Aquario features the photography of nationally-know artist John Woolley. His approach is a blend of Fine Art, Paparazzi, and Fashion, resulting in a unique 'Editorial' style. Not posed and static like traditional imagery, or completely candid like 'snapshot photojournalism', editorial style is loosely directed, with an eye for dramatic settings and sculpted light. This is closer to the way editorial fashion photographers work, and relies on lots of movement and spontaneity, for a gorgeous natural feel.
This dramatic approach to wedding and portrait photography has caught the eye of Good Morning America, In Touch, Professional Photographer, Rangefinder, The Knot Southern California, Brides, San Diego Style Weddings, and numerous other publications, making John one of California's best known and most respected wedding photographers.
He was recently featured in Professional Photographer magazine as 'One to Watch,' and won First Place in WPPI's prestigious international 8x10 contest, with four Accolades of Excellence. Brides love him as well, voting him ‘The Knot Best of Weddings 2007 Pick’and 'Audience Pick' on San Diego City Search.
John (from Aquario) captured our engagement, our wedding, our pregnancy, and our newborn in his pictures. All gorgeous pics! Everyone always raves about them!
My husband and I had our engagement pictures done with Aquario Studio. My husband was hestitate to do it and ended up having a blast! You could see how much fun we had taking the pictures. The whole experience was GREAT!
I had Aquario Studio photograph my 5 month old son in the Spanish Village at Balboa Park and the pictures were amazing. The posed pictures were beautiful but the ones we get the most comments on were the ones where candid pictures were being taken while we didn't know it. John was able to capture my husband and I interracting with our son and those pictures turned out to be the real diamonds. We plan on using Aquario Studio for our next child due in February.
We love our wedding pictures-John includes traditional poses with very artistic and unique shots that make people go "Awww" and "WOW" the entire time they look through our wedding album.
This studio was a disaster! The photos were so-so. They photographed the females of our wedding party from below so the women were looking down at the camera giving them double chins and wrinkles that would not appear if they had been looking straight on. Then it took over two months to get the photos online. When they did get them online they left some out and then put the others at a second website. When they sent the albums they bound them incorrectly and they had to be redone. When we received the discs the numbers for the photos on the disc did not correspond with the proofs. In addition, the proof book they sent us was incomplete. I would not recommend them!!
I cannot begin to express my gratitude to John, Tamsin, and their staff for not only capturing my beautiful wedding back in 2004, but also for continuing to photograph my family memories now that my husband and I have begun a family. John and Tamsin are a great team, and my family I look forward in working with you both again. Thank you for creating beautiful memories for my family and I.
John is a great photographer; he was always very professional and fun. He definitely has an artistic eye and a great sense of humor which puts people at ease during the photo shoots. Unfortunately, Tamsin is a very poor manager. She never delivered on her promises, has times and times again ignored our specific instructions, and has very poor customer service skills; she never admits to being wrong, has lied numerous times, and is never willing to compromise on anything. John, you'd be better off getting a new manager!!!
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