arizona wedding photography ~ brenda eden photography

Happy Birthday to me!

Pictures from my first and second birthdays at my Tia Berta's house. I love these. I love how styley my mom looks. Love the lavendar dress she is wearing in the second photo. Love how I am entranced my balloons in the first and so shy in the second. In my college photo classes I remember talking about about how there are always at least two people when it comes to any photo. There is the person taking the photo and you the viewer. So even when you are viewing Ansel Adam's photos of mountains with no people, there's you and there's Ansel. And even if you don't love mountains, Ansel Adams love mountains so much, that by viewing his work, you love them to in that moment of viewing. Okay, that last part about loving mountains,now I am pretty sure I am paraphrasing something I heard Jesh De Rox say when I went to a workshop of his. So I am wondering who the unseen person is in these photos. I am hoping it's my dad. I will have to ask my mom if it was my dad. Anyways, Happy Birthday to me! February 24th, I arrived a month early I've been told.

Maggi . Jay .

  

   

  

   

Loving Maggi's and Jay's shoes!

   

 

 

 

   

  

   

Maggi and Jay --- we had a ton of fun with them and there are actually more pictures to come, more of Maggi plus lots more of Jay. :)

Angela + Jono {blue skies ~ red rocks}

Angela + Jono were one of the bride and groom couples we got to meet and photograph at the photographer get-together in Sedona, organized by Kadie Pangburn , a Tucson photographer . These were taken in Crescent Moon Park, such a beautiful place. The light was stunning and the weather was gorgeous.

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{paris opera}

I thought this article about opera music recordings from Paris in the early 20th century was so interesting, but lately anything slightly romantic or pretty or mysterious that has to do with our most recently completed century fascinates me. I'm not completely sure why. Maybe because of going to antique shops right after Christmas? Maybe because of the Vintage photo shoot we did last month? Maybe because every reference to our current economy slips in something about the Great Depression? Maybe because I have been reading Graham Greene and Rose Wilder Lane?

Anyways, if you click on the article to read it, make sure to also listen to the 3 recordings!

From a Vault in Paris, Sounds of Opera 1907

PARIS — On Dec. 24, 1907, a group of bewhiskered men gathered in the bowels of the Paris Opera to begin a project that by definition they could never see to fruition. First, 24 carefully wrapped wax records were placed inside two lead and iron containers. These were then sealed and locked in a small storage room with instructions that they should remain undisturbed for 100 years. 

 image from the article

 

 

{garden}

This weekend I really want to plant seeds and get a garden going. I keep buying seeds but haven't done anything with them yet. I've really got to this weekend, before it's too late, before it starts getting too hot. I ordered some seeds from Native Seeds and I hope they come soon. One reason for buying the Native Seeds? They specialize in seeds that grow in the Southwest.

I'm pretty convinced that everything they sell at Home Depot and other stores like that just isn't suited to our more arid climate. Most of it anyways. So when I was deciding what to get from Native Seeds, I was looking for words like "Low Desert" and "drought-tolerant" and "Originally collected from Hotevilla, Arizona." Okay, I wasn't looking for those last particular words but that is how the site described Hopi Pumpkins. I looked up Hotevilla and it looks like it's in pretty arid Arizona country. (It's in Navajo County, the northeast part of the state.) So I bought Hopi Pumpkin seeds, along with some other seeds for pinto beans, corn, some kind of pretty melons I have never heard of, some kind of black beans I have never heard of and okra. My dad used to always grow okra and when it was super hot and when nothing else was growing, he was still getting okra.

A few weeks ago I got a bunch of Sunflower seeds and those have got to go in the ground this weekend. I purposefully bought the kind that says they grow to 5-6 feet and not the kind that says they grow to 12 feet, because those kind that say they grow to 12 feet? They really do grow to 12 feet but how in the world can you stake them? I don't have 12 foot tall stakes and I hate to see them fall over when they are so gorgeous and tall....

Last week at Whole Foods I bought these watermelon seeds and some seeds for butternut squash. I was SO SO excited about the idea of planting butternut squash because do you know how much those things cost in the supermarket? A LOT! Like 8 bucks per squash sometimes. Later on I realized there was another reason I was so excited about growing butternut squash. It's because you are growing DESSERT. In the dirt you are growing your very own dessert. I always cook butternut squash with lots of brown sugar and butter and nothing else tastes as good (with the possible exception of cafe mochas from Lux.)

And these watermelon seeds? Well I am just excited about their name. Moon and Stars. Moon and Stars. How pretty is that? Originally, I read, they were called Sun, Moon and Stars. Seeds were sold commercially starting in 1926, but then they went off the market for decades and were thought to be extinct. But in 1981 a man in Macon, Missouri named Merle Van Doren contacted the Seed Savers Exchange to share seeds with them from the Moon and Stars that he was growing.

 

 

{camille}

Susie + Micah

 

 

 

 

 

   

My New Year's resolution of posting everyday? Hasn't been happening, but I am starting new today and going to try to get back to it! We've got a ton of stuff to show...so here are a few of this gorgeous couple that we took in Sedona. The Sedona shoot was so much fun. More about that soon as well as more info on who put it together, etc. later this week....

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{camille}

I bet it is!

 {someday i want to try it!}

via LOLCats/Icanhazcheezburger

{under the old cottonwood tree}

 

Maggi and Jay are seniors in high school. I think they said they have known each other since third grade.

   

I don't know if you can tell but the leaves in this ditch are mixed with water that started to roll down the ditch shortly after we had been sitting there....it was kind of impressive to watch how the water could barely get through the leaves, there were so many of them.

 

 

 

Check back to see these images that Becky took resized to be larger. And for more images of Maggi and Jay by both Becky and me. :)

jay . maggi . {high school seniors}

   

 

 

 (check back later to see these images larger, I have to resize them still :)

Crescent Moon Bride

 

 We went to Crescent Moon State Park with a bunch of photographers and brides and photographed all day. So much fun! Here is Diane, who is so beautiful and was SO much fun to work with.

artistic intervention

My friend told me about this, how people in a neighborhood in Pittsburgh collaborated with the creators of Google's Street View to make much more interesting street views than you usually see on Google's mapping site.

Quoting from HERE

Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View.

On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more... 

Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. This first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View made its debut on the web in November of 2008.

An incredible cast of real-life characters contributed their time, energy and talents to creating pseudo-street life on Sampsonia Way. Please check out the scene breakdown, the participant page and the video documentation to learn more about the artists, groups and participants that made Street With A View possible.

 

{lauren}

 

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{In the Orange Grove}

More from our vintage photo shoot with our photographer friends.

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~paige~

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{Jenny and the Whippet}

I think this is a Whippet! Anyways, a very cute and very shy little dog came to the photo shoot for a few minutes. 

j&a

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Jenny + Acey {in the orange groves}

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{Paige}

{J & A}

 

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"Wild Tigers I Have Known" ~ Emily Jane White

"Wild Tigers I Have Known" ~ Emily Jane White

I'm really liking this song. The video reminds me of photos I took of Nick and Keith years ago. They wore animal masks that I had bought at the Phoenix Zoo and stood out in corn fields for me. I am going to have to look around for those pictures...and post them.