After several brides seeking out samples of my work on facebook and surfing my many, many albums have expressed just how difficult it is to find what they are looking for in all of those other albums! So it has come to my attention that I needed a fresh page. With all of the many things that I do with the business my first photography love just so happens to be weddings. Weddings mark a beginning...a beginning of two lives together, the beginning of future children, and the beginning of a journey that starts off with the best of all things: Love. What greater time to capture those moments than at the beginning of it all on that special day in which two people decide to share the rest of their lives together.
It is my goal to make sure that each time a couple looks at their wedding pictures that they are reminded about what made them decide to get married in the first place...what that magical time was like twenty, thirty, even sixty years later I want those moments to be forever captured for their use and enjoyment.
The expression, "Pictures tell a thousand words," does not adequately show just how much this is true...each picture is a moment in time and tells something important that happened. It is my job to take that moment (memory if you will) and seek out what is beautiful, precious, and wonderful about it.
With that being said, here is the link to the new fanpage that will be dedicated solely to weddings, engagement, and bridal pictures so that those future brides can find something that they did not even know that they wanted until they see it! Check it out and like it! :)
https://www.facebook.com/BridalWeddingAndEngagementByDjMdesigns
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Alaskan Friends: Arxotica
Some of you may already know that I have lived in a lot of different places in my life before I ended up in Shelton. Most of my childhood and adolescent years were spent moving from place-to-place as my father found another position with another hospital throughout most of the west coast. Each town, city, or village had its own specific uniqueness that I found appealing; however, of all of the places that I had moved to, I would have to say Bethel, Alaska was by far the most unique, fun, and interesting of them all.
Never had I been somewhere that was as small as it was, but filled with such amazing diversity of cultures and people. By far, the seemingly desolate sparseness of the little village that lay nestled roughly somewhere 400 miles Northwest of Anchorage. It lies in what is known as the lower Kuskoquim Delta and I can easily say that it offered so much more than just snow and tundra. What I found during my time there was a community full of amazing people with a wonderful perspective on life. The friendly and beautiful Alaska Natives with their enchanting way of traditional life to the teaming expanse of settlers from various countries far outside even those of us from the Lower Forty-eight. Although I can honestly say I do not miss the cold isolation that was winter there, I do miss the people...many of whom I still value as friends twenty-and-some-odd-years later. It is the people that meant the most and still do.
With that being said, I am so proud to introduce a company that is manned by a trio of sisters who I used to look up to in high school and are now paving the way to better skincare while respecting and using the elements of the place where they are from. I see them as amazing entrepreneurs who I respect and admire for their hard work and passion in a time when many are too afraid to make their dreams of a business come true.
Below is an excerpt that one of the sisters, Michelle Sparck, wrote to me when trying to explain just where they came up with their ideas for this amazing skin care company. Take a look at what she has to say and then check our her company's webpage to see their products are:
As many of you know, I really and truly believe that supporting small business is the way in which our economy is going to get better...each small business is the way to increasing the value of our dollar...small business owners are future employers to others. So check out their website: http://www.arxotica.com/
I love that they use resources from Alaska to create their products!
Never had I been somewhere that was as small as it was, but filled with such amazing diversity of cultures and people. By far, the seemingly desolate sparseness of the little village that lay nestled roughly somewhere 400 miles Northwest of Anchorage. It lies in what is known as the lower Kuskoquim Delta and I can easily say that it offered so much more than just snow and tundra. What I found during my time there was a community full of amazing people with a wonderful perspective on life. The friendly and beautiful Alaska Natives with their enchanting way of traditional life to the teaming expanse of settlers from various countries far outside even those of us from the Lower Forty-eight. Although I can honestly say I do not miss the cold isolation that was winter there, I do miss the people...many of whom I still value as friends twenty-and-some-odd-years later. It is the people that meant the most and still do.
With that being said, I am so proud to introduce a company that is manned by a trio of sisters who I used to look up to in high school and are now paving the way to better skincare while respecting and using the elements of the place where they are from. I see them as amazing entrepreneurs who I respect and admire for their hard work and passion in a time when many are too afraid to make their dreams of a business come true.
Below is an excerpt that one of the sisters, Michelle Sparck, wrote to me when trying to explain just where they came up with their ideas for this amazing skin care company. Take a look at what she has to say and then check our her company's webpage to see their products are:
Early on in our research, we followed trends in the Cosmetics & Toiletries Industry where they were scouring the earth for ingredients with an edge, not just as a 'magic bullet' but with a story to it also. They were moving more toward naturals and even before organic labeling took hold, the more unique and exotic the better. Not just C&T, but look at Snapple (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoh0tHRXOvE) and snacks carried at places like Wholefoods with exotic fruits and grains like goji berries, açaí and quinoa - oh my!
They were going to the Himalayas, the Amazon and other parts of the equator for good stuff. We realized we were sitting on it in our own back yard. As you know, we are at America's fringe, little would people recognize it as part of the union, but we have untold wealth in cosmetic ingredients. So in the best of both worlds, we are exotic AND American - we make every effort to be Made in the USA even though so many have pushed us to do everything in China.
Rigorous R&D allowed us to assess the antioxidant levels of our high nutrient flora. To make an excellent formulation even better, we use glacier water from Eklutna and extra virgin, cold pressed salmon oil for the Omega factor. With the assistance of a cosmetic chemist (with the proviso that our products not carry parabans or be artificially colored or fragranced) we created a very potent topical skin serum with Arctic super-foods that nourishes your skin for health and wellness. Our little boutique brand may not be well-known, but we are made in the same house as powerhouse names like Chanel and Elizabeth Arden.
As many of you know, I really and truly believe that supporting small business is the way in which our economy is going to get better...each small business is the way to increasing the value of our dollar...small business owners are future employers to others. So check out their website: http://www.arxotica.com/
I love that they use resources from Alaska to create their products!
Just another little contest...
Just another little contest in the DJMdesigns repitoire...April was an amazing month and I feel pretty blessed as I walk into May and another special. I wanted to give a special thanks to Sew Now Studio for the amazing wardrobes that you shared with us and to all of the people that participated! I am relishing each moment and each session as I meet more and more people along this journey. Our winner won with 193 likes and I loved just how how to the leading two contestants were and of course the kids were just adorable!
More over than that, I want to say just how much magic there really is in the wonder that was in each child's face as they used their imaginations and had a good time playing!
More over than that, I want to say just how much magic there really is in the wonder that was in each child's face as they used their imaginations and had a good time playing!
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