A Softer Image

That’s right! Please update your bookmarks to our new blog site: http://www.laraswansonphoto.com/blog
Our new site allows us to post huuuuuge images and is more connected to my new portfolio! There is so much there -new photos, links to our second shooters’ portfolios, more from my thesis on gender roles perpetuated by wedding traditions. I’m so pleased!
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If you’ve received the “Good Eats” issue of the Washingtonian, then you may have already seen this photo! Visit http://www.washingtonian.com right now and see what photo pops up on the front page!
I’ll give you a hint…

I Love Sloths.
I saw this photo this morning while eating breakfast/reading blog feeds and it really cracked me up. Sloths are my favorite animal; I couldn’t help but post this image this morning. But it has nothing to do with the new logo!
We’re getting a new logo!
To make a long story short - a photographer […]

Ah, we’ve finished another week. This will be the last weekend before the wedding season starts back up! So in honor of sitting back and relaxing, here is our random Friday list of things I love.
Warning: many of the below links involve a strange sense of humor (they’re not for everyone!).

XKCD cartoon strip. Many of […]

These photos are from Carmen’s Cuban great-uncle’s birthday party. Carmen says, “My family hired a live mariachi band and we all danced until the wee hours of the morning. It’s a mix of portraits and photojournalism, but I mostly just wanted to capture the spirit of my very interesting extended family.” Enjoy!

We’ve written about being “green” before when we posted some Polaroid transfers, but after seeing An Inconvenient Truth last night (for the first time, I know, I know) I want to be very clear about how much we strive to be environmentally and socially responsible.
Every photographer that is associated with A Softer Image strives to […]

This weekend when we went to NJ we brought along Moses. He and my father adore each other - I’m not sure who was happier to see whom! Mo was a total ham during all stages of the trip, starting with packing:

No wonder we carry lint brushes everywhere we go. In the car he was […]

This past weekend Brad and I visited my family in New Jersey and we had a blast. I miss that state so much! Among other things, I got to hang out with our wedding photographer for a while and sneak in a few headshots while talking about what work we’re each doing, our favorite new […]

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I’ll be leaving this post up for the rest of the week so that those who visit weekly can still vote!

So I decided to try out Etsy! I do so much CD and DVD packaging that I have lots of leftover supplies from past clients and decided to put them together and sell them. I had a blast making, photographing and listing items. Here’s what I’ve listed so far:

Each item holds one disk (CD or […]