HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

This Valentines Day we are celebrating love by giving away a free couples session!
all you have to do is leave a poem, song lyric, line from a book/ movie/sonet, hiaku, or even your own poem (we are totally going to count roses are red, violets are blue!) that best represents your relationship. get creative and be inspired by the one you love- both people in your couple can even post! the only rule is to post the poem/song lyric/line from a book/movie/sonet/ or hiaku on the F/stop facebook wall by midnight tomorrow. we will be taking poems until midnight on valentines day when we pick our favorite and announce the winner on wednesday!


ready, set, go!

FREE BOUDIOR SHOOT GIVE AWAY! *updated!*

So with Valentine ’s Day coming up we thought we would share the love!

We are going to be giving away a free boudoirs shoot this week and a free couple’s session next week!

This week we thought we would play a little game to determine the winner.

Comment on the link for the blog on our Facebook and tell us which statement is true.

Whoever comments with the correct truth wins!

1.       Erin lost a tooth in New York City when she got hit with a beer bottle in a bar. Erin did in fact lose a tooth once due to a drunk clumsy man in a bar but it was in the lovely state of Tennesse not New York.  and her pretty mug was fixed and everyone lived to tell the tale.

2.       Alicia is the clumsiest person you will meet. She has terrible balance and often falls at photo shoots. Alicia actually has freakishly awesome balance. Its kind of her super power. She has a low center of gravity and is hard to knock over, very similar to weeble wobbles.

3.       F/stop Poetry was started like the scene in Jerry McGuire when Tom Cruise yells “who’s coming with me!” when Erin quit her office job at a studio like a rebel and Alicia followed her.
This is true. Erin actually hired Alicia while working as the office manager of another studio and when Alicia found out that Erin left, Alicia followed her and they began shooting together for fun and they've been doing it ever since.

Congratulations to the winner and keep an eye on the blog next week to win a free couples session! thanks for all of your responses! you guys are the best valentines a girl could ask for....

Paul and Nicoles Winter wedding.

“Miles and miles and miles apart.

Although so far you've touched my heart.
 Your laugh, your voice, your smile,
 Seem to shorten every mile.”

I don’t even know where to begin on this blog. We fell in love with Nicole and Paul. Maybe it was because of the way Nicole and her mom laughed at our dumb jokes at our first meeting, Maybe its because they have endured, distance, the military and a number of setbacks on their wedding day and remained focused on their unfailing love.  Maybe because Erin prayed for snow on their wedding day and we got it, in the most unseasonably warm December to date, the one day it snowed was on their wedding. or maybe it’s because the only minute we were more stunned then the moment we saw how handsome Paul looked in his uniform was the first moment we saw Nicole in her dress. Maybe it was when a woman came running after us in a park so fast we were worried she was going to steal our equipment because she wanted to shake the hand of a Marine on his wedding day and give him a gift. She pulled her car over to do so which explained her frantic to find us.  Perhaps it’s because of the way Paul stood tall always ready to protect Nicole from ice, wild horses, or the cold. Maybe it’s because we drove them around in the most chaotic and dysfunctional shoot we have had to date and they were relaxed and trusted that we would still get something beautiful.  I thought maybe It was  because even when I lost a horse and went running after it to re-bridle it, and Erin silently freaked out and wondered if we had enough money to replace a horse, they stayed calm and were ready to make a run for it if we had to. (I caught, bridled and saved the horse and all that was hurt was my pride after talking up what a great cowgirl I would make.) but I knew for sure we had fallen in love with them when a few weeks later Nicole sent Erin and I a box in the mail with two horse ornaments and a note that said “these ones won’t get away from you”    I mean seriously. Who couldn’t love them after that?

We cannot say enough good things about Nicole and Paul, we genuinely got super attached to them and were heartbroken to hear they would be stationed in California but felt much better after she told us she would visit us when they came home.  We wish all the most beautiful things life has to offer them because not only did their love warm us on the only snowy day in December it inspires us whenever we remember it. Thanks Paul and Nicole for your patience, humor and most of all your inspiring love. Please, please please  keep in touch….

Happy New Years!

We wanted to take a quick moment this New Year’s Eve and reflect on how lucky we are that our Job is documenting love all year, and how thankful we are for all the sweet, beautiful, and best of all interesting couples we’ve had the pleasure of shooting in 2011.

We hope this next year brings so much more love, happiness, blessings and good times then this last year and we are so grateful we got to be a small part of this year in your lives.

Thank you All! And Happy New Year!!!!

Graham and Ysobel's engagement session

*I am humbled in this city
There seems to be an endless sea of people like us
Wakeful dreamers, I pass them on the sunlit streets
In our rooms filled with laughter
We make hope from every small disaster
 (*Painting by Chagall- the weepies)

We met with Ysobel and Graham on one of the first cold nights of the year. We ordered a bottle of wine, and began to talk and the time passed so fast I could hardly believe we were there to talk about wedding photography. They had us smiling and laughing and feeling warm. Their love story was adorable and told of two people with big dreams. exactly the kind of people we love working with. Ysobel and Graham met in college; they were both in the same Business fraternity. They fell in love slowly and soon their big dreams included each other, and before they knew it they didn’t want their big dreams to ever miss the other.  We are so excited to photograph their wedding! They are getting married in a Frank Lloyd Wright house. If anyone is familiar with his work you know he was a big dreamer that never let impossibilities stop him.  I think it’s a perfect place to start their marriage and kick off the next chapter of their adventure.

*“Everybody says "you can't, you can't, you can't, don't try."
Still everybody says that if they had the chance they'd fly like we do.”

(we seriously had a blast this day, how can you not just love them?)