Capturing the memorable moments of a wedding is a necessity. Hiring a talented photographer is an important component of wedding preparations. The best way to preserve a wedding day for years to come is through photographs and videography.
The Knot 2022 Real Weddings Study indicates 88 percent of survey respondents hired photographers for their weddings, and the average cost for a professional photographer is around $2,600.
If you’re a fan of NASA or simply enjoy the beauty of deep space, the U.S. Postal Service has a new option for your outgoing mail.
The organization announced in statement this week that it is releasing a $9.85 priority mail stamp depicting the ‘Pillars of Creation’ along with a $30.45 Cosmic Cliffs Priority Mail Express stamp. The images on the stamps were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
USPS offered the following descriptions of the two space phenomenons displayed on the new stamps:
“The Priority Mail stamp features the Pillars of Creation, a trillions-of-miles-tall formation that lies 6,500 light-years away from Earth within the vast Eagle Nebula,” said USPS in a statement. “Flush with gas and dust, the Pillars enshroud stars that are forming over many millennia. The Webb Telescope snapped this eerie image in 2022, revealing a new view of a vast stellar landscape.”
“The Cosmic Cliffs of the Carina Nebula are a stellar nursery — a birthplace of new stars and planets,” continued the release. “Captured in stunning detail by the Webb Telescope, the vivid image on the Priority Mail Express stamp reveals an area of powerful energy and activity within our own Milky Way galaxy.”
Both stamps are sold in panes of four.
The James Webb Space Telescope was launched by NASA on Dec. 25, 2021. It is the largest and most sensitive telescope ever deployed in space.
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News.
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, January 24, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Zen Studios LA is thrilled to announce the launch of its exquisitely redesigned website. They are the go-to source for professional headshots and portrait photography in Los Angeles. This milestone represents a significant stride towards delivering an unparalleled and seamless experience for our valued clients. In Los Angeles and Hollywood, headshot photographers for acting headshots like theatrical and commercial are a dime a dozen. To differentiate their photography studio from the competitions in Los Angeles and Southern California, they have focused more on professional headshots of corporate types, catering to real estate agencies, law firms, human resource departments, LinkedIn, and the medical and health industries. Zen Studios also started doing brand and event photography. The introduction of new headshot types and services has infused their daily shoots with excitement, revitalizing the creativity and passion of Zen’s photographers from the monotony of capturing repetitive acting headshots.
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To cater to the ever-changing requirements of its clients, Zen Studios has revamped its website. The new design focuses on enhancing user experience by simplifying navigation and making exploration of the studio’s services, preparation guides, and informative blog posts more enjoyable. Users can access any content within a few clicks. Easy access with multiple ways to get in touch and book appointments with chat, texting, or the old-school way of filling out an online form.
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Understanding the importance of informed decisions, Zen Studios has added more comprehensive and insightful content to its website. Clients can now delve deeper into the studio’s approach, view an extensive project portfolio, and stay updated on the latest trends in professional headshots and portrait photography.
Zen Studios has added a plethora of tips and guides regarding all headshot types on their expansive Zen Blog.
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The redesigned website is a testament to Zen Studios’ dedication to its clients. By providing an intuitive interface and enriching content, the studio aims to empower clients in their decision-making process and offer a glimpse into the creativity and professionalism that defines Zen Studios LA.
Even though their studio is located in Los Angeles, they will travel to your location, bringing our remote studio equipment. They found that it was much easier to schedule and to shoot on location instead of using their studio when they started working with bigger law firms and real estate agencies. “We found out real quick it was much more efficient to shoot on location instead of our studio when we started working with larger law firms that have 60 lawyers and multiple locations. Our clients love it because they don’t lose downtime by traveling to our studio.”
Expanding their service areas to include Orange County, San Diego, and Southern California. We make the process extremely easy, from the time clients book to delivering the final images.
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Zen Studios is proud to announce the expansion of its headshot photography services to include a diverse range of headshot types:
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Why did Zen Studios redesign its website?
The redesign is a strategic move to enhance the user experience for their valued clients. They aimed to enhance user experience by optimizing website navigation, facilitating service discovery, providing valuable information, and offering multiple communication channels to connect with Zen Studios LA.
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We acknowledge and value the diverse requirements of our clients across various professional domains. The expansion into various headshot types allows us to provide tailored services that cater to the specific requirements of professionals in areas such as corporate, real estate, attorneys, LinkedIn, health, and the medical industry, including dentists, doctors, fellowships, and residency headshot also known as ERAS headshot. Zen Studios’ photographers enjoy working with the broad spectrum of various headshot types. It allows their photographers to be more creative and artistic because you can only do so many theatrical and commercial headshots.
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When you’re in the business of hospitality – that is, making others feel at home when they’re far from it – you need a workspace that mirrors the kind of atmosphere you want to create for your guests. For Helsinki-based hospitality group Berg & Ridge, it distinguishes itself from other brands by creating beautiful, unique environments for hospitality and recreation that foster overall well-being. The company tapped on architecture and interiors practice Fyra Design Agency to design a workplace reflecting that ethos and the results make us want to check in permanently.
The office is located in an art nouveau building, so Fyra prioritized designing the interiors to pay homage to the historic architecture. The studio integrated recycled furniture and textiles to be as eco-friendly as possible while also employing Finnish carpenters to create bespoke pieces. In an effort to embrace biophilia, potted ferns and trees are peppered through the space like a real home.
A curated selection of elegant fixtures illuminate the space, creating a soft warmth typically unfound in offices that implement fluorescent lighting. A long streamlined conference table for meetings and collaboration looks more like a cozy dining table when lit only by a minimalist table lamp.
Curtains cleverly conceal samples and other office materials while providing an undulating backdrop to minimize visual clutter.
Graphic cushions and lumbar pillows offer a casual seat for a change of environment.
The themes of wood furniture, paper pendants, and beige drapery are repeated in a smaller conference room.
Photos by Riikka Kantinkoski.
A collection of original photography by Robert Dimmitt of Buena Vista is being displayed through March 31 at Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center, 1000 Rush Drive in Salida.
Dimmitt, a retired former employee at the HRRMC Buena Vista Health Center, has focused on his photography more in retirement, but he has been capturing images in and around Buena Vista for more than 35 years, a press release stated.
Dimmitt said his favorite images include the Collegiate Peaks and the Upper Arkansas Valley, which he has called home since early childhood. He said constant change in the surrounding mountainscapes are natural subject matter for him to capture, as he has seen much change in the area over the years.
Several of Dimmitt’s photos also are on display at the Buena Vista Health Center.
HRRMC displays the work of regional artists each quarter, with an emphasis on the Arkansas Valley. Call 719-530-2217 for more information on exhibiting art at HRRMC.
A centenary exhibition of Saul Leiter’s photos reveals his painterly way with Kodachrome. And a new book shows that Garry Winogrand worked best in two tones.
When Saul Leiter began shooting Kodachrome slides in New York in the late 1940s, color was scorned by most serious photographers, who thought of it as a hobby for vacationing dads or the commercial domain of magazines and advertising agencies.
But Leiter, who died in 2013, was a lifelong painter as well as a photographer. As displayed in “Saul Leiter: Centennial,” an exhibition of photographs and paintings at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in Manhattan, closing on Feb. 10, and a new monograph, “Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,” he took advantage of everyday filters — a window smeared by raindrops or humidity, the flurries of snowflakes, reflections in glass — to fragment reality into compositions that recalled paintings by the Abstractionists who lived near his place on East 10th Street.
Although his pioneering color pictures are what he is best known for today, Leiter employed similar strategies in his masterly black-and-white photography. He might devote two-thirds or more of the frame to a monochromatic block, inviting you to look as closely at the shadowed street in the (black-and-white) “Walking” (c. 1955) or the eponymous black fabric in the (color) “Canopy, New York” (1958), as you would at the subtle gradations of tone in a painting by Robert Ryman or Ad Reinhardt.
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Every now and then one singular photograph captures the air of an era. In 1955, fashion photographer Richard Avedon shot Dovima With Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, 1955, a photograph of a statuesque model in an evening gown posed dramatically before a group of circus elephants. Upon publication in the September 1955 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, the image near-instantly became a touchstone of both fashion and photography history.
A prolific American fashion and portrait photographer, Avendon was famed for his ability to capture tension and movement within his still images—photographs that appeared in glossy magazines for decades. Many of his portraits were of the century’s most famous faces, including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Tupac Shakur, and Tina Turner. Born in New York City in 1923, Avedon’s interest in photography began in childhood, joining a camera club when he was 12, and carried on to his two-year tenure in the armed forces in 1942 where he served as Photographer’s Mate Second Class in the United States Merchant Marines. He then went on to study at the Design Laboratory at the New School for Social Research under Alexey Brodovitch and began working as a freelance photographer.
Photographer Richard Avedon next to his photograph of Sandra Bennett, 12 (1980), exhibited at the Institute Of Contemporary Art, Boston. Photo: Wendy Maeda/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.
One of Avedon’s primary freelance clients was Harper’s Bazaar. The publication, however, did not provide studio space for Avedon, leading him to improvise and experiment with then-unconventional locations for shooting like the beach, nightclubs, and city streets, choices that gave his work a reputation for innovation and originality.
In August of 1955, Avedon went to Paris on assignment for Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Carmel Snow to photograph the fall fashion collections. At the same time in Paris, film director Carol Reed was shooting the film Trapeze (which was released the following year in 1956) at the Cirque d’Hiver. Seeing the elephants of the circus, Avedon immediately chose the location to take an image, later saying, “I saw the elephants under an enormous skylight and in a second I knew that I then had to find the right dress, and I knew that there was the potential here for a kind of dream image.” Dovima with Elephants was ultimately given full-page treatment and featured alongside 14 additional images from the assignment included with “Carmel Snow’s Paris Report” printed in the magazine’s September 1955 issue.
Richard Avedon, Tina Turner, performer, dress by Azzaro, New York, June 13, 1971 (1971). © The Richard Avedon Foundation.
In the decades since its creation, Dovima With Elephants has risen to icon status. Iconic is an adjective that can be used widely in Avedon’s oeuvre, as a recently opened exhibition at Gagosian, Paris, can attest, “Iconic Avedon: A Centennial Celebration of Richard Avedon.” The exhibition includes some of Avedon’s most recognizable works and emphasizes his skill at capturing each of his subject’s unique energy and personality.
In homage to the photographer’s cultural influence and marking the 100 years since his birth, we took a deep dive into the inimitable Dovima With Elephants and found three things you might not know about the iconic image.
The model Dovima (1959). Photo: Tony Vaccaro/Getty Images.
Though the model used for the photograph, Dovima, is labeled a “supermodel” today, she was working several decades before the term was coined and popularized. Born Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba, she created her moniker by taking the first two letters of the first three of her given names. She was discovered by a Vogue editor on a New York City sidewalk, and within days began working with some of the top fashion photographers of the decade, including Irving Penn, Horst P. Horst, and Richard Avedon—the latter of whom she continued to work with throughout her career. Dovima worked with nearly every major fashion house, from Dior to Balenciaga, and she was featured on the covers of Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue more than a dozen times collectively as well as other high-profile magazines, and at her height commanded 60 dollars an hour—compared to the average top rate of 25 dollars an hour—earning her a second moniker: the Dollar-a-Minute Girl. She even made a comic appearance in the 1957 hit film Funny Face, starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Aistare, playing Marion, a parody of a model with sharp looks but dimmed intelligence. Dovima’s success did not last, however, and she faced career hardship beginning in the 1960s before she left New York City in the 1970s to live with her parents in Florida, even taking work as a hostess in a local pizza parlor, before dying in relative obscurity in 1990.
French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent giving his first interview since succeeding the late Christian Dior, to a radio reporter in Paris, in 1957. Photo: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
The dress that Dovima dons in Avedon’s iconic image is itself reflective of a seismic moment in fashion history. Though labeled as a piece by Dior, the dress was the very first design made for the fashion house by another now-famous designer by the name of Yves Saint Laurent. The then-19-year-old designer had for the previous year been working with Christian Dior, but due to his lack of professional experience had been relegated to smaller design projects. The dress was among the initial sketches he was permitted to submit for the House of Dior’s couture collection, which ultimately led to more designs with each subsequent season. Laurent and Dior’s artistic sensibilities were remarkably similar, and at the age of 21—following Dior’s untimely death—Laurent found himself as head designer. Later, in 1961, he founded his own eponymous fashion house, however, his early designs for Dior remain an integral part of the brand’s heritage and DNA.
Elsie, the first elephant in the world trained to walk a tightrope (Paris, 1955). Photo by John Sadovy/BIPs/Getty Images.
In 2010, Dovima With Elephants was included in “Avedon: Photographs from the Richard Avedon Foundation” sale held at Christie’s New York. It realized $1,153,011 and set the auction record for the photographer. Interesting to note as well, it sold to the Maison Christian Dior, highlighting its significance in both its artistry and fashion history. The image again appeared at Christie’s New York in 2020 in the “One: A Global Sale of the 20th Century” sale and broke the previous record, achieving $1,815,000. Situated at the intersection of fashion and fine art photography, these auction results emphasize the enduring relevance and allure of Avedon’s Dovima With Elephants.
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