Wednesday, August 24, 2011
It started with a gesture. I was sitting with a client and her two little ones in a cafe. Her youngest popped up on her lap and she reached out and held her daughter’s head with her hands. I asked her if she was aware of her loving gesture. She said yes. Such was the [...]
Best Man at nine years old. Yes, and one up to the job and beyond. He even performed at the reception with his sister as back up pianist. This was indeed a beautiful summer wedding day in New Hampshire for a wonderful bride and groom. Here are photos of this special young best man.
Also filed in New Hampshire, weddings
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Tagged Best Man, best man's speech, bride, ceremony, child, children, groom, New Hampshire, rings, summer, wedding
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Actually, this was one of the few days this Spring that it did not rain. I will let this mom speak. “As a new mom I had never had professional pictures taken of my son. Lo and behold the day we decide to shoot he is the crankiest he has ever been. So you do [...]
Also filed in family, maternity, New York, portraits
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Tagged emotional, experience, expression, happiness, mother, personality, play, professional photos, son, story, water
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This is the first in a series that I will be writing from time to time. It is answers to questions I put to one of my clients where I had the privilege to photograph his wife’s pregnancy and about a month later to photograph them with their newborn son. Here is part of our [...]
Also filed in Brooklyn, family, New York, portraits
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Tagged , Brooklyn, dad, Dads, family, father, fatherhood, infant, meet up, New York City, photography, portraits, pregancy, responsibility, role model
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A hunting culture does not have to mean a war culture. Why trophies and where does this tradition come from?
Also filed in family, nature
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Tagged boys, bucks, children, culture, deer, family, fathers, food, guns, hunting, taxidermy, tradition, trophies, trophy, war
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Not only is a fund raiser for Choices In Childbirth coming up on May 9th in Manhattan but just this past Saturday, April 9th, a panel discussion titled “Men and Feminism” took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. What brings these two events together is that both [...]
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Tagged birth, collaboration, ecology, fatherhood, feminism, health, maternity, meet up, motherhood, stay at home dads
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I am thrilled that artwork I have created to celebrate childbirth will be on display at The Concert for a Healthy Birth hosted by Ricky Lake on May 9th in NYC. This event benefits the work of Choices In Childbirth, the leader in maternity care consumer education, advocacy and outreach. Honored on May 9th will [...]
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Tagged , 2011, advocacy, baby, child birth, Choices In Childbirth, Christiane Northrup, Christy Turlington Burns, Concert for a Healthy Birth, consumer, education, family maternity, health, May 9, pregancy, Ricky Lake, women
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On Sunday I walked over to The Brooklyn Museum both to see exhibits and to attend a panel: Gender and Genocide: Sexual Violence during the Holocaust and Other Genocides, moderated by Gloria Steinem. In our present time, talk centered on conflict in the Congo where the coltan for our cell phones and other devices is [...]
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Tagged art, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, cell phones, children, coltan, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, feminism, Gloria Steinem, Holocaust, justice, life, lives, panel, rape, sexual violence, suffering, violence, women
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The C-print is the standard color photograph. Proof prints are this type of photograph. Longevity depends on the manufacture of the paper. I ask for paper that has a life span of 75 years before fading. I also like to have custom color prints done where the printer selects the best color tonality and the [...]
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Tagged c-print, children, color, color negative, custom print, family, longevity, photograph, prints, proof print
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We all wish that our most important photographs will last so that several generations can have them and appreciate them. This is our histories. Your wedding and the growing up of your children are the photographs you cherish. The best way to know that your photographs will last is to find out if they are [...]
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Tagged antique photograph, archival, black & white negatives, black & white photograph, children, family, film, generations, histories, palladium photograph, permanence, photographs, silver gelatin photograph, weddings
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