Do you like to have fun? We do, especially with our photos. We wanted something a little different than the average blog out there, so along with our super talented Blog designer we came up with a Favorites section - or "Wiebner Faves" as we like to call it. What is it you ask? more »
Well, under each photo, you will see a "Vote for Favorite" box. If you really like that image, if it tickles your fancy, or makes you laugh, or just plain old makes you smile - go ahead - check it. We know you want to. Each time that box is clicked on a photo, it adds to the running tally for that image. The top 14 favorite images on the entire blog will be shown as thumbnails in this section. Just so you can see the most popular images of all time on the blog. A little something out of the ordinary - it never hurts to be different!
Also, blog posts can be favorites. Now that we have comments available, you will see a little bar meter at the bottom left of each post. Once the meter hits a certain number of comments, its automatically promoted to a "Wiebner Fave Post". :) Something else just for fun!
Are you ready to advance your business? Education in our industry is important to us. The more photographers that are aware in the industry the better it is for everyone. Won't you join us in making our goals a reality? We participate in various workshops, seminars and speaking engagements. Listed below are various engagements - some are our own workshops, others we will be hosting or speaking at. If you wish to participate, please drop us a line or click the link to find out more info!
I find it incredibly difficult to write about us when put on "The Spot". "I need a 500 word bio about you and Joel, now!" Who can do that? How do you make your own personality shine in a few words, let alone that of two people? Well, I am going to give it my best shot. If you really want to know about US - who we really are - read the blog below. We really try to keep it updated as often as possible, and hope that our fun, casual personalities shine through in the words you read and the images we capture for our clients. The blog below is our way of communicating our lives - both personal and professional - with clients, friends, family and colleagues. We believe strongly in using words and images together to communicate our passion.
I am going to keep this short and sweet - Joel and I were meant to be together - to live, love and be happy making photographs. We were both photographers before we met over 9 years ago - we met behind a camera, and continue to feed off of that energy. We are a rock solid husband and wife team and we wouldn't want it any other way - we work together 24/7 and never tire of each other. We have had our business since November 2000, and have thrived on photographing weddings as our main photography genre since 2002. We love what we do. We like to think we look at the world in our own way - not photojournalistically, not traditionally, not artistically. Just as a Wiebner. If you like what we see, then you will like us too. Oh and don't forget to comment in the blog on our two little darlings - Haydn and Zane - they are pretty darn cute little Wiebners. Enjoy! - Rita
We have been working on this since last year, and are soooo excited to announce it's finally time! Our retail photo boutique will be opening on First Friday, June 4th! Yippee! Don't know what I am talking about? Well here's the scoop. When we found our current studio space nearly a year and a half ago, we thought the space would be perfect for a combination of things. One, to house our current working offices. Two, to incorporate our goal of a studio. And three, to open a unique retail experience for clients and photographers alike - all who share a common love - photography! For our clients and local retail customers, we will be carrying unique frames, albums and photo related gifts. Handmade, bound albums at great prices, reclaimed tin and wood frames, and more! For local photographers, both amateur and professional, we will be carrying toy cameras - Dianas, Holgas, etc. As well as lots of cool camera related trinkets, working and usable vintage cameras, etc.
The Studio/Office will be closed from May 27th through June 3rd to set up the new space. We will try to answer emails and phone calls during this time, but there may be a delay in responding.
We just can't wait for this new part of our journey. We will be hosting a Grand Re-Opening on Friday, June 4th, 10-9pm (our 1 year anniversary in this space) for the opening of our new boutique! Come out and join us! There will be prizes, food and fun galore!
Baby Portrait! Jack, his puffs, & his Turtle Thursday, May 20, 2010
We have photographed both of Tracey's sisters weddings (Kelly & Greg in 2007 and Randi & Ben in 2008), and Tracey was actually the first to find us, but we were booked for her wedding. Boo. So even though Tracey didn't get to have us photograph her wedding, she has a little guy name Jack that likes to work it for the camera. :) Tracey's sisters bought her a gift certificate for a session with us, so now, she finally gets to have some photos from us!
A couple weeks ago her and Jeff brought little Jack up to see us and we went to the park. The sky was ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS that day, and we tried to included it as much as we could. Tracey came prepared, with a whole can of "puffs" for Jack to keep him happy and his turtle ball pit! That's some major props right there. Totally made for some awesome shots though! We were rolling (practically) on the ground laughing at Jack when he threw a tantrum cause we took the puffs away from him. You just have to look at that shot below!
Isn't that sky amazing!?
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Oops, spilled the puffs.
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Jack's a big boy!
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Tantrum time! I hate to say it, but Jack has a pretty big mouth :)
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Oh, and a bottle helps too.
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Turtle ball pit time - woot!
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What's better than swimming in brightly colored plastic balls?
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Oh, and don't forget the swing!
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San Antonio, Texas: Spanish Missions Wednesday, May 19, 2010
So I mentioned earlier that we didn't get to do too much in San Antonio while we were there - we did have a bout a day and a half to ourselves, the rest of the time we were working. Downtown was packed with Fiesta activities and crowds, so we stayed away from all of that. We don't mind doing that stuff with our kids, but it really isn't our thing when we are alone. Joel and I would rather meander through antique stores (which we did, and antiquing is also VERY different in Texas!), or find something out of the way to photograph. We had been thinking of driving up to Austin to photograph the Cathedral of Junk, but then we heard that they were either tearing it down, or reconstructing (due to code violations) - so we decided to scrap that idea and head for the Missions. The San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is a mouthful to say, but well worth spending the day at. :)
We started out at Mission Concepcion, which was my favorite, because of all of the original artwork inside. It just FELT old. I like old stuff. We have always loved old buildings, warehouses, etc. - the textures and colors are always just amazing to me. The skies were a little cloudy while we were at this Mission (it had thunderstormed pretty bad the day before) but then opened up during the course of our time there to reveal beautiful blue skies with perfectly puffy while clouds.
We proceeded to tour around Mission San Jose, Mission Espada, and Mission San Juan. Each was very different, and all of them are still active Catholic parishes. The history was fascinating.
The images below we printed as fine art prints and hung in our gallery for May's 1st Friday. If you are in the area anytime in the next week, stop in and take a look! The show only be up through May 26th. Oh, and by the way - all of the images below were taken by yours truly :) Joel was playing with his Diana that day, and hasn't had a chance to process the images yet. :)
First shot here is of Mission Concepcion.
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Statue of St. Francis outside of Mission Concepcion
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Mission Concepcion - look at that sky.
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Mission Concepcion
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Mission Concepcion - Crucifix in the Sacristy
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Mission Concepcion - Fresco in the Sacristy
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Yep, that's the actual mailbox - Mission San Jose
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Mission San Jose
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Mission San Jose
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Mission Espada
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Statue of Mary, Mission San Juan
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Mission San Juan
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Deep in the heart of Texas 2! Kelly and Family Wednesday, May 19, 2010
One of Melissa's colleagues, Kelly, was interested in a portrait session as well while we were in San Antonio. Her and Melissa live near each other, about 15-20 minutes north of downtown San Antonio. Kelly had a beautiful house, family, pets, personality - all of it! She was so hospitable while we were there. Kelly's husband James, is a veterinarian, so they have a ton of pets! Dogs, cats, goats - some of them got in on the photo session. Collin (13) and Caroline (9) had some fun with us - Caroline loves her puppy, and Collin is pretty big into basketball, so we got some shots of them doing those things they love.
We were so happy to be able to just fit right in and work with such wonderful people. We could tell that Kelly and James were really passionate about their professions and their family. We could have photographed them all day!
Collin is a teenager now, so he was trying to be too cool for us, but we managed to crack that exterior and get to the meat of him. :)
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Collin, giving Caroline the stare down in the dining room. :)
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I absolutely love the trees that they have in San Antonio - every single tree is curved and bended in about a zillion different ways. Completely different from trees we have here in PA.
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After we got some formal portraits done, it was time for an outfit change and some more casual stuff. Caroline was hanging out in the living room talking to me about what it is like here in PA.
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Collin was veggin' too.
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This was one of James' favorite photos - aren't they both just so adorable?
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Collin practicing some hoops.
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Yes, we got ALL of the dogs to look! It really isn't that hard, you just need to have some tricks up your sleeve. Or a Joel on hand. :)
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Deep in the heart of Texas! Baby Leo Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Hooray for Texas! Some of you might have seen us mention we were going to San Antonio back at the end of April, but many of you didn't know why. One of our fun-lovin' wedding couples from last year, Melissa and Steve, moved to San Antonio shortly after their wedding (which was held on the picturesque Moshulu in Philadelphia). Apparently Melissa and Steve had some fun on the way to San Antonio, and got pregnant with their first little one! :) Melissa contacted me over the winter about the possibility of coming to Texas to photograph their baby when it arrived. She said she couldn't imagine anyone else taking their baby photos! Huge AWWWW! That made us feel really great. So we worked out the details, and off to San Antonio we went on April 22nd. We didn't know it when we booked it, but San Antonio's big event, Fiesta, was that same weekend. So it was super crazy in downtown! We actually didn't even get to the Alamo. Bummer! But we did get to photograph some stuff for us, which will be coming up in a minute in another post!
Baby Leo was only a few weeks old, and ready to go for his first big boy portrait session. Melissa's parents live nearby, so they came to help out a little with the session. We started out at their house, then tracked down some Texas type landscape - cactus, brush, and flowers! After the almost 2 hour session, Melissa and Steve treated us to a Texas treat - Rudy's BBQ. Boy was that good and some experience. One of my favorite things about San Antonio was the food. We had such a great time while we were there - a huge thank you to Melissa and Steve for bringing us there! We hope we can do more destination portrait sessions in the future - it was so fun!
Leo's first outfit was a traditional Puerto Rican outfit that belonged (if I remember correctly!) to Melissa's grandfather.
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Steve had a handsome big boy outfit picked out for a few shots of the three of them. What a tender moment with mom and dad.
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The dogs wanted in on the session too!
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Help mom! They put me in jail!
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This is one of my favorite shots of the day - I love that you can see Steve pulling the pacifier out in the bottom left corner. Leo didn't like that too much!
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But, um, yeah, this one takes the cake! Best shot of the day! Leo was laying on the blanket on the floor, and Mia (sorry if I spelled it wrong guys!) - kind of just snuck up into the shot and just laid there like this. I LOVE it! I was laughing soooo hard when I saw this on the computer later.
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Aw, cute little baby!
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Yep. Dakota. Those chocolate labs and their silliness. Apparently he lays like this all of the time cause its hot.
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Off to find some Texas landscape! I think we did it!
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