We’ve teamed up with the amazing-ly brillant Alison King, founder of Modern Phoenix Neighborhood Network!!! They are the internet’s only comprehensive clearing house of information and preservation advocacy for Modernism across Arizona. Their network features articles, photographs, a forum, a yearly home tour which is fabulous…we haven’t missed a year and finally an endless source of professionals who explore all things modern within their craft. We can’t get enough of this network and now have a link on the site so that their modern creative users can find us…the modern hip photographers. It’s a win win. Click on the image to see for yourself. The 6th annual midcentury home tour in Paradise Gardens is coming up in April too and you don’t wanna miss it. We’ll be there so make sure to say Hi.  Architecture + design + photography is totally our thing if you haven’t noticed by now and we find HUGE inspiration by going on the tours.  Not only for our own home but within our photography biz as well.  We have known the King’s for about 2 years now and even had the opportunity to photograph them in their element. It was sooooo FUN! Don’t remember their session?…check it out…HERE.

If you’ve found us through our new link on MOD PHX feel free to leave a comment below and say ‘hello’…we really enjoy chatting with new ’soon to be’ friends!

We LOVE LOVE LOVE ‘IntoTheDarkroom‘!!! Seriously! We use their slideshow program + proofing system and couldn’t be HAPPIER with the outcome. We can customize it all to fit our style + brand. For those photographers out there that have not checked out ITDR you must click on the image and go NOW to check out all their goodness. It’s LOADED. Eric & I can’t wait for the day when we can do a full on custom web project with these lovely folks. And their customer service is FABULOUSO…which is a huge huge huge thing to us. They’re also located in Phoenix! How cool is that?. Literally two hours away from us in Tucson. We met part of the team Anthony and Ann Marie @ their Imaging USA booth last year…they were sooooo sweet, friendly and totally know their stuff for web-land. But duh…that’s what they do! Can’t wait to see them again @ WPPI in March. It’s gonna ROCK. Eric & I have never been but are so EXCITED. We’ve already got our party roadmap trickd’ out for Vegas. I’ll post more on this later.

I believe it was on Eric’s Birthday that I took these a few weeks ago before he arrived home that evening. As I sat at my computer I glanced out the window of our production office and saw that the leaves across the street from our home were FINALLY changing colors. Gezzzzzz…I think it’s safe to say that our fall season doesn’t really seem to last all that long. You blink and it’s gone.  Tucson goes from blazing hot temperatures of the dry summer heat to 85 degree fall weather and then BAM…it just hits…a cold front and the leaves start changing and falling off the branches all in the same week! I look out the window now and only 2 weeks ago the trees were full. Crazy. So I grabbed my iPhone and used what battery juice was left and snapped away. Well more like clicked the camera icon. All photographs were taken using a mixture of ‘Polarize‘ and ‘Vint Shift‘ iPhone apps. I had a mere 10 minutes to capture the leaves before the sun faded away.  Enjoy…

We found some unopened polaroid film circa 2006 in one of our wedding storage containers in September! So we decided to do a mini shoot with what was left. There was no plan. We just did whatever came to mind. It became one of our favorite afternoons together!


Po.lar.oid {poh-luh-roid}

1. a brand of material for producing polarized light from unpolarized light by dichroism, consisting typically of a stretched sheet of colorless plastic treated with an iodine solution so as to have long, thin, parallel chains of polymeric molecules containing conductive iodine atoms. it is used widely in optical and lighting devices to reduce glare.
2. also called Polaroid Camera, Polaroid Land Camera. the first brand of instant camera, developed by Edwin H. Land and markedted since 1948.
3. also called Polaroid print. a print made by such a camera.

The holidays are FAST approaching…wasn’t it just JULY?! This means it’s time to order your gift reprints, art canvases, and custom mod cards…they’re all so YUMMY.  

To guarantee holiday delivery please see the following deadlines-

. Art Canvas Order Deadline- November 15th . 2009

. Custom Mod Card Order Deadline- November 22nd . 2009

. Gift Reprint Deadline- December 6th . 2009

Past clients send us an email (thegoods@purplenickel.com) so we can re-release your gallery

If you are NEW to purple nickel studio and are interested in doing a flipside/me2 portrait session we still have a few select spots available for 2009.  Please contact us through our website form listed under ‘hook me up’…click HERE.