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Category Archives: portraits

Portraits Allow for Spontaneity

Portraits needn’t be stiff. I love to let my clients be with each other. This is true, after the wedding ceremony, when the bride and groom can start to relax. A series of portraits, like these, is part of their story. The bride, groom and I picked out this tree and field as the place [...]

Excitement For The Bride

Moment by moment a wedding day is lived in a whorl of excitement. However long the bride and groom plan for this day, to be in it is beyond one’s imagination. I love to be helpful and to be included in the planning. I had met with my clients on site in Bedford, NY before [...]

What Is Your Photographic Story?

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 [...]

On Being A Father

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 [...]

Toward Healthy Birth

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 [...]

Color Photographs: The C-Print

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 [...]

Will Your Photos Last?

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 [...]

Valentines 2011 “How do I love thee?”

“Let me count the ways.” I cherish my children and friends. Animals, both my pets and wild, have enriched my life. I see us as part of the natural world. The cygnet, young swan, is like a preteen girl, beginning to develop her beauty. Snakes and how they shed their skins is a metaphor for [...]

Wedding Album Tells The Story

I am doing a lot of thinking lately about how important it is to have printed photographs of your most important moments and life passages. This will be the first post about the subject of putting together your photos to tell stories of your life in an album or box. Just yesterday I showed one [...]

Honorable Mention in Px3 Competition: 2 Years in a Row

I am pleased to announce that I have won honorable mentions, for two of my series, in Europe’s most prestigious photography competition two years in a row: 2009 and 2010. The competition is the Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3). In 2009 the series that won is titled “Vermont Homestead” http://px3.fr/winners/2009/zoom.php?eid=1-9936-09&uid=2222964 My 2010 series is [...]