Design Sponge Farm to Table Shoot

Check out my recently featured Design Sponge Farm to Table shoot! What a pleasure collaborating with stylist and producer Kelly Oshiro, Roots Farm and caterer Duo Events and more talented vendors on this shoot in Santa Barbara, California.

Excerpt from the Design Sponge’s Photo Essay: A Santa Barbara Farm-to-Table Dinner:

One of the best things about midsummer is the ready access to fresh, local food. Whether it’s from your neighborhood farmer’s market or just the grocery store, you can be sure to find extra ripe, full-flavored bounty this time of year – making it the perfect time for delicious dinner parties. Karen Wise, a Brookyn-based photographer friend of ours, recently sent us photographs of a beautiful farm-to-table dinner she worked on in Santa Barbara. Featuring fresh-picked flowers and a fully seasonal menu, these photos have us jonesin’ for our own outdoor summer festivities…

You may also see more of Karen’s food photography on her Food and Art website.

Image of the Month: Lemons and Kisses

Hope you are continuing to have a great summer!

I just returned from a long and lovely week of shooting a wedding in Massachusetts and then driving up to visit family and friends in Canada (my homeland). Spending time in Ontario’s “fruit belt” reminded me of a beautiful engagement dinner I photographed last year under the stars decorated with freshly picked dahlias, ripened fruits and local wines.

Here are a couple of images from that session, shot on film.

Stay tuned for a surprise feature later this afternoon!

credits:

couple: Samantha and Todd

styling + production: Kelly Oshiro

dinner: Duo Events

film development: Richard Photo Lab

produce: Santa Barbara Farmer’s Market

dahlias: Carpinteria flower farm

Get ready for Karen’s upcoming food and styling workshop to be held in mid-October in NYC.

To sign up and to get more info click HERE!

Ultimate Nachos Cookbook Photography

Ultimate Nachos, a new cookbook by Lee Frank and Rachel Anderson, which I photographed last May, was just released in bookstores! It has over 70 delicious nacho, guacamole, salsa and cocktail recipes!

I’m so in love with the cover image. Two days of cover shooting, and with added help from prop stylist extraordinaire, Kira Corbin, made it so worthwhile in the end. Can you believe the Ultimate Nachos cookbook photography took only 4 days to complete with over 100 images…

This St. Martin’s Press publication is selling on Amazon, B&N, Nachos NY, as well as at Urban Outfitters, so check it out!

Featured in a Kodak Film Brochure

One of my portraits is featured in a Kodak film brochure!

This portrait of Abbi and Luke, on a Brooklyn stoop was taken on a chilly winter’s day, was chosen to promote Kodak’s Portra 160 print film. Really proud to be a part it, as most of you know I continue to love and support film photography, using it as often as allowed with every project I do.

You may see the whole brochure here.

And you may see more images of Abbi and Luke on my website here.

Wedding Album Design

Lately I’ve been using Skype a bit more to “meet” with prospective clients, some of whom live in London, Montreal or California. I photographed a few albums and album layouts to show what they would typically see at my meetings.

Here are a few pictures of Beth and Josh’s 12″ x 15″ Duo Queensberry Wedding Album Design which I thought came out exquisitely:

Below is an example of Marina and Sam’s Flush Mounted 12×12″ Queensberry wedding album in Slate silk.

And below is an example of Lindsey and Scott’s Flush mounted 11×14″ Cypress wedding album in Sage silk.

Here are a couple of 12×12 wedding albums in contemporary leather by Queensberry:

And here are a few more layouts. Our wedding album designs have been created by Tamar Avni in Los Angeles, or Queensberry’s designers in New Zealand.

Text can be incorporated in the layout of the wedding album deisgn, as well as on the cover, blind embossed.

At our meeting I can show you a swatchbook of leathers and silks for your album cover:

Some Favorite Wedding Photos from 2012

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Wishing you a holiday filled with warmth, love and happiness!

All the best in 2013, Karen

Featured in The Knot – Angel Orensanz Wedding

I’m thrilled to be featured in The Knot magazine with Michele and Daniel’s gorgeous Manhattan wedding! What a pleasure it was to collaborate with the talented Ron Wendt Design on this Angel Orensanz Wedding. The bride and groom got ready and had their first look at Trump Soho Hotel. I love shooting at Angel Orensanz. It’s a vast cavernous old synagogue in the lower east side, on Norfolk Street. It looks old-world and historic, because it is – it dates back to the 1800’s. There is no daylight inside (except for maybe a smidge emanating from the stained glass way up high) but the uplighting used at this venue accentuating the gothic architecture is so beautiful, luminous and photogenic. On this day, Roberto was the lighting designer, he is so talented!

Michele and Daniel chose a light blue and icy white lighting backdrop which contrasted nicely with the season – their wedding took place in the heat of August. Please check out the story in The Knot print magazine and online this month.

You may see more of the photos from Michele and Daniel’s wedding HERE in another of my blog posts.

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