Holiday Family Portraits to Benefit YMCA

On November 28th from 12-5pm, REPhotoDesign and the Soundview Family YMCA are having a holiday family portrait day at the Pine Orchard Yacht and Country Club in Branford. All proceeds will go towards the construction and services of the new YMCA in Branford. This new YMCA will support Branford, Guilford, Madison, and the surrounding area. This new YMCA is slated to have 2 pools, one being handicap accessible, a teen center, fitness center, child care center, and more!

Holiday family portraits are on the day after Thanksgiving, so all your family should be in town! Gather them up, pile in the SUV (gas prices are low again, it's ok), and come on down! You will see your photo immediately. Your photo will be e-mailed to you so you can make your own holiday cards OR you will be able purchase prints on site through REPhotoDesign.

The YMCA is a non-profit organization and they need your help! A suggested donation will be asked for (to be determined). Again, all proceeds will benefit the YMCA!

Please sign up so we know how many people to expect!! SIGN UP HERE http://www.rephotodesign.com/ymca

Maureen & Joseph!

NY, NY! Central Park... I love going into the city. It's not a bad train ride from home, about an hour and 40 minutes. I guess I'm getting used to it with all the trips I've been taking to the city. I'll be back next weekend too!

I met up with Maureen and Joe at 5th and 59th, the corner of Central Park, or what I like to call the Apple Store. I really need to stay out of there. We took a nice long walk through central park on a perfect for photography day. I took a lot of photos and can't help but to post a lot of them here!

Joe use to work in the building behind the Apple store (I'm jealous). He asked Maureen to marry him in the park across from there, in front of the Plaza Hotel.




I tried to keep the Apple logo out of the shots... something keept drawing me to it.

I was editing the images on the train ride home. The women sitting next to me really liked this one.

I had to ask Maureen if she modeled before cause she would naturally give me these looks and poses that were fantastic.


Then an onlooker tried to do the same? Not as effective.










After the shoot I enjoyed a city vendor pretzel and headed to Grand Central. Sunday nights are always crowded going back to New Haven. I got there a little early and managed a good seat next to a window. Then an announcement came over the speaker that the train was broken and we had to get on another train. It was a mad dash! The next train didn't have as many cars, so seats were even more limited and I ended up on an isle. It was crazy.

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I planned on working on this blog page this winter. The first things was to make it a more wider format. Since that's easy, I took care of it today! Now, first and foremost, I can put up some bigger images. The battle is finding the right size for image. I don't want to make them so big that you can't see the whole image on your screen, since everyones computer is different. Vertical shots are the most difficult to manage. So my next post will have images! I'll rework the graphic above when I can get to that. It may be another month or so.