Dominican Republic – Palmera de Cabarete Resort Development

As many of you may have read last year, Cheridy and I were involved in a really fun commercial photography project.  We were hired to shoot photos all around the Dominican Republic that could be used as images for brochures, videos, websites, etc. that the advertising company was creating.  We’ve done some commercial photography jobs before, but this was one of the largest commercial photo projects that we’ve done as it involved multiple international trips.  Since we love to travel, this was right up our alley so there was no reason to not become commercial travel photographers and add that to our resume.

Anyway, just today I came across the preliminary website for the building project that these photos are for and I thought I would share it with everyone because it’s pretty cool!  The building project is called Palmera de Cabarete on the north shore of the Dominican Republic.  You can check out the website at www.palmera-dr.com.   All the images from on the website are ones that we had done as part of the project.  Make sure to check out the “destination video” that is linked at the bottom.  For the majority of the video footage, we were right next to the video team, so you can see what it’s like down there.  In case you didn’t see our previous blog posts, we took two trips there:

Dominican Trip 1

Dominican Trip 2

Some of these images can be purchased as fine art prints here:
http://www.arisingimages.com/fineart/00_all/index.html?show=__Dominican%20Republic

High School Senior Photos with Blerta

Cheridy and I love Blerta!  She’s been working with us for a few months now and helping us out watching Mayz while we’re working.  She’s so good with him and good to us too.   Today we got a chance to do a little thank you for her and photograph her senior pictures for next year.

high school senior pictures

high school senior pictures

high school senior pictures

high school senior pictures

More pics of Jen and Chad for all of you Knot blog stalkers!

Our website has been getting hundreds of hits from the Knot message boards for people checking out Jen and Chad’s pics from this past weekend. Since a whole bunch of you guys are probably stalking our blog, I’m posting some more pics just for you guys!!
For any of you that might be looking to hire us, check out the latest Knot Michigan magazine where one of our weddings (Kasey and Jordan) was featured as a “Real Wedding”

For those of you just tuning in, here’s some more pics of Jen and Chad. There are other ones a few posts down.
The rest of their pics will be online soon at JennyAndChad.com. We’re just waiting for them to get back from their honeymoon to post them. You’ll have to get the user ID and password from Jen though as we don’t give that out.

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To learn more about our weddings, go to our wedding website at www.ArisingWeddings.com 

Royal Park Hotel Wedding in Rochester, MI – Ralph and Devon

Ralph and Devon had a very unique wedding at the Royal Park Hotel. Everything from their custom made attire to the setup of the room to the band was all done their own way with their own style which is always fun. We had a number of delays during the day which cut out their “creative” photo time which was a bummer but they had so many unique things at their wedding that we still got lots of fun photos. We enjoyed working with our friends Julie Rossey from the Royal Park Hotel along with Don and Joanne from Take 1 Productions who did the videography. If you want to see the amazing video trailer that they made, check it out here:
http://take1productions.blogspot.com/2008/06/devon-ralph.html

Here’s an image of Devon looking like princess:

This shows how ornate some of the details on their attire was:

They had a very ornate stage area brought in which is where they had their head table:

When the guests walked in they knew there would be some kind of surprise when they saw an ENORMOUS stage with elaborate lighting setups.
That surprise was Morris Day and Time (who used to perform with Prince back in the 80′s). They were flown in from California to perform at the wedding.
Morris Day and the Time

Here’s Ralph and Devon on the dance floor together
Ralph and Devon

Devon’s bouquet Toss:

Ralph and Devon

To learn more about our weddings, go to our wedding website at www.ArisingWeddings.com

Partridge Creek with Chad and Jen

On Saturday we photographed Chad and Jen’s wedding. They had a perfect day with amazing weather and lots of fun. Their reception was at Partridge Creek banquet and conference center in Clinton Township, MI. We always have a good laugh with Tom from JD entertainment who did the videography today.

Here’s a few of my favorite images for their wedding:
chad and jen

chad and jen

chad and jen

chad and jen

To learn more about our weddings, go to our wedding website at www.ArisingWeddings.com

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