Emily and Joe {Engaged} - New York Wedding Photographer

Emily and Joe are a great couple. And by great, I mean completely relaxed in front of the camera. They have such chemistry together and were definitely not shy about a little PDA!

Kyleigh (who assisted but thanks to my pocket wizard's battery taking on a life of it's own and jumping out of the transmitter, only held the flash and followed us around) and I traveled just over the border into New York to an adorable town to photograph Emily and Joe's E-Session. We had such a blast walking around town and watching these two love birds in action, that we hardly wanted it to end! I'm so looking forward to this couple's wedding, which just happens to be on my birthday this year. I know we're going to have a fun day!

Kristin and J Norris {Married} / New York City Wedding Photographer

This was such an incredible wedding for Rob and I. Not only did we get to work together (YaY), but we were able to work with the most incredible indoor lighting that I've had in a while during the bride's prep at Hotel Indigo. What an amazing place! Not to mention that the blue decor perfectly matched Kristin's eyes. :-)

It was probably the windiest day I've ever witnessed in NYC, and to add to that, the ceremony was on the roof of Studio 450. But nothing could take away from the clear excitement of both Kristin and J on their wedding day...even the bridesmaids were all smiles as they had to hold down their knee-length dresses while walking down the aisle!

This was also a big deal because it was the 2nd successful time creating the same day album. With the help of Kyleigh, my newest assistant (and quite a good one too!), and of course Stacy from Capri Album, we were able to have them a 20 page mounted album by dinner time! Check it out (thanks Ahmet for snapping a few pics of me giving it to them!!):



Since Kristin had both Rob and I, we surprised her by creating a PhVusion slideshow instead of the regular photo one that I usually do. I have to say, it's one of my favs!! Definitely check that out at the end of the post. :-)

EnJOY!!

My puppy misses us!!

Rob and I have been gone pretty consistently the last two weeks to give seminars at The MARS School and Pilot Imaging's "Bringing Back the Value to Photography". We've had to hand over Tico, our little Pekingese doggie, to the grandparents (my mom and dad) to watch him about 8 of the past 12 days. Now I know Tico misses us, he just gets so excited when we finally come to pick him up, but yesterday, my mom sent us this email and picture and I just melted all over!!

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Couldn't find Tico...Calling him....finally go and look around the house and this is what I see....

He is soooo ready for you guys to come home now....I guess he figured this [under Rob's van] was the best spot to be to ensure that he wouldn't be left behind again.. hahaha

Love,

the babysitter.....I mean, dogsitter :)

My Last Day and Yoli and Rich's E-Session

This is going to go down in history as one of my most monumental engagement sessions, and not for the reasons that you might think! This engagement session took place on April 30, 2010, my very last day as a Spanish Teacher.

So many people were asking me how I would spend my "free time" and what a relief it must be to not have two careers, but what I felt like was that this day was the gun firing at the start of a race. Some other friends asked how I would celebrate my new found freedom that night...and at the time I said, "I'm not, I'm going to work!", but now that I think about it, what better way to celebrate my big change in life than doing what I love with people I love?! So thanks so much Yolanda and Rich for being the first "job" of my new life and celebrating with me!!

The original plan was to go to Allaire State Park for this session, but apparently it closes at 6pm (when our session started)! So with some quick thinking I remembered that Holmdel Park is one of my favorite parks in the area and I haven't taken pictures there since college. So we pulled a quick GPS change and were on our way.

Check out some of my favs of the day and, of course, the slideshow. :-)


Sadie had to have her fun for the day!

PPANJ/PPSNYS 1st Annual Joint Convention

Back in March Rob and I were able to speak up in Albany, NY at the PPANJ/PPSNYS 1st Annual Joint Convention. It was a great time and Rob even had an encore "performance" the next day! Can't get much better than that. :-)


We also debued our PhVusion Effects Software at the convention and opened it for pre-orders. We received such amazing feedback from it and we're really pumped for the next two seminars that Rob and I are giving in May!


Thanks to Brody Wheeler for providing the images below and to Gary Lloyd and Alex Wolff for providing the images in the Animoto slideshow!