Published ~ Edible Allegheny

You can see photos & read about it (HERE)
You can listen to radio spot about it (HERE)

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)

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

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.

Updates

~ A couple of cool updates

We are thrilled to announce that we won: The Knot Best of Wedding for 2012 & Wedding Wire Bride’s Choice Award for 2012.

Our February 25th workshop is filling up. If you are trying to decide if you are the right type of person who should attend be sure to read Elizabeth’s blog post today (HERE).

Photo(s) of the Week

It's not to often that I share my wedding photography on this blog. To see the complete work you can go to my wife's blog (here) and our main site (here).

Nationally Published, Updates & Stuff

Ok, so this makes us feel good...we have been nationally published twice this week.

Style Me Pretty featured one of our engagement sessions. You can read the story over at Elizabeth’s blog.

Indian Wedding Site featured one of our weddings.

Also, Check out our website (www.craig-photography.com). We have added a crazy amount of new photos.

If is this is not enough self marketing, you can also see our new Facebook page which has a zillion of photos, truly zillions.

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.

Pittsburgh Wedding Photographers

Pittsburgh Wedding Photography

I like this moment...

Updates & Links

February 12th Workshop: Register (HERE)
Published in Whirl Wedding Guide (HERE)
Wedding Wire Brides Choice Award (HERE)
The Knot Best of Wedding 2011 Pick (HERE)
Winter Street Photography Slide Show (HERE)

Be Back 1.1.11

Its been a great year. Thanks for reading.

Pittsburgh Wedding Photographers

This Week ~ Updates

Tuesday ~ Create | Connect | Grow (info HERE)
Thursday ~ Photo Workshop in McKeesport
Friday ~ Photo-Walk

Others Stuff….

So thrilled to announce that Elizabeth and I finally nailed down a date for our HOW TO EVERYTHING: PHOTOGRAPHY workshop!

If you would like to have the mysteries of the photo-universe revealed (well…most of them at least ) then this is for you! See below for further info.

TO REGISTER FOLLOW THIS LINK!
http://craig-photography.com/workshop/howtophoto/