Special Event!

A couple of weeks ago I shot a pretty sweet event out in Youngstown, Oh. The decorating was pretty awesome, so I wanted to post a couple shots! It was very pink and blue!

Wedding Sneak Peek!

Here a couple shots from the wedding on Saturday! I will have a slideshow up on Wednesday!

Pre-wedding preparations!

Today was a quite an onerous day for Mark and I. We had a lot of things to take care of before the wedding tomorrow.... We woke up this morning and took a relaxing walk around the city. It was amazing just being outside in flip-flops and a t-shirt. We had lunch and dinner at CPK (California Pizza Kitchen), two separate meals... both times we both ate the Cobb salad! It really is THAT GOOD!

The best part of the day came this afternoon. Just after lunch we walked down the Miracle Mile here in Coconut Grove. We came across this little store called Spy World. Mark insisted we go inside! So I was on the phone when we walked into the store, so Mark and I went our separate ways. Like 2 minutes later I overhear Mark talking with one of the sales clerks in the store and almost died laughing! Mark told the clerk that he was suspicious that his girlfriend had been cheating...(keep in mind, Mark doesn't have a girlfriend). He told the guy he has been looking for some kind of spying equipment to catch her in the act. I never knew Mark was such a great actor! The clerk totally bought it, suggesting the latest and greatest in spy technology. In a matter of 5 minutes this guy had Mark a system that would tap his "girlfriends" phones, track any computer activity she does, including all her MySpace, Facebook, and email passwords and bug her car so he could hear her conversations! It was ridiculous! It made me wonder, are there are really people out there like that??

Then tonight we chilled out on our rooftop patio. I took a couple shots of the pool and the view from the pool. It's really a nice setup here.

Now i'm about to go grab some sushi with some new friends that are here from New York. Check back Sunday for some shots from the wedding tomorrow!

A shot of our hotel suite! We got a free upgrade!!! Not bad at all.

The most amazing dessert ever! Red Velvet Cake from CPK.

The pool.

The view from the pool.

The other view from the pool.

Marky Mark in the hot tub.

Destination Wedding: Miami, Florida

Well, the contest has been a huge hit so far! And the response to our booth has been great! Everyone seems to love the fact that our booth isn't just pipes and drapes... we have an ACTUAL VINTAGE PHOTOBOOTH!!

Anyways, Photobooths aside, today I left -2 degree Cleveland for an awesome wedding in beautiful Miami. A great friend of mine, Mark Davidson, booked a wedding down there and asked if I could come along and 2nd shoot for him! What an awesome opportunity for any photographer!

Marisa and I have been truly blessed here in Cleveland to find ourselves in a market where there is such unity amongst our competing vendors! Mark and I were good buddies years before either of us were interested in photographing weddings, but since Imagen's start we have really found great friendships in some of our best competition. For example, Linczak Photography, Easywind Studios, and Sam Carrington, just to name a few, are all great photographers that have been so kind and open with Marisa and I. It's great to see young studios banding together to stay afloat, especially when the economy is down. It's such a shame to see studios out there that aren't connecting with the other photographers in the area! We have such an advantage in the industry when we work together, bouncing ideas off one another and critiquing each other's work.

Yesterday I met with Valarie Kirkbride, an amazing wedding planner in Northeast Ohio. We sat at Starbuck's and just chatted for a while about how we got started in our industries. Valarie got started planning weddings in Southern California. Her portfolio contains some amazing weddings at huge mansions and private estates like what you see on MTV Cribs! I walked away from our meeting realizing how much I could really learn from a planner like Val. She has since had amazing success here in Cleveland, recently winning the Best Wedding Planner in Cleveland award, amongst many other accomplishments. These kinds of relationships coupled with top notch products and excellent customer service are what I believe will keep Imagen at the top of its class.

Well, Marky Mark and I need to jump on this flight.. I will be posting some shots from Miami tomorrow, so check back for those and keep up the voting!

Photobooth Contest

So on Sunday we did our first Bridal Show ever!!! It was a very exciting day for Imagen Photography. Not only was it the first time we had ever officially marketed ourselves, it was also the first time showing off the new Imagen Photobooth. Seeing our brand new photobooth in action was so much fun for us, as both Marisa and I have been dreaming of getting a photobooth for so long. I think our favorite part of the day was seeing and hearing our guests laughing hysterically as they came piling out of our booth! Brides would come down the aisle... (pun intended)... see our display and drag whoever it was they suckered into going to the show with them right into our booth. It was non-stop photos all afternoon and every single bride was after the same thing... a free photobooth at their wedding!! The rules of the contest were simple... the best of the best photostrips (funniest, most original, weirdest, cutest, etc.) would be posted online for a contest. Whichever Bride recieves the most votes gets a free Imagen Photobooth at their wedding! At the end of the show we had hundreds of entries for our contest. We came home and sorted them all out and narrowed it down to the top 20. Now it's your turn to decide our winner! Take a look through our top 20, find your friends, co-worker, boss, employee, Grandma!!(that one is hilarious), and vote them into victory!


The contest goes until Friday, January 23rd. Our winner will be announced on Monday, January 26th!


Good luck to all!!!













CLICK HERE TO VOTE!!!!

Photobooth Fun!

Before Nathan and I even had a name for our company, we knew one thing for sure... we wanted a photobooth! It's been awhile coming, but like they say "Good things come to those who wait!"... and plan, I might add. So, we are proud and pleased to announce the arrival of the Imagen Photobooth! I am so excited to be able to offer this to our clients! It's impossible to go into a photobooth and not have a good time! The photobooth is awesome in and of itself, but we also have some amazing people working along side us. Our friends Mike, Micah, and Lindsey are all part of the Imagen Photoboth crew, and I truly could not be happier to be working with them. Here's a pic of the booth and the inside of our stylin' new cards ;)








(Lindsey's pic still to come)

New Website for the New Year!

In keeping with tradition, I’ve made my New Years resolutions for '09. While I would love to sit here and write all of them down for you, let’s be honest, some of them are a little embarrassing! But one that made the list this year is to be better about blogging. And by “better” I mean “start”. I have to admit, that Nathan has definitely been doing all the blogging around here. So here I am, starting off the New Year with my first blog. But besides me and my blogging, we have some actual exciting news. We just launched our new website!! It’s still a little bit of a work in progress, but we think it’s a drastic improvement from our old site! We’ll be adding a few more photos and other fun things on there in the next couple weeks. If you get the chance to check it out, let us know what you think, we’d love some feedback!



And because pictures always make blogs more fun…

This pic is from our friends Stacy and Dom’s wedding that we shot a couple months ago. Good times had by all!!! ☺



p.s. Since this is a shared blog, we thought it would be a good idea to have different color fonts so you could tell who's writing. I'm this lovely shade of blue. We'll see how it goes...

Elsie & Nathan