The results of another Zero Package. As some know, amongst our offerings in our price list there is one package that is very special and very different. The Package Zero. What is Package Zero? The best way to describe it is to describe what it isn’t. It is never the same, and it is never what I normally do. It is a package that gives me total creative freedom to be an artist and to view a wedding day as the opportunity to make art that is considered as “one of a kind”. The clients that accept this kind of package have zero input on what I shoot, how I shoot, and what I produce for the album. My promise to them is that I will follow a style, genre, or theme that I have not done before and then once I do it, I will never do it again as coverage for any other wedding. In addition, I will build an ultra custom, one-of-a-kind album that I will not replicate, ever. The resulting trust that these clients give me to produce the final product often becomes a burden as my goal is to produce (what I hope will be) my opus of that time: the best piece that I have ever done.
The above video is just a quick glimpse of what my latest zero’s album looks like. It was shot and designed knowing that I would not be able to share the images effectively online since I shot the entire wedding in stereo and the results to be viewed as large format stereograms. Also included in the album is a 100+ year old stereoscope viewer. This was, by far, the most difficult wedding that I have ever photographed and its post production and album has been the most complex project that I have done to date. Although I can’t share with you the experience of the images online, the album in the above video represents (for now) my magnum opus.
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I wish I could see this in person!! Your zero packages are ALWAYS amazing! Great work as always…you are brilliant…truly brilliant!
i love you.
John, again amazing. I have been so excited to see how this was going to come together.
John you are the man.. I can’t believe you made something like this!!
Can I see them in person?
One of the most incredible undertakings I have ever seen. You have managed to even outdo yourself. Bravo!
John – I just don’t even know what to write in comments anymore cause I feel like I say the same thing every time. So I won’t say anything fancy, I will just say “Ditto” to everything I have ever told you in the past.
Love ya.
WHOA! HOLY COW-PATTY! That is the most beautiful album collection. I am so so jealous it’s not mine. The recipients of that album collection are probably going to need to leave that to a museum after they die. TRUE ART!
This is insanely awesome.
wow! i just discovered your site and i must say that i am about to become a stalker
you have taken the art of photography to a whole new level with this…it is amazing and beautiful and such an original approach. Kudos to you! Can’t wait to see how you can possbily top this one!
That may very well be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
So, I’m a little slow. I didn’t know what “steroscope” meant until I Googled it and found it on Wikipedia so I could figure out what the heck your magnum opus was all about. Wow. Beyond cool. That’s quite a mind you’ve got there, JMC.
brilliant!!!!
Haha, that’s awesome John! Jayse and I love this idea… so unique and fun! What an insane project.
you are such an inspiration! i absolutely love and the idea behind your zero projects and totally envy the creative innovation of your mind. not to mention how much i want one for myself!
True artist, you are!
Wow,my dad and I shoot Stereo images and I can not even IMAGINE shooting a wedding in stereo! He’s been working on duplicating old stereo slides from the National Parks, mostly caves, and it’s been an intense project. I can’t even imagine doing it for something like this. Wow…. very very cool. I hope you know that they’re going to write books about you some day…
wow.
so don’t tell rick, but i think that i’m going to plan another wedding JUST so i can have this type of awesomeness!!!