Corporate Portrait of the Best Web Designer Ever

You know him. You love him. You cannot live WITHOUT him! 

That's how we feel about finding a good web designer.

Jamey is one of the best web designers we know. He runs Dala Ad Agency and they are able to take your dreams and turn them into a website. Here at James Ramsay Photography, wedding photography takes up most of our time. But when we shoot corporate portraits, we like to have fun. In this case, we did the entire series of photos in Scandia, where Jamey has a really cool house in the country.

First Friday St. Paul

Lauren Sudbrink, a Minneapolis photographer friend, worked with us on

Kristi and Eric's wedding photography in Scandia a while back. 

Lauren is a great fine art photographer so we thought she would be a perfect fit

for Lowertown First Friday at the Tilsner Art Coop Building

where my photo studio is located.

We built four 4x6' canvases for a series of film loops Lauren did.

We made the canvases translucent for a more

interactive, sculptural, surrealist effect.

I couldn't have made the canvases myself. I owe a huge debt

of gratitude to my neighbor, Travis, who is a professional

Theater set designer and lighting designer at

Park Square Theater in St. Paul.

Below you will find some video from just after we got the projectors

and canvases up.  Most of the video is taken from the back side

so you can see the industrial construction of the canvases.

St. Paul Film Installation by Lauren Sudbrink

Aida

Aida did a lovely modeling job for me on South Beach in Miami.

She is originally from Senegal in the Western part of Africa.

That's fashion

Johnny stopped by the studio before he left

for Miami.

Apartment Therapy

I am back from Miami. And the artist's loft that I photographed

for Apartment Therapy got published!

Johnny and Stacie said their favorite part about their studio

is their dog, Ruby! They also have cool furniture and a

great sense of interior design.

I was shocked to learn the photos are highly controversial! 

The artists' use of a repurposed deer head was one hot topic.

Believe it or not, the other controversy was my

wide angle lens. I think it's kind of cool.

James Ramsay on Apartment Therapy

The pictures on my blog are my edits. The ones on AT were

edited by Johnny and Stacie and uploaded to AT.

Color

I did some work today for a cool blog

called Apartment Therapy.

The featured art studio was Johnny

and Stacie's.

www.johnnyandstacie.com

Peach

The Peach Gallery in Saint Paul is focused on art

and community. The curator hired me to do

some advertising photography for them the

other day.

Check them out! They are right across the street

from our studio.

Peach - a multipurpose artspace

Colleen and Jon - A Wedding at the Cinema

I had a blast documenting Colleen and Jon's wedding at

the Cinema Ballroom in Saint Paul and

the Graves Hotel in Minneapolis.

Rhiannon and Mark Engagement

I was able to make some awesome

pictures of Rhiannon and Mark in

Minneapolis the other day.

We had  a lot of fun with

the engagement photos.

Mark flew in from

California just

for the shoot!

Here is the entire shoot:

slide show

Cirque du Soleil

The view from my studio at dawn. The Cirque Du Soleil

is in town and I have a great view of the tents.

St. Paul has a history with the circus. According to a

recent newspaper story, about 8,000 of the original

40,000 St. Paul residents attended the

first Ringling Brothers circus in

St. Paul.