Look books are the best places for fashion inspiration when it comes to shoots 🙂 We’re absolutely loving Top Shop’s latest Scandi Girl collection. Can’t wait for the wedding season to wind down so we can get rolling with the fashion shoots again!
Category: inspiration
featured | Green Wedding Shoes – PAN AM Inspired Wedding
Inspired by the hit ABC show, PAN AM, Frances of Charmed Events Group did a wonderful job creating an inspiration wedding based off of the PANAM era, capturing the airline’s main details, motifs and spirit. The color palette of sky blue, navy blue and yellow was one that we fell in love with after this shoot. Beside the color scheme, design motifs of stripes and hot air balloons added that dash of whimsy that would make hearts wither.
We were privileged to have the opportunity to shoot on the facilities of the Oakland Aviation Museum, where a myriad of vintage planes lounged, including one of only two authentic PAN AM planes that remain today (the other one is nearly dilapidated and sits in New Zealand – the one we shot on was the one they used during filming of the first Indian Jones movie – how exciting is that?!).
There were so many great images and we’re going to share just a few more of our favorites that weren’t in the feature 😉  Be sure to view more photos and read the feature here!
A short film by Viet Mac was also shot during this shoot, so get ready to “fly away with us” with all the design and details captured at the Oakland Aviation Museum!
It was such a pleasure to work with such a talented team of creatives!
Romantic Vintage Inspired Bridal Shoot
Sigh… You can never go wrong with vintage and romance, as they are always such a pretty duo.
A few months ago, our beloved and talented friend Joli de Jackie contacted us to do a wonderful romantic vintage inspired bridal shoot. We, of course, were more than thrilled to be apart of such a great shoot. Everything came out so perfectly, especially with all the little details, dresses, bouquets and desserts! The photos will be released later but for now check out the wonderful behind the scenes trailer that Viet Q. Mac just released:
Models: Taylor Rulon-Miller & Monika
Hair/makeup Artist: Joli de Jackie
Photographer: Vivian Sachs
Cinematographer: Viet Q. Mac
Wedding Gowns:Sonthai Songi Gi
Prop Stylist: Monica Cruz-Hernandez
Invitations: Karla Randolph
Flowers: Diane Katsuyoshi-Phillips
Table settings/Cocktail Bar: Acme Party Box Company
Antique Furniture: Seasonal Woocraft by Susan
Baked Goods: Icing on The Cake Los Gatos
Music: Rhythm of Love Plain White T’s
Tiny dancer
“Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today.”
They were so young and yet danced with such elegance. I can only imagine how they will probably flutter and float on stage as their dance careers progress. Such young talent and passion is so inspiring.
Nagi Noda
A true visionary and a personal inspiration. Her works transcend boundaries and really embellishes the meaning of outside the box.
Dancing eyeballs, fitness-video-exercising poodles, half pandas/half other animals, and singing merchandise in a boutique store are only a few of the vivid, perplexing imaginings of Nagi Noda, the talented, eccentric and boundary-pushing artist, art director and fashion designer from Tokyo. Unfettered from any discipline or industry limits, Noda’s work extends from book design and music packaging, to short films, to music videos and commercials — including a hypnotic ad for Coca-Cola, with music by the White Stripes’ Jack White, commissioned by London agency Mother — and even to clothing design. Noda is signed with Partizan, a leading agency that represents cutting-edge directors, photographers and artists.
-Excerpt from “Women of Design”
Tell Me a Story…
It’s all about telling a story. Whether it’s an expression on a face, a mysterious destination, or a moment of pure genius, if the portrait makes a person ponder, submit it to me!
Here are the rules:
1) Submit your photo(s) to vivian@viviansachs.com – 3 entry max
2) Label Subject of your email as “My Story Photo Competition” and include your name and phone number.
3) No nudity/partial nudity or distasteful images
The competition starts today and is open until January 30, 2010 – the top three best photos will be in the running to have a chance to win a free portrait session and photobook (valued at $50).
Winners will be notified via email on February 1st, 2010
seeing without seeing
A website dedicated to “images made by blind and visually-impaired photographers.” Goes to show that inhibitions exist only if you make them so…
cool domes
It would be great to shoot here one day – The Eden Project in Cornwall, UK:
photo credit: unknown
These biodomes showcase global bio-diversity and is one of the most innovative and high profile projects. The biomes are the largest plant enclosures in the world and are built in the lightest and most ecological way possible. They are a sequences of honey-comb shaped spheres that encapsulate humid tropic and warm temperate regions.
Zip-up
Imagination never fails – inspirational Zipper Lotus Pond by renowned Taiwanese sculptor, Ju Chun, created for the Juming Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.
photo credit: unknown
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