Super Secret Side Project... Revealed!

One of my goals this year was to learn how to use a 3D modeling program. I did, at least the basics, and started making little trinkets I would like to have... And did like, enough to have a company called Shapeways print them for me. (I've ordered other people's designs before and the prints are awesome.)

Well, I've gotten a bunch of those things in the mail, and you know what? They came out amazing. Seriously - since the newest shipment arrived earlier this week, I've had everything lined up on my desk so I can stare at it all day.

I'm so pleased with them that I'm offering them for sale. My little shop is currently home to five pendants and two porcelain pieces, but I expect to add more of each in the next couple months.

I hope you all will check out the rest of my designs, and I also invite you to follow the shop's Facebook page if you're interested in learning about new items when they come out.

400

My last couple projects have been of the proprietary sort, so instead, some of the best picks from my Photo-a-Day project, which just hit Day 400 this week!

Next week one of my side projects should be ready to be released to the world. Not strictly speaking a photo project, but will feature some great photos none-the-less. Can't wait to show you all!

Until then.

Happy Valentines Day! (+ an announcement)

Happy Valentines Day everyone! I hope yours is filled with love, be it from your special someone, your family, or friends.

One quick announcement:

Some recent changes on Instagram have made it much easier to have multiple accounts, so I am separating my business and personal postings. 

From now on, the home of Zack Wussow Media will be @zackwussowphoto. I hope you'll follow me there if you're an Instagram user. My personal account will probably get switched to private in the near future.

I've always been a little uncomfortable with my account pulling double duty, so I'm very excited about this change. I expect it will mean I'll post a lot more photos on both accounts.

See you there!

Fall in Stamford

Trish and Ryan met at UConn, but they spent a good chunk of their relationship in Stamford. I met them there for an engagement session.

It was a ton of fun, a surprisingly beautiful late-November day, and it only got better after a small, ah, costume change.

Marissa and Jan

(Finally, the third wedding from my very busy weekend in October.)

It's a fact of the wedding business that you are constantly popping into and out of people's lives. One day you sign a contract, months later you're part of the inner circle for one of their most important days of their lives, and then you're back to being strangers. It's weird.

Which is why it's always such a pleasure to work with people who really are good friends of mine.

Some of my clients will recognize Marissa - she has often worked for me as a second shooter at weddings. We met back in our college days, during long nights toiling in the darkroom.

Over the last couple years, she's caught me up whenever we worked together about her and Jan buying a house in the country, and then pouring themselves into fixing it up. (It helps that Jan is a contractor.) I could tell from the way Marissa talks about Jan that he was something special, but I've never had a chance to meet him until their wedding.

It's clear she's made a good choice.

I can't say how happy it makes me to see my friend so clearly in love with a man who so clearly loves her.

Congratulations, Marissa and Jan!

She Said Yes

For once I'm not posting about one of my clients. Yesterday I asked my girlfriend Heather to marry me, and she said yes.

Which of course means now we get all the joys (and stresses) of planning our "big day", with the added complication that I'm actually pretty opinionated about what I think works and what doesn't. (The dangers of working in the wedding industry...)

And of course, the ultimate question... Who do I get to photograph my wedding!?

A Postcard

Sunny Season at the Tradition

(I'll be traveling through the 19th - for now, here's a post about the second of three weddings from a very busy weekend in October.)

I met Tricia and Andrew at the Seasons at the Tradition for their early-October wedding. After a rainy wedding the day before, I was excited to have bright sun, green grass, and a hint of fall color in the trees.

Tricia was dealing with a painful injury from the night before, but she was such a champ! I would never had guessed if someone hadn't told me, and she didn't let it stop her from having a blast.

In contrast to my wedding the day before, this time we had the full suite of special events - fitting at a venue called "the Tradition". Cake cutting, parent dances, bouquet and garter toss. 

Still plenty of time for dancing, though, of course. There is always time for dancing!

(Also, one side note: It's a very strange feeling to be really moved by a song I've never heard at a wedding, only to learn it's by Adam Sandler...)

Congrats, Tricia and Andrew!