2010 April | Jillian Mitchell Photography: Destination Wedding Photography in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

April 2010

04-28-2010

Maria+Hector

When Maria and Hector hired me to document their wedding in Puerto Morelos (in between Cancun and Playa del Carmen) at the Ceiba del Mar I was ecstatic. It was my first wedding on the Gulf Coast of Mexico and my good friend Michelle Bres got to come with me. We have such a great time shooting together so it was like a little vacation (with lots of work)!

Maria is probably the calmest bride I have ever worked with. Her stylist was almost two hours late which made us extremely short on time, but you wouldn’t have known it to look at her. Secretly I was freaking out a little bit inside. We lost almost all of the light that we had been counting on and had to throw out the beach photos in order to get to the church on time. Luckily we were able to sneak in a few photos after the ceremony.

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04-26-2010

Family Photo Shoot Nuevo Vallarta

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Daniel, Stephanie, Cate, and Rand make up this awesome family who I had a chance to do a family portrait shoot with a few weeks ago in Nuevo Vallarta. It’s always interesting doing family shoots because there isn’t as much contact before hand like there is with weddings. I’m basically walking into it blind and hoping that everybody is cool with me and my style. I was lucky this time because they were super fun. As a family from Austin should be I think.

I had this great idea to get balloons for the kids and do all sorts of fun photos with them, but the hotel only had balloons without helium. They were sad balloons, but actually worked pretty well to keep Rand occupied. Not that he needed it.

Here are a few shots from the day together…

I absolutely love this shot. A little random, but it reminds me of summer.

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04-21-2010

Globos Aerostaticos

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The other day there was a taller (workshop) at entreAmigos that Regina insisted Bola and I go to. It was early for us… but we went. It was like being in elementary art class all over again except with a Finish teacher (Topi). Topi learned how to make globos aerostaticos (aerostatic balloons or something similar…) in a Atatlan, a small town in Guatemala. Coincidentally that is where I think Bola and I will be going in August and September. That night when Regina, Bola, his brother Cocho, and I went to the beach with a bunch of our friends to light and release them.

Amazing. So simple yet so mind blowing to see something you made of tissue paper float into space by the pure power of fire. And they went amazingly far. Well all of them except Bola’s. That one caught fire and faded into the sea.

You’re supposed to make a wish when you light the globo and if it floats so far that you can’t see it before it catches fire or falls then it comes true. Mine would have come true, but I realized as it glided through the sky that I hadn’t made one.

And then I realized how purely happy I was in the moment. Like a child. Watching my tissue baloon fly through the air.

And I knew then that I didn’t need a wish.

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04-07-2010

Holga Time

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I love my Holga. A Holga is a small black plastic camera that looks like it could be a child’s toy. In a way I guess it is. I’ve found that it helps me get more involved in my shooting. I’m playing rather than shooting.

Seeing things in a new light. Literally.

I love the ethereal feel to the photos. And there is this timelessness about them. Like even though they were taken yesterday they could have been taken fifty years ago and you wouldn’t know.