Now Featuring Travel Photography

I've previously dedicated this blog to showcasing my weddings and engagements, but as I am now temporarily living in Japan, where portraiture (ESPECIALLY weddings) is still quite formal and traditional, I've decided to now use it as a space for my travel photography as well.

    

   

You can visit my travel photography collections of Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States on my Flickr site.  In the meantime, I will be working on some showcase travel photography posts, and I'm quite excited to have a new photo project to be working on!

Don't forget also to join us on our adventures in Japan at our blog: Thiessen Twosome Does Japan

JAPAN!

Crystal Bock Photography has moved to Japan for a two-year adventure!  As wedding and engagement trends are different here, I'm not sure how frequent my posts will be, however, I will still continue photographing, living, loving, and traveling!

You can check out my Japan adventures here and, as always, travel photos will be posted over on my flickr site!

Wedding: Tina and Luis

Last week, I was flown out to Oregon to photograph the wedding of Tina and Luis.  I acutally met Tina about five years ago while studying abroad down in Mexico.  With strong Latin roots on both sides, Tina and Luis put on a very traditional, but very colorful and fun affair with dancing galore!  My favorite detail of this wedding was the cake topper:  a skeleton Dia de Los Muertos bride and groom!

Felecidades, Tina y Luis!

   

Offbeat Bride!

Today one of my weddings was featured on one of my most favorite blogs, Offbeat Bride:

Check it out here!

Wedding: Leta & Andy

Today was the wedding of one of the most fun and loving couples I've had the opportunity to meet, Andy and Leta.  This pair didn't mind hamming it up for the camera, and didn't even bat an eye at my requests for romping around in a field of clover!  Their easy-going attitudes and incredible romance made for a very enjoyable shooting experience!

By the way, it was quite windy outside (sorry, Leta)!

Wedding: Chad & Ana

Chad and Ana are a beautiful couple and I got to photograph their equally beautiful wedding in Warrensburg, Missouri this weekend at the groom's parent's home.  Ana is from Spain and Chad is American and currently they both live in Belgium. This was the first of their two wedding ceremonies (the second one will be back in Spain this week) and, being a home wedding, it was wonderfully intimate, inviting, and very romantic.

All the best of luck to this Spanish bride and her American groom!

Wedding: Brooke & Joe

I was pretty pumped for the wedding of Brooke and Joe as we had so much fun with their engagement session!  Part gothic-chic, part skater-cool, they put on quite the affair (thanks, in part, to Joe's adorable little girl!)!

As we couldn't really travel away from the ceremony/reception site for pics (dress-wrinkling issue), we were stuck (or I should say graced) with two dingy alley-ways in which to shoot.  All I have to say is thank god for fire escapes!!

By the way, feel free to drool over Brooke's stunning dress...