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Kult magazine gave me 14 pages for my weddings as well as their COVER ! I just wanted to share it with you All - Kult is a well established Swiss Magazine focusing on Fashion, The arts, Design and architecture ! And now wedding Photography -
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Have You heard of a so called "organic" catering company or an "Organic" Bouquet , even a new online site, Portovert.com, made its appearance last month, catering to “eco-savvy brides and grooms.” And an ECO friendly wedding Guide published in Brides magazine. WAH ! 
I love those words specially when they are used by companies in the US who offer Eco friendly services to Eco Friendly Brides!
I just read an article published in the New York time by MIREYA NAVARRO - Title goes by : " How Green Was My Wedding "
Simply is Wonderful to find out that Vendors inn the wedding industry are participating to create a better World!
"... Use hydrangeas, berries and other local and seasonal flowers for her bouquet and the decorations, instead of burning up fuel transporting flowers from faraway farms. Design an organic autumnal menu (same reason). Find a vintage dress to avoid the waste of a wedding gown that will never be worn again.
“It’s well worth it to start your life together in a way that’s in line with your values and beliefs,” said Ms. Harrison, 28, a graduate student at Yale, who is to marry in October. “You don’t want this event that is supposed to start your life together to come at the expense of the environment or workers in another country.”
Call Ms. Harrison the anti-Bridezilla, whose wedding is all about the planet, rather than “all about me.” People in the wedding business say the eco-friendly or “green” wedding has arrived, its appeal having expanded to spur a mini-industry of stores and Web sites offering couples biodegradable plates made of sugar cane fiber and flowers grown according to sustainable farming practices...."
I will just finish with a picture of Myself carrying My bride's ECO-Friendly bouquet of hibiscus while Yanique was playing the Photographer! 
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World of Interior is publishing a story by Antoine Baralhe this month - Antoine photographed Le Corbusier's Final Project- The Church of Firminy -I met up with Antoine at Cafe Charbon in Paris yesterday and I saw the photos - they are stunning - Well worth buying a copy of the world of Interiors this month ! 
Any LOVERS of Le Corbusier's Architecture getting married this Year should consider the Firminy Church. It is located close to the town of St Etienne in France. Even if it hasn't been consecrated in accordance with Catholic ritual. A simple metal cross crowns the truncated cone on top of the slanted roof, where square-shaped and round "light cannons" direct the rays of the sun inside. The interior, only indirectly lit by slit-like gaps in the façade, is dominated by a pulpit, a chapel and an altar. Behind them, on the eastern side of the building, light falls through three dozen fist-sized openings. Massive perspex cylinders, built into the 22 centimeter (8.6 inch) concrete wall, form the constellation Orion.
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It might seems that i am getting carried away on this post- This Blog is about photography and Spc Weddings - This is about an ICON of 20 century photo-journalism. Born and raised in N.Y.C, William Klein has lived in Paris for the past 30 years - I was horrified when i heard that Galliano blatently stole Klein's Image Identity a while back !! Just like the Gucci and Prada conterfeit that are being produced in China - 
And here the story goes !
PARIS: A Paris judge has ordered ,fashion designer John Galliano to pay American photographer William Klein €200,000 (US$271,000) in damages for copying Klein's work in a recent ad campaign, judicial officials said Thursday.
In his March 28 decision, Judge Claude Vallet said Galliano's advertisements too closely resembled Klein's hallmark "painted contacts" — oversized painted contact sheets streaked with stokes of vivid color.
The five ads — which appeared in March in French Vogue and Elle magazines, as well as several other publications in Britain and Russia — featured three enlarged contact print images of models, highlighted with colored brushstrokes.
Vallet said the ads clearly violated intellectual property laws because Galliano never asked Klein's permission to use the style, which the New York-born photographer developed more than a decade ago. He ordered Galliano, who designs for French luxury house Christian Dior as well as his own label, to pay for the verdict to be published in the magazines in which the ads appeared.
Galliano's lawyer had argued that the ads did not constitute plagiarism because their images did not look like those from Klein's work. Galliano has appealed the decision, in an attempt to lower the fine, judicial sources said.
In an interview in Thursday's Le Monde daily, Klein said he was "hurt" by Galliano's appropriation of his style.
"I am bitter because this glaring plagiarism represents an inexplicable slap in the face to my work," he said.
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I have just created a separate section on my website called PORTRAITS OF KIRA AND JONATHAN - I decided to do so after having met with a potential client in new york who was showing me tearsheet of Vogue magazine saying it was exactly what she wanted for her wedding- Wonderful, this is exactly what i love doing-
So Have a look at weddinglight.com - Indeed, you will find a collection of portraits of the bride and the groom together and separate! Some are more posed than others - they were all great fun to take - Those portraits required an hour and a half to complete - Use of an assistant for the light as well as a medium format camera : Rolleiflex - You decide whether it is worth it ! The alternative would be to just have documentary Style photography for your wedding - And do without those beautiful images - 
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