonies are known for a few things: their duration (though this one was highly modified to just a couple of hours); their amazing colors; their complex symbolism; and their sense of fun and celebration! Sharp-eyed readers may have noted that our groom Fred’s ancestors probably hailed from somewhere a bit further east than India, and so it was great fun to watch someone be at the center of all this pageantry without really knowing what was going on.
This Friday, June 4th, from 5pm – 10pm, Studio 1053 (Zuma’s home) will play host to the Kiamuri Benefit Art Show.
This art show will highlight young Utah artists who are striving to share their talent while supporting a great cause. Please join us for live music, refreshments, an unique art available at very affordable prices. All proceeds will go to the construction and repair work of three classrooms in Kiamuri, Kenya this summer. We are asking for a suggested $1 donation at the door. Donors of $2 or more will receive a Kenya themed bracelet.
Brought to you by the local non-profit YouthLinc organization.
Oh man, I have REALLY been a blogging slacker the last couple of months! I’m starting off a big push to catch up on sessions with this hella-fun session I shot with Noelle and Gharzai.
Noelle and Garzai are both very stylish people. In fact they both work – and met – at a certain famous swanky department store.
Because their work environment has been such an important backdrop to their relationship, they thought it would be fun to see if they could use it for their engagement session.
So last week when I was braggin’ on the WPPI print awards I made mention of the fact that I never got around to blogging about Tori’s fabu bridal session out at Saltair on the Great Salt Lake last May.
I threatened to do a proper post about it. Now I’m makin’ good on the threat. Bub.
Just a quick little brag that I forgot to mention…
Every spring, tens of thousands of wedding and portrait photographers from around the world descend upon Las Vegas for the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International convention. One of the highlights is the 16×20 print competition. The competition is notorious for the exacting standards and crazy attention to detail of the judges, for the world-class quality of the entries, and for the sheer number of entries from around the world. Let’s just say this particular competition has some street cred.
I am honored to be able to share with you that two of my prints attained an Accolade of Excellence award this year and I am nothing short of humbled when I look around at the company I am in.
Part 1 – The Ceremony – is here in case you missed it.
To catch you up: pilot and airline management; sweet & beautiful wedding ceremony at Park City Community Church; love, love, love; laughter and tears; yada, yada, yada…
Elise & Russ both work for an airline – he a pilot and she in management. In fact they met while Russ was representing the labor union…across the negotiating table from each other. I was going to say something here about politics making for strange bed-fellows but I totally restrained myself. Whew, that was close!
So where do two Phoenix-based jet-setters that get free air-fare to anywhere in the world decide to have their wedding?
Beautiful Park City, of course!
Ryan and I had the privilege of shooting this great couple a few weeks ago. Here’s part 1 – part 2 on Saturday.
As many of you probably know we have a sister studio that specializes in contemporary child and family portraiture run by our very own Logan Walker – Sprout Photo. Sprout’s style is characterized by genuine, spontaneous expressions and candid, penetrating portraits that reveal some inner truth about their subjects. It takes a photographer with a rare set of skills and vision to create such intimate and revealing work and we have always counted ourselves lucky to have Logan on our team.
While it doesn’t happen often, but sometimes, lightening does strike twice!
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that the very gifted Kelli Bramble has joined the Sprout Photo team!! We are great admirers of Kelli’s images and we think that she is a perfect fit for our studio in style, philosophy and sense of humor! We are so happy to be working with her and I can’t wait to see where Logan and Kelli are going to take Sprout in the coming months!
Welcome aboard Kelli!
What follows is the text from Logan’s announcement from earlier this morning:
Well since we’re stuck here in winter for a few more weeks we might as well celebrate it. I can’t think of a better way than to share this gorgeous album from McCall & Ryan’s December sealing the Salt Lake Temple that culminated in a stunning winter reception at Sundance Resort!
McCall had a lot of images to pare it down from: we did an engagement session, a bridal AND groomal session, the temple sealing and the reception. The only thing to do was go BIG! So here we have a 12×16 inch, 100-side beauty dolled up in McCall’s own inspired combination of gold ostrich and copper metallic leathers. As beautiful as it looks here, this album really needs to be seen in person to be fully appreciated. Its positively decadent!
Hey all you brides and brides to be! We would like to invite you (and a guest) to join us and the very best wedding vendors in the Salt Lake area for a special evening of dining and designing at ZumaPhoto’s very own Studio 1053! This will be a your chance to tap some of the best minds in the wedding industry for ideas, check out the hottest wedding and bridesmaid dresses from NYC Bridal Fashion Week 2010, and enjoy some savory nosh, all in a casual, stress-free, very UN-bridal-fair-like environment. Read on to see the vendor list and check out the video from our last open house, or contact the studio to put your name on the guest list!
Hey photographers! Want to pick Mitch’s brain about photography, business, marketing, or anything else your mischievous little mind can think of WHILE helping deliver clean water to impoverished areas of the world?!
So far 2010 is turning out to be ZumaPhoto’s best year ever! We have been booking our summer and fall dates earlier and faster than we ever have before and we are stoked to be working with clients that have so much great energy!
As always though, Spring is the rather slow stepchild of our year….
Its not really something that photographers talk about much, but the truth is that wedding photography is highly seasonal, with the great majority of events taking place in the summer, autumn and winter months, and only a paltry few landing in spring. Well we decided to address that issue straight up and we think that we’re the first studio to do so.
Taking a cue from the many world-class ski resorts in the area, we thought that we’d hold a little experiment in market-demand pricing. We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of off-season pricing on local events that take place between
February 1 – May 15th, 2010
This limited time, special pricing that represents extraordinary savings over our standard rates. What’s more, both the full-day AND half-day packages come with the option to take the full-resolution files at no additional cost! (more…)
Its been a while since we shared an album, but you can expect many more coming up because we produced more albums in this past year than we ever have before! Today’s star is this gorgeous 100-side, copper metallic leather and pink suede jaw-dropper that we produced for Maggie & Ben.
Maggie & Ben were married one beautiful sunny June day at the world famous La Caille, and we took a little extra time in designing the album to make sure that it really captured the love and emotion that were palpable to everyone there.
This year, we decided to do an ad in Utah Bride & Groom. It features neither bride nor groom, shows no wedding decor, no stunning vista, makes no claims to our prowess, and doesn’t really even demonstrate much by way of its own design. And while it does contain a young couple, they are distinctly relegated to the background in support of the real star…a big playful, slobbery dog named Gracie.
We are again honored to have a six-page feature in the hot-off-the-presses 2010 edition of Utah Bride & Groom Magazine !
This time around its Kim and Sean’s spectacular Fourth o’ July a-hitchin’ at Johnson Mill. Kym wore an Atelier Aimee gown from Alta Moda Bridal with a very cool handmade purse by Leigh-Ann Kline. Flowers were by Basket of Gold, music was by Kim’s son Adrian’s band (they rocked it), and the fireworks were provided courtesy of the Heber City Chamber of Commerce (though admittedly they probably had another occasion in mind…).
Go get your copy of Utah Bride & Groom, wherever better local bridal magazines are sold. ;)
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed, along with my lovely and talented wife Pepper, for F-Stop Beyond Radio – Ron Dawson’s interview series ‘for the visually inspired’. We are honored to be included among the ranks of some pretty major-league company. I don’t think we talked about photography itself even once, but we had some fun. Hopefully its worth a listen:
Thanks to Ron for chasing us down and putting up with our funky phone connections!
When I was a child my father had a 4+ hour reel-to-reel mix of Christmas music that he would bring out every December and that labor of love became an integral part of my holiday memories. About 5 years ago I began to gather all of the songs on my father’s original collection and have been adding my own selections to that core group ever since. Today we have nearly 1200 songs in nearly every genre and period, including timeless classics, contemporary updates, irreverent satire, and the just plain strange…. ZumaPhoto would like to share it with you as our way of saying thanks, and of course Happy Holidays!
This is a tradition that I wish to pass on to my own children, and so I have named the stream after my son Zen. So far, he isn’t really showing what I consider to be appropriate appreciation, but then he’s not yet 2.
And so without further ado, we offer for your listening pleasure Zen’s Christmas Toybox.
UPDATED: We’ve been picked up by Utah Bride & Groom!
Kelly & Mitch came in from Michigan to do a Groomal session before the snow started to fly. We decided to prowl the amazing Salt Lake City Main Public Library, one of the most significant architectural spaces in Utah. Its won dozens of awards etc, but I like it because it affords a great variety of light and mood, from modern cool to sunny warmth, all within one block. If you haven’t ever been inside you owe it to yourself to check it out.
Congratulations, Kelly & Mitch. You guys were great!
I appeared on Good Things Utah in support of the Ultimate Utah Wedding giveaway last week, but the video of Mitch on Good Things Utah wasn’t available in time to make it into our last post, but we wanted to include it here for posterity. I don’t set fire to the studio or anything!
Expand to view the full post for the embedded segment as well as the tag-along video that was produced for the show but never aired.
ZumaPhoto has an ALL NEW, totally redesigned website, and guess what? YOU’RE ON IT!! (unless you’re reading this through an RSS feed, Facebook, etc., in which case, click the link and come visit us!). And while you’re here, why not go vote for us in The Ultimate Utah Wedding giveaway! Its tax-deductible!
The site that we’ve had up until this point was literally put together in one day and we’ve not done much to it in two years. We’ve had compliments about it, but the truth is that it looked and acted much like everyone else’s – such is the weakness of Flash template sites. I’ve had something very particular in mind for many many months now, but because of our hectic schedule its taken quite a while to get all the details together. We still have a number of things waiting in the wings, but Its finally ready to unveil! I havn’t seen anything quite like this done by another photography studio, and its our hope that this is going to increase our ability to actively communicate with our clients and fans. Thanks for looking!
As you know by now, ZumaPhoto is involved with The Ultimate Utah Wedding giveaway and we’re in competition to be selected as the photographer for the chosen couple, Whitnee & Nick! Now that the show has aired we’re allowed to share with you some of the images from our session.
Take a look, and then rush over to the voting page to vote for Zuma! The competition is fierce, so we really need your help to bring it home. Voting closes THIS Sunday – November 28th, so head over there right away!
On Monday, November 23rd at 10am, Logan and Mitch will be on the ‘Good Things Utah’ Television show on ABC (Channel 4 in Salt Lake). We will be on in support of the engagement images that we took of Whitnee & Nick, the couple chosen for The Ultimate Utah Wedding contest. We are in competition with another photographer to see who gets to shoot the actual wedding and we need your help! After the show airs on Monday (10am), viewers will be able to log in to the voting page to select which vendors they would like to have provide services for Whitnee & Nick’s wedding. They are a fun, energetic and beautiful couple and we would absolutely love to be the ones to capture their wedding day memories for them.
How can you help?
1) Watch us on ‘Good Things Utah’!
2) Vote early (and often…just kidding)
3) Tell your friends to vote! (more…)
Continuing on from yesterday’s post… after M.I.A., New York’s Star F*ing Hipsters (hey, its a family blog) took the stage for a high-energy and varied set. After that came U.K.-style political-tinged commentary from Bath, England’s own Citizen Fish, featuring former frontman of the influential Subhumans, Dick Lucas. And finally it was time to make way for the man himself as Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine took the stage to demonstrate once again why Jello is such a legend. Stirring performance.
So here’s a bit of a diversion from the usual…
Back in 1979 American punk bands had just a pickle of a time getting records made and distributed. One of the most active, influential and notorious of these plucky groups was The Dead Kennedys – true pioneers of hardcore. In the true spirit of the punk DIY ethic, they started their own label, Alternative Tentacles, which rapidly grew to be the home of dozens of varied acts with an eventual catalog of hundreds of ground breaking, important albums. The DKs and many of the other bands that Alternative Tentacles carried were a huge part of my early life and the memories are so vivid that they seem like yesterday…. Well, they weren’t! They were exactly 30 years ago! To celebrate, Alternative Tentacles invited a representative cross-section of acts from throughout its history. My buddy (and amazing photographer in his own right) Nick Adams is the guitarist for one of those invited bands, M.I.A. Nick was kind enough to invite me out for the show! Part 2 is here.
For those of you unfamiliar with what a quinceañera is, it is the traditional coming-of-age celebration for girls of Latin American heritage. Held on a girl’s 15th birthday, it combines much of the significance found in Jewish bat mitzvahs (transition into adulthood), Catholic confirmation ceremonies (re-affirmation of the bond with God), sweet sixteen parties (an excuse to have a GIANT party), and a debutante ball (introduction to society and a kick-butt dress!).
They’re a really big deal in the western U.S. where there are large Latino communities, but despite my hopping between California and Utah, this was the first quinceañera I’ve ever shot. It totally rocked!
As the weather turns cold here in Utah and the leaves change their color all along the Wasatch Front, I’m already thinking of warmer times and places.
I thought that I’d heat things up a bit with a short little post about a groomal session shot about 90 minutes west of here in the world famous – and toasty – Bonneville Salt Flats. It is a truly surreal place, but also a perfect backdrop to shoot the story of M’Kenzie and Derek.
Its a story as old as time: One man. One woman. One sweet 1960’s British sports car. Add salt to taste.
Following up on Friday’s post of Groomals, we have Kavitha & Fred’s gorgeous Indian ceremony in the fragrance garden of Red Butte Garden.
Kavitha & Fred’s AMAZING Indian wedding is in queue for Monday morning’s post, so be sure to come back for that.
This Friday, June 4th, from 5pm – 10pm, Studio 1053 (Zuma’s home) will play host to the Kiamuri Benefit Art Show.
Oh man, I have REALLY been a blogging slacker the last couple of months! I’m starting off a big push to catch up on sessions with this hella-fun session I shot with Noelle and Gharzai.
So last week when I was 
Just a quick little brag that I forgot to mention…
This is Part 2 – The Reception.
Elise & Russ both work for an airline – he a pilot and she in management. In fact they met while Russ was representing the labor union…across the negotiating table from each other. I was going to say something here about politics making for strange bed-fellows but I totally restrained myself. Whew, that was close!
As many of you probably know we have a sister studio that specializes in contemporary child and family portraiture run by our very own Logan Walker – 
Well since we’re stuck here in winter for a few more weeks we might as well celebrate it. I can’t think of a better way than to share this gorgeous album from McCall & Ryan’s December sealing the Salt Lake Temple that culminated in a stunning winter reception at 
Hey all you brides and brides to be! We would like to invite you (and a guest) to join us and the very best wedding vendors in the Salt Lake area for a special evening of dining and designing at ZumaPhoto’s very own Studio 1053! This will be a your chance to tap some of the best minds in the wedding industry for ideas, check out the hottest wedding and bridesmaid dresses from NYC Bridal Fashion Week 2010, and enjoy some savory nosh, all in a casual, stress-free, very UN-bridal-fair-like environment. Read on to see the vendor list and check out the video from our last open house, or 
Hey photographers! Want to pick Mitch’s brain about photography, business, marketing, or anything else your mischievous little mind can think of WHILE helping deliver clean water to impoverished areas of the world?!
So far 2010 is turning out to be ZumaPhoto’s best year ever! We have been booking our summer and fall dates earlier and faster than we ever have before and we are stoked to be working with clients that have so much great energy!
Its been a while since we shared an album, but you can expect many more coming up because we produced more albums in this past year than we ever have before! Today’s star is this gorgeous 100-side, copper metallic leather and pink suede jaw-dropper that we produced for Maggie & Ben.
Just a quick one to announce that we have won the 
Come join us this weekend at 
We are again honored to have a six-page feature in the hot-off-the-presses 2010 edition of 
this is lauren evans bridal session
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed, along with my lovely and talented wife 
Just playing catch up a bit here.
ZumaPhoto has an ALL NEW, totally redesigned 
As you know by now, ZumaPhoto is involved with The Ultimate Utah Wedding giveaway and we’re in competition to be selected as the photographer for the chosen couple, Whitnee & Nick! Now that the show has aired we’re allowed to share with you some of the images from our session.
On Monday, November 23rd at 10am, Logan and Mitch will be on the ‘Good Things Utah’ Television show on ABC (Channel 4 in Salt Lake). We will be on in support of the engagement images that we took of Whitnee & Nick, the couple chosen for 
Continuing on from 
So here’s a bit of a diversion from the usual…
For those of you unfamiliar with what a quinceañera is, it is the traditional coming-of-age celebration for girls of Latin American heritage. Held on a girl’s 15th birthday, it combines much of the significance found in Jewish bat mitzvahs (transition into adulthood), Catholic confirmation ceremonies (re-affirmation of the bond with God), sweet sixteen parties (an excuse to have a GIANT party), and a debutante ball (introduction to society and a kick-butt dress!).
As the weather turns cold here in Utah and the leaves change their color all along the Wasatch Front, I’m already thinking of warmer times and places.