Best of Pittsburgh Awards for Wedding Photographer

We are very delighted to announce that Craig Photography has just been awarded the Best of Pittsburgh Awards for Wedding Photographer!

And here is a little bit about this sparkly new thing:

“Each year, in and around the Pittsburgh area, the Pittsburgh Award Program chooses only the best local businesses. We focus on companies that have demonstrated their ability to use various marketing methods to grow their business in spite of difficult economic times. The companies chosen exemplify the best of small business; often leading through customer service and community involvement.

For most companies, this recognition is a result of your dedication and efforts as well as the work of others in your organization that have helped build your business. Your team is now a part of an exclusive group of small businesses that have achieved this selection.”

And a little bit about the Pittsburgh Award Program:

“The Pittsburgh Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Pittsburgh area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.

Each year, the Pittsburgh Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Pittsburgh area a great place to live, work and play.

The Pittsburgh Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community’s contributions to the U.S. economy.”

Nice! Very nice indeed! To all of our incredible clients that made this possible, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Featured ~ Style Me Pretty

Firstly, the wedding was held on Jasmine’s family farm that she grew up on. It was absolutely stunning. I love when a couple can incorporate such an intimate feel into their wedding and there is no better way to do that than to make it personal.

You can read the full story/photos (HERE)

Featured | Style Me Pretty

You can see the full featured (HERE)

Special thanks to the Fairmont for allowing us to use their suite to and Justine of Beauty Justified for all the beauty!

Featured | Style Me Pretty

Featured in Style ME Pretty today, give it a look and leave a comment, would love your feed back.  You can see full gallery and insprration (Here)

 

Wedding Photography

Not to often that I post a wedding photo, if you want to see more of my wedding work check out:
Craig Photography Wedding
Wedding Blog 

Published ~ Pittsburgh Magazine

You can see the full feature (HERE) More on my day job (HERE)

Happy Love Day

Harmonious Pandemonium

Gothic Wedding ('Tis the season)

Classic Wedding Photography

Classic Wedding Photography

Published | Style Me Pretty

You can see our feature (HERE), be sure to leave your comments!!!

Provenance & Legacy of a Photographed

Where will your photos end up?

The first thing that the caveman did was to decorate their cave walls (see Lascaux Caves).  Our surroundings have great importance to us. From the first time we walked out of the land into our cave-dwellings-suburbs our walls became the surface for our imagery: to display the things that matters.

When I look at a photo I do not want it to leave me cold.  I want it to have a profound effect on me, to change my attitude. What more could I possibly ask out of a photo?

Many have made claims and theories as to the meaning of art but what more could you ask of an individual response than it created a feeling.

It's my intention to create photos that are a “seeing cure”.  Photographs that may recover the sensation and experience of life.

I think about this a lot. I think about the fact that the photos we take at a wedding today will be displayed at the wedding of their future great-grandchildren.  The photo pictured above is a standard display at the majority of weddings.  I have started to call this table the “Photo-Legacy Table”.  It is a grouping of past generations that has brought us all to the celebration of today.  Families gather around this table and stop and give pause to who came before them.  They go on to tell stories and laugh and cry at the memories.  This is a seeing cure, I think to myself every time.

A photograph gives you “provenance”...a history of your family's journey and a feeling of what is to come.

Art pre-dates the idea of currency as monitory worth. Simply put, art has been much more valuable for a much longer time than the dollar.  Dollars we exchange, art gives us legacy.

A photograph shows us society, beauty, authenticity and when it's done right a photo gives us fruitfulness, joy and it is the essential intrinsic value of life...the provenance of our legacy.

That's value that currency can not buy. We know what things cost but we have no idea what they are worth.

A photograph is a treasure….

The “Why” of Photography

My grandest hope for the photos that I create is to have a feeling of service, healing, happiness and purpose...that the photo I create live on to become a legacy photograph for the family to share and pass down to their loved ones.

This is what I honor and cherish about creating photographs: that my work will live on to be valuable for generations to come.
 

Classic Wedding Photography

Published ~ Style Me Pretty

I am excited to announce that we have another feature in Style Me Pretty

There are lots & lots of photos, be sure to click through the gallery.....

Wedding Photos

You want to some of our wedding photography? View slide show (HERE)
P.S.
Its a long video, 16 minutes....best view with a glass of wine and a loved one.

Photo of the Week~ Happy Farthers Day

I know its a day late, but its a great shot. Happy belated Fathers Day!

Wedding Photography ~ Yeah I do That

I have been bombarding you with words as of late, so here are some wedding pics. He has a good reason to smile. Had a blast shooting this wedding. Hope you enjoy!

Pittsburgh Wedding Photography & Style Me Pretty

(Re-Posted, original post by my wife) to see our wedding site please click (HERE)

I’m very very very very very very very very (continue to infinity) excited to announce that we received our official invitation to be a featured vendor on Style Me Pretty. If you are a bride and you have never heard of SMP then stop what you’re doing right now and go to their site. That’s right, drop EVERYTHING and go there right now. You will not regret it.

Style Me Pretty is a driving force in today’s wedding trends and always highlights the most awesome wedding photos, features, information and content, all with a fabulosity factor of about a billion. Not only is their site incredibly inspiring but one of my favorite features of the site is their DIY section. Real ideas for real people with real lives. Meaning, even the busiest of brides can figure this stuff out and it’s all so fresh and beautiful.

So when we got the invitation to join their Little Black Book of Vendors we were thrilled! You may be wondering why I’m referring to an invitation to be on their site. Well, you can request to advertise on their site and they do get hundreds of emails a day from wedding industry vendors, but they typically choose to hand select the vendors that appear in their Little Black Book. Their selection is pretty intense, which includes a team of industry professionals in charge of researching each potential candidate, following their work and inquiring about their services with other top wedding vendors. Once selected, each potential vendor must undergo an interview process and if all goes well….Boom! Fireworks! You’re on their site! And, I’m happy to report, we made it! Yay!

So we are excited to share with you all THREE of our listings (yup…THREE!). We were honored to be able to list our Wedding Photography, Indian Wedding Photography as well as my Intimates Photography.

So, if you have a little time, stop by and visit our listings. They’re so purty. And while you’re there be sure to take some time and peruse the SMP site in full. Lots of great info, pretty pretty images and a ton of advice from the industries top professionals.