Saturday, November 15, 2008
One of my children portraits has been given an Honorable Mention by the Prix de la Photographie Paris. I have continued to photograph his growing family: a new brother and new goats on the way. Here are some photos.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Recently I photographed a bride in her wedding dress designed by Jenny Packham. I wanted these photographs to be about feeling, to be as evocative and sensual as the dress. Like one of the first women photographers, Julia Margaret Cameron, I intentionally softened the focus to evoke dreaminess. The silk tulle of […]
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Sometimes the spare can be just the beauty we need. Dana Barrow, the florist, who recently did the flowers for a wedding at Castle Hilll demonstrated her superb skill with her arrangements. Such arrangements can only be done by someone with knowledge and appreciation of plants and nature.
Dana has written that […]
There is for me in the process and event of a wedding a profound awakening. Every bride and groom I have encountered feels that they are entering a new life. With this advent comes a sensitivity to the world around them and a welcoming. New experiences beckon. These photos are few […]
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Rain would have seemed to diminish the joy at one of my weddings this August, but not so. It started to pour just as the bride and her party entered the bus hired to take them to the church. The groom ran from a taxi into the church, barely saving his linen suit […]
The reason I have titled this post “Engagement Palladiums” is these are special prints that I offer to clients. Two weeks ago I photographed Maria and John on The Brooklyn Bridge. I photographed them with my 4X5 large format camera. Here are the palladium prints I produced from our session. I […]
For this Father’s Day I am offering gift certificates for photography. Make this Father’s Day a memorable one. With summer here and the outdoors beckoning, we have wonderful opportunities to catch dad at play with the young ones.
I offer my clients a wonderful option of the fall-back box for storing and exhibiting their treasured photographs. This box can hold the photographs from your wedding and expand for your maternity, baby and family photographs. The photographs are matted in cotton mats. This cotton paper is archival and the same paper […]
With Mother’s Day approaching, I am reminded that, at weddings, one of the important portraits is of the bride and her mom. With all the other portraits to be done that day, why not take the time to do a special portrait with your mom for Mother’s Day?
I have been documenting the child of a dear friend since her mom’s pregnancy with her. She is now nine years old. Looking back at these photos, many of which are from her early years, I see the wonder of our domestic lives and the giving and caring for our children. Here […]