Cover Shoot at The w Hotel in Scottsdale

We recently had the Artisan team out at The w Hotel shooting the cover for Finest Wedding Sites Magazine. Here are some of our favorite images, though we still can’t fully decide.

It was the grown up equivalent of a bunch of kids in a candy store, every direction you could turn your head was something fun to shoot. The colors and textures are amazing, you won’t find an unadorned surface in the entire hotel.

We started out in the bar, moved on to the library and eventually made our way up the stairs and into the Zen Garden, where they have the most unique ceremony location in The Valley. They actually build an acrylic stage right over the Zen Garden that you have to see  to believe.

Then it was on to the Presidential Suite, where sadly, our thinly veiled suggestion of needing the suite for the rest of the night was not approved (well, okay, maybe we weren’t really planning on working through the night and might have been considering calling some friends over for a little party…)

Troon North Golf Club Wedding Brochure Design

Ok, maybe we’ve gone a little radio silent lately, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy. This is a quick look at a design mockup for Troon North Golf Club’s new wedding brochure. They are currently engaged with a company that specializes in sponsored brochures, but just about all of the preferred vendors at Troon North Golf Club have gotten together to offer this counter proposal. We hope that they can disengage with the current sponsored brochure company and opt for this design (crossing fingers is optional, but it can’t hurt).

Artisan has been a preferred photography vendor at Troon North Golf Club since 2005 and have photographed many splendid weddings there, but since this is a group brochure representing all of Troon North’s preferred vendors, we’re going to break tradition here on the Artisan blog and show you another photographer’s work as well. The design includes some of our good friend and fellow preferred vendor Anne McCarthy’s work too, from One Fine Day Photography

Hope you enjoy the mockup, we’re still fleshing out the text and other details, but we think it gives you a really good feel for what weddings at Troon North are like.

Artisan Newborn Collage: The Madrid

We’ve been busy ordering a bunch of new, fun stuff for our studio lately and this has got to be one of my favorites! While this cute little collage is officially known as the “Madrid” (A gallery wrapped canvas, of nine images, 20×20 or 30×30), it’s affectionately known in house, as Artisan Baby Bits. This does lead to some rather strange work conversation at times- “Where are we with Julie’s baby bits?”, but it really does sum it up nicely.

We also have a new variation that should be in soon and we’ll post a few photos as soon as we can.

Kathleen & Allon’s Engagement Guest Book

A little ways back we posted Kathleen & Allon’s Engagement session and have been meaning for a while now to show their guest book for their upcoming wedding.

This is a new style of a guest book for weddings, one that’s photo based and you can sign directly on the pages (provided you have the magic pens- make sure you never try writing on photos with a standard ink pen, it’s more like denting them than writing).

With this style of book, we tailor the engagement session images to focus a little more on negative space and leave lots of room for signing.

Take a look and let us know what you think.

You can add only one book on page

A Physics Conundrum at Artisan Photography

Let’s say we have two objects, which we’ll model as cylinders. The objects are 1 and 2 meters long respectively, with proportional masses.

How is it then, that the 1 meter object can travel 25 meters, silently, in the dark of night, place itself adjacent to the larger cylinder and forcibly remove the larger cylinder from it’s resting place?

I honestly don’t know- you’ll have to ask Lucas! We’re running three nights in a row, where the mini-cylinder has sneaked into our bed and methodically rolled me out of it, a new and improved mini-fulcrum: No lever required.

I’d put bells on him, but that would open us up to having Mateo add the antlers and red nose, before sending him off the stairs to see if he can fly.

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