Birthday Wishes

I guess the best gifts are those that are unexpected. Recently my Daughter sent me a bunch of baloons for my Birthday. They showed up at the reception desk and I was called out to receive them from the delivery person.

Then I had to carry them back through the office to my desk. Which I was later told by my Daughter was the whole idea.

The embarrassment was short lived, but the memory of this gift will last a lifetime.

A Saling Baptism

I was asked to photograph the Baptism of our Pastor's Grandson, so of course I jumped at the chance. What a happy day! I most enjoyed capturing a Mother's tender love and a Father's bursting pride

Joe Cisternelli

Joe is attending UConn and came back to his home town today for a photo session with me. It was a great day.

Joe Ruscio

Joe returned to his hometown for his headshot session, a town with such a strong magnetic pull that most never want to leave, I mean never, ever leave. Forever

Jon Ryan

Jon is from the Vineyard, Martha's that is. I guess Martha own the whole place. These are images from Jon's headshot session

Chelsea Smiles

A visit to Normalwood for a California Girl

Lori and Gary

Wedding

The Dons - At Bad Abbotts

Rock and Roll

Lauren

Sk8rGurl - the Video - Spring 2009

Nichole

Chelsea

Lori and Gary

Weddings come in all sizes and shapes.

Lori and Gary's wedding was intimate and wonderful. Just close family and their children were in attendance. So you would think that this was going to be kind of low key.

But that was the last thing it turned out to be!

After the ceremony it was party time. The girls got it all started and Lori soon had everyone involved. It was all I could do to keep shooting to capture all of the action.What a night, but then

the images speak for themselves!

Nowhere Men

You know how much I enjoy shooting images of rock bands, probably because I understand where they are coming from and what they want the images I create to convey.

The Nowhere Men ... who took their name from the Beatles song "Nowhere Man" is a great group of guys. They are not into looking like the Beatles, but it's uncanny how much they move like the band when they are performing.

It was getting cold outside on the day of our shoot which added just the right look of a cold strggling "early 60's" Beatles.

We had a great time and the band loved the images... I'm happy

The Family Tree

I was asked recently to help a friend document the original settlement of her family that came to this area from Nova Scotia

She had found the general area and with my camera in hand we went looking for the exact spot. You see there was a lone apple tree on the land and that was the most important thing for us to find. Could it still be there after all of these years?

Well, we not only found the tree but also the foundation of the original house and what looked like the road which once went infront of the house.

It was quite a find. My images were sent back to Nova Scotia where I'm sure they are in a fine glass case in the town's historical society ... or maybe they ended up on the refrigerator... HA!

Accidentally Perfect

"A Mother's Love is Blessing" ... it's a song and it's a reality. I don't expect that you know the song, it's a bit obscure.

I am blessed to be a photographer, as you can see from the images below. I get to share in the moments that are reserved for only a few.

These images of a Mother and her Daughter were shot on Mother's Day 2008. It was actually a very casual shoot and ended up quite powerful.

A Mother's Love is a Blessing.

New Years Eve Snow Storm

When it snows, you just have to take some pictures, I think it's a law or something.

Across the street is a road that leads up to a housing development, I've never been up the road, I think they shoot you if you are a trespasser. But there is a bench near the main road where the kids wait for the school bus, it's got padding, nice.

So there I was walking through the neighbor's yard once again, looking for some classic snow images

I think I got next year's Christmas card image, so it was a successful trek.

The Dons - A Rock and Roll Band - Portraits - II

Photographing a band such as The Dons can be like corralling cats. " Stay Still!" "Don't pinch his butt!!" but all the while we're cracking up.

This pose was one of those where I just said, give me that serious face and they did!

The Family Squeezed In!

Capturing a family reunion is such a joy for me. The generations all gathered together. Adults become the children as their parents tell them what to do. The kids running everywhere. It's GREAT!

I set up in the living room for the "whole family" shot and then everyone poured in. ..."Squeeze in" I just kept saying ... "squeeze in". Finally I got a few shots, even those are cray portraits, believe me, this is about as good as you can hope for.

Everyone was laughing, the kids couldn't understand what was going on.

But I knew. The love in that room was simply infectious.

It's a good kind of infection though ... Hey! you! squeeze in! ...a little tighter.

The Dons - A Rock and Roll Band - The Portrait Session

After a number of years of photographing The Dons in performance they decided that it was time for a studio session.
I'd like to say that the guys are comfortable with out their instruments ...but my Mother told me not to lie ...HA!
We had a great session, watch for future images from the shoot in future posts.

The Dons - Never Promised They'd be Pretty

I get rev'd when I photograph performers. Partly because I've been a musician my whole life and partly because I love to see the bands that are the real deal.



















I was doing a back-room-at-the-club portrait session before the band went on and I said, "Guys give me that pretty face" ... the guys just laughed .. we don't do "pretty". They tried something, It was more comical ... I asked them to stop.





























But they sure do Rock!
PS. They didn't like my "we never promised pretty" tag line ... go figure

The Old Triangles

Sometimes you just have to get out and shoot some shapes ... don't ya think?

I was up one morning with the roosters and went looking for something to shoot ...with my camera that is.

The sun was just coming up and I noticed how it was shinning through an wooden structure and making these neat shapes on the ground.

Now I just have to find someone who wants to buy these images ....

The Beast From ...

I admit, I am very, very lucky to be a photographer and to capture the images that I am blessed to have taken.

When it was said that the eyes are the window to the soul they were right. And when the actor is wearing a mask it is even easier to see how deep the soul really is.

It was actually a few years ago that I was asked to photograph Beauty and the Beast. The costumes and performances were great of course, but when I was looking through the images I was stopped dead in my tracks by this single image of the Beast.

It was "deadly" as they say. That one image that wasn't posed, couldn't be posed, will never be repeated and shouldn't be.

The actor was in the moment and that makes us as audience members shiver.

I still to this day look at this image and think how lucky I was to be there. This is one of those images where we as photographers laugh and say "I wonder who stole my camera and shot that one?"

One Image - Many Captions

When you shoot as many images per week as I do, you can tend to see multiple things in them.

This single image is of The Colonial Boys, a fife and drum marching unit who because of their generosity to the community are one of the most respected groups of their kind. But as I was preparing this image I couldn't help but think of a couple of funny captions for what "could" have been happening.

And in my own twisted way, I had to share them with you. One is blank ... so what's your funny caption?

The Dons - A Rock and Roll Band - Workin' It

I've photographed The Dons many times, I seen their performances mature and the members gain confidence. But this night I noticed something, the band was Working, really working for the audience. And the audience was eating it up.























You know it when you see it too, the band actually smiles a little less and that my friend is a sign of confidence and concentration.

This is a great band and a real treat to photograph