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  • WELCOME!

    Thanks for visiting our blog. Who is Funico you might ask? In short, we are:

    Husband-and-wife led team. Award-winning New York wedding photographers and videographers. Creative. Reliable. Trusted.

    Our names are actually Alice & James Thompson, not Alice & James Funico (though we've gotten mail addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Funico!) We invented the word "funico" because we wanted a name that you would remember and something with the word "fun" in it. Your wedding is a celebration and all parts of it should be FUN!

    We started photographing weddings in 2004 and have loved it ever since. As demand for our services grew, we built a small team of photographers and videographers who share our passion. As photographers, we will capture the essence of your wedding with candid photojournalism, fine art portraits and our unique style of "fine art photojournalism." At the same time, our videographers will provide a cinematic video for you to enjoy and relive for years to come.

    Our goal is to anticipate and capture the smiles from the heart, the spontaneous gestures of love, and the rhythm of your celebration.

    To see more of our work or to chat about photography or video for your wedding, contact us at (646) 234-8927 or team@funicostudios.com. Look forward to chatting with you!

    Or, visit our website at: www.funicostudios.com

1 Wedding, 2 Wedding Photographers and 3 Funico Brides

A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of photographing Clara & Danny’s wedding.   First, a ceremony outside in beautiful Central Park and then a fun reception at The Central Park Boathouse.   Beautiful day, beautiful venue and a beautiful bride.  As NYC wedding photographers, we couldn’t ask for anything more! We had a little bonus on this day though. We got to see some familiar faces.

Meet Linar, Elena, and of the course the bride Clara (and I’m the last person on the right).

Now, meet Linar, our 2009 bride…

Elena, our 2012 bride…

and Clara, our 2013 bride.

To our 3 amazing couples – may your love and happiness grow with each passing year!

Check Out Our Wedding Photos in a Magazine Ad

If you’re perusing the newsstands, check out the latest issue of Industry Magazine, a cool lifestyle magazine that celebrates good living. There’s an ad in there for one of our favorite Staten Island wedding venues, Celebrate at Snug Harbor.

Magazine Cover

We’re excited that Snug Harbor chose a bunch of our photos for the advertisement. The  images with couples in them are ours. Gorgeous pictures to show off a gorgeous wedding venue!

Wedding venue advertisement

Snug Harbor has beautiful gardens, architecture and an amazing Great Hall with its vault-like ceilings and we try to bring out these wonderful features in our wedding photography.  If you have us shoot your wedding there, we’ll capture photos that are good enough to use in magazine ads.  Well, to be honest, we will try to do this regardless of where you get married.

 

Dramatic spring storm captured by photographer

Yesterday was a beautiful Spring day here in NYC. It has been unusually cold, so the warm weather was much appreciated! Unfortunately the Spring-like weather did not last very long. Around 7PM, we could see the dark gray clouds quickly moving in to ruin our good time. The wind whipped up, it got much cooler and dark very quickly These types of storms produce some dramatic clouds So I couldn’t resist running up to the roof to grab a few photos.

My lens was not wide enough to capture the dramatic clouds passing over Manhattan. Taking a photo like this doesn’t capture the whole story of this wicked and evil Spring weather buster of a storm.
NYC skyline

I was able to capture more of its grand entrance by taking several photos and stitching them together to make these panoramic pictures.

Dramatic NYC Skyline photo

Dramatic Manhattan Skyline photo

To capture more of the dramatic sky, I also created a multi-layered panoramic. Meaning I not only joined photos together from the left and right, I also added an additional layer of photos taken of the evil-looking clouds above and voila – meet Mr. Gray Sky!

Manhattan Skyline Photo

This trick also allows us to get the wide shots without the distortion you get if we used a wide fisheye lens. We’ve used this same photography technique to create some amazing landscapes at weddings. So if Mr. Gray Sky shows up at your wedding as an uninvited guest, no worries, we will make the best of it. We enjoy capturing dramatic gray clouds as much as we enjoy capturing beautiful blue skies. One of our panoramic photos is currently featured in the Summer issue of Manhattan Bride magazine. More to come on the Manhattan Bride feature!

And the Winners of Our Best of 2012 New Jersey and New York Wedding Photos Are…

Last week the voting for our annual “sharing the love” contest ended and we have tallied the results. Before we announce the winners, we wish to thank all of our fantastic couples from 2012. It’s such a joy to be part of each and every one of your weddings It wasn’t easy selecting just a couple of photos from each wedding when every one of your weddings had so many awesome moments. We also want to thank all those who took the time to cast their votes on our blog, Facebook and Google+. Come on, in the age of reality TV shows did you think we could announce the winners without a little preamble and suspense?

Now, to cut to the chase.

The 1st and 2nd place winners were neck and neck with the winner ahead by only a few votes. This year’s winner shows that they can have their cake and win it too at The Brownstone. Congratulations to Jen & Vincent for winning 1st place!

Our 2nd place winner was close, but we understand that it’s tough to compete with cake.  Congratulations to Katie and Dane with this beautiful photo in the Ivy Tunnel at Snug Harbor.

Our 3rd place winner was an emotional moment captured at Imani & Ostus’ wedding at Water’s Edge in LIC.

Congratulations to all the winners!  We look forward to another year of capturing all the little stories that happen at each wedding. From fun cake cutting to emotional wedding vows, they are all equally important to us and we are so honored to be be able to capture them all.

New Jersey and New York Wedding Photographers Sharing the Best of 2012

Weddings are celebrations of a couple’s love for one another. Now is the time for our annual “sharing the love” contest where we share the love that we capture in our wedding photos! We took a few photos from each of our 2012 New Jersey & New York weddings and made a slide show. When you have hundreds of beautiful photos from each wedding, selecting just a few is not an easy task. We invite you to look at the show below and vote for your favorite image! You’ll see a number at the bottom of each image. After you enjoy the show, please make a comment telling us which image number gets your vote!

To be fair to everyone and prevent ballet box stuffing, we will only count one vote per valid email address. Don’t worry, you can also vote by clicking on these links to pages on Facebook and Google+. Each “like” and each comment on Facebook also counts as a vote. For all you Google+ users, every +1 and every comment counts as a vote as well. So, if you have an email address, a Facebook account and a Google+ account, you can vote 5 times!


The 3 couples with the most votes will win $400 in prizes and big time bragging rights. Starting today, you have until 11:59PM EST on March 6th, 2013 to cast your votes. The newlyweds with the most votes from all three mediums, our blog, Facebook and Google+, will receive Funico Studios credits that can be used to purchase any of our products (for example, gallery wraps, album upgrades or parent albums). The couple who has a photo with the most votes will receive a $250 credit. The 2nd place winner will receive a $100 credit and the 3rd place winner will receive a $50 credit. Sorry, but we will only give 1 prize per couple. Yes, that means one couple cannot win the entire $400 in prizes. Good luck to all of our amazing couples! We will post the results on March 11th, 2013.

February 28, 2013 - 3:50 pm

SusanneHandling - 62!

February 28, 2013 - 3:59 pm

Tim Gaffney - number 61

February 28, 2013 - 4:13 pm
February 28, 2013 - 4:40 pm

Laura - image 24!!

February 28, 2013 - 5:36 pm

barb - #53!

February 28, 2013 - 6:37 pm

Nicole M - 53 – Beautiful picture!

February 28, 2013 - 6:41 pm

Michele - #53 and #54

February 28, 2013 - 6:46 pm

Michelle - Def 53!!!!!

February 28, 2013 - 8:23 pm

LeighAnne - #53! Beautiful!

February 28, 2013 - 8:46 pm

Samantha - #53 is my favorite!

February 28, 2013 - 10:01 pm

Bridget - # 53!!

February 28, 2013 - 10:05 pm

Kelly - #61 of course xo!

February 28, 2013 - 10:14 pm

Cece - 53 and 54 are gorgeous

March 1, 2013 - 12:28 am

Augie - Pic 61

March 1, 2013 - 8:34 am

Michele Coccaro Benedict - 20 and 21

March 1, 2013 - 10:25 am

m cap - 20,21

March 1, 2013 - 3:49 pm

Eileen Burchsted - I love both #53 and #54……….

March 1, 2013 - 5:48 pm

Mom - # 20 and 21…Such tender emotional moments filled with love, pride and joy!!!
Love them both

March 1, 2013 - 6:07 pm

Alison Lesniak - #61!

March 1, 2013 - 6:08 pm

Walter Macon - 61

March 1, 2013 - 6:09 pm

Marie Lesniak - 61

March 1, 2013 - 6:10 pm

Amy Lesniak - 61, definitely! What a beautiful couple!

March 1, 2013 - 6:11 pm

Jeff Briggs - 61

March 1, 2013 - 6:15 pm

Abigail Lesniak - My mom! 61

March 1, 2013 - 6:16 pm

Joseph Lesniak - 61 beautiful

March 1, 2013 - 8:35 pm

Pawel Jasionek - #53!!!

March 2, 2013 - 7:37 pm

M Pam Miller - # 5 A very profound moment. Beautifully!

March 3, 2013 - 9:54 am

Raushannah Kornegay - #5 – still brings tears to my eyes! :)

March 4, 2013 - 4:09 am

Colleen - #39 just beautiful

March 11, 2013 - 8:12 am

Caridad - #20 and #21 BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

March 22, 2013 - 8:29 am

joanie - has to be #38 or #39!