Sarah and Jeremy were married last month at the Hall of Springs in Saratoga Springs, New York. There was an interfaith Ketubah Ceremony and the wedding ceremony was performed both by a Priest and a Rabbi. I don’t quite remember the details now, but I did really enjoy the service. Minus the cello debacle (S & J know what I’m talking about!). 🙂
I pause from my regular wedding posts to bring you something a little different than my norm. I’ve been doing lots of retail shoots lately*, and because I love how colorful the local shops are that I photograph, I wanted to share a couple! First up is Helena’s in Arlington. If you like small-batch, made in USA clothing and accessories, you have got to head over to Helena’s. When I first arrived, I quickly noticed the table full of funky scarves (I love scarves). Shop owner, Katherine, told me they were all vintage and that she had collected them, I just had to pick one up! So, the mustard/green ikat patterned scarf you might notice is no longer avails…! Helena’s is located at 397 Massachusetts Ave.
*If you are a local shop owner and want some beautiful photographs to jazz up your website or marketing materials, I would love to help!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! We road trip to Indianapolis every year to visit family, and I think I had 10 different kinds of pie over the 3 days we were there, yum!
Sarah & Jeremy were married at the Hall of Springs earlier this month, which is such a cool venue. Here is a preview of their wedding, full post coming soon!
I’ve been shooting a ton of film lately, because it’s awesome. My clients love it, I love it, we’re all happy about it. The wedding I posted recently of Alaina and Tom was one that I shot a ton of film at, and I just got the scans back last night – a lot later than expected! I haven’t even gone through them but I wanted to share a couple.
Portra 800 with my mamiya 645. Yummerz
Alaina and Tom…two very good friends of ours. What an honor it is to be chosen by friends to photograph their big day. I met Tom at a party through our friend Jason. We had a mutual love for craft beer and because he went to college in Colorado, we immediately bonded over our love for Dales Pale Ale. When Alaina came into his life, I knew he had met his match. They both love the outdoors, music, and travel adventures. Alaina & Tom moved to DC just before our wedding *sniff* but that’s ok, we’ll see them this winter when I fully expect them to take us on a DC beer tour.
Alaina and Tom’s wedding was held at Ragged Mountain, a ski lodge in New Hampshire. I do love ski lodge weddings (not just because our wedding was at a ski lodge!) with their gigantic mountain-facing windows and beautiful scenery. It was a perfect fall day, the foliage was at peak, the air was crisp, just a teeny bit of rain, and lots and lots of love. I love you guys.
And yes, I promised pretty much everyone at the wedding that I would make at least one animated gif of Alaina doing the shot-ski.
I realized that I had a couple blog features that I didn’t mention this year! The most recent was Christina and Nick’s wedding at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation on Inspired by This. The other one was Caroline and Cornelius’ wedding at a private family estate in Goucester, MA on Snippet & Ink. Having my work featured on some of my favorite wedding blogs is great, but the real congrats goes out to my couples for making their weddings so personal and about them, which wedding blogs *love*. 🙂
Chrissy and Dave are getting married next year at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. We met up at their house in southie for their engagement session a couple weeks ago. These two love to entertain guests, so we started out in their kitchen creating spiked apple cider and enjoyed a mug in their back yard (yes they live in Boston and have a back yard, I know, unbelievable!) on a beautiful crisp October afternoon. We headed down to the beach in Southie (I think it’s called Carson Beach) where you can get gorgeous Boston skyline views, and finished up in the Public Garden. These two laugh – a lot. I would like to think that it was because I am hilarious, but I am not sure that is true. 🙂 They are such a wonderful match for each other. Dave was the most at-ease groom I have ever photographed, thank you for making my job easy, you two! I had incredible light, perfect weather, and a snuggly couple, what more can I ask for?
a mix of medium format kodak portra 400 film and images taken with my digital gear.
I am on a blogging storm this week! I had a lot of couples who wanted to utilize the gorgeous weather we were having a couple of weeks ago, and had back-to-back shoots. I think I drove around 1000 miles in two days on that particular weekend! I met up with Heather and KC up in Prospect, Maine at Fort Knox. I had been there as a kid, but never as an adult – it’s *just* as fun! The fort itself has very little light, and most places you need a flashlight to find your way around. I thought about this a lot going into it, but knew there were pep-holes around the fort and was hoping to use these. It created a spotlight look, which I was totally digging. After we played around in the fort, we went over to Fort Point in Stockton Springs. My brother actually lives in Stockton Springs, so this was so convenient for me! I stayed the night and got to snuggle their pups. Fort Point has an adorable little lighthouse, and we parked ourselves there to enjoy some wine and the beautiful Maine Coast.
Heather and KC are getting married this month at the Bangor Public Library and their party after will be held at the Sweetest Thing studio in downtown Bangor. When I asked Heather and KC what their inspiration was for meeting up at Fort Knox they told me that they wanted everything about their wedding to represent “historical Maine” – love it! I cannot wait to see you two again in just a couple weeks!
A mix of film & digital here, as usual! This time I used Kodak Portra 400, my fave when shooting people. Another thing I love about film: When I opened the back of the camera to grab the finished roll, I pulled it out and it accidentally unrolled a wee bit (with 120 film, it doesn’t get “sucked in” the canister like with 35mm). You can see the product of that accident by noticing that some frames (that were towards the end of the roll) have orangey-red blown out edges. I think it’s lovely.
Julie & Dave were married recently at Rivermill at Dover Landing in Dover, New Hampshire. There was such an insanely talented and fun group of people working at this wedding, that I hope I get to be in this group of pro’s again. Britt at Rivermill is always a hoot to work with, Kate Parker created all the lovely tablescapes and decor inside of Rivermill, Joanne of Joya Beauty is an amazing makeup artist, and DJ Ryan Parker is always hilarious and totally kills the dance floor. Parrott’s Photobooth Company supplied the photobooth (and also the dance floor with props, sorry about that!). Flavor Concepts catered the event and there was a beer pairing with each meal brewed by Throwback Brewery. Whew, ok guys, can we all work together again soon? Thanks.
Onto Julie and Dave! We became insta-friends with our mutual love for craft beers, whiskey, and travel. I love these two! They had perfect weather for their October New Hampshire wedding, the leaves were at peak and the air was crisp. They are off on their honeymoon soon to South Africa! Awesome choice, guys. See you when you get back! xoxo
We couldn’t end the night until we had our chance in the booth!
This family was one of my first clients 2 years ago! I had put an ad on the bulletin board at my then day-job for holiday portraits and my co-worker, Charley, responded. I don’t do a ton of family portraits, mostly because of my wedding season extending into the cold winter months, but I am so glad that I get to keep trekking down (this was my 3rd time!) to the South Shore to photograph this family. They are so easy to photograph, because Julie & Charley are big fans of the candid moment. You’ll see at the end of the post, the last photograph, is what happens when I try to pose 3 year old twins, hilarious!
