Showing posts with label dress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dress. Show all posts

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Saying I DO to....


...wearing white on your wedding day, or to not. 


Sara Beth Bridal of Boise, Idaho recently posted to Instagram a photo of a *gasp* BLACK wedding gown (see the post HERE) and they are not alone; more and more, COLOR has been finding it's way onto brides of various ages, and who are we to say what is wrong or right? 

Is keeping the pure color of white on brides a dying trend? 

As a woman who has recently become engaged to my best friend, I never put much thought into what I would wear if I ever got married (in fact, I blogged a while back about never being the bride, you can see the post HERE). The older I get, the less I personally felt that "white" was something I would choose - probably a champagne, pewter, eggshell or something off white. 

I have had friends marry in shades of blue, green and other colors - and now black is coming into fashion?

I've worn white dresses for photos as well as black; in fact, I have the below black dress stuffed in a garbage bag in storage, it's fluffy netting waiting to explode out again someday. The question, on every brides mind, is what will they wear (I know it's on mine) BUT little did I know, that once someone asks you to marry them and you say a big fat HECK YES, if you update your FaceBook relationship status to "engaged", your ENTIRE newsfeed switches to posts from companies trying to get a piece of your wedding budget pie - and dresses become something that really sits in your mind (it also eats away at all your thoughts as you google the day away looking at images of dresses online). 

Are you romantic, boho, traditional? Do you need a ball gown, a beach dress etc...and don't get me started on picking dates and locations and all that other jazz, oh my bride mind is spinning! Dress prices range from off the rack at Ross or Marshalls for a simple court house ceremony, to thousands of dollars with multiple fittings for the most extravagant of celebrations. 

What bride will I be? Time will only tell - but I do know this - I am more about the marriage then I am the wedding, and I can't wait to say I DO to the man that I love.  

xoxo - Adra Janean (last name to change soon) Fenstermaker



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Friday, October 11, 2019

A Bold Beauty Of Blue In A Sea Of Basic.

I'm going to tell you a little story - about a lady, who lived alone with twenty cats....




Just kidding. That would be so cliche'. 


How about this story instead...


Once upon a time there lived a ginger haired lady, named Adra Janean Fenstermaker, and she had lost her love of modeling for print photography. 

"How could that be?" 

Well, the years had gone by, the photo files had multiplied, and she was tired of putting time and effort into something that seemed so, what's the word...narcissistic. 

It's kind of hard to be an actress, model or public figure though, if you don't keep current pictures of yourself in rotation. Taking photos is part of the job, even when you want to shrink away into the shadows when at an event, hoping to go unnoticed.

Photographers would reach out to our camera shy gal.

"Let's shoot!" they would state, yet she always had an excuse as to why she could not.  

Until one day, she sent a text to one photographer. 

"I think I am ready to shoot again" she wrote. 

So they set a date and time. Day of, the photographer asked Adra...

"Why is it that it took so long to pose for me again". Her reply this time was from a place of truth. 

"I am tired of taking pictures just to take pictures. Putting all the energy into creating something that goes nowhere has begun to feel like wasted energy."

It was then, in that shoot, on that day, that photographer, Tyrone Roberts, made a decision in North Hollywood, California, that HE would find a place to put her photos. 

INSPIRATION.

An email addressed to model from photogropher started off... 

"The wonderful news is that you created 20 different looks from two photoshoots"....the woman reads on..

 "...contribution as a writer...new online monthly magazine..."


She hears "A place for images so they don't rot taking up storage in hard drives".

Her inner monologue shouts "A place for words, a place for thoughts, a place for...."

CREATIVITY.

Inspiration and Creativity mixed together become...

COLLABORATION. 


And they lived happily ever after. 

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Ha Ha Ha! Just kidding! It's just...

THE BEGINNING! 

The first addition of the online magazine is OUT NOW!


Pairing the blue with boots with heels compliments the fierce femininity - a bold beauty of blue in a sea of basic. [read more...]

If you would like to preview the 1st Edition, you may do so HERE. 


There's a bunch of pages and lots of interesting tidbits and things and stuff. Please feel free to leave a comment below if you have any thoughts to share, or topics you would like expanded on more in the future. 

PS...I know I am a GINGER at heart, but this time I got to play a RAVEN HAIRED beauty wrapped in blue, and I didn't hate it! 

Let me know what you think :) 

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There are typos and errors in the portion that I wrote (which drives me CRAZY), but I MADE MY DEADLINE, and have sooooooooooooooooo much more to say. 

Next time I will be sure to EDIT way better for all of you peeps that deserve spelling and grammar corrected articles, so stay with me on this journey, I am excited! 

My mother will become my future editor (she just doesn't know it yet).

Also - if you want to see the photos in movement, just click below - that works.








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***UPDATE
[ October.26, 2019] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ISSUE TWO just posted at B Natural Photography online magazine at BLURB.COM (key word search Adra Janean). The issue is full of images from Tyrone Roberts, with Adra Janean lending her pen (as well as her images) to the issue. CHECK IT OUT! https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/8369514/0091494c38df4c97ef90ce35a23d1f738ecf80e4 VINTAGE STLYE SUBSCRIBERS at PATREON - an announcement is on it's way soon!! Be on the lookout for it https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=25961567



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