Ian Grant Photography
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Playa del Rey, CA 90293
(map) Phone: 508-965-7713 Hours: Email us and we'll get right back to you!
Ian Grant Photography is a full-service photography company. We specialize in wedding photography and travel stock photography. We are located by the beach in the Los Angeles area and serve western California as well as destinations worldwide. Our work has been featured in Rolling Stone, Mademoiselle, Netguide, The...
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Reviews for Ian Grant Photography
Oh my gosh, Ian. We just got home from our honeymoon and looked at our pictures... for like 6 hours!!! They are absolutely BEAUTIFUL and AMAZING -- we seriously are so excited! I literally got teary eyed looking at them all. Thank you SO much they are perfect. You captured everything perfectly and I have never seen such beautiful pictures in my entire life. We absolutely loved working with you guys - you and Tanya are awesome! I got so many comments from our guests about how cool you both are.. you guys totally fit right in with our guests.
If anyone needs a reference, please send them our way... Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
Keep in touch!
Kristin & Dimitri
thank you for taking amazing pictures of the most important day (so far) of our lives together
-Tom
i just wanted to send a note of thanks. you were both phenomenal in shooting katie and pat's wedding last weekend -- so wonderful and enjoyable to work with but also so remarkably stealth. looking through the samples of photos ian sent colleen, i know that katie will cherish these as both stunning, artful memories of her most important day but also as a testament to your incredible talents. thank you so very much for helping make the day such an overwhelming success!!!
Thanks so much for everything on Saturday!! Was a fun surprise to see a few of the pics on Sunday, they are awesome! Can't wait to see the rest. You guys are amazing. Thanks again!
You guys were amazing, you worked your **** off! Soooo glad you were both there to freeze your butt off with us, we love you guys! These are amazing, seriously.
-Laura and Dan
WOW Ian! I am totally blown away! Your pictures are just stunning! On top of being amazing photographers, you and Tanya were such nice people! I really enjoyed working with you! Thanks a million for everything!!!!
-Joy Proctor
The pictures are amazing!!!!! We had such a blast at our wedding and loved having Tanya and you there. You two rock. Thank you so much. P.S. We are loving our honeymoon and have so far been to Saigon and Nha Trang. When I'm taking pictures I can't help but think, man, Ian would take such an awesome picture here. You've got to add this country to your list of places to visit someday. Cheers.
-Kelly and Joe
Thanks for the photos. They look GREAT! We just sat and looked through them all. We would love to be a reference for you. You did an awesome job at our wedding. We especially like a lot of the black and whites you have done. But, we had a great time that weekend and its hard to believe it was a month and a half ago. We are glad you had a good time, too. While you were our photographer, we wanted you to enjoy the destination weekend, too.
-Brian and Veronica
What a fabulous job you did on our wedding photos!!!
They are beautiful and we are going to have a hard time deciding on our favorites.
Thank you so much; you worked really hard and the result it just what we wanted!!
Talk to you very soon; we are going to vegas for our honeymoon for a few days...
When are you taking your honeymoon?! You deserve a nice holiday!!
-Beckie & Charles
Thank you so much for the photos! We are so happy with how they turned out. We absolutely love them! We are also glad that you and Tanya had a good time at the wedding. Both of our families really enjoyed meeting you, you guys just made everybody feel comfortable.
About Ian Grant Photography
BIO:
Ian's story starts in 1981 when he was born in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Soon after, his family moved to Dartmouth, Massachusetts. When he was five, a family friend handed him his first camera and he spent the next few years of his childhood taking pictures of landscapes, cows, and the general goings-on of his daily life [mostly tramping through corn fields].
In middle school, Ian picked up a video camera, and found movie-making to be more socially acceptable than other forms of mischief-making. When he was in high school, his films were reviewed in Rolling Stone Magazine, which said, "...Grant lands somewhere between Scream scribe Kevin Williamson and schlockmeister Ed Wood." To this day, we're still not quite sure what that really means.
Ian decided to pursue his love of documenting life by studying film and photography at Emerson College in Boston. Between classes, Ian began shooting headshots for his fellow acting students and selling his fine art prints to galleries and private collectors.
Tanya's story starts four years later than Ian's, when she too was born. She grew up in a Philadelphia suburb and wrote her first book in first grade. It was called, My Friend Buffy, and it was about a rabbit. It was awesome. Tanya liked seeing her name in print so she kept writing. She found this to be a socially acceptable form of mischief-making, plus it was fun.
Tanya caught the acting bug in middle school, where she joined the school play. She continued her theater involvement throughout high school, acting, directing, designing and being an all around nerd. When it came time to choose a college, Tanya decided to try her luck at Emerson, where she studied Writing, Literature, and Publishing and Theater Education, two majors with very long names.
Then one day, Ian devised a plan to celebrate the best in cafeteria comment cards, and a mutual Emerson friend invited Tanya to join. Obviously Ian had been collecting the posted comment cards for the last couple years, and had been devising a plan to cover the cafeteria walls in them after hours. Is it any wonder they should meet making mischief?
Soon after, Ian moved to Los Angeles, and a few years later Tanya joined him. He still owes her. They realized with their powers combined they could run a pretty darn cool business. Ian Grant Photography was born. The couple shot their first wedding a little while later and were hooked. They decided they should also get married, so they did. Ian and Tanya currently live in Los Angeles with their dog, cat, and rabbit.
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New Zealand Trip Itiniary
I’m posting this so when I inevitably lose my luggage/maps I can always look back here.
Dec. 19th – Fly from LAX > Auckland
Dec. 21st-22nd – Arrive Auckland / Leave a couple hours later on propeller plane Auckland [north island] > Nelson [top of south island]. Go kayaing in Abel Tasman NP, sleep there. Go to seal island and deliver message from Los Angeles seal island. [2hr]
Dec. 23rd – Drive from Nelson down to near Gremouth. Sleep on beach / Look for penguins. [5hr]
Dec. 24th-25th – Drive from Greymouth to Franz Josef/Fox Glacier, see glaciers/look for lost hikers [3hr]
Dec. 26th-27th – Drive from Franz Josef to Mount Cook NP, look for more lost hikers buried in glaciers. See icebergs. [6hr]
Dec. 28th-29th – Drive from Mount Cook to Te Anau, see seals/Milford + Doubtful Sound and tourists [hr]
Dec. 30th – Fly from Queenstown > Auckland on propeller plane, spend the night there
Dec. 31st – Fly from Auckland > LAX
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