CT Early Spring Flowers New Haven County

Are you a bride or groom looking to incorporate eco-friendly practices into your wedding, as well as your life?  If you answered yes, you will most definitely want to check out The Green Bride Guide.  The Green Bride Guide has everything you need to plan a green wedding! There you can find  pictures and stories from real green weddings, articles and advice on eco chic decor, and a wide range of eco-friendly products.

The guide is designed for couples looking for eco-friendly services and only displays Green Bride Guide approved legitimate green businesses. The Green Bride Guide is an eco-friendly wedding and life-style website founded by green wedding veteran and environmentalist Kate L. Harrison, geared towards offering high quality eco-friendly goods and services to brides and grooms.  When couples visit the  Green Bride Guide site, they know they are finding companies and artisans who value the environment and care about greening their businesses.

If you are a bride or groom looking for eco-friendly services, look for the Green Bride Guide approved vendor badge signifying that you are visiting a legitimate green business.

Heartprint Photography is proud to be included in the Green Bride Guide, and to have been awarded a four leaf rating along with the right to display the Green Bride Guide vendor badge. 

Perfect Wedding Reception treats, Connecticut Photographer Detail Photography

These tuxedoed chocolate covered strawberries are perfect wedding reception treats, your guests will love them!  At Connecticut’s Heartprint Photography we love photographing all the details that collectively make a wedding unique.  In the next few days we will be posting images of special and imaginative treats sure to make any wedding reception fun and memorable.

Heartprint Photography Wedding & Shower Gift Certificates

Heartprint Photography Wedding & Shower Gift Certificates

Wondering what to get that special bride for a shower gift?  Wedding Gift?   Give the gift of memories!  Connecticut’s Heartprint Photography has the perfect gift solution!  We have beautiful custom designed gift certificates, in any denomination, and they come packaged in our fabulous teal and brown packaging tied up with a bow and ready to give!  These beautiful gift certificates can be used for any of our photo sessions; engagement photography session, pre-bridal session, even a bridal boudoir session!  This is the gift the couple will not forget, they will be reminded everytime they see the wonderful portraits they will receive using your thoughtful gift!  Call us today at 1-203-598-9718 or email us at Heartprint@sbcglobal.net.  Credit cards, cash and checks all accepted.

Elizabeth Park, West Hartford CT

Elizabeth Park, West Hartford CT, Spring Floral Preview

We have a little preview just for you brides & grooms that will either be getting married, or having engagement or wedding pictures done, at beautiful Elizabeth Park in West Hartford , CT.  It may be the beginning of March, but this last weekend the sun was shinning and people were strolling through historic Elizabeth Park in West Hartford, CT.  Signs of Spring were everywhere. It’s easy to see why this treasure is on the National Register of Historic Places!  The park features a two and one-half acre rose garden with 800 varieties of roses, encompasses 102 acres, and boasts garden areas, pathways, greenhouses, lawns, a picnic grove, a pond and recreation areas.
We were out scouting Hartford and the surrounding area for unique photo spots, and this certainly qualifies!  Enjoy this preview of goods things to come in Elizabeth Park.

With Spring almost here Brides & Grooms are searching for the perfect photographer for their special day.  We will be offering tips periodically as to how best to pick a wedding photographer, enjoy!

Tip 1:Tip #1: Ask around! Get recommendations from friends, relatives, vendors. What did they like, dislike, from the photographer they choose? Going along with this, read reveiws. The top wedding directories here in Connecticut include , http://www.weddingreports.com/,http://www.ctphotographers.com/, http://www.connecticut-weddings.com/, http://www.weddingwire.com/, or The Connecticut Professional Photographers Association find a photographer, www.ctppa.com/findphotog.php  .  Alot of these include reveiws by past clients, portfolios, and wedding site information.

CT wedding Photography, photojournalistic lifestyle photographer

As photographers we are often asked to describe our particular style, contemporary, traditional, photojounalistic, lifestyle, modern, artistic…but specifically how do styles differ, and what style of photography are you looking for?  As a couple choosing a wedding photographer, this should be your first consideration.  You will want the photographer you pick to share your style and your vision.   The most concise straightforward definition we have come across in a while comes from Wikipedia, here is an except from their article, (if you would like to read it in full, check it out here Wedding Photography).

There are two primary approaches to wedding photography that are recognized today: Traditional and Photojournalistic. Traditional wedding photography provides for more classically posed images and a great deal of photographer control and interaction on the day of the wedding. Photojournalistic wedding photography takes its cue from editorial reporting styles and focuses more on candid and unposed images with little photographer interaction. These are two extremes and many of today’s photographers will fall somewhere in the middle of these two styles.

A third style that is becoming more and more in demand is a fashion-based approach. In contemporary/fashion-based wedding photography, photojournalistic images of the events of the day are combined with posed images that are inspired by editorial fashion photography as would be found in magazines like Vogue or Vanity Fair.

The term contemporary wedding photography is used to describe wedding photography that is not of a traditional nature. The emphasis in contemporary photography is to capture the story and atmosphere from the day, so the viewer has an appreciation of what the wedding was like, rather than a series of pre-determined poses. However, this term can be mistaken for meaning any photograph that is not posed or formal. The advent and advancement of digital cameras and increased use of the internet mean that many people can offer their services as a wedding photographer. However, contemporary wedding photography is more than just not taking very formal photographs and involves the use of composition, lighting and timing to capture photographs that have a strong visual appeal.

Once you have defined your style it will be much easier to recognize the right photographer for you as you view their website or portfolio.  The days of one-size-fits-all wedding photography, gratefully, are over. This is your one chance to capture the feelings, excitement, and vibrancy of your special day, make sure that your photographer shares your vision and your style.

CT wedding Photography, photojournalistic lifestyle photographer

Title: The Rings Silhouette.  We love the simplicity of this image, just his ring and her ring, side by side silhouetted by natural light. We love the thought that in the mist of all the colors, and parties, and celebration that it really comes down to just simply him & her, side by side.

CT wedding Photography, photojournalistic lifestyle photographer

We are introducing a new member of the Heartprint family, our sister blog heartprinteventphotography.blogspot.com, the Heartprint Event Photography blog. Our new sister blog will be the place to go to view images from our new Event Division making it’s official grand opening January of 2009! Sign up to be among the first to follow our newest addition, and to all, a very early Happy New Year from Heartprint Photography Special Occasion division!