So what happens to all those images I take on engagement sessions you ask? Well aside from the subjects posting them on their facebook pages and wedding websites some couples decide to do something more. The guest book thing is lame right? Also the sign the matted photo is totally 1990. The new fad is the engagement signing book. Basically its a guest book that has the awesome images we got at your engagement session. They’re a big hit with the guests at the wedding. So a few books just came in this past Friday, and our bride & groom had one at their wedding on Saturday. So I thought what better timing than now to share with you all?

If anyones interested this isn’t an overnight product so give some notice and we’ll get you hooked up.
JP

Sarah & Ben, Carolyn & Dominck and Kristen & Dan.

Here is a basic spread. The spine of the books have the date of the actual wedding.

Kristen wanted to do a multiple image book. So here’s a spread from her book.

Here’s one in action… this past weekend from Tracy & Matt’s wedding (blog coming this week).

And something cool just came in this morning. Kara & Mike’s save the date magnets. I took their website url off the image on the right. I’m sure Kara & Mike don’t want all my blog stalkers on their site ;). You know I love my blog stalkers.

Its that time of the season when I get a fat box of some wedding goodness delivered to us. That box always contains the new issue of Well Wed magazine. Its always exciting because I’m usually a part of the magazine every issue. Since issue one we’ve had our work displayed and featured throughout the pages. I believe this is the  fifth or sixth issue and I’ve shot four gown shoots and we’ve had two feature weddings under our belts, needless to say we’re very honored to be part of the Well Wed family. Not to toot my own horn too much but since we’re talking numbers this is my third cover! All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you to Krista Washburn and the Well Wed fam for making us look cool issue after issue.

Now brides! Go out and get yourself the fall winter 2009 Well Wed. Its got endless pages of information. From color schemes to wedding etiquette this should be a brides the secret weapon when it comes to planning her wedding. I’ll also ad its filled with the areas best vendors from photogs, florists, entertainment and anything else you can think of. We’re all in good company.

A note about the shoot…. I don’t know where the hell in Vermont I was but we shot at an old train station and it rocked. Krista always has a vision and its so fun working with her ideas while putting my photographic twist on it. I shot along side my buddy Vermont Wedding Photographer Barrie Fisher and we crushed it. Barrie shot (with her camera) the brown haired model and I shot the blonde. I feel like a idiot for not remembering their names so if anyone wants to give them to me I’d be glad to throw some props their way. This was shot back in April just to put a scope on how much time goes into this publication.

Enjoy, leave love.
JP

ps. Make sure you read Krista’s awesome “comment of the year” below in the comment box. Krista, the feelings are mutual.

So if you come into my office you’ll always find one of these on display. Please take one.

I pulled the hat trick here:

Some of my favorite spreads from the gown shoot.

Now here are some of my images I’ve been dying to share with you all since April. Two of my fav’s in the old cart.

This one is probably my #1 favorite shot from the whole day.

Another fav, part of the cover image series.

The tones, warmth and lighting on this are rockin.

A few behind the scenes shots. Barrie and I do a lot of waiting while the models change.

A few of me doing my thang!

Thats a wrap! Another one in the books or should I say on the magazine stands?

This is pretty exciting stuff here. I’m honored that Millers/Mpix chose me for their “MPIX ROCKS” campaign. It really is a huge honor and privilege to be representing two of the largest photo labs in the US.  The following was drafted up by Big Joe.

We are pleased to officially announce that JP Elario of Joe Elario Studio Photography will be representing Miller’s Pro Imaging, the foremost professional lab in North America. JP will be appearing in a series of print ads in both professional trade publications and several photo newsstand magazines – for the months of: June, July & August, totaling eight different publications along with full page presence on Millers – Mpix websites.

All of this has to do with Millers new marketing campaign for Mpix.com which is their consumer version of Millers . If you are confused with all the many internet photo service providers, you must give Mpix a try – today, trust me it is of the very highest quality & quickest turnaround in the entire industry. I am honored that Millers Lab / Mpix a true cutting edge operation have chosen to have JP Elario be synonymous with their operations.

JP, is the second in about a half dozen other well known industry professionals , the first was Scott Kelby , Scott is the editor-in-chief for Layers Magazine, Photoshop User magazine and the president of NAPP the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. “ Not bad company to keep to be associated with “ !

We are all very proud of JP .

And here is the ad:

Oh yeah! I know I just changed it back in July but with the growing popularity of the blog it’s time to focus on one site. I used to update our website once a year but now I just thought  it’s time to combine these two sites. Sure I could have done this with the old skin but why not roll out with something bomb just in time for the 2009 wedding season? This beautiful new blog-site will serve as the new www.joeelariophotography.com so no more /blog so update your links and rss feeds! If your reading this in a rss feed you need to pay me a visit and see whats new!

The design and functionality was made possible by  Stephen Orsini, founder, lead designer and programmer of equali. In January, Stephen and myself began talking about what we should do to make this blog-site better than the last blog that he designed. Not to discount the last blog at all but I wanted to outdo it and we sure did! So really the construction began in mid/late February and hours were logged into making this thing tight. I can’t say enough good things about Stephen, his talents, his creativity and knowledge to make it all happen. This guy is really easy to work with, we’ve spent so many hours going back and forth, bouncing ideas off one another and we couldn’t be more happy with the end result. So Stephen, THANK YOU for creating this awesome blog-site.

I wanted some cool functionality and style so here are a few things to know about the new blog.

• Lets start from the top. You might notice as you scroll down the navigation bar stays with you. This was Stephen’s idea and it’s great. Should you be at the bottom of the page and want to navigate to another category or search for something than its right there waiting for you.
• I wanted to have some changing images up at the top of the page but I wanted it a little smaller rather than taking up the whole top so we made that happen. You’ll also notice to the left of that it says “Greetings…” thats not always going to say that. It’s up there as kind of a mini blog within a the blog. Say we shoot 2-3 weddings a weekend and I’m working on the edits so I can blog some images I might write something in there to let you know new posts are coming. Or say I post 3-5 blogs in one day (it has happened) I’ll let you know that as well. Just keep your eyes on that top area.
• Now this is my favorite! This is like the token thing that makes our blog-site different from the rest. The feature image on the blog post. Mostly all posts will receive an image at the very top before the text, kind of as a preview to the blog. It just looks better than the title of the post, the category and date. I’ve went back in time and added feature images to all blog posts from 2008 so go look for yours!
• You also might notice this little vertical bar on the bottom right. Here you will find a link to my twitter and facebook. Since social networking has exploded I decided to ad these two features to my blog. I’ve been tweeting and facebooking for some time now anyway so if you tweet, follow me and if your on facebook be my friend! I plan to do a little tweeting from weddings this season, when I have free time of course.  I’ll also be emailing all my facebook friends images from their blog posts, I’m encouraging you guys to share them with your friends. Back to that vertical bar located in the bottom right corner. A couple cool features are the arrows that simply by them you’ll find yourself at the very top or very bottom of the page, just trying to make it easy. And that little sun icon is called “lights off” basically it turns off everything so all you see is the images, pretty fun feature. Lastly you’ll notice my RSS feed is there as well.

This post is getting kind of long and I wont bore you with the rest of the new features. Just go poke around and see what’s new. There’s a new post below as well! Also be sure to check back next week, we have two awesome weddings this weekend and the weather looks pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Let me know what you think by leaving a little comment love,
JP