Eleven Hearts Photography

Wedding at Elkridge Furnace in Maryland.

2011-07-05T01:11:00.003-04:00

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Update your Model Portfolio with the New Rates of Eleven Hearts Photography

2011-07-03T01:45:00.002-04:00

“You only get one chance to make a good first impression.”

Leave your old pictures behind and set your standards HIGH! With the help of Eleven Hearts Photography you have the chance! Make sure that the pictures that you show have the ability to WOW agencies and potential clients.

Packages start from $199 for 1 hour shoot, includes 1 look and 2 professionally edited high res photographs.

For Booking send an e-mail to info@elevenhearts.com

See you at the studio!

A Day Without Distraction: Lessons Learned from 12 Hrs of Forced Focus

2011-06-28T03:20:00.000-04:00

A Day Without Distraction: Lessons Learned from 12 Hrs of Forced Focus

New York’s Legalization of Gay Marriage.

2011-06-28T02:48:00.002-04:00

Hello New York!

We’re very happy to hear that NY is now among the States that legalized same sex marriage. As Eleven Hearts Photography we’ve always believed and supported love in all its forms. Since March 2010 we’ve been capturing those precious moments here in Washington DC, now it’s your turn New York!

Welcome! What took you so long?

Christine Ho and Drew Jacob's Wedding Reception Video Teaser Online!

2011-06-10T21:27:00.002-04:00

Christine and Drew Dance Video

Best Wedding Albums Companies and Eleven Hearts Photography

2011-06-04T03:36:00.005-04:00

We always worked with the best wedding album companies like Leather Craftsman, Graphie Studio, Quensberry, Couture, Cypres and more. We believe that a professionally designed wedding album is the best way to preserve and showcase your wedding pictures. Thinking of digital age and overwhelming social media existence, sharing your most intimide moments on a screen should not be the only way to go. Sure, it takes time to design, print, and bind a wedding album but it’s future proof. We work with the best companies all over the world, and each and every wedding album professionally printed and bound in a beautiful linen or leather volume. If you have a CD of your wedding pictures, and want an album designed it is still here are tons of different options Just send me a note and we’ll send you the rates.

We would like to talk about a wonderful custom Presentation Box that Cyprus just created for photographers. Two of the slip-in cases on the left side of the box have velvet jewelry holders. There is a removable mat for a print that is magnetically held into the box. They also created a custom envelope out of fabric that slips under the tray and is easily removed with the ribbon.

As you can see the possibilities are endless! It’s great to have everything from the wedding day all perfectly stored in an Heirloom Presentation Box.

We love it!

Anyone on the Hunt for a Virginia Wedding Venue?

2011-06-01T03:04:00.002-04:00

If so, we might have found a place for you that is truly vintage. The River Farm is an historic home built in the 1800′s and conveniently close to the Washington DC metro area. River Farm rests on twenty-five acres of gardens and forest overlooking the Potomac River which is located five miles south of Old Town Alexandria. And also River Farm serves as the headquarters of the American Horticultural Society. They have been selected Best Wedding Vendor for 2011 by Bride and Groom Magazine. The manor-style house, formal and informal gardens, and sprawling lawns offer endless options for your creativity in planning a perfect wedding.

Beautiful Tattooed Bride at Harry Houdini’s Haunted Palace at California.

2011-05-31T21:12:00.004-04:00

Harry Houdini and lived in the mansion during his short career with the fledging movie industry in the 1920’s. The house, on Laurel Canyon that was rented by Harry Houdini for roughly one year around 1919. While he lived in the house, it became a frequent host to strange experiments and more…They say the lot on Laurel Canyon for many years had stone and cement ruins of a large house, and these ruins were often referred to as the “haunted” Houdini. Well, the good news was Jim Morrison was in the neighborhood around 1970′s. He lived in a house behind. He was one of the many rocks stars who made Laurel Canyon their home in the 60′s and 70′s. Today, the house open to public to host events like weddings. It was a nice surprise to see Amber showing her Tattoo to prove that how brave she is to pick Houdini’s so called Haunted Place.

Just Won the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2010

2010-01-21T15:48:00.003-05:00

Washington, DC- January 21, 2010. WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Eleven Hearts Photography has been selected to receive the WeddingWire 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Contemporary Wedding Photography!

The annual Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Eleven Hearts Photography is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that Eleven Hearts Photography is among the very best Wedding Photography within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards.

Adding New Images To My Portfolio

2010-01-08T08:53:00.001-05:00

I'm in the process of adding new images to my portfolio. As you know that requires loads of image confrontation from the past batches.

Bianca Richardson | Washington,DC

2009-12-26T15:39:00.002-05:00

Bianca was a contestant on Cycle 13 of America's Next Top Model. Last month I had the pleasure to take her pictures.

Farrah+Marc | Eleven Hearts Photography

2009-12-11T15:43:00.005-05:00

Recent engagement session with Farrah Holder and Marcellus Newton at my DC studio. Getting ready for their spectacular wedding Bahamas 2010.

Demet Evgar | Istanbul

2009-12-10T18:14:00.005-05:00

I have decided to use Demet Evgar's photo for my front website page. She looks screaming awesome!

Patti LaBelle | Washington,DC

2009-12-02T19:28:00.006-05:00

Red carpet shooting for Patti LaBelle at Macy's. Paul Wharton's ability to entertain is beyond exception. For more information, visit Angel Elliot's A-List at http://blogs.bet.com/news/a-list/tag/patti-labelle

Monster of the Night

2009-11-17T02:54:00.005-05:00

Here is the Wikipedia explanation of crochet but what I did tonight has no explanation. I thought I was watching the movie (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) but end up making this little monster.

What do you think his name is?

Crochet (pronounced /kroʊˈʃeɪ/) is a process of creating fabric from yarn or thread using a crochet hook. The word is derived from the Middle French word croc or croche, meaning hook. Crocheting, similar to knitting, consists of pulling loops of yarn through other loops. Crochet differs from knitting in that only one loop is active at one time (the sole exception being Tunisian crochet), and that a crochet hook is used instead of knitting needles.

Janet Koons | Studio, DC

2009-11-12T01:29:00.003-05:00

Foto Week DC http://www.fotoweekdc.org taking more of my time that I was expected. I came home thinking this season I need to celebrate my fashion mojo with something. Using vintage veils might be a good start.

Model: Anne Boatner Make up: Tristan Blake

Bottle stopper and business card holder

2009-10-31T02:38:00.008-04:00

This idea came to my mind after I saw table filled with guest names at one of my California Coast wedding last year. I liked the idea so much and started to use it whenever I want my card stands out somewhere on the table. I took this photo at my kitchen couple of minutes ago to show you how it looks in general.

Emilia Sin+ Peter Padiotis | St. Katherine's Greek Orthodox Church

2009-10-30T23:52:00.000-04:00

Hi everybody, Slacking a little on my blog post lately, and in general, back to back weddings are taking its toll, but...from now I will try to post every day...see how that goes. Wish me luck.

2006-06-26T19:42:00.000-04:00

Birdy Nam Nam - Absesses

2006-06-26T05:25:00.000-04:00

Rick Rubin

myspace

2006-05-22T16:45:00.000-04:00

last week I started to show new existance in myspace.com. If you hang around in a correct place you'll probably enjoy it as well. My intension is to explore different bands.

My new power Book

2006-05-12T00:52:00.000-04:00

Finally he came, I named him Shangai. Little credit for his Chinese past:) Im happy we are working pretty good..

insomnia

2006-04-25T04:22:00.000-04:00

Does this state can be called as insomnia or having way to many things to finish before go to bed. Like everybody else I have my hectic agenda for everyday. Last year I bought a book about teaching how to things get done. Ironically I couldn't properly read that book. The best thing I learned so far listing 7 items to finish for one day.

If I can sleep tonite, I promise to finish my 7 sins for tomorrow...

Smashed Robot!: Chromeo tour, Bloc Party remix Needy Girl

2006-04-24T12:59:00.000-04:00

Smashed Robot!: Chromeo tour, Bloc Party remix Needy Girl

Branko Miljkovic

2006-04-05T04:24:00.000-04:00

Serbian poet Branko Miljkovic was found hanging from a tree in a park in Zagreb in 1961. He was 27. Official records stated that it was a suicide, but...

I'm not here to investigate anything, but I guess if you are a poet who can Immediately fell in love with the dead girl and wrote most beautiful lines in her honour. Some other people may say that "oh, sure it is a suicide" Was it? really?

Happens everywhere, It happens anytime...

In Vain I Wake Her

I wake her for the sun that explains itself in plants
For sky stretched between the fingers
I wake her for words that burn my throat
I love her with my ears.
End of the world should be reached and drops of dew found in grass.
I wake her for some distant things that look like these here,
For people who, without forehead or name, go along the street,
For anonymous words, for squares I wake her,
For manufactured landscapes of public parks.
I wake her for this planet of ours which may become a mine
In bloodshed sky
For smiles in stones, friends fallen asleep between two battles
When sky was no longer a big birdcage but
An airport
My love full of others is a part of dawn,
I wake her for the dawn, for love, for myself, for others,
I wake her, even if it is more in vain than to call a bird
That landed forever
She must have said: let him look for me and see that I am gone
That woman with the hands of a child that I love
That child fallen asleep with tears still not wiped, which I wake
In vain in vain in vain
In vain I wake her
For she will wake up different and new
In vain I wake her
For her mouth will not be able to tell
In vain I wake her
You know the water runs through but says nothing
In vain I wake her
A lost name should be promised someone's face in sand
If this is not so cut off my arms and turn me into stone

Kiss

2005-11-15T05:27:00.000-05:00

First Heart

2005-11-11T00:06:00.000-05:00

David Bowie

2005-05-17T13:08:00.000-04:00

I woke up sick today. One of the day you strongly feel the cold haze of life. I know, I started to talk like a heavy metal lyrics. but the way I feel is the way I write. Sometimes very Arabesque but me. My brain lacerated by ideas. Dialogs keeps back and fort and each time I feel more and more suffocated. In my case I strongly feel, being creative directly related to these type of ideas. The game that my brain played in my head shows itself in my colors or in my lines If I paint. If not? writing is another way of expressing myself. When I started to write I feel like all the ideas just pouring down on me. Sometimes I can not simulate my thinking speed to my writing speed. Most people may complain about the differences in speeds but I feel more lucky. Cause I pick the most valuable word and story to manage to finish my writing. More diffused and elaborated. well why my title is David Bowie? Cause he is one of the best company I ever had. If you feel lonely tune the Young American and jam with the rhythm. oooall right.

Don't Ask Anymore Stupid Questions

2005-05-11T06:24:00.000-04:00

Last night (March 9,2005) New Model Army performed at Black Cat in Washington DC. When I go back to my roots, I realized that their passionate music was the “one” for me during the 80’s. Now, turn back to the source of anger, I remember them as one evil army. I always thought that they were using this evillness just for good. Compare to the other destructive bands, they were good in some case but they look bad (literally). I remember one of the video clip of their concerts, Sullivan looks like a guy who never confront a mirror, his toothless presence was terrifying.

It is very sad that we were only 50 people at the concert. I wonder why they are neglected by the American listeners. I guess, they are underestimated, and misunderstood. Even I feel sad for their small number of audience , I know that they don’t need a modern promotinal band set of mind. They have their own gunpowder to explode whenever and whereever they want. I am sure they were performing the same mind numingly way even if we were three people overthere.

For me, New Model Army is all about very diminishing line between good and evil and hopefully they will never dissappear like some other bands we get used to listen on the radio everyday.

Where the music matters

2005-05-11T02:47:00.000-04:00

New york