Tony & Maria
PHOTOGRAPHY. This is our love. This is what we are meant to do. We love to capture people, their emotions, their feelings and make not only portraits but art. Whether you are a fashion model or a beautiful bride, the goal is to create imagery that will stop people in their tracks. We want to make photography that transcends generations. We want generations to pick up that photo and know the mood when the photo was taken. Our style of work is not trendy. It’s a legacy.
Lady Black Rider
Maria
My fascination for photography began when I picked up my first editorial magazine like Vogue and Vanity Fair. That lead me to get my first camera in 2005, a Kodak camera through the Home Shopping Network. I wanted to capture the moments with my friends and family for memories. Then the experiments came with the ideas that I would come up with and explore the possibilities. All the experimenting and experience lead me to photograph my first wedding with Tony after we got married in 2012.
Today, along with my husband and co-photographer, I love being out there creating art and friending new people from the weddings we shoot and other photography sessions, as well as, other professionals we meet along the way. My goal is to show the beauty that people are through my photographic eye.
Inspired By
nostalgia / affection / melancholia / poetry / genuineness / intimacy
Inspired By Artist Like
Camera Obscura / Travis / H.E.R. / Japanese Breakfast / Natalia Lafourcade / Keane / Kent /
The Cranberries / Hazel English / Iron & Wine / Mazzy Star / Neko Case
The Black Rider
Tony
As far as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with photography I just didn't know it growing up. I would pick up magazines like National Geographic and Vanity Fair just to see the photographs. I picked up my first camera at the early age of 18 because I wanted to photograph all of the adventures I would have with my friends. At the age of 23, I got a hold of my first Canon DSLR along with a curiosity of exploring more photography by asking the "how do I" from other professional photographers, Flickr, and Youtube, as well as, by experiments.
2008 I photographed my first wedding and fell in love with it. It was the best of two worlds, Art & Photojournalism. How can I not love it? From then on, my experience has grown and having an awesome, talented wife as my co-photographer, we have photographed and friended hundreds of couples along with other families and individuals who I've had the privilege of getting to know through our photography sessions which have always been the goal when doing photography sessions.
I want to create something amazing with you by being friends.
Inspired By
music / dreams / nostalgia / misery / hope / love / mystery / darkness / wonder / tenderness / the human body / human experience / poetry / tenacity / sensuality / psychedelia / shoegazing
Inspired By Artist Like
all national geographic photographers / rosie hardy / all the iconic painters / edgar allen poe / interpol / doves / kent / travis / black rebel motorcycle club / the black ryder / oasis / the verve / noel gallagher / iron & wine / adam bird / muse & mirror / sarah cecilia / krissel rivas & many others!
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