I just got a copy of You & Your Wedding, a British wedding magazine, in the mail.  It features Eunice & Daniel’s whimsical wedding.  I think they did a fantastic job highlighting the wedding.

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… which reminds me: although it’s always fun to see my photographs in print, this is maybe my favorite “press” ever—front page of the Smyth County (VA) and neighboring county newspapers, with a larger-than-life full color print made from a bleached out Fuji 100c negative.  This image of Jennifer looks somehow just right on newsprint paper.

photographs: Gia Canali

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Wedding season and spring have both started a little bit earlier than usual, it seems.  Or perhaps I just feel like that because I’ve only gotten around to blogging about three of my weddings from last year and am well and happily into photographing this year’s weddings.  But I have managed to make a few more encaustic photographs along the way (and I’ve been cooking up some other goodies that we’ll share with you soon!) and other folks seem to be getting around to the blogging and publishing of my work much quicker than I have.  Above, from top left: encaustic photograph of Nada.  Her and Paul’s backyard wedding was recently featured on Style Me Pretty {here} and {here}; cover of C Magazine’s “C Weddings” which features Negar & Peter’s downtown LA wedding; and one of my Polaroid 55′s from Tom and Kimberly’s wedding which is featured on Snippet & Ink {here} today; detail of the encaustic photograph of Nada.  Below: another new encaustic photograph, this one of my cousin Bre and her husband on their wedding day (whose anniversary, come to think of it, is in three days!)  Happy Anniversary, Bre & Jeff!!

photos, except magazine cover: Gia Canali

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Some of you might wonder where I’ve been, and the answer—at least in part—is that I’ve been locked up in my studio cooking up new things. (I’ve also been fixing my computer, hence the blog-neglect, but that is another story altogether).  Anyway,  I have been drunkenly in love with encaustic painting (and the idea of encaustic painting over photographs) since I first heard the word “encaustic” two years ago in an oil painting class, and even more so since I’ve seen them in real life.  Then I saw some pieces by the ever-innovative Starn twins, I knew I had to figure out how to incorporate encaustic into my commissioned work. Over the summer I finally got a chance to take a workshop in encaustic painting and planned to get working on a series of encaustic photographs right away.  But summer and wedding season are what they are, so refining the process and presentation has taken longer than I’d hoped.  Encaustic paint is made from beeswax and resin, and because it can be both clear and cloudy in places, it’s very dreamy.  I am not the only wedding photographer experimenting in this medium; both Elizabeth Messina and One Love Photo are also working in wax.  I think these luminous little paintings are going to be one of the next big trends in handmade photographic prints.  The tactile quality of the prints shows best in person, but I couldn’t resist sharing a few images anyway.  And I promise to share more soon, as I complete new pieces.

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photographs by Gia Canali

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As a photographer who enjoys photographing weddings, I’m all for real real weddings. But it’s so much fun to make editorial photographs of all those hypothetical (and totally attainable) picture perfect details.  On newsstands now is the 2010 issue of Ceremony Magazine with a few of my photographs from a shoot I did over the summer with Michael Mantalos, the floral designer behind Louloudi Designs.  The color palette was so lovely that I left the shoot wanting to do a painting in those colors.  I promise to share a few more images soon.

photos, except magazine cover: Gia Canali; florals and design, Michael Mantalos; linens, LaTavola

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Well, I kicked off 2010 (for weddings, anyway) yesterday morning … with a glorious although now not-so-super-secret Kara’s Cupcake in my car.  It was really such a happy moment, one indicative of—I hope!—a sweet year to come.  Now that I think of it, perhaps I should say sweet years to come— a wedding planner I adore emailed me a few days ago asking if I was ready for a magical decade.  I hadn’t thought that far ahead, frankly, but the answer is an emphatic yes! Aren’t we all ready for a magical decade?!

Sparkling tablescape by Michael Mantalos.  Linens by La Tavola. I’ll share more soon!

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