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.

Tara & Jeremy!

Tara and Jeremy met over 6 years ago. It took a little while for them to start dating, but once Jeremy asked Tara out for dinner, the rest is history! Since they love to go hiking, I took them to one of my favorite hiking and photography locations, Sleeping Giant State Park. During the shoot I caught Jeremy looking at the stream for fish for his fish tanks. I'm sure there were a few as the stream was really flowing. So much so it changed some of the regular landscape that I'm used to seeing! I'll be photographing their "pink tie only" wedding next July. Tara ensures me that "it's going to look like someone vomited pink," her favorite color.











It was tough to pull off a longer exposer shot during the day! I just wanted that water to look smooth.










Here I go again with the ring!


Even though I was in a forest, it took me a little while to find a leaf that would stay attached to the branch it was on.

Christina Trashed The Dress!

Back on April 5th I photographed Christina and Brett's wedding. I told Christina then that if she ever wanted to take more photos after the wedding, I'd be more than happy to! She was a natural in front of the camera. When she asked about doing a trash the dress session, I was thrilled! I did have some big ideas, but, Christina does want to keep her dress. So "mess the dress" we did.

We started out at her parents house where they wanted some more pictures. Christina's parents are away, so these will be a surprise to them! Did I just give that away? Hey Christina, do they read this blog?




The fall foliage is all on the ground at this point in the year.












I love this shot. I already have 3 canvas prints of Christina on my office walls. I guess there's going to be a fourth! I'm going to take some time to try and photoshop out the sign that's hanging off the fence.

That's Brett's reflection in the shades.


Walking back to our cars we saw the last tree with any leaves on it.


I'm a car fanatic. There are about 15 automotive blogs that I read. I followed Christina and Brett during the start of our drive and I couldn't figure out what he was driving. Somehow I missed out on knowing that Volkswagen released a new car, the CC. When I took this picture the car had only been out for 3 weeks. Brett works for a Volkswagen dealer, so lucky him, he is driving one. I have to say, it's really nice. Finally something that makes me want a Volkswagen (besides a Golf R36).