Lucy Halcomb:: Graphic Designer from Birmingham, AL

Lucy Halcomb is a graphic designer from Birmingham, AL, and I've had the pleasure of photographing her portfolio for her website and resume over the past few months. She'll be headed to NY in May, but I'm glad that Bham is home, and she'll surely come back to visit. 

I really love the look on the cards on all of these different textures and colors. I might like the one on the wood floor (mine) the best, though the four of them together really make me happy. The backs of the cards spell out "Lucy", which leaves each possessor of the card with a large bit of the type, I think the deconstruction is nice. 

Lucy designed a series of book covers for books with Alabama authors, and the edges line up, which guarantees you must have them all. 

Lucy designed this decal for Google Chrome, the circle is composed of the same shaped leaves as the apple's, and the red, green, and yellow correspond with Chrome's standard logo. It's a pretty awesome interpretation on the logo, and I love that it's for mac. They photograph really well and it almost makes me want to take up product photography full time. If you are into design and logos, there's an interesting chart here with supposed inspirations for the actual chrome logo (my favorite is pokeball).

Lucy made this accordion children's book about a boy who loses a button on his pea coat. The colors are lovely and so are the illustrations. Everyone needs a peacoat plant.

Thanks to Lucy, for the project and permission to print these lovely works. All images are copyright, Lucy Halcomb. (For Lucy's website, go here.)

Dance of the Russian Bear

Since I also have a personal blog, I tend to leave out life details for the sake of professionalism. I'm not so sure that's the way to go about it, so we're taking a break.

Snow today in the BHMpire

Amber & Landon

I had the opportunity of working with Kristen Stewart (she photographed my reception & blessing earlier this month!) a few weeks ago at this beautiful wedding of Amber and Landon. They were huge Auburn fans (I had to keep my Bama pride under wraps) and had a lot of really fun details (the auburn pom poms, groom's cake with peanut butter twix fortress and war eagle topper, candy apple favors, and all the food! mini burgers, milkshakes, deviled eggs, mac & cheese casserole, & fried green tomatoes by Sherry's Floral & Catering! can you tell I like food?)! Enjoy!

Emily & Matt engagement

I'm sure you are all wondering what the hold up is on posts! I apologize, I'm sorting some things out and working on some new things, getting business stuff together, and starting out some new adventures with another local photographer. Here are some of my favorite images from a recent engagement shoot I tagged along on with Amelia, check out her blog for more from the day.

 

Emily and Matt were keen on some urban chic, so our first stop was a set of train tracks downtown. Where a few minutes into the shoot an engine went through hauling army tanks for what seemed like miles. That didn't last long.

Emily's killer dress is from the Sak's outlet. You didn't know there was a saks outlet? We didn't either. Thanks for the tip. I don't think it can make me tall & tan like Emily, though.

Meet Cooper, Emily & Matt's dog. Emily heard that dogs "will do anything for cheese" so she brought some string cheese along on the shoot. Cooper does like cheese, but I don't think he grasped the "do anything" part. He was super sweet and fun, though, and they make a really cute fam.

We also made it out to the Continental Bakery next to Chez Lulu where I learned a lot about bread (real french bread can only be made with four ingredients, for example, water, flour, yeast, and salt. thus, it's fat free!). If you haven't been to either I highly recommend it. The Chocolate Brioche is delicious, and at Chez Lulu you can't go wrong with the chevre salad or the walnut, goat cheese, and pear sandwich. Less important that how gorgeous they both look here, in my favorite shots of the day.

Heather & Myles Part II

As promised, there is a random delirium inspired bunny. By the way, for photographers, removing red-eye on bunnies is super easy. And they look more cuddly that way. Anyway, Heather & Myles' wedding was a blast and I'm so glad I got to be a part of it!

Giant Post: Meghan and Byron

I can't really describe how connected I felt to this wedding. Amelia was friends with the family and the father of the bride is my puppy's vet! So it was a big family event, really. Towards the end you can see my new BFF Nina with her boyfriend (brother of the bride), Drew (look for a garter around his hand). You really couldn't ask for a more fun group of people, or a sweeter couple getting married. I wish them the most happiness in their lives together and I know I will always LOVE this wedding and the images.


Yeah, the guys got hot shaves. It was such a cool thing to be there for and photograph. And it makes me want to get pampered.




Such a fun reception! The food and the cakes were amazing, and we stayed even after the bride and groom left. It really was that fun.