Close but no bouquet

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Every now and then I take a photograph that tickles my fancy for whatever reason. In this one I love the hands of the lady in black in the second photo. She is grasping at the bouquet and coming up with a hand full of petals. It just goes to show that these are moments that we are capturing, it is easy to get caught up in the lighting and technicalities of photography but there is something to be said by just capturing a moment in time that will never happen again.

Video Montage of Kayla's Sweet 16

Happy Birthday Kayla

I had a blast at Kayla's Sweet 16. 

Thank You Thelma and Freddie for having me. 

Kayla you were super to photograph and I wish you a very happy birthday.

From the guests to the birthday girl everyone was great and having a good time

 

CONTEST #2- Who wants to be in Style Magazine!!!

Here is a unique opportunity for someone who is a soon to be bride, already been a bride or never was a bride. I am offering a free trash the dress portrait session to the winner and I will supply the dress. I will also feature the winner in the style magazine issue that follows the shoot, and give you a 11x14 fine art print from the session.

Trash the dress refers to photographs that contrasts elegant clothing with an environment in which it is completely out of place. It is generally shot in the style of glossy beauty and glamour photography. The idea of destroying a wedding dress has been used in Hollywood symbolically since at least October 1998 when Meg Cummings of the show Sunset Beach ran into the ocean in her wedding dress after her wedding was badly interrupted. A model often wears a ball gown, prom dress or wedding dress, and may effectively ruin the dress in the process by getting it wet, dirty or in extreme circumstances tearing or destroying the garment.

It may also be done as an additional shoot after the wedding, almost as a declaration that the wedding is done and the dress will not be used again. It is seen as an alternative to storing the dress away, never to be seen again.

Here is how you win. Email me your idea or location that you would like to shoot in, your dimensions so I can secure a dress and the person with the most intriguing idea will be the winner. The sky is the limit let the creativity flow. 

CONGRATS TO MAUREEN O'MEARA THE WINNER OF CONTEST #1

KNOCKING ONE OUTTA THE PARK

I would like to wish Josh a big congrats on his Bar Mitzvah, and thank you. It was an honor to not only attend such a spectacular event but be the first photographer to shoot a bar-mitzvah in The Washington Nationals baseball stadium. The facilities at the stadium were awesome, from getting to be in the players locker rooms to the players indoor batting cages, it was truly a thrill, and if it wasn't for the rain we wouldn't have got a rainbow.