Location Spotlight – Schoepfle Garden
Location Spotlight – Schoepfle Garden
Spring at Schoepfle Garden in Wakeman, Ohio is dazzling, a photographer’s dream! Comprising seventy-seven acres of botanical gardens and woodlands near the Vermilion River, Schoepfle Garden is the perfect place in spring and summer for the photography of lovers. The bloom of love evident on the faces of engaged couples blends with nature’s extraordinary bloom in gardens like Schoepfle.
How do spectacular places like Schoepfle Garden come to exist? They typically grow from one person’s curiosity about flowers. In this case, a man who was once a banker, and then publisher of the Elyria Chronicle, traveled to Europe and came home brimming with ideas about flowers. The result of his passion and willingness to study botanicals is that decades later, ordinary people like us can enjoy their transcendental beauty.
We hope you enjoy the glories of Schoepfle Garden, collections of rhododendrons, roses, hosta, cannas, flowering shrubs, magnificent trees, and much more. It would be our great pleasure to photograph you and your beloved, or your family and friends in this place of love and passion.
 
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Location Spotlight - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Location Spotlight - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Northeast Ohio is a land blessed with natural beauty both in the wild and in the cultivated areas. The great Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is a little of both! The famed cherry blossoms of Washington DC have a serious competitor in the blossoms of Cleveland. Our zoo is a marvelous place for photography with dappled natural light coming through the trees that adds a quality of timelessness indoor photography can rarely achieve. The softness and colors of nature bring out the beauty in humans as well.
These photos were taken in spring with the blossoms in bloom, but throughout the seasons the Cleveland Zoo is a wondrous place for photography. It's especially good for engagement photos because it offers a wide variety of spaces within the zoo and the surrounding Metroparks from which to choose. Give us a call to explore natural areas for your engagement, wedding, and family photo needs. Daniel Photo Pro photography makes you see how beautiful you are!
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It’s Wedding Season! Spring into Action to Create Your Ideal Wedding
It’s Wedding Season!
Spring into Action to Create Your Ideal Wedding
As the U.S. slowly opens up again, thanks to the ever-increasing number of vaccinations, lovers everywhere are thinking about engagements and weddings. Except for the birth of children, weddings are the most splendid way of spreading excitement, happiness, joy, and LOVE! Weddings are a message to the world that no darkness lasts forever; love always triumphs.
If you’re good at organizing, you may not need this, but if you’re good at procrastinating about things you’re not experienced with, this one’s for you!
The pandemic has produced a huge backlog of weddings. The best of the following will be booked quickly.
Key Things to Do Now:
- Choose a date - check with the people you most want to attend before setting it
- Choose a venue
- Choose a photographer
- Choose an officiant
- Choose a caterer
- Choose musicians
After these are booked, then you can start on the fun parts, like what to wear, table settings, themes, and parties. Congratulations!
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Re-marrying? Tips on Weddings for the Previously Married
Re-marrying?
Wedding Tips for the Previously Married
Many people who have lost a spouse for one reason or another, don’t think they’ll want an official wedding if they find new love. However, Love, as the poem Desiderata says, “is as perennial as the grass”. It comes around again when least expected. What also comes around is the desire to share the joy of a new union with friends and family, so most couples end up planning a wedding though it may be smaller or more intimate than what they had the first time.
For a couple who has been married before, the elements of the wedding are often quite different than first-time brides and grooms. First-timers focus on the theme, decorations, and how the wedding and reception will appear on social media. Second or third-timers, tend to lean toward making the wedding comfortable for family and friends, a blending that may include people from families of a previous spouse. Yet the desire to make their wedding a reflection of who they are, what they care about, and how they want to be perceived, is strong in a couple who dare to risk marriage again. Plus, creating a wedding event is fun! The second wedding can be even more fun than the first because experience lessens the stress.
If you’re re-marrying, don’t be shy about creating a wedding event that will make you smile when you’re looking at the photos years later. Do think carefully about making the event easy for others, especially the elderly (don’t forget they may have hearing issues and they want to hear those vows!), but make it your own unique event. Love and marriage are as perennial as the grass, so surrender your fears and create a day you’ll treasure. We’ll be there to photograph it for posterity!
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The Eye of the Photographer Sees a Deeper Picture
The Eye of the Photographer Sees a Deeper Picture
It is the rare woman who can look in the mirror and see her own beauty, in part because beauty hides from eyes that are conditioned to see what’s wrong rather than what’s right. Thankfully, on engagement and wedding days, the creative eye of an experienced photographer sees a woman’s inner beauty that radiates from the love and happiness in her heart. In the hands of an excellent photographer, a bride’s broad smile and shining eyes transform her like no amount of makeup ever can. In her preparations for the big event, brides work so diligently on their outsides, but the photographer sees deeper and that is why wedding photos are so treasured.
Although posed pictures are important to record a meaningful event like a wedding for posterity, the dozens of photos captured when the engaged or newly married couple are celebrating with guests often reveal the true story. That is the story of the boundless love shared among the whole group. Unlike the bride and groom who perceive that the most important parts of the wedding are the actual events they’ve prepared, the photographer knows the relationships are where the magic lies.
Daniel of Daniel Photo Pro through his photographic lens sees with artistry that typical wedding photographers don’t have. He sees the event in its wholeness, and in its potential for bringing enduring happiness to an expanded family. Plus, when Daniel photographs a bride, she always looks beautiful in the finished photos!
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