Showing posts with label Roses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roses. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Wedding Wednesday: Flowers

A couple months ago Andrew and I attended a local Bridal Expo to get our last few elusive vendors (you know the little things like a florist, a photographer...). There wasn't much advertising leading up to the expo and we live in a small town, so we weren't expecting much. How wrong we were. We arrived 2 hours before the expo was due to end and only made it to one room out of three!

Regardless, we were able to score some of our favorite vendors, like a florist and a photographer! We literally stumbled onto our florist in the most perfect way. Andrew and I had already made our way around the outside of the room and were on the inside leg when we both stopped for the same reason - we had spotted a bouquet almost exactly what we were looking for.


It was this beautiful bouquet...succulents and roses. I kid you not, it stopped us in our tracks! Donna from Prescott Personal Touch Flowers was amazing and answered all our questions! Andrew was so excited he actually set up a meeting for us right there! Ha! And who says the groom is never involved in the wedding?


We've now met with Donna and her partner a couple times and we are very excited to see our wedding flowers. They are going to be very cool.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue...

My parents have a beautiful garden (one that I'm entirely jealous of since our blooming season in Arizona is so short), so I thought I would take advantage of the flowers and test out the macro part of my lens on my dslr.  

A short backstory: I was given this amazing dslr for my birthday 3 years ago, but had absolutely no idea how to use it.  Not only was it too far above my photography skill level, but it had more buttons than I knew what to do with!  Skip to the present, after I finished my 35mm Film Photography course at school I fell in love with photography again and decided to whip out my camera.  Well...it just so happens to be a Nikon D2x, which (when it came out) was Nikon's top of the line professional camera. I just so happened to inherit a gem of a lens as well!  So now that I kind of / sort of know how to use my camera I've been trying to take it everywhere with me so I can practice using it.  The only problem...it weighs 2.5lbs, which really seems like 10lbs when you're lugging the camera everywhere!

So there you have it, my short story on my giant camera and lack of adequate skills.  Now enjoy some photos of flowers!