Photo Shoot in Paris: Fned and Andre!

October 20, 2009

I am going to continue to call her Fned for internet privacy’s sake, but just for public record, I do know her actual name. It’s pretty and I’m not telling :P

Seba and I actually stayed with the beautiful Fned and her handsome hubby Andre in France so we really got to know them well before this photo shoot…and it has to be said — I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. Sorry, I’m a little socially awkward sometimes, but seriously, this couple is amazing, it had to be said. I cross my fingers and toes every day that they move to South America. Anywhere. I’m not even specifically asking for a relocation to Chile, just somewhere in the general continent so they can come and visit us all the time.

Fned is actually a Mexican American expatriated to France, while Andre is an honest to goodness Frenchman, living in Paris. And they have traveled everywhere.  They’re hands down the most well traveled people I’ve ever met. When we talked about having kids there was kind of a mutual understanding between us all — yeah, I’d rather spend my money on seeing all the countries in the ENTIRE WORLD before we get to that stage. I think we’re all on the same page.

But anyway, enough about how cool this couple is, let’s get to the pictures. Here are a few from their photo shoot in Paris!

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I love Fned’s style.


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I photoshopped myself out of the main globe thingys but apparently I forgot to photoshop out someone’s foot in the top of the picture. But when I noticed, I decided I kind of like it there.

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SO romantic! When I told Fned and Andre to kiss to they did it con ganas! Asi se hace :)

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The photo on the right was actually a misfire but I still like how it came out. The mistakes are always my faves.

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Yeah, “Mariage” doesn’t actually mean marriage in French. But I thought it was cool to have them kiss under the words anyways.

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These last two are my favorites with the big columns…both in/around the same location, but I like the totally different moods that they have, one with off-camera lighting and one without.

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My Adjustment

October 19, 2009

I’m still adjusting. Seba, not so much. He just …is adjusted. Always. To anything. Not matter where we go or what we do.

I need time to digest things and really feel them.

Like right now for instance. It feels so surreal to be back in Chile. Walking down the streets, I can’t believe we’re here again. Yet I am simultaneously feeling like we never left.

I think I need a photo shoot to make me feel like myself again. Fortunately we have 3 shoots + 1 wedding this weekend so I should be back to normal in no time. :)

Going back, for the past two years I’ve been busy busy busy with more work than I could keep up with. Seba too. Then all of a sudden CRASH — it all came to an end — with a literal crash. Getting hit by a car sidelined me and forced me to rest. I quit all but one of my blogging jobs. Seba had been voluntarily laid off from his job just two days before. But I didn’t have time to think about what not-working was like. Our house was filled with visitors, constantly in and out, to the point where I had to start telling people they couldn’t come over simply because I needed some time to rest.

Then I recovered and we went to Europe. I wasn’t working much because I wasn’t supposed to be. We were on vacation. I quit my last blogging job.

We came back to Chile. This weekend we came out to the beach house for asados and celebrations with Seba’s family. I sat in the sun all day yesterday. All day. And drank some champagne. And then sat in the sun and read. And then sat in the sun and played with Papi. And then sat in the sun and slept. It kept crossing my mind — shouldn’t I have something that urgently needs to be done right now? Can I really afford to be sitting here wasting a whole day without working? Isn’t there something I should be stressing about?

And the truth is that no — I don’t need to be stressing. For right now, we have everything pretty organized. We’re ready for the wedding season to start and we’ll be able to keep everything under control. We have enough weddings booked that we won’t get bored, but not so many booked that we’ll get burnt out. But above and beyond even that — we are in total control of our time. So whether we’re busy or not, we’re working because we want to. Because we said, yes, we will shoot a wedding on this date or have the photos ready by this date.  If we want to take any days of rest we can. Our only deadlines are self imposed. It feels so good!

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Published in La Mujer!

October 18, 2009

*Updated: Here’s a link, if you scroll all the way to the bottom you’ll see the little blurb they wrote about us: http://mujer.latercera.com/2009/10/18/01/contenido/28_570_9.html In the print edition there’s an aditional photo!

They say everybody gets five minutes of fame — well, it looks like our big moment has arrived. :)

My “fotografia top,”  (La Mujer’s words, not mine) is published in today’s issue! It’s just a little blurb but they actually published both the photos that I had sent them when they said they were just going to choose one, so that makes me feel good.

So if you’re out around Santiago today, pick up Sunday’s edition of La Tercera newspaper to get La Mujer and you’ll see a familiar name!

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