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    Hello and welcome to the Not So Still Life Photography Blogsite - blog and website combined. I'm Danielle Stolman, a wedding and event photographer in San Jose, CA. My blogsite will showcase work for my clients including


    weddings,

    engagement sessions,
    wedding albums.


    I'll also share glimpses into my personal life including running (I completed a life long goal and ran two marathons in 2009), volunteering, and day to day life. Refresh the page to see more photos of me at the left - some silly, some serious.

    If you'd like to talk to me about photographing your wedding, feel free to email me at Danielle@NotsoStillLife.com or call 650.759.6796.

Topical Tuesday (19)

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Posted in topical Tuesday

Although I don’t often watch award shows, I was delighted to get an invitation to Matt and Karie’s Fourth Annual Oscar party. Even their entry table was perfectly coordinated and detailed. While I knew I wasn’t going to get the prize for most correctly predicted Oscars, in part as I hadn’t seen that many movies nominated this year, I knew it was going to be a great time and I was right. One of the coolest parts of the party was having a small but vocal group react to the nominees, entertainment and speeches. It was kind of like being in a Mystery Science 3000 episode, though the TV show wasn’t that bad, though there were moments of pure groaning from our audience. 

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Archer Taylor Preserve and Artesa Winery – Manmade vs. Natural Beauty

Sunday, March 7, 2010 Posted in photography - general


A recent hike with the Renegade Photography Meetup Group turned into a visual study of the similarities between natural and manmade beautiful things particularly those involving water for me. One of my favorite photos of the day was this one, the manmade fountain outside Artesa Winery that a few of us visited after a long, yet fun and photogenic hike of Archer Taylor Preserve.
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Izzy Magazine Launch Party – Villa Montalvo

Thursday, March 4, 2010 Posted in personal


Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending the launch party of the new online bridal magazine, Izzy Magazine at Villa Montalvo. The attention to details was obvious down to the individual bows and sculpted fabric roses decorating the chair backs. View full post »

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Wish Upon a Wedding: Wish Granter Interview: Rev. Jeri Murphy

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Posted in Wish upon a wedding

Reverend Jeri Murphy will be the officiant at the first ever Wish Upon a Wedding granted wedding wish of Florence and Michael on March 13th. In this short video, she talks about her role.


Reverend Jeri talks about Wish Upon a Wedding Charity from Danielle Stolman on Vimeo.

Wish Upon a Wedding is a wonderful charity that I am delighted to be a part of. If you know anyone who is facing a life threatening disease and would like to get married (both straight and gay couples are eligible), please direct them to to the request page. If you know a wedding vendor, particularly one that runs a venue, is a disc jockey or officiant, who would like to be a wish granter, please direct them to the wish granter page.

Congratulations to WUW, who reached 5,000 fans on their Facebook page, during their week of WUW Awareness.

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Topical Tuesday (18)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Posted in topical Tuesday

Since my last Topical Tuesday post, I attended three new first ever/launch type events. The most recent was yesterday’s Dream Wedding Show bridal fair in Sacramento to promote Wish Upon a Wedding, the nation’s first wedding wish granting organization for brides or grooms facing a terminal disease. 

On Friday I attended the launch party for Izzy Magzine, a new online bridal magazine for unique and independent brides. I really love the theme of the magazine and have at least one bride coming up this year whose wedding might be perfect to submit for this. I was especially happy that the party was in Villa Montalvo, which had coincidentally been the site for the Wish Upon a Wedding launch party in January. The party started at just the right time, 6:30 p.m., and the dramatic sky provided a great contrast for the multilit structure. 

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