Holiday Soiree

What’s a girl to do, come December 12 when the holiday party invites are just pouring in?  Little black dress?  Neutral metallics?   Well, just ask Bloomingdale’s because their Holiday Style Guide is divine and covers everything black and sparkly, nude and metallic, color blocky, and more. 

Loving all of it but the sweaters, which for me… are for the after party on the sofa at home with your cocoa. But whatevs.  Just click and go through the looks they’ve pulled together for a little Holiday inspiration!

CLICK HERE TO SEE IT ALL!

MODEL Development

I love photography, of course, but a close second is working with young models as they learn the ropes and build their portfolios. So much so, that if it were as lucrative as commercial work, I’d probably do that exclusively!

Time to meet Jordan… a massively sweet guy we’ve recently spotted, and an exciting fresh face in KC. After a couple of shoots, the verdict is: he’s the bomb dotcom.

He’s one to watch. We are!

Hemline Happiness!

Clients/customers/consumers… whatever you call them, they are people who pay you to work. Yeah, we get that. But we feel just a little bit over the moon that so many of our clients become true friends.

We work together over and over and we learn about their families and their goals. We like them more as people than paychecks. Our collaborations are enriched by these relationships. Frankly, we love our clients. And in working with friends, work becomes quite a bit like play and not a lot like work. And that is a formula for happiness.

So here I am giving a shout out to our friends at Hemline. Just all around good people. Buy their amazingly beautiful clothes here: http://www.shophemline.com/

Now, admire our Fall lookbook collaboration, why don’t ya?

I feel Preppy, oh so Preppy…

Crisp and cool and NOT 106 degrees. Fall, I thought you’d never get here! But here we are in an August darn-near-cold-snap and I’ve begun to realize: FALL WILL INDEED ARRIVE! And with Fall comes plaid and cardigans and loafers and all the Preppy goodness of the geek chic season.

So grab a camel blazer and whip an impossibly haphazard scarf around the collar of your just-enough-starch baby blue button down… and feel oh so Preppy!

I couldn’t hope to gather more delightfully straight-laced Prepster images than this great tumblr blogger called Ivy Row. So full credit to you, Ivy Row! Check out the prep right here!

Hairy Beasts

Okay, men. We know you can grow it, ALL over your body. In fact, we know you can’t avoid growing it, even if you wanted to, which apparently, some of you don’t. Want to NOT. Grow it, that is. And honestly, we’re cool with that. Especially in the winter. In a tent. When we may die of hypothermia.

I may catch hell from a few of you furries out there (Like dudes are actually reading my blog!) But let me just clear up one thing for you hairy beasts. When it comes to dirty, scraggly lunch-is-still-in-there beards… we girls just aren’t havin’ it.

If a beard like that can take Brad Pitt from this:

to, well, THIS:

Then the rest of you fellas must recognize the yuk factor it can have on YOU.

To put it bluntly, too much of a good thing (scruff = sexy) can take you from hotly testosterone-y to full-on Jesus in about 2 centimeters. It’s a thin line, dude. Keep it down to stubbly hotness and you’re good to go.

Let it run amok any further, and you’re heading into Big Foot territory without a tent-mate.

Word for the day: Manscaping. Do it.

Well, well, W…

W magazine just blew the doors off my whole opinion of “sad girl” as we at the office like to call Kristin Stewart. (Thank you to Sarah Hagler Lyons for coining that term).

I’ve always completely forgotten to look at her when she is onscreen, and I’m sure it’s not because she’s always pressed up against my boyfriend, Robert Pattinson **ahem**.

ANYWAY… her latest Valley of the Dolls-inspired spread in W just made me sit up straight in my ‘sad girl’ pants and say “WHOA, my boyfriend’s girlfriend is spectacular”. And THAT my friends is called STYLING!

So get our your Clé de Peau Intensifying Cream Eyeliner (you have that, right?) and your nude lippy and roar like stunning sad girl! Check it all out here.

Narrative, matey.

I’ve said it before (several times) and I’ll say it again. I love a photoshoot with a wicked cool, sexy narrative. It just pulls the whole thing together and takes you on a little ride.

Take a peek at Diesel’s wicked new “Diesel Island” shoot. Pirates and treasure and scarves, oh my. A rugged man shipwrecked (somehow his motorcycle made it ashore – whew!) with a few fashionably piratey lady friends. What more could you ask for? Hope they never get rescued, ’cause they’re way too hot for civilization.

Want more? Drool, er click here!

Beyond the Board…

Heterosexual gentlemen, after EXTENSIVE research this summer at the pool, it has come to my attention that you are missing about three quarters of the swimwear choices that are available to you. It’s like you are completely not aware of life beyond the board… short.

(photo credit: Naila-Swim-2011-Swell-Suits-Miami-2011-Mercedes-Benz-Fashion-Week)

And therefore, I wish to school you. You sir, must move beyond the board and embrace the trunk, the brief and yay, though ye be of Midwestern decent… even the bikini brief. (But only if you are yachting, which frankly, ain’t likely. So you can skip the bikini brief.)

Please peruse this masterpiece of manly swimwearables and see for yourselves that indeed, there is life beyond the board. Dive in! Click here to view this other blogger’s blog because I couldn’t have explained it all better myself. And didn’t. Shopping Savage.

Vivienda Moderna – Our New Office!

Wheat Photography is a weird business. It’s different every year – for sure. It grows. Sometimes it even shrinks – on purpose. We regroup, decide what we love to do most, do that more. Decide what we aren’t so into anymore, do that less. We collect talented new people who are like-minded and they meld with us and join us in our work like a big bunch of wonderful uber-smart pets… creating, shall we say, a COLLECTIVE? (Thanks Sarah Lyons, wordsmith/stylist – that’s the best word anyone could ever come up with to describe our band of hooligans!)

Or some days it’s just me and a camera and a person/place/thing in front of that lens. I like that too.

We are moving into a new office **here** after just a year in our old one. We move around when our space or our office or our studio don’t fit us as well as they did before. Kind of like last year’s pants. Sometimes you just need new.

We think of cool stuff we’d love to try at a blistering pace, and then try to do it all at a blistering pace. We never get to it all. But more than anything else, Wheat Photography is really, really, really FUN. Like laugh until you hurt fun. And for that I am so grateful. And for all the like-minded who join “The Wheat Collective” and help us, boost us, scare us, love us, promote us, refer us and “get” us… we say a huge THANK YOU. I love you nutty people!

Oh Brigitte…

There will never be another Brigitte Bardot. But I’m voting we all pay homage with the biggest hair we can muster. Just feast your eyes on her innocent but voluptuous curves, her bee stung lips, her why-fix-it tooth gap. And the hair — well, what can you say about that Italian movie star hair that says “I look this hot right when I roll out of bed”. Nevermind the delicious “who me?” pigtails.

Here she is in all her vintage glory. Oh Brigitte!