Pre Wedding Portrait of Susan and Joe

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Pia and Eric Portraits in tribeca

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A few photos of Eric and Pia taken in tribeca this Afternoon just a week before their wedding day in NYC

Anne Ager - A French Culinary Cooking experience

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If You are looking for a French Culinary Cooking experience while
You are traveling around the South of France this summer.I will give you a little hint as to what you may want to do !
As well as organizing Weddings and Events in South of France, Anne Ager now offers a variety of opportunities to learn new culinary skills and experience new flavours on the Côte d’Azur. She is actually is located in Antibes which is just beautiful!


"...Come and learn about, taste and experience some of the highly evocative colours and pungent flavours of Provençale cuisine, as well as a few other edible surprises from other regions of France ……….. and share in a few of my own personal culinary secrets..."
I am going to have to find some time myself !!

Anne Ager
14 Avenue Thiers,
06600 Antibes,
France
Tel: +33 (0)4 93 34 41 02
anne.ager@tiscali.fr

Listing of French Wedding PLanners

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What does a Wedding Planner Do ?

A wedding planner consults with the to-be bride and groom and according to the feedback that he receives from them, takes care of:

* Ordering the flowers, hiring a photographer, musician and other service providers for the wedding. It is the job of the wedding planner to deal with the various vendors and see that he can get the best possible rates from different vendors for his clients.

* Wedding planners usually have a great sense of fashion and this helps them to ensure that everything is tasteful and color coordinated for the wedding. They are responsible for ensuring that the theme of the wedding is reflected in all aspects of the wedding. Right from the design on the napkins, to the place settings, the flowers, and to the wedding dress; everything should be in sync with each other and it is the job of the wedding planner to ensure that.


* The wedding planner manages the money and ensures that the wedding is according to budget.

In short, a wedding planner is a mediator, a consultant, a sounding board, an organizer, an artisan and a financial advisor all rolled into one. And sometimes they even turn out to be a punching bag when nerves get frazzled (figuratively speaking), even though their job description definitely does not call for it!

So here is a List of selected Wedding Planners in France mostly based in Paris and South of France

• www.mariagedanslair.com - Paris

• www.feteinfrance.com - Paris

• www.piecemontee.com - Paris

• www.wedding-corporation.com - Paris

• www.coteblanc.com - Paris

• www.montecarloweddings.com - Monaco

• www.abracadabra-evenements.com - Paris

• www.weddingandco.com - Paris

• www.monplusbeaujour.com- Paris

• www.aava-communication.com - Villeneuve Loubet

• www.anne-ager.com - Antibes

• www.jlb-events.com - Paris

• www.mgweddingplanner.com - Geneva





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Picture of The Week !

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For the story, this picture was taken just before the ceremony ! The groom was passing by and the bride simply did not want to be seen - Great use of the bouquet on the Mum's part!



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Digital photography and CAMERA RAW

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I shoot with Nikon D2X and Always in Raw format rather then jpg - IT is like having a negative with all of the information that you will be able to play with during "digital printing" to bring the image to Life ! You will be able to tweak The Color, density, contrast and retouch the image if needs be. A raw file is indeed comparable to the latent image contained in an exposed but undeveloped piece of film. It holds exactly what the imaging chip recorded. Nothing more. Nothing less.


This means that the photographer is able to extract the maximum possible image quality, whether now or in the future. A good analogy with the traditional world of film is that you have the opportunity to use a different type of developer or development time at any point in the future if one comes along that you think might do a better job of processing the image.- The latitude of a jpg is narrower and only allow you to do minimum corrections to the image -


I was at Nikon the other day - A photographer was ahead of me, claiming to the sales man that he believed his high end Nikon camera, that he had just purchased, was faulty-
"... The images are Flat, with no contrast and Unsharp ..." he was saying!
Nikon Policy in advance digital photography is to provide the photographer with a Raw format image that contains the most data the chip can possibly record on Pixels. It is for the Photographer to process his images according to his own specifics. And only last to add sharpness according to the final size of the print. Therefore quite important to make sure that your photographer is "Fluent with Raw format"!


My digital workflow is geared mainly around my work as a wedding photographer.I shoot between 1000 - 2000 images at each wedding in the raw file format. I specifically shoot in the raw format for all the well-known advantages, including a fast workflow. So my digital workflow is aimed at getting the best possible image in a fair amount of time … for a huge amount of photographs.

For photographers - if you already have Photoshop CS2, then you don’t need anything more than Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw for your raw workflow. Photoshop just came out with a new CS3 version which runs great on intel - You might want to consider upgrading too


If you want a comprehensive (and understandable) book on raw workflow :
THis is the bible - Real World Camera Raw with CS2,by Bruce Fraser.



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The Angel Orensanz Foundation

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The Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts was established in 1992 by a group of artists who were inspired by the work of sculptor Angel Orensanz.
In a short period of time it has affirmed itself as a strong anchor of the visual and performing arts in New York.
Well-established institutions such as the PS I Museum; The Goethe Institute, New York; the Italian Cultural Institute; New York University; Columbia University; Princeton University and the National Russian Museum of St. Petersburg, as well as independent artists from all over the world develop here educational and artistic projects.

The Angel Orensanz Foundation was once a synagogue located in the lower east side of New York City. This dramatic 1849 building is now open to anyone who wants to throw a party. Ironically, it looks a lot like an old church: thick Gothic-style windows, a deep-blue, incredibly dramatic rib-vaulted ceiling, and even an elaborate Gothic arch.

A Jewish Orthodox Wedding Celebration or Chatunah






















The Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk St.,
nr. E. Houston St.;
P . 212-529-7194



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