family of the year

some bts shots we snapped while shooting family of the year recording at wax studios in hollywood.

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still not tired of palm trees

we’ve officially been in la for six months, which i seriously cannot believe. in april a year ago we were living in the ballroom in chicago, touring thru michigan & wisconsin playing music with the photographers, and getting ready to embark on a three month backpacking adventure in europe.

time freaking flies.

we haven’t really posted too much since being here but we’re going to start putting up more soon. we’ve been super busy working on stuff and getting situated so the blog has taken a backseat, but we’ve honestly taken some of our best photos in the last few months (isn’t that how it should be?) and are super excited to share.

here are a few from a couple months back. this is jayce (ford models), he’s an awesome dude. this is a shoot for a spring lookbook for time & silence, a boutique button down company here in la.

march

even with that extra long february this year’s flying by and it’s feelin like 2o12 is in full swing. last month was busy in a good way for us — we shot another look book, did some still + video music shooting with the ontherecord crew, shot in the studio with family of the year (who are leaving for a 2 month tour with good old war, go see them!), hung out with traveling friends like mae & bryan, and started doing some marketing — something we’ve actually never done as photographers. somewhere in all that we both turned a year older and celebrated at the beach with friends on a mexican blanket next to these luscious succulents, not a bad start to 24.

grab this image calendar style at the tumblr.

twin peaks fashion story

back in november we started scheming with lovlies kimi recor and megan sutherland about a project we could do together. kimi mentioned she’d been picking out a number of pieces from her personal collection that were inspired by the ’90s tv series ‘twin peaks’ by david lynch and suggested we all collab on a lookbook with this vintage collection.

megan helped get a stellar cast of models together as well as an amazing hair stylist, kimi rocked the clothes, and we brought the production home. a couple months later we have dtf’s first official fashion story.

here’s a shot from the series, but jump over to our portfolio to see the whole thing!

pasadena

at the turn of this month joe lieske came to the west coast from chicago for a working vacation, enjoying some west coast sun and shooting for intelligensia. he crashed with us for a few nights while he was going between the pasadena and silverlake cafe’s. we went out to pasadena for an afternoon with him and while he was doin his thing, we went and did ours. it had been a long time since we’d just walked around and took pictures while exploring a new area — made us a little itchy for traveling again but we’ll try to calm that with exploring this country of los angeles. here are some shots we took on our walk.

fab feb

we consider february the beginning of the dtf new year. so happy new year!

it’s kind of our favorite month, probably mostly because both of our birthdays are in february (the 6th and 19th) but it’s also fun and weird with how short it is. and this year is a leap year, so that’s neat.

we’re planning a birthday at the beach because we live in LA and can do that in february.

so, hope you enjoy this months desktop background. download it on de tumbla.

tropical the island breeze

just got back to sunny la from the sunny carribean, via sunny miami. we’re clearly doing everything we can to avoid any sign of winter this year.

the beach was our backyard and we fell asleep and woke up to the breeze + sounds of the ocean. zivi’s family has been going to the cayman islands for 35 years (!) to spend a week relaxing and soaking up the sun. every year zivs fam goes scuba diving — they’re all PADI certified — and this year I got to dive, too! and after being in the mediterranean this summer and shooting some underwater stuff, we knew we had to rent a camera and do some shooting of these incredible reefs. zivi rocked the camera and is going to put a project together, but you can get an idea of how amazing it was from the photo below. can’t wait to do more of that.

this is what our week looked like.

new year, new month

new calendar. get it desktop style over at the tumblr.

props to megan for taking us to the roof of her office building for sunset in dtla this month.

& happy new year.

best friends of friends.