From my mid-November trip to Boston.
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When the holidays come around, I live on Pinterest and detach from reality. Usually I'm content to pin a thousand wrapping paper schemes and leave it at that, but this year -- in a fit of festive feeling -- it was time to try my hand at it myself.
I'm an unspeakably huge fan of plain brown paper -- it's neutral and inoffensive and can be dressed up in a million different moods just by tweaking a small detail (a bow or some twine here, a tag there).
My other weaknesses: black ribbon, gold and silver accents, and sweeping, elegant typography.
Everything was given a giant ribbon bow as a topper. Naturally.
The finished products, when arranged under the tree, look understated and a little rustic. Nothing to overwhelm your holiday decor here.
Before Chris & Jacky had their Boston Public Garden session, PhD student Shiro, another undergraduate classmate of mine, had a brief headshot session in a gorgeous stairwell in the Harvard politics building. The left is my favorite of the set. It wasn't posed -- Shiro had just stood perfectly still and smiley for too many photos in a row, and the second he relaxed, I snapped that last one candidly.
The photo on the right was taken purely because I can never resist a bit of light leak. It's so dramatic!