7th Contemporary Wedding Photography Workshop in Istanbul by Goknur Olguner

Please follow the link for more details http://www.40haramiler.com/goknurolguner

Eleven Hearts Photography is named to the 2011 Wedding Professional Hot List.

We're pleased to announce that Eleven Hearts Photography has made the 2012 Wedding Hot List. The Hot List is made up of wedding professionals that received the top reviews on Momentville  in their respective categories and locations in the past year. MomentVille.com, one of the worlds leading wedding websites, has just announced that has been selected for the 2011 Wedding Professional Hot List.

The annual Wedding Professional Hot List recognizes excellence within the wedding industry, as determined by reviews from tens of thousands of brides and grooms. Eleven Hearts  Photography was among the best reviewed vendors in their area in the past year.

“The Wedding Professional Hot List recognizes best of class wedding professionals.” said Geoff Evason, MomentVille’s CEO. “Highlighting the success of the top wedding professionals is an exciting way to spread the word and help newly engaged couples find the right professionals for their own weddings.”

The Four Seasons Wedding at Washington DC.

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Here's a quick peek into Stephanie and Laszlo's collection from the fabulous event at The Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, DC. Facebook Page

What are D.C.'s most popular wedding venues?

According to wedding reports 35,000 weddings are planned in the D.C. Metro area last year. The D.C. wedding market is now more competitive than ever. The excitement of getting engaged often replaced by stress because many places and vendors are already booked into 2013. We are booking for 2013 weddings in these days and we thought listing of D.C.'s most desired wedding venues might be a good idea for our future brides. Here is the simple list of venues that we enjoyed being there.

Please feel free to contact us if you need more information.

Image taken by Goknur at Newseum, one of our favorite venue!

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

Newseum

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Oxon Hill Manor

The Sunset Room at National Harbor

Woodend Nature Sanctuary

Our packages also include...

This image is from Ashley and Aaron Holmes wedding. As you can see, our packages also include braiding the little princesses' hair.

Demet Evgar's fashion photo shoot with iPhone 4gs.

A few months ago Goknur did a fashion photo shoot with her iPhone 4gs. Here is one of many stunning images of Turkish actress Demet Evgar.  The rule was simple. Keep it simple, keep it real! We used one reflector that we made by using white board wrapped aluminum foil. One iphone 4gs and one the most beautiful woman.

Voila!

Antalya International Architecture Bienniale

We're working on a video project named "All Inclusive". It's already been accepted and funded by the Antalya International Architecture Bienniale 2011 in Turkey. We're designing a software that will create and display a randomly generated collage from hundreds of videos on a large high definition screen.

If you participate: - Your videos will be edited by us to match the context of the art work. - Your names and the places in the videos will be listed on the pamphlet of the art work...

To give you an idea about the project, here's the abstract:

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ALL INCLUSIVE:

The age of 'all inclusive'... Drifting masses from different backgrounds, cultures and lives to similar experiences... These people wearing and doing similar things flood predefined 'vacation zones' for short periods of time. What's left behind from these vacations and these experiences? Usually a pile of images and movies, and sometimes artefacts that never seem to find their place back home in that daily context. Where are those artefacts now, those rare elements of an almost improbable intersection?

'All inclusive' is a video project that traces these artefacts and images, therefore the experiences of their owners.

Our goal is to create a video-collage of these vacation videos to be displayed as a video-installation at the time of the event.

All Inclusive

Wedding at Elkridge Furnace in Maryland

Stephanie and Dan

Don't forget to follow Eleven Hearts Wedding Teasers at You Tube!

http://www.youtube.com/user/taraniko#p/a/u/0/ea8nPGOyfFY

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

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“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.

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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!

New York's Legalization of Gay Marriage

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!

Christine and Drew If you are having problems viewing this video please follow the link below.

Best Wedding Albums Companies and Eleven Hearts Photography

We always worked with the best wedding album companies like Leather Craftsman, Graphie Studio, Quensbery, 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?

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.

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.

Best Gift to a Newly Wed Chef

We love fun, personalized details in a wedding. When you can look at a wedding and see that couple’s personality splashed all over different aspects of the day. Well, Goknur Olguner (Gigi) from Eleven Hearts Photography… loves to create and shoot customized details.   Knowledge that a wedding is a lifelong commitment to celebrate with friends, she has created a wedding collection filled with thoughtful, shots of the wedding day. Greg is a chef at very fancy restaurant. Including simple pepper and salt shakers, which may be the cutest darn things we’ve seen in a while! The only thing better than wearing your ring for the first time is to see them posing next to salt bottle while you get ready for your big day.  This image taken at the wedding of Lauren Lovejoy and Greg Dan.

Memorial Day Photo Session: Theme is "Best Friends"

Memorial day is finally here, which means a three-day weekend for most of us. With summer almost officially here, we still have a photo discounts you might be interested in titled —"Best Friends." Please send an e-mail to info@elevenhearts.com to schedule your appointment for the first photo session with your best friend.