172nd Dominican Independance Day - Allentown, PA | Event Photography

On Saturday, February 27, 2016 Allentown celebrated the 172nd Anniversary of the Dominican Independence. The main ceremony which took place at City Hall included declarations by city and state officials, proclamations by community leaders, cultural dancing, music and a flag raising. The festivities continued at Dubai Lounge with music, dance performances, special presentations and of course delicious food. Garcia Photography was there to capture it all, below you will some select images from the event.

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To see all of the images created at this event please visit this gallery:
http://images.garciaphotographers.com/dominican-independance-day-celebration-2016/

United Way LV 9th Annual Family Fun Night | Community Event

What a great way to celebrate the success of United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley with South Mountain's 9th Annual Family Fun Night. If you missed it there were a lot of activities happening around the first floor including Carnival Games, Face Painting, Zumba, Bingo, Sports and food. Lots of goodies and prizes were also given away as your passport received a stamp. Informational tables were set up with resources on family issues affecting our children and families today. Garcia Photography was there to capture the smiles and faces and document this fun night for you all to see. 

The Image that Never Happened | Lehigh Valley Wedding Photographer

Every wedding has it's challenges. Some are schedule related, some are vendor related and yet others are weather related. With each situation we have to find creative solutions to overcome the challenges and in the end have beautiful images we can be proud of.

One such weather challenge occurred this past summer during one of our bigger weddings. It was the middle of summer so the weather could be sunny, cloudy or outright nasty and wet.  Guess which one we got? You guessed it, rainy and wet. All day the rain poured down from the heavens with no end in sight. As we approached the ceremony at the church it came down even harder. We were still hopeful it would let up long enough to capture some beautiful images at the reception venue, but of course that never happened. We decided to do all the formals inside the church just in case the rain did not stop in time to do them during the cocktail hour. This option was not so bad since it was a very beautiful ornate church. Of course being the artists we are, we wanted to create something different and epic for our couple. Unfortunately it rained the rest of the night and while we could not avail ourselves of the awesome views at the reception venue, we were still happy we created the formal images at the church.

After the wedding as we culled the images we knew were missing that one special image of the bride and groom together alone, lost in themselves. So we got an idea - let's create a composite using a formal image from the church and a landscape image from our art library (one of my second passions is landscape photography). After a few hours of retouching using Lightroom, Photoshop and TonalityPro we had created an entirely new image - one that never happened. Below you will see the formal image we made inside the church on that rainy day, the landscape image I had created a few months earlier at Trexler Park and the final composite in black and white.

The formal image I selected.

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The landscape image I selected.

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The final image I created.

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We share this story because it is hopefully amusing, interesting and enlightening. Despite the challenges we faced due to the rain, by using a little creativity we were able to craft something beautiful and unique for our couple which they can cherish for a lifetime.

Hiring a wedding photographer doesn't need to be only about the images they can capture on your big day, it can also be about what that photographer can craft when the wedding day is over. For this couple it happens to be an image that never happened.

P.S. The neat thing about this story is that the final image ended up on their Heirloom Wedding Album cover and we feel it turned out very nice. Have a look below and tell us what you think?

The final album with the image that never happened.

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What can we create for you at your wedding?
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Celebration at Riverview Country Club | Lehigh Valley Event Photographer

We had a blast this past weekend at Riverview Country Club celebrating the life of Neli. Her family and friends honored this woman with good music, great food and lots of laughter and love. These are the types of celebrations we love to document at Garcia Photography. Celebrating the life of a person who has obviously touched many lives gives great significance to what we do as photographers. The celebration was held at the picturesque Riverview Country Club in Easton, PA. The music and entertainment was provided by Sismo Musical de Ismael Velasco.

Heirloom Wedding Album by Garcia | Lehigh Valley Wedding Photographer

Creating beautiful Heirloom Wedding Albums like this one we created for the G couple one of our absolute favorite things we feel privileged to do after a wedding. Below are some images of their album which features a supple tan leather cover with a cameo window. The cameo window displays one of their beautiful formal images from their wedding. The pages are rigid and the prints are made on Lustre finish silver halide photographic paper. The album is protected and presented in a hand-stitched velvet lined box which is also wrapped in the supple tan leather as the book.

Our Heirloom Wedding Albums come standard in our Diamond and Sapphire wedding collections.