Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 12:43pm
The beauty is in the details and I like all the details at weddings as much as I like the romantic photos of the wedding couple. Clients spend so much time and money to put everything together and to turn it into the perfect frame for a perfect day. Must important item for a wedding? - *The wedding ring, that most famous and instantly recognizable symbol of the joining of a man and a woman as husband and wife in the institution of marriage, has a long, wide spread and mysterious history. Its beginnings lie in the deserts of North Africa, where the ancient Egyptian civilization sprang up along the fertile flood plains of the river Nile. This river was bringer of all fortune and life to the Pharaoh’s people and from plants growing on it’s banks were the first wedding rings fashioned. Sedges, rushes and reeds, growing alongside the well-known papyrus were twisted and braided into rings for fingers and larger bracelets for wrists.
The ring is of course a circle and this was the symbol of eternity for the Egyptians as well as many other ancient cultures. It had no beginning and no end, like time. It returned to itself, like life; and the shape was worshipped in the form of the Sun and the Moon. The hole in the center of the ring is not just space either; it is important in its own right as the symbol of the gateway, or door; leading to things and events both known and unknown.
It is not difficult therefore, to see how the ring and the gift of a ring began to be associated with love, in the hope that this most worthy of emotions could take on the characteristics of the circle and capture eternity.
They wore it like we do today, on the third finger of the left hand, because of a belief that the vein of that finger directly traveled from the heart. This legend was later taken up by the Greeks, when they conquered Egypt under the generalship of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. and from them passed onto the Romans, who called this the ‘vena amoris’, which is Latin for ‘the vein of love’. These early rings usually lasted about a single year before wear and tear took their inevitable toll. Hemp was probably the first choice, but some decided that they wanted a longer lasting material, and opted for leather, bone or ivory to craft their token of love.
*From the historyof.net - Matt Jacks
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Friday, February 19, 2010 at 5:11pm
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 9:35am
I’m very proud to be part in this very special sweepstakes. Hardy Klahold Photography and YSB 3 Designs in Sacramento have teamed up to invite couples getting married in 2010 to visit the YSB 3 Designs booth at the Dream Wedding Show located at California Exposition & State Fair in Sacramento on February 28, 2010 to enter the Sweepstakes for your chance to win!
The sweepstake contains:
Spiritual wedding at the new and luxurious five-star Playa del Sol Grand Resort to include officiate, 4-nights’ stay, seating for guests, and couples cake
YSB 3 Designs Elite Destination Wedding Planning and Design Package
Hardy Klahold Photography Signature Package
Tickets will be given away at the booth from 11:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. The winner of the Sweepstakes will be announced at the closing of the Show’s 2:30 P.M. Fashion Show. If you want to know more about the this great opportunity, just click here. You find the California Expo at 1600 Exposition Blvd. in Sacramento.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 7:40pm
“Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device” - this how Apple CEO Stephen Jobs announced today the new iPad. Believe me, I will be in line to get my hands on this one as soon as possible. Here is my take on the new iPad: Imagine being able to flick through your wedding photos, write emails to your friends and attach those wonderful memories I created for you. All on a big, beautiful, Multi-Touch screen. With just the touch of a finger.
May I introduce your digital wedding album! So here is the deal. If you pick me as your wedding photographer, you have the choice to pick either a beautiful handcrafted wedding album, or you get one these magical and revolutionary devices in your hands. All the photos of your wedding will be stored on an iPad and available for you with the touch of a finger.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 12:45pm
What are you doing the day after your honeymoon is over? - All the flowers are gone, the dresses are hidden in the closet - back to reality. But hold it, there are all the wonderful photos taken by the photographer. Picking your favorite photos from the thousands taken on your wedding day will bring back all the memories. You can relive every moment over and over again by looking at your photos.
Picture this: On your first anniversary you sit together with your family and close friends around the table. You open your wedding album and you all relive page by page your wedding day by looking at all the wonderful memories I created for you. You remember how you felt doing the first dance with your husband. You see the beautiful flowers. May be you remember his shy little squeeze of your hand during the receiving line, when you look at the photo that shows your smile back to him.
Here are a few of my favorite album layouts of the wedding season 2009.
Album - Patricia and Stephen
Patricia and Stephen’s wedding was a lot of fun. The wedding was at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, very formal and very elegant. There was the one surprise that made Patricia’s and Stephen’s wedding very different from a usual Broadmoor wedding and turned it into a lot of fun: It was a rock band from New Orleans, “The Radiators”.
Album - Lori an Michael
I was very honored to be a part of Tori and Michael’s small but very elegant and contemporary wedding at the Westin Hotel in Denver. Special lighting created by the great team of LMD Production painted three different scenarios in one big ball room. It was challenging for the photography, but a lot of fun for the guests. I’m proud of my photos. As a matter of fact, Tori and Michael’s wedding photos made me one of the finalists for the Denver ICON Award.
This year you are able to vote for the “People’s Choice Awards”. My event is listed in the category Best Photography - Entry 1406. I would appreciate it if you would vote for me. Just follow the link and go here. The upcoming 2010 ICON Awards will be held on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at the The Ritz-Carlton, Denver.
Album - Brittany and Eric
Brittany and Eric were so in love on the day of their wedding. I could see it all day long. They had a wonderful wedding in the very romantic setting of the Hudson Gardens in Denver. Family and friends celebrated with Brittany and Eric their special day of love.
Album - Kristina and Kevin
Back to my favorite venue in Colorado, The Broadmoor. In 2009, I had the honor to shoot 4 weddings at this 5 star luxury resort in Colorado Springs. Kristina and Kevin had a morning wedding. For me this created a great opportunity to catch the morning light for their wedding photos. They requested a special photo at their ceremony: A panoramic shoot that shows all the beauty of the venue and their wedding ceremony right in the middle. Not a problem for me. The photo on the first page of their album is the result of 10 photos, shot from a tripod and stitched into this great panoramic photo.
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Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 5:31pm
Christmas came early for me this year. I’m really excited about this: The Former White House Photographer Joyce N. Boghosian selected my photo as the Grand Prize Winner of the Share Foundation’s 9th annual photo contest. In February 2010 I photographed Quota International of Metro Denver 90th anniversary. The Club teamed up with Siemens and started the Sounds Beginning Project. The plan was to give hearing aids to those kids.
My photo will soon be the centerfold of the 2010 magazine. The Denver Quota Club is invited to designate a $500 U.S grant to the 2009-20011 Club-to-Club World Service Project of their choice. What a great christmas gift!
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Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:04am
When I don’t have a booked photo shoot, I look at my camera and and think what can I do? On Sunday morning I looked at my coffee cup and there was an idea: Here are my very favorite coffee cups. I love coffee and I love drinking coffee out of nice cups. These are handmade cups from the
Eshelman Pottery in Illinois. I discovered them years ago an felt in love with their products.
This is actually very good practice to train your creativity. My German photography teacher taught me that: Take a simple item, that you might use every day without paying attention to it - like a coffee cup - find interesting angles and light situations and take photos of it. It’s a good practice to pay attention to small things. You never know, next time you might use this new trained skills when you shoot a wedding.
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Friday, November 13, 2009 at 5:42pm
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 6:07pm
“I’m want to be the wedding couple’s eyes.” I think this is a very nice description of what I’m doing, when I shoot a wedding. This quote is not from me. It is from celebrity wedding photographer Joe Buissink. I absolutely underwrite that. At Patricia’s and Stephen’s wedding I was happy to listen with my ears also.
The wedding took place at my alltime favorite venue in Colorado The Broadmoor. Stephen had a very special surprise for the wedding guests: The rock band The Radiators from New Orleans. The first time ever that the Broadmoor has seen a rock band at a wedding. I have to say: It was very good, it was very loud and everyone at the wedding had a lot of fun, including the photographers.
Wedding consultant: Everlasting Memories by Char
Venue: The Broadmoor
Harpist: Nancy Gallegoes
Reverent: Gary Copeland
Rehearsal venue: Garden of the Gods Golfclub
Decor: LMD Productions
Linens Unlimited
Florist: Liz Nielson
DJ: Mark Phinney
Shuttle: Ramblin Express
Music: The Radiators
Meet Steve
This time I shot with my good friend Steve Tinetti from Steve Tinetti Photography. Steve was a big help with a little unusual wedding.
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Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:02pm
by Hardy Klahold
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