Santiago Engagement Session | Val y Adam

September 11, 2011

Adam likes awkward moments in elevators. I LOVE awkward moments in elevators. Val is forging her own path in a new country, enjoying the challenge. Me too.

Val and Adam are mega-smart…waaaaaay smarter than us — doctor + lawyer as opposed to…photographer + photographer :) But aside from that minor detail, we have a lot in common.

And our session this weekend was SO fun. Meeting new people is by far my favorite part of this job. We are incredibly lucky that only cool people book us. I know that sounds like an exaggeration, but it’s really not. I feel like my webmaster Jennette must have put up a subliminal message somewhere on this website that says, “If you are not awesome, do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, do not hire Kyle and Seba. Go directly to jail.”

Val and Adam did not go to my metaphorical website jail. They hired us for their wedding in Feb and I’m pumped because I feel like aside from shooting them we also made two new friends.  They are such interesting people to talk to, they’re both engaging and happy. They’re funny, they love each other , they have strong opinions. They’re the exactly the kind of people that I’d hang out with even if I wasn’t photographing them. Heart.

PS. Gorgeous makeup by Rodrigo Farah. Boss. He has such a gift for making sure people look like the best version of themselves.

 

Favorite of the day. Super duper extra LOVE.

 

Val is so pretty.

 

Kind of digging this next shot too. Big time.

 

CUECA! I love Chile around dieciocho time.

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Philadelphia Travel Photos

May 27, 2011

So I’m kind of jumping around a little here. Yesterday we were in London, today we’re in Philadelphia. Except we’re not actually still there. But I really liked the City of Brotherly Love so I didn’t want to just skip it and then end up never posting about it because we’ll have moved on to more glam European locations. There are a lot of cool places to travel to within the U.S. and cities like Philly don’t get enough credit!

As you already know, the Liberty Bell was one of our Biggest Travel Disappointments EVER. However, we loved all the rest of the rich history that the city of Philadelphia has to offer!

We were only in Philadelphia in passing. Because all the cheapest tickets to Europe from Santiago go through the U.S. and sometimes have you with nine hour layovers in U.S. airports, I decided we should just get a hotel and stay the night instead.

Wind.

We arrived around 3pm in the afternoon from Dallas — we had flown SCL-DFW-PHL. It took us about an hour to get showered and then head out! We didn’t have much time to explore since we had to be at the airport early the next day to leave for our next round of flights — PHL-CHI-LON.

The minute we stepped out of the metro, into the historic district of Philadelphia, we were pretty amazed by what a gorgeous city it was.

I liked the mix of modern and very old. Well, not very old compared to Europe, but this is probably the oldest, in terms of architecture, that the U.S. has to offer.

The tilt shift distortion made me look really fat in the first picture of this post, so I figured it was only fair to post one where it distorted me to really skinny :)

Such a happy friendly face :)

CLAIRE! This one’s for you! Look, one of your relatives invented Mother’s Day. That’s a pretty awesome claim to fame if you ask me.

There is this AWESOME market in Philly. I believe it’s called the Reading Something Something Market. I have a great memory for these kinds of things, if you can’t tell.

Anyways, it’s full of places selling all kinds of unique cuisines, from fudge, to cold cuts, to sandwiches, to gourmet, even to cool kitchen apparatuses. Unfortunately we arrived as most places were shutting down for the day (they close at 6pm) so we didn’t eat there, but we walked around enough to get a feel for the place. I thought it was really cool!

Piggy bank!

Yummy Yummy. If I had a restaurant, I would use that name if it weren’t already taken. Why not just be literal about things?

Philadelphia does have a Chinatown area, but we just walked by. By that time we were on a mission to go eat in a neighborhood that the hotel concierge had recommended to us. He really talked it up, so we were all excited.

Tiiiiny little Liberty Bell.

I liked that the city was super green!

Rita’s Happiness. Awww, hi Mom!

Notice the photo that I put right below Rita’s Happiness. Yeah, that’s me :) Please excuse the tired face and lack of makeup. See above reference to many, many flights in a short, short amount of time.

We ate at a place called Bridget Foy’s and it was DELISH. We sat outside and enjoyed a nice low-key meal before walking back to the metro and calling it a night. It was a good end to our five hours in Philly — though sadly we never tried a cheesesteak. I don’t like cheese anyway though, so no loss on my part.

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Albums!

September 24, 2010

We got two new sample albums today! It’s a pure coincidence that they both came in at the same time because they’re from two different companies, but the UPS man made for a very exciting afternoon at the Hepp household :)

I know this may not be the most exciting post you’ve ever read, but I’m putting it up more for the out of town ladies who hire us and haven’t seen the albums in real life.

These are the color options to choose from on the leather cover album.

This bad boy is a 12×12 incher, with something like 20 spreads or so. It weighs so much I’m actually worried about how we’ll bring it back to Chile with us without having our luggage register as overweight.

And this is the second kind of album we’re now offering:

Isn’t the photo cover so cool?!?

I’m really excited to have these both as options for our couples to choose from if they order an album. I love them each for different reasons. The leather cover album is durable, it will last a life time and the pages are thick and glossy. The second album is also very durable, but I think the photo cover is a unique look for an album, and the pages in this album are matte, which means they absorb the ink a little more for the true color/contrast to shine through. I can’t wait to start showing them both to our brides and prospective clients!

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