The vintage style has much appeal to all. It may be just because it looks cool or have a deeper meaning to some. It is classically beautiful and seems to enhance emotion while also creating an emotion of its own in each photograph. Holding a vintage photograph makes you think back to that time, or wonder what was that time in history like. The vintage photography look brings me back to a much simpler time when i didn’t worry about anything but playing! Weather its your parents wedding pictures or the latest historic photograph in a Time magazine, you wonder. What was the world like before me! We can now create photographs to look like they are from another time/antique, which gives them a sense of wonder. We have also created entire places that capture the old world, vintage feel in their setting. One place in St. Petersburgh, Florida does this well! The Postcard Inn. The Postcard Inn is literally right up the street from where I go surfing but I never knew it was there (as the postcard inn) It use to be another hotel which wasn’t taken care of very well. The new owners of the Postcard Inn have made it great! Thanks to a wonderful couple, Dan & Maria from Pittsburgh, PA, I was show this awesome new place to photograph!
Maria loves the vintage look and feel. She had been searching the country for a hotel that had just what she wanted, so she could have a nice get away with her fiance and have a photographer give her awesome engagement pictures! She found a few in California and New York, but they were pretty dang expensive. She kept searching and found the Postcard Inn, which has been featured in many publications! Her next thing was to find a photographer she really loved! Maria found photographers she liked but none she loved, until one day in her exhaustive search she came across the coolest photographer she had ever seen!…..ME! Maria called me and we talked for an hour or so about her plan. She decided she wanted to use 12-1Photography for her engagement pictures down in St. Pete Florida! I of course agreed! I was so excited to have an awesome bride from PA call me!
When I arrived at the Postcard Inn and saw the place for the first time, and Maria in her awesome blue dress, smiling and ready for her engagement shoot, I knew we were going to have an awesome time capturing beautiful pictures for them to cherish. We had a great time hanging out at the Postcard Inn and created wonderful, classic, timeless photographs that will be treasured for the years to come. Here are a few of my favorites and the link to their engagement photo gallery for the entire shoot!
Check out their full shoot here
