Archives for February 2013

Second Shooting: Edu + Lel | Wedding at Mon St Benet Barcelona

February 25, 2013 | 4 Comments

I´ve already written about my appreciation for Jeremy Standley´s work , so I´ll save the love letter this time 😉 and just show you some of my favorite images from one of his late summer weddings I´ve had the pleasure of second shooting with him.

Edu and Lel had one of those super pretty and fascinating weddings that you just knew they were planning with lots of love and care for months and months. The über-cool couple got married in Mon St Benet, a stunning old monastery about 60 kms outside of Barcelona. Friends and family flew in from literally all over the world to share this very special day with the two of them… Edu´s Catalan family, Lel´s relatives from Tasmania and all of their friends from everywhere in between! Have I mentioned how much I love international weddings? 😉

There was so much prettiness on this wedding that I could gush about it for hours and hours on, but let me just highlight some of my absolute favorites, like Lel´s AMAAAAAAAZING wedding dress (one of my favorites from last year), the stylish yet vintage vibe of the whole event, the beautiful flower arrangements, the vintage handkerchief stand, the fun deco elements and the delicious food of course! 😉

Looking back at these pictures I can´t´help but be super happy and grateful that I do what I do and I CANNOT wait for the 2013 season to start! I´ve got the wedding boogie in my legs, my camera is ready to go, BRING IT ON!

I was in charge of taking Polaroid photos with Lel’s camera throughout the evening! 😉Thank you Jeremy for letting me tag along! As always it was such a pleasure and an amazing experience! See you soon again!

Andy + Nikki | Barcelona Love Session

February 20, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Having a video on my website has been a big differentiator for me in the European wedding photography circles in the last year and a half. I´ve received numerous comments from brides how they felt like they knew me after watching my short and silly introduction and how it has propelled their decision to book me for their big day. With that said, a loooot has happened since I shot that video and I feel like it does not 100% reflect who I am anymore, so I teamed up with One Day One Song (an awesome Barcelona based wedding video company) to create a new mini promo for my website. It will be a more adult, clean, Barcelona version of me and I just CANNOT wait to see the final result!!!

I wanted to incorporate a love session in the video so I asked my friend (and fitness trainer!!! :)) Andy and his gorgeous wife Nikki to model for me for a mini-beach shoot on Barceloneta, the place that means so much to me. I am really curious to see this segment of the video as I totally got lost in photographer mode while we were shooting and I´ll probably look like one hot mess but oh well… just keepin´it real y´all! 😉

Andy and Nikki is one of those couples that make you go awwwwwwwww… they´ve been together for over 14 years and are the proud parents of two beautiful little girls. (who would think right???) Still, after so much time they seem like they are just at the cuddle cutesy I-can´t-keep-my-hands-off-you stage of their relationship and it´s inspiring and heart warming to see such love to say the least!

Thank you guys for being awesome and rockin´our shoot! I hope you´ll love your images as much as I do!

Nicholas + Marina | Engagement Session in Barcelona

February 18, 2013 | 3 Comments

Miguel Varona has been one of my favorite Spanish wedding photographers for a while now (it’s actually a very funny story how we met that I’ll have to tell you one day! ;)), so when I heard that he is coming to Barcelona to do a workshop on Fine Art Wedding photography I knew I just had to be there to finally meet him! We spent 2 jam packed days with Miguel, Carles and the other participants learning about film photography, touching and feeling some of my dream cameras, printing on lux papers and on the second day, shooting an engagement session.

When Nicholas and Marina showed up at the MACBA (Museum of Arts), our location for the shoot my jaw literally dropped. Rarely do I come across a couple with such incredible style! They did not only look the part but played it as well. Perfectly cool, composed and such fun to photograph! Thank you Nicholas & Marina for not getting scared of the hoard of photographers running after you!!! 😉 You ROCKED!!!

Gigantic virtual hugs to my fellow attendees, it was so much fun and inspiration to meet you all and thank you Miguel and Carles for an incredible two days…. I’m convinced…. I have to start saving my pennies for a proper medium format film camera! 😉

From Barcelona with Love…

February 14, 2013 | 7 Comments

One of the evident advantages of being a wedding photographer is having awesome photographer friends with whom you can play around from time to time behind and IN FRONT of the camera. I’ve had many photos taken of me in the past, but I’ve never really had an actual “session” scheduled before, so it was definitely an interesting adventure to experience a photo shoot from “the other side”. IT’S HARD! What, where, how…. awww!

Both Jess (my über-cool photographer friend from Jessica Quadra Photography) & I wanted a few new pics for our websites so we had lots of fun planning out what to do exactly! After a little ~~vodka drinking~~ brainstorming session we’ve decided to do part of our shoot on the beach of Barceloneta. I love this place as I live just around the corner, this is where I go running, working out and it´s also one of my favorite places to do love shoots. There is a certain vibe here which embodies everything that Barcelona is about for me… the coolness, the easiness, the freedom, the people from all over the world…. No matter how often I come down to watch the waves I always feel so so lucky to live here!

Thank you Jess for the awesome pics, we defo have to do this more often! 😉

Can´t wait to share the rest of our session and the pictures I took of Jess… she´s a cutie!!!

P.S: HAPPY LOVERS´ DAY EVERYONE! x

All photographs shot by Jessica Quadra and edited by me

Bye Bye January!

February 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Pheeeeew…. 2 continents, 5 countries, one 5-day wedding convention, one awesome workshop, many shoots, one major flu and lots of fun times… one hell of a way to start a new year if you ask me! While I sure carry some sleep-lag with me since the summer, it does not look like things are about to slow down in February! I have lots of exciting shoots planned, lots of new clients to meet and lots of things to catch up on so here is to an awesome February!

Looking at these pics makes me feel like this year has started months and months ago… is it just me or do you feel like 2013 is gonna be the best year ever too??? 😉

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