Brendan and Kelly are a couple of sweet lawyers in love… they had a lovely wedding at St. Patrick’s Church in Yorktown Heights, followed by a reception at The Garrison in Garrison, NY. All in all a beautiful and fun day with a beautiful and fun couple. Their guests knew how to cut the rug, too. This place had some of the best service I’ve ever seen. And the food was absolutely to die for. I’m a vegetarian myself and though they seem to specialize in meat they had NO trouble providing me with one of the best meals i’ve had in a month or so… and I was not a guest, but the photographer. Now that’s great service. Check out my favorites!
the above shot by my assistant, Dmitry Gudkov! Nice work upstairs, Dmitry!
I love it when my subjects are comfortable enough to make goofy faces… this makes me smile.
I don’t know what it is but somehow bagpipes always make me cry… as do weddings… the combination? yes. there were tears… i could go on, there were so many nice shots, but you can just watch the slideshow if you’re interested in seeing more 
Filed under: Events
Last week I got a call to shoot an education panel discussion put on by the Harvard Black Alumni Society of NYC and hosted by Scholastic, complete with a VIP cocktail party and speakers like Joel Klein, Chancellor of the NYC Public Schools, along with City Year CEO Michael Brown… It was quite an impressive event– to my surprise there were many students, parents, and teachers in attendance who were there perhaps to take the opportunity to ask questions of the panel. The Q&A alone could have gone on several more hours, one sensed. Congratulations to Enoch Woodhouse, who organized this incredible event. Check out some of my favorite shots from this lively evening of passionate discussion. 
A sweet and intimate marriage ceremony at the Ladies Pavilion in Central Park. Service performed by Reverend Susanna Weiss.
I had a really fun shoot with Amy and Mike, a very sweet couple whose wedding I’ll be shooting this upcoming spring. We met up in DUMBO during my favorite time of day– ah, magic hour light… how I love you. Check out my favorites. Aren’t they just too sweet together?
Filed under: Wedding Day, Weddings | Tags: farm, nyc wedding photography, queens county farm museum, wedding
Last weekend I had the pleasure of shooting a wedding at the neatest venue: The Queens County Farm Museum! It is basically a farm that is open to the public for educational purposes, and they have not only a corn maze (yes, a maze in a cornfield, i SO want to go back there and get lost in it…) and oodles of delightfully healthy and happy chickens walking around everywhere but a very nice little event hall for things like weddings. And the catering was delicious– mostly farm fresh stuff I presume. I loved shooting this sweet couple in front of the chicken pens and sunflowers, cornstalks, etc… My husband says he regularly sees produce being sold by the Queens County Farm Museum at the Union Square Greenmarket, too. Very cool place to visit if you’re curious about farming, I will have to take him there sometime. Lillian and Michal had such a fun reception– a really fun crowd on the dance floor. Congratulations Lillian and Michal! Here are some favorite shots.
Filed under: Personal, Portraits, Press/Publicity, Wedding Day, Weddings | Tags: photography contest winner wpja
Great news! I just got word that my image placed among the top ten in the last Wedding Photojournalist Association contest… I entered several categories of course but this is the first time I’ve been named to the prestigious winners’ circle… The WPJA is wildly popular among photographers and has thousands of members worldwide. They recently started giving every member a certain number of free entries per year, at which point I thought to myself “now the competition will be tougher than ever…” but what do you know?! I finally did it! Now if I can just win one of those PDN (Photo District News) Top Knots awards! Oh how I long to be listed in those pages… one never knows why certain images win out over others. Personally I might have rated my other entry in this category (Creative Portraiture) higher than the one that the judges picked, but of course I love this one too…
Filed under: Personal
Normally I don’t post things un-related to my photography but you seriously need to watch this. it’s hilarious and important. Click below.
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