Category Archives: moments of genius

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Luxury Las Vegas – Mob Museum

The September Issue of Luxury Magazine features John Michael Coopers work! What a fantastic shoot – it’s always a treat to go out and do something different and push the boundaries. Once again. Styling By Jenna Doughton Hair/Makeup by Whitney Urichuk at One Luv Agency … Read More

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New Orleans

photography mostly by John Michael Cooper, blog post by Dalisa Cooper It’s funny how things come together sometimes.  How we are brought together for one reason or another.  I live for moments like this.  Just when I believe that my job couldn’t be any better, … Read More

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Merry Insta Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy Holidays

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Fiji, Instagram, and one Special Couple

It was five years ago that our industry companion by trade and friend by choice, Randi of Naakiti Floral told us that she was getting married! And in Fiji! Of course, my first question was “what’s the date?” – my heart dropped when she had … Read More

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Being Featured on Inside Edition

blog post by jmc These things always start with a phone call…. “yes, I am credited with coining the phrase ‘Trash the Dress’ … “no, I don’t actually offer TTD sessions; I do these sessions that I call anti-bridals and I’ve been doing them since … Read More

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Restarting Roadside Families

blog post by jmc   ***updated  Roadside Families was a project we did a couple of years ago while on a 9 city speaking tour. It was a “pay it forward” type of project, inspired by David Williams, where we photographed photographers families along our … Read More

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Speaking – 2011

We spoke a lot in the first half of 2011 and below are the last opportunities to hear us speak or attend a workshop in 2011. The last half pretty much covers from the east coast to the west coast with some quality time in … Read More

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Sweet Disorder in the Dress

Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction– An erring lace, which here and there Enthrals the crimson stomacher– A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbands to … Read More

fin•ā•ō!

They say “all good things come to an end”, “change is good”, myself -I  said at the Mystic conference “it is always a good time to re-invent”.  Enter Finao, a bad ass album company, to help us with the reinventing of altF.  Yes…. an album … Read More

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grand opening party — success!

Yes, I Have Mariachi Pants!  Thank you Jimmy and Sanne!  Our grand opening party was a huge success, not just because I was wearing some of the coolest pants ever made, but because we had so many friends, family, clients and vendors that showed up … Read More

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The cover of PDN

We are on a roll!  a lot of announcements coming up… Some of it will sound like we are bragging, and that may be so, but i’m just too excited not to show off what we are doing..  A few weeks ago we were featured … Read More

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exciting news for us!

If Dalisa and I were more secretive this might just be a teaser post saying that “we have some super secret exciting news and we can’t let the cat out of the bag just yet but please keep checking back later for our uber cool … Read More