blue + lace

how fabulous is this dress!? love the lace peeking through... 

image by from me to you

jamie beck over at from me to you has such a great eye for photography (and cinemagraphs!) and no one captures a fashion event like she does!

dress by jason wu... see another shot here.

xx

serenity

so much to love about this photo... the tones, the mood, the textures, the composition... 

the title is "lonely", but to me,  it brings more of a feeling of peace & serenity.

happy monday!

photo by marat alihmanov

Bill Cunningham.

I saw Bill Cunningham New York last night at Living Room Theaters in Portland and it was one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's a documentary about New York Times fashion photographer, Bill Cunningham. The 80-something photographer rides a Schwinn (he's on his 29th, 28 have been stolen!) all around Manhattan, and is pretty much solely responsible for showcasing trends before anyone else. As Anna Wintour says in the film, "We all get dressed for Bill." It seriously moved me. Go see it, and report back! xo





photo from nwdailynews.com

joielala featured on the wedding chicks

hello there and happy monday!
Shelby & I have been super busy working on our little photo biz, joielala -- and today is exciting because we got our first feature... and it's on the wedding chicks blog.

head over and take a look (and leave us a comment if you want... it would make our day!) :D

thanks... and check out our post for more photos.

xo,
t

boudoir on joielala

shelby and i posted some more boudoir photos on joielala.... check them out here!
also only one day left for our free photoshoot giveaway!

xo,
t

joielala photographie

hello... 

the past week, shelby and i have been teasing you guys about our big news... and today we are unveiling it! 

the two of us adore photography and we are constantly meeting up to shoot together and always talking about new ideas for shoots... so we decided to start a collaboration together to combine our love for fashion & photography... and it's called joielala photographie. 

head over to joielala.com to read more about it.... we are also giving away a free photoshoot to kick off the start of this! 

xo, 

t

photo fix - harper smith

i stumbled upon some of harper smith's work in Foam magazine... and i love her stuff!
check out some of her work below and on her site.

happy weekend! xo -t

sita therese

my amazing friend, sita (who you might recognize from the photos i took at her wedding in cabo if you follow my photograhpy blog) is an extremely talented artist. we work together and had the chance to travel together in costa rica... and both being creative, we love to bounce ideas off each other and try to inspire one another to get our creative juices flowin'...

i love her style of painting...  check out this skateboard that she painted as a gift to dave and i right after we got (the love of our lives)... mr tank! how insanely cute is this?! :)

so last month, while we were chatting, we came up with the idea to attempt a collaboration together... combining my love for photography and her love for painting. Sita cruised over to my place after our weekly "yoga church" sunday morning class with tom (which i highly recommend for any spirtiual peeps our there who love some good motivation + yoga) -- and we began our first piece. We went through some of my old photos and decided on this one here that i took of a flight of birds...

i printed it up a bunch of times in different sizes, cropped portions and we gesso'd it to a canvas.  we cut up this photo i took of another bird and used this too. (i wish i had taken a photo of it before the painting began!) it looked pretty cool..

it was a huge mess... we were covered in sticky gesso, tank wanted to walk on the canvas... prints were being ripped off the canvas and re-gessoed on. we learned a lot about what not to do next time when using my photos (don't use a certain type of paper, etc) ... it was so crazy and we loved it.

sita then took it home and started painting away and created this amazing painting over the photo collage that she titled "love birds". I would have to say this first collab is about 20% me and 80% sita... but we plan to do more soon that will have more photography in them.

I still haven't seen the final piece in person, but from the photos sita posted on her blog here and here,  it looks so awesome. i promise to take a photo and post when i see the whole thing.

check out more of sita's cool designs on her blog.... sita therese designs

also -- how funny is this!? we both showed up to work today dressed like twins! we did not plan this... or call each other before work! i guess we just really think alike! so funny.....

prada :: fantasy lookbook SS10

i'm in love with the way prada did the photography in their new SS10 fantasy lookbook...
it's so surreal and whimsical.

produced by AMO, images via prada
you can download the entire lookbook here