A couple weeks ago, Brian flew his girlfriend Leslie out to Park City for a week of skiing and her birthday celebration. He also had planned to propose to her on her birthday, but she had no idea. Since Leslie is a photographer herself back in Alabama where the couple is from, he knew how important it would be to her to have photographs of the event.
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As I’m sure everyone is well aware, yesterday was National Unicorn Day – a magical celebration of Joy, Joyfulness & Joyousness (and Joy)! Oh rapture!
Every year at this time, we at ZumaPhoto fill our hearts with a rainbow of fruit-flavored, glittery happiness and love. This year, led by our own little Alpha-Corn, Angela, the ladies of ZumaPhoto went all out with happy-hilarious-head-horns, chirpy-cheerful-cupcakes, and perky-playful-pizza-pie!
All in all, it was a mirthful festival of all things blissful, blithe and gay! And an impressively elaborate excuse to avoid work for an hour.
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Heidi Ann get’s asked a lot about the lighting behind her gorgeous Haute Pink images. So, she decided to put all that info into a book! The result is ‘Lit – Lighting Sketches from the Workbook of Heidi Ann’
‘Lit’ features 78 of Heidi’s signature fashion forward images, with 14 sections demonstrating historical “looks” including Old Hollywood, Off Broadway, Throwback to the 70′s, and Avant Garde. ‘Lit’ will give you the confidence and permission to go out and just play with light. Its an invaluable tool for getting started with your own lighting experiments!
Read on to order your copy today!
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I had such a fun time playing in the snow up in Park City with Kim and Ray. They were up for tromping through the snow, getting wet socks and all, but I think the image we got was so worth it! I just love aspen trees year round, there isn’t a season in which they don’t look awesome.
Kim and Ray just look perfect framed among all of those black and white trunks. Thanks Kim and Ray for being such great sports in the wet snow! Continue reading
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Last week was the annual pilgrimage to the mecca of portrait and wedding photographers, the WPPI convention in Las Vegas.
I had been asked to do a fashion shoot of the beautiful Ashley while there. We came up with the concept of making a dress quite literally ripped from the pages of Vogue.
After hours and hours of designing, cutting, gluing, and building, the dress came together. Click to see the results!
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So just HOW cool is the ZumaPhoto studio space? Cool enough for movies, yo!
Triple threat (writer/director/actor) Jason Falasco approached us about shooting his production company’s (Trilogy Productions) short film ‘Soft Focus’ in our studios over a weekend this past December, with the ultimate goal of presenting it for funding into a full feature. I have a bit of background in film, so I wasn’t really keen on the idea of turning the studio over to a film crew (filmmakers are all savages…SAVAGES I TELL YOU!). But after much cajoling, flattery and plain old American bribery, we finally relented. Jason and his team shot this behind the scenes vignette as a kind of thank you card to us. Enjoy!
One note: ’Soft Focus’ is about a disgruntled wedding photographer finding love and renewed passion. While we acknowledge the similarities between life and art here, we would like to assure our clients and friends that we are definitely gruntled with our wedding photography! So gruntled it hurts.
Thanks to Jason, Mario, Moises, Brian, Rachel and the whole crew!
P.S. – Rachel, you know where to find me. 
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This past October, Zuma’s own Heidi Ann was featured in Professional Photographer Magazine as one of the Top-10 up-and-coming photographers, or ‘GenNext’, as the magazine puts it. These are PPM’s picks for the artists to watch in the coming year and we couldn’t agree more. Way to go Heidi!
They used one of her fabu images for the table of contents as well.
Sadly, Heidi was not the one to shoot Mr. Clooney’s mug for the cover. But she’s working on it….. Next time!
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This was run on the BrideAccess TV show an Robin was kind enough to send me a link to share. So this was at the end of the Bridal Showcase Bridal Fair in January. Zen had kept me up most of the previous night and I had been at the show for some 10 hours by this point and I was so tired that I literally had no recollection of what I had said until I saw this. I’m just relieved that I didn’t call for the overthrow of the government or confess to any murders or anything.
Guess those secrets are still safe…..DOH!!
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It is with great pleasure and pride that I announce that Heidi Ann has joined us here at ZumaPhoto! Those familiar with Heidi’s previous work through Retrospect Studios already know what a singular talent she is. And for those of you who are not yet familiar with her work – well, you’re in for a treat!
Heidi’s brings a fashion-inspired aesthetic to bridal photography – ‘Bridal Vogue’, if you will – and the results are dramatic…striking…and just flat out GORGEOUS! The addition of her unique vision and her position as a leader in the photo community broadens ZumaPhoto‘s range to even greater heights and we are absolutely thrilled to welcome her to her new home. Read on for a few samples of her work! Continue reading
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We are so excited that the 2011 issue of Utah Bride and Groom is here!! It is filled with wonderful tips and inspirations for the Utah Bride to Be. And I am thrilled that our photography has been chosen to be featured in the magazine both for the articles and in Vendor’s adds.
Thank you Tessa and all of our Wedding Vendor friends! We look forward to a busy and successful 2011!
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Its the original Utah bridal fair, and in our opinion still the best.
Which is why its the only show we do all year!
The 28th Annual Bridal Showcase at the Salt Palace Convention center.
Friday, January 7th: 3pm – 8pm
Saturday, January 8th: 11am – 7pm
• Come meet the photographers, look over some of our award-winning albums, and generally have a good time.
• We have FREE tickets available here at our über-cool® studio for you to pick up (email quinn@zumaphoto.com to arrange).
• As an added bonus, we are giving a MASSIVE 30×54 inch canvas gallery wrap print to any client who books at the show.
That’s a $1200 value, yo!
See you there!
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It’s BAA-ACK!
As featured on Arcade Fire’s News page!
(seriously – we’re about halfway down under ‘Technology’. LOL!)
ZumaPhoto’s tradition of streaming Christmas/Holiday music continues for 2010!
More songs! More merriment! 13% MORE MIRTH!
(Works for iPhones/iPods/iPads too! Read on to play!)
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Remember Marisa & Mickey’s stop-motion ‘save the date’ video that we did for them back in September?
Well…plans have changed.
So we did a NEW version of the video to bring it up to date.
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Tagged announcements, bermuda, video
Tagged announcements, bermuda, video
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Stephanie & Kyle are mad, hardcore ski Gods. They coach alpine racers around the country including for the U.S. ski team and they just don’t ever get it out of their system: they even spent their ‘Honeymoon’ in the mountains of Chile teaching kids how to fall down a mountain with style! So when they decided to get hitched everyone pretty much assumed that it would take place on some mountain top somewhere. Instead, they decided to head back to Kyle’s home state to Vermont’s GORGEOUS Lake Champlain – no snow this time.
Here are a couple of video montages to help share the experience.
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We are SO STOKED to introduce you to our new studio manager, Quinn!
Quinn will be seeing to the needs of the most important part of our business – our clients! From scheduling a shoot, to helping choose a florist to album consultations, Quinn will be on hand to address all of your individual wants and desires, and putting up with your most outrageous demands.
Quinn will be the face of ZumaPhoto to a great extent, so its lucky for us that she has tremendous energy, a vibrant disposition, an artistic flair, and is sharp as a tack! She also has a great sense of humor, so introduce yourself today by calling the studio line and wasting her time with a lot of bogus requests: 801.220.0020
In all seriousness Quinn, we are so happy to have you on board. You have already become an indispensable part of Team Zuma and we can’t wait to see what you accomplish once you learn to read.
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Chemistry.
That’s what I’m looking for in an engagement session, and Michelle & Lance had it in spades.
No fancy chatting on this one, just a quick share of a few of my favorites from the session.
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“Ooooooooooooooooo!”
That, or some variation thereof, is what nearly everybody who took a gander at this album for the few days it was in or studio said when they saw it. I’m particularly stoked by it because I pushed hard for this combination of new leathers in the cover and it turned out even better than I had imagined it would. The cover is a filigree-stamped split-grain leather with a quilted leather spine. Nom, nom nom!
This album was a long time in the making – the wedding was over 2 years ago and in fact was one of the very first that Logan and I shot together. But it just goes to show that its never too late to have us put the images from your wedding into the best possible setting. Congratulations Emily & Chris!
Wedding: Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
Reception: Little America Hotel
Album: 100-sides, 11×14, 100% fabulous.
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CONGRATUALTIONS to Noelle & Garzhai who done tied the knot this weekend at the Grand Hall at The Gateway.
That means that I’m finally free to share Noelle’s high-concept (well….middling-concept, anyway) bridals!
We lugged ourselves, some furniture, and one 1950′s-era vacuum cleaner out to the Bonneville Salt Flats for a bit of high-key fun in the desert.
I really enjoyed this session, Noelle. Big thanks to you, your mom AND your sister for putting up with my ‘creative conceits’.
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Occasionally we’ll have a client ask for something different. Something out of the box.
Marisa & Mickey had seen a few stop-motion videos used as ‘Save the Date’ notes floating around the web and asked if we could do that for them. Now I havn’t played with stop-motion since high school (I seem to remember it involved a lot of dismembered clay people), but I’m not one to avoid a challenge.
Someone (probably a thief) once said that good artists borrow while great artists steal – so, M & M took some ideas they found out there, added a few touches of their own and asked us to make it happen.
Please to enjoy!
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Following up on Friday’s post of Groomals, we have Kavitha & Fred’s gorgeous Indian ceremony in the fragrance garden of Red Butte Garden.
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.
Fred weathered it like a champ!
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Kavitha & Fred’s AMAZING Indian wedding is in queue for Monday morning’s post, so be sure to come back for that.
To tide you over until then, here is a little teaser – their über-fun groomal session up Big Cottonwood Canyon!
Thanks K&F!
Enjoy, and see you on Monday!
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We took Leah and Dean’s Groomal portraits at the Utah state capitol and at the Salt Lake City library. It was a gorgeous spring morning and Leah was just stunning in her bridal gown from Alta Moda. As we were shooting at the capitol, a tour bus full of Japanese tourists stopped and came in for a tour of the historic building. The moment Leah stepped into the spotlight beaming down from the rotunda, every tourist’s camera was lifted up and 50 flashes began twinkling as they all snapped some shots of the beautiful bride on the marble stairs. It was a pretty funny moment for all of us. Thanks Dean and Leah! You two are so so great!
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Tagged alta moda bridal, Machine Shop, utah state capitol
Tagged alta moda bridal, Machine Shop, utah state capitol
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Here are a few of my favorites from Leah and Dean’s engagement session we had downtown Salt Lake City. Their wedding reception will be held in a renovated warehouse type building in Evanston Wyoming, so the urban landscape of downtown was perfect for their engagements. Thanks Leah and Dean! I hada great time and I can’t wait for the Bridals and the Wedding day!
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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.
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I have been so so excited to post this groomal session. Ever since I met with Christina and Roger last fall, I have been looking forward to this session. Together, we came up with some really great ideas, including fire-lit chinese paper lanterns that would be released floating into the sunset. Well the wind was so so strong that the paper didn’t survive even being opened up. I really wanted to do the lanterns so we have since had another shoot specifically for the lanterns. So check back to see those soon! 
Even though the lanterns didn’t quite work, Roger and Christina had some other props that were so fun and striking. And they brought their fantastic four-legged friend Peanut! He was so excited to run and run and run. He was a challenge to photograph but I love what I got!
Sometimes I like to do jumping shots if the couple is into it. Roger’s family has a history of jumping family portraits, so we made sure to have fun with the whole idea.
We also spent some time near Capitol Hill and downtown Salt Lake City. I love the contrast of the city with the nothingness of the salt flats. I would have to say this Session falls within my top 5 Groomal sessions. Thank you so much Christina and Roger! I am so excited for your wedding and all of the great plans you have for the big day!
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Well if we I wasn’t tickled enough that my images were shown in a feature for Culinary Crafts on Amy Atlas’ blog, now I am double elated that “the knot” has chosen to feature the circus birthday party too! Congratulations Culinary Crafts for being featured on two very prestigious blogs/websites! And thank you for the kudos for the images! I just love shooting for you!!! Click here to read the rest of the feature on “the knot“.
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This week an event created by Culinary Crafts was featured on Amy Atlas’ “sweet designs” blog. For those of you who don’t know who Amy Atlas is, check her out. She is kind of a big deal. The event was a colorful circus birthday party for a child and I had a blast photographing all of the wonderful details Culinary Crafts came up with. And well, since the images were all taken by me with ZumaPhoto, I figure we should pass this fun feature along to you! Click here to view the whole blog post.
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I had such a lovely groomal session with Michelle and Aaron. With all of this wet weather we have had the past couple months, we were lucky to have a one day window of gorgeous weather between two big storms. At least all this moisture makes everything green and lush and healthy. La Caille was the perfect setting for Michelle and Aaron’s groomals, it was exactly what they were looking for. The two are such a handsome couple, don’t you think? Every time Michelle looked at Aaron, her whole face just lit up. I really didn’t need to give them much direction for the portraits, as long as they held onto each other, they both just glowed and were so comfortable in each other’s arms. Thanks you two! I had a blast and I am so so pleased with the photos we got. And thanks Stacy for assisting me! You are a terrific reflector holder!
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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.
The asked and management said yes!
From there, a story just naturally unfolded…
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This wedding’s blog post is way over due. I’m sorry to everybody who has anxiously been waiting to see the reception of Julianne and Weston. They were married at the Salt Lake Temple and held their wedding reception at Cucina Nassi, the new Italian style banquet hall run by Walter Nassi, operator of Cucina Toscana in downtown Salt Lake City. It is such a luxurious hall without being over the top or cheesy. Colby from C3 design and Sean from Sax Romney floral design created an amazing setting for Julianne and Weston to enjoy a hundred different appetizers, what seemed to be a 20 course sit down dinner, and a decadent dessert buffet. It was a beautiful relaxing evening with Julianne and Weston’s friends, family and food… what more could you ask for? Thank you Julianne and Weston for inviting me to share your special wedding day. I had so much fun with you two on the engagement and bridal sessions and your wedding day was just glorious. L, Logan
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