Feb 4th, 2010
by regina marie.
(Yes, I’m using this image of my niece AGAIN. It’s just a little too perfect for Valentine’s Day.)
This month Recherché Photography is offering the "Loved One" portrait special. Bring one person you adore to the studio for a portrait session- a lover, a child, a parent, a best friend, a grandparent, a pet…
The mini portrait session is 30 min. and $250. It includes a CD of 25 fine art finished images.
Session must take place during the month of February. I only shoot during natural light (10am-3pm) Tuesday-Saturday so sessions times will be limited.
Call or email to schedule your session. And please pass along to others!
Please note: This special session is for TWO PEOPLE.
STUDIO ADDRESS: 622 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville, CO 80027
STUDIO PHONE: 303.665.2708
STUDIO EMAIL: regina@recherche-photography.com
Posted in: Recherche Studio.
Tagged: art · fine · Fine Art · Photography · portraits · recherche · Studio
Jan 27th, 2010
by regina marie.
January 11th is my birthday. I love my birthday so much which has made it a little bittersweet. I remember being maybe around 8 years old and I was super excited about my birthday. One of my parents remarked (rather sarcastically), “Regina, you think your birthday should be on the news!” I remember being taken aback by the tone and at the exact same time thinking, “That is a GREAT idea!!”
In this new decade of 2010 I had the very best birthday of my life. The month was packed with brunch and dinner dates with friends & family. Jay planned out a whole day for me: brunch (can you tell that’s my favorite meal?), Anthropologie, Container Store, garden center in Denver, massage, restorative yoga class, Sherlock Holmes movie! My best friend spent another whole day with me: trimmed my hair, took me shopping, edited some of my projects and went out with a group of girl friends for happy hour at Via Toscana. My mother took my sister and I down to old-town Littleton for the afternoon for amazing hot chocolate and boutique window shopping. What a decadent month!
But, what took the cake, was the most touching gift I have ever received: A Book of Letters. My mother and best friend collected letters from my friends and family who expressed how much I mean to them and how my life has impacted theirs. My mother printed the letters on gorgeous paper and put them in luxurious envelopes inside a handsome album. It is a treasure. To have these sentiments in a tangible and beautiful format, consolidated, is almost like my own It’s a Wonderful Life movie.
Days are flying by. Have you told your loved ones what they mean to you? It doesn’t have to be as fancy as this, but take the time to just email your sister, friend and grandmother and tell them one thing you admire about them. It will fill them up and it will fill you up, too. I’ve started doing that this month and I’m amazed at how much more content and thankful I feel. It plumps the world back up.
P.S. There is still room in the back of my book for more letters if you are inspired! 
Posted in: Recherche Studio.
Tagged: art · elope · Family · hat · Photography · recherche
Jan 19th, 2010
by regina marie.
It is such a privilege to be present for so many treasured moments in people’s lives and be given the responsibility to capture, and ultimately create their memories. There are so many “memories” that I have that are based completely on a photograph in my old faded album. My aspiration as a photographer is to create as many genuinely happy and magical memories for people as I can. I believe it will make the world a better place.
I believe in ripple effects- doing one small kind and gracious thing can ripple through one person’s life and eventually into hundreds of thousands. It’s why I always tip generously, regardless of the quality of service; why I always try to smile first and trust that if someone does not respond positively back that they are just having a rough day or life. It’s why I try to give what I can whenever someone asks and why I try to at least put my hand on a person’s shoulder and make eye contact when I pass someone who seems lost and alone. In tiny little ways I am trying to break the cycle of isolation and am attempting to funnel love back into the world. I’m trying plump it all up a bit.
A new local Boulder-based non-profit with this exact idea has sprung up: HighHeart.org and I am delighted to be represented on their website! I bought two pieces of art at their opening, one of which is sitting right here on my desk, reminding me to daily put my heart out into the world, to offer it to everyone around me and to not close up because of the pain. It reaffirms for me that the little, seemingly trivial acts of kindness, to myself and to others, matter so very much.
The other piece I bought because I love the stars and love and i love the sharing. This piece is in our guest bedroom.
Just take 5 minutes to read through their beautiful website. It will inspire you.
Posted in: Muse, Recherche Studio, Regina- personal.
Tagged: art · boulder · charity · high heart · non profit · Photographer · Photography · recherche
Jan 18th, 2010
by regina marie.
A new decade requires a new hair color. Right? I chose red. My mommy took this picture of me at our birthday brunch last weekend!
Posted in: Muse, Regina- personal.
Tagged: Photography · recherche
Jan 8th, 2010
by regina marie.
One of the most poignant quotes I’ve read about being an artist (and I believe that word is synonymous with being ALIVE) is from The Courage To Create by Rollo May. This quote so accurately describes my experience- daily, monthly and yearly. My whole life has been a cycle of inspiration and desolation. Death and rebirth. Courage and fear. Optimism and depression. I am sustained by metaphors and visual symbols. (is that the same thing?)
“Zeus was outraged. He decreed that Prometheus be punished by being bound to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture was to come each morning and eat away his liver which would grow again at night. This element in the myth is a vivid symbol of the creative process. All artists have at some time had the experience at the end of the day of feeling tire, spent and so certain they can never express their vision that they vow to forget it and start all over again on something the next morning. But during the night their “liver grows back again.” They arise full of energy and go back with renewed hope to their task, again to strive in the smithy of their soul.”
It is hard to be in an artist, to work in service to others, for my work to be an expression of my heart and soul for all to see and judge, to put a price tag on my art, to photograph all of my friends’ and clients’ babies when I’ve longed for my own for so many years and have not been able to have one. It would be much easier to move to France where I don’t know anyone and start some sort of a garden business or get a job working for Anthropologie and be surrounded by beautiful meaningless things all day long. I’ve seriously considered both options. Often. But I desperately want my life to matter, to make a difference, to have a lasting impact. And I love to photograph. I love my friends and my clients and love being a part of their lives. It fills me up. But to be honest, it also empties me out- at the same time somehow. So after 10 years of pouring everything I had into Recherché, I now feel impelled to make time to be filled back up. That means MAKING the time to go for walks, for hikes, for yoga class, to spend time working in my garden and to cook. It means spending time reading, doing my own personal projects and just putzing around the house rearranging and organizing cabinets. Did you know I am obsessed with organizing? It’s true. I think it’s not so much that I’m a control freak, it’s more that my heart and my heart are both so saturated to the brim ALL the time that I require my surroundings to be in order so I can get anything done. I’ve had an idea for a professional organizing business in the back of my head for years called “Muddle Jumping”. Juli’s actually designed the webpage for me! I am very passionate about helping people dig out of material clutter so they can engage in this world in a real way. Someday maybe… In the meantime, I do it for friends.
The image above is also from England. It is in the Kew Garden last April. It is a different sort of image for my collection. It feels very Jumanji to me. It might be one of the only images I have that represents hibernation.
Posted in: Recherche Studio.
Tagged: art · England · hat · Photography · recherche
Jan 5th, 2010
by regina marie.
In 2010, Recherche’s11th year, the magic year, my blog posts may become increasingly personal and introspective. It’s possible that this blog will evolve more into “The Life and Heart of Regina” and less of a photo diary. Or maybe that will just be this month. I’m not sure. But I just wanted to give you a head’s up.
I kind of fall off the map for a couple months after Christmas. It is a quiet and reflective time for me. Should I write a blog post even though there aren’t any photographs associated? Is that weird? Irrelevant? Should a “photographer” do that? …And this exact dialogue is why I fall off the map. Because I’m not so much of a photographer this time of year. Do people really want to know about ME? Or do they just look through my blog for the photos? Should I bother writing something personal? Or should I keep this blog professional and just put my personal blips on Facebook? I’ll tell you, it’s a really odd experience taking the time to post photos and thoughts when you have no idea who is reading it and how they are responding. But today I’m going to risk that my personal musings are almost as interesting as my photographs. And if not, just skip to the photos.
I have been a full-time wedding and portrait photographer for ten years now. What a crazy ride. In the midst of the chaos, patterns in my life as a photographer have emerged. Early summer marks the beginning of the wedding season. I feel fresh, nervous and invigorated to plunge back in. We pick up speed through the summer, traveling at least once a month for events, and the season comes into full bloom in the fall as baby portraits get heavily added to the mix now that weather is nice for outdoor shooting. Editing work and events are piling up. Holidays are suddenly just around the corner. The phone and email is flooded with family portrait requests. Everyone needs their photos and albums for Christmas. Mad dash! By the third week of December all my clients are set, family piles into town, Christmas ensues. Yippee! I LOVE Christmas! I love Christmas decorations, giving gifts, baking, lights. It is all so magical! A then the new year. Everyone leaves, it’s cold and dark and I’m exhausted. I hibernate, sleep and walk through life zombie-like. Emptied out. Not sure what I want to do with my life. And oddly, my birthday occurs right in the middle of this. January 11th- which is why 11 is my magic number. Little by little, week by week, my heart starts to yawn and peak out, unable to resist dreaming up new ideas and plans for the coming year. I am overtaken with a strong desire to clean out my office and all our cupboards, to put things in order, to start planning my garden. Spring arrives and I am reborn, ready for a new year, for a fresh set of weddings. And so it goes.
The image above is on my desktop right now. A magnolia that I shot in a Greenwich garden last spring. Someday I hope to be able to describe the way images like this effect me. right now I can only say that a wave of warmth and softness floods over me and makes me feel just a little woozy.
Posted in: Recherche Studio, Regina- personal, botanical.
Tagged: art · Baby · baby portraits · botanical · Family · fine art photography · flowers · hat · Photographer · Photography · portraits · recherche · Travel
