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  • January1st

    (Reposted from AV blog)

    December is always a hectic but fun month here. My brother’s birthday, our family Christmas party, my son Aiden’s birthday and then Christmas and the New year roll through one after another and I’ve barely cleaned the cake pan between use. (Alright, my dishwasher has barely cleaned the pan…)

    happy birthday Zoe!

    Sometimes I forget to use my camera for me. One of my personal resolutions for the new year is to finally conquer a 365 project. I’ve gotten my hands on a Canon 20D body I will probably tow around in my purse to help keep me going. James wants to do one as well…we’ve got a lot of plans!

    Happy Birthday Zoe!

    To practice, I’ve been using my camera for me all week. It was a good week to start with my family celebrating my daughter Zoe’s 11th birthday, the kids decorating the tree and my son in his brand new (gently used, rescued from storage by James) racecar big boy bed. I can hardly wait to wake up to a juice cup being thrust in my face and I will miss him calling “Goooooood Mooooorrrnnning!” from his crib at 7:30am sharp.

    First night in the big boy bed!

    Decorating the tree

    CHEESE

    Somewhere along the line, my baby became a boy and my little girl became a tween. Woah. Happy Birthday Zoe, please have mercy on me over the next decade. :)

    Me and Zoe

  • October25th

    I’ve been so busy with weddings lately I haven’t been able to blog very much. The Altared Visions site still has a lot of work (as does this one) and often takes priority. I just shot my last wedding until New Year’s Eve this past weekend in Maryland complete with Washington DC engagement shots and I’m really excited to catch up on edits and have some serious time to blog and do some personal work.

    But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been shooting!! So here are some shots from my autumnal shenanigans this year.

    There was King Richard’s Faire. Full set here.

    King Richard's Faire

    King Richard's Faire

    And then there was the Salem Zombie Walk on 10.10.10. Full set here.

    Salem Zombie Walk 2010

    Salem Zombie Walk 2010

    Followed by my annual trip to the New York Sheep & Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, NY. Full set here.

    Rhinebeck 2010

    Rhinebeck 2010

    Followed by the first official Hideout New England group shoot with James Barron [facebook] Dana Lane [website] and Olivia Williams [website] and our beautiful models Mara and Keila. Full set here.

    1st Hideout New England group shoot!

    The New England Hideout group shoot #1

    This has been such a great (and busy) fall!! More to come!

  • October5th

    Remember my DIY Lightbox tutorial? Well Michelle, a fellow knitter, wrote me saying she was going to try it out and I asked her to let me know how it went.

    Well she did and she kind blew my mind experimenting with backgrounds by putting stuff between the light and tissue…genius!! Look!

    Have you made a DIY Lightbox with my tute? Let me know and I’ll link your post! Which reminds me…I should post some more DIY photography stuff! Wedding season is winding down and there’ll be a lot more time for blogging, knitting, blogging about knitting (look, I closed my knitting blog so you non-knitting readers…all 3 of you…will just have to deal!) and best of all…photography for the hell of it.

  • October2nd

    Greg Dor, aka Greatness, is a Boston hiphop artist who actually use to coach my niece’s basketball team. You may recognize him as this isn’t my first shoot with him. This time around though, it was out of the studio (aka my little living room with a giant backdrop wedge in the middle and me shooting from the kitchen) and onto the trolley tracks in Dorchester, MA.

    We were racing against the failing light and being swarmed by mosquitoes but I’m really happy with the results. I had James along to help out with the light and he set Greg up for my favorite photo from the session here…

    Greatness

    Greg is incredibly talented and one of my favorite Facebook friends, I always have a blast trying to make him laugh and break his ganster face. (Sometimes it works…don’t tell anyone.)

    Greatness

    Greatness

    Greatness

    Greatness

    Greatness

    These were all taken in about 20-30 minutes with a single off-camera flash, bare bulb with a 1/4 CTO gel except the graveyard photos which had a LumoPro flash on the shadow side for a little rim and fill. We were not eaten by zombies during this shoot…this time.

  • October2nd

    Congratulations to Lisa who won the 250 die-cut business card giveaway!! Stay tuned for more awesome giveaways!
    winner

    Coming up next: Promo session with Boston hip-hop artist, Greatness.

  • September20th

    Time for another awesome Uprinting.com giveaway! I love their giveaway program because I get to give you, my lovely readers (Hi Mom!) something and I get the same prize for hosting! Deal!

    Here’s the deets:

    250 Die Cut Business Cards for One (1) Winner
    2 x 3.5”, 2 x 2” (square card) or 1.75 x 3.5” (slim card)
    Die cutting options available: Rounded Corners, Leaf, Rounded One-Corner, Half-Circle Side, Circle
    Paper Type: 14pt Cardstock Gloss, Matte, or High Gloss; 13pt Cardstock Uncoated
    Color: 4Color Front, Blank Back; 4Color Front, Black Back; 4Color Both Sides
    Limited to US residents only  18 years old and above
    All you have to do is leave a comment telling me what you’ll use your prize for (or you can recite the alphabet, whatever) and you’re entered! Make sure to use your real email address and get your comment in before SEPTEMBER 30th!!
    Uprinting makes some awesome business cards, you’ll love them!
  • September5th

    Having a blog has a lot of perks, one of which is sometimes you get to give away or review products that your readers might be into. Well, a lot of my readers are photographers and if there’s one things photographers need to survive, it’s COFFEE!

    I’ve recently become a real French press snob, it’s the only coffee maker I will use because the machines just taste like crap to me now. I recently busted my flimsy IKEA job so it’s time to test-run a new french press from CSN. I will report back with the review and of course copious photographs!

    If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, you can find me located under a mountain of work for the Altared Visions business, and I couldn’t be happier!

  • September4th

    http://altaredvisions.com

    After a lot of planning, endless computer hours and designing later, Altared Visions (my wedding collaboration with James of Undying Photography) has a website, cards, stickers, branding, social networking and two very tired but pleased employees. :)

    Check out the new website at http://altaredvisions.com

  • August24th

    Amazing couple, amazing location (The Whaling Museum in New Beford MA)…what more could we ask for? Here’s some favorites from John & Darlene’s big day! (Apologies for the brief post, I am plowing through a mile-long to-do list!)

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    John & Darlene

    Congrats you two!

  • August4th

    Some favorites from Aime & Ryan’s wedding last month!

    Aime & Ryan

    Aime & Ryan

    Aime & Ryan

    Aime & Ryan

    Aime & Ryan

    Aime & Ryan

    Aime & Ryan

    Aime & Ryan

    Set here.