12 bottles of wine arrived yesterday with the following note inside the box;
Dear Andrea & Ursula
Thank you so much for making our wedding so special and memorable. You are both amazingly talented and we feel so fortunate to have you both. We will cherish our photographs for years to come.
These are two of our favourite wines. We hope you enjoy them.Enjoy a glass of wine on us in the sunshine.
Love Florian and Tracy
A whooping "Cheers!" Tracy, Florian! Thank you, the pleasure was really ours!
I'm sipping the delicious Life from Stone Sauvignon Blanc as I type this blog post. No sunshine, but hey, I have good wine!
Cheers!
The area in which we live is virtually a little countryside village, surrounded by mature trees, an abundance of birdlife with watercourses throughout - a fact you've probably already gathered by the amount of pictures posted of the kids.
Our green dreamland is tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the city and yet the "city" is a mere five-minute drive away.
OK, the house may be in dire need of a make-over, but, for us, we have found our home. I pinch myself everyday how very, very lucky we are.
Two of the short one's on yet another ladybird quest...
You may have to call in the Photoshop police - as I may have got a wee bit carried away. I do not usually add fake elements to images but I downloaded some brushes for a project I am working on and found a butterfly brush. I experimented. So that butterfly is not real, Oliver is actually holding a ladybird.
That's a great brush, though! I don't think I've seen one so realistic. Now as long as the rays of light aren't fake too... :P
(11.11.09 @ 12:27 PM)Now wouldn't that be wonderful a "great light brush" for PS - I'll take 10. The light beams are real.
(11.11.09 @ 02:46 PM)Very cool butterfly, it looks very real!
Love the colouring in these photos!
Oooh. There should SO be a light-ray brush! Although I suppose you can do it with gradients if you really wanted to!
(11.12.09 @ 04:34 PM)It is going to be quiet on the blog front this week.
We have baked our spiders (which look nothing close to those photo's), painted tombstones, ordered the smoke machine and are very busy tranforming the Carlyle residence into the House of Horrors.
Halloween this weekend.
Was I sick last year? ....because I know Halloween definately happened - sick or not. BTW Congrats on your first anniversary!
(10.28.09 @ 05:26 PM)I just remember Tanja telling me it's a good thing you weren't 2nd shooting my wedding after all, because you were horribly sick :-) Thanks - it's crazy that it's been a year already!
(10.28.09 @ 11:47 PM)I really believe photography and chardonnay are my two best friends at this age!
As Jake and Liam approach three years of age (which for the amateurs out there is far worse than the 'terrible twos'), it has been a week of my pleading, threatening, bribing, cajoling, pushing boundaries (all of them) and eventually fuming and shouting at the two little midgets. . . testing terrorists-in-waiting.
Now, as the day winds down and the chardonnay kicks in, flicking through my images from this week, it doesn't look so bad after all....
Your children are a scream! and lucky you that you can capture these funny moments!
(10.20.09 @ 01:45 PM)Only Jake could make eating strawberries look sooooo delicious.
The childrenpictures... are each by each so great! You can see their face expressions are strong... strong individualities also?? Enjoyed the pictures very much!
(10.10.09 @ 05:57 PM)
As usual I have been trawling through your blog which is what Florian and I often end up doing on a Saturday morning. For some reason we had never come across this before. Over a year on and we still often look back at our photographs and love them. They are one of our most treasured possessions. Its fantastic to see all your work and follow the many other happy couples. We never recommend anyone else when our friends are getting married. We hope you are well and happy. x
P.S. We are due to have our own little midget in December
(08.14.10 @ 12:23 PM)