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Some Vegas Highlights

As I said in the last post, we have been working very hard on getting our new blog/site and everything up and looking awesome. We have 3 engagement sessions that we will be sharing with you once our new blog/site is up. In the meantime, I thought we would share a few random photos from Vegas.

The first day we got to Vegas, Kathleen and I just walked around and tried out the new 5DII for the first time before our sessions out in CA. I LOVE palm trees!!

Kathleen trying to figure out where we should go to lunch that day.

On Friday we met up with Becker, Keats and a bunch of other really great photographers at the Hard Rock Hotel.

It was a good meal and good times!

Our friends Dale and Meredith from Benfield Photography took this photo of us.

On the first day of the trade show we found one of our photos that placed as a finalist in a national competition hanging at the show. This was a big honor to us!

We were also very honored to have a bunch of our work made into canvas gallery wraps and cards and hung at the Collages.net booth. Thank you to our wonderful couples, Lisa and Marc and Kristel an Michael!

One night we went over to the Bellagio with Vicki & Erik to enjoy the fountain show.

We can’t wait to share with you the two Southern California Engagement Sessions as well as a New York Engagement Session that we just did. Be patient, we will have them up on our brand new site soon!! :)

Competition Finalist!!

Before I talk about anything, I have to start off by apologizing to all of our really awesome and loyal blog readers. We have not published any posts on our blog in a little while and to be honest it has really been weighing on us. We usually post far more often than this. We have been sooo busy (not that we are complaining) but we are making time right now to share something with all of you that we are very proud of.

It has long been a goal of ours to enter some national and international photography competitions. We aren’t as concerned at the outcome of the competitions as we are about actually entering. As a photographer, it is a very valunerable thing to put your work out there in the sole purpose of being judged by your peers. By doing this, we feel that it is one way that we continually learn and continually improve on our work. This way we can be better and better for all of our clients.

So that being said, I am so excited to share with you that one of my images was selected as a finalist in the Best of Weddings Competition. We will know if it makes it higher while we are out at the WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) Conference in a few weeks. This image that was selected made it as a finalist in the Wedding Humor category, and hopefully you can see why. It is one of those images that makes me laugh every time. Here is the image:

I also have to give a shout-out to another great CT photographer, Sam Chinigo who also is a finalist in this competition. Congratulations Sam!

Kathleen and I also entered 11 of our prints into the WPPI 16×20 competition which we will also know how we placed while we are out in Vegas in a few weeks. Keep your fingers crossed :). We will keep you posted.

Hope everyone is having a great week!!

We’re in Phoenix!

As some of you already know from following us on Twitter, we are in Phoenix for the ImagingUSA Conference put on by PPA. We will however have plenty of access to e-mail so if you need anything please do not hesitate to let us know. We thought we would share just a few photos with you. Hope everyone back home is having a great weekend, we hear it is quite snowy. Stay warm and we will talk to you all soon!!

By the way if anyone that we don’t already know of is also out here, please let us know. We would love to meet up!!

We got up very early yesterday morning to catch out flight. As we were waiting to board the clouds over the runway as the sun was coming up were just beautiful.


The palm trees around the city are a nice site.

As we were walking over to the convention center this afternoon, I spotted this really cool church, I really liked the architecture.

The mountain view from our hotel room up on the 12th floor.

CT Photographers + NYC = Pure Craziness!!

While we were in NYC for the PDN Expo a couple weeks back, Kathleen an I spent the day with some fellow CT Photographers also in the city for the expo. Here is some of the craziness from that day!!

We met up with everyone at a little Irish Pub across the street from B&H, how fitting right. Our waitress took this photo. Here come the shout-outs (from left to right): Amanda (Harris) Herberger, Candace Jeffery, my beautiful (and super talented) wife Kathleen, Eric Foley, Val McCormick, Steve Depino, Tina Parsadanov, Carla Ten Eyck, and of course yours truly :).

Eric grabbed my camera and captured this photo of Kathleen & I, wow I am a lucky man!! :)

I took my camera back and returned the favor by shooting a quick shot of Eric. I really liked how is shirt looked in B/W

From one Irish Pub to another, it seemed to be the theme of the day.

Eric so badly wanted to pose at the bottom of the stairs, don’t ask me why :)… this is what he came up with…lol!

After being inside for a while, we decided to walk around the city. We stumbled upon this really cool garage door. The thing I think I like about this photo the most is that how Carla had to get an iPhone photo of me taking the picture. By the way Carla I would love to see some of those!! :)

I got Carla to put down her phone and we got a pretty kick-butt picture of the girls.

Kathleen took my camera and made Eric & I get in a shot.

We made random friends on the street, I have to give Carla credit for this shot.

I don’t even know what to say about this one, I think they were going for some kind of Spiderman thing, either way it makes me laugh.

Carla’s son is named Jack and Val’s husband share’s the same name so they thought this was only fitting.

I took a quick shot of Val as we were getting into Times Square but what really makes me laugh about this picture is the way Carla is laughing in the background. I can only imagine what Eric said or did to get that kind of reaction.

:) :) :) :)

AWESOME!! Yea Eric is actually behind a window in a store!!

I swear I told them to all look in my general direction, you can see how that worked out. :)

[b] School @ The W Hotel in Times Square

Last Thursday Kathleen and I met up with a bunch of fellow photographers at the W Hotel in Times Square. It was a great time, we got to meet some really great new people and hang out with some of the west coast photographers of came out such as [b]ecker, David Jay and Gene Higa. The Bui Brothers were also there, what a fun night!

Here is a shot some of the people who showed up. Thank you to our new friend (and fantastic photographer) from Long Island, Brian Calabrese for sending us this shot. Brian is the guy all the way to the far right of the shot.

Kathleen and I got in a quick photo with [b]ecker that we found up on the [b] School Blog.

Check back in a day or so when we will be posting the sweet engagement session that we did with Sarah & Scott while we were in the city. Also for all of you CT PUG people that we hung out with on Friday (you know who you are) we will be posting some of those crazy pics soon!!

We’re in NYC!!

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you all know that Kathleen and I are in the city until Friday night. We are staying with our awesome friends (and loyal blog stalkers), Andrea & Christina at their apartment, which totally beats a hotel! Today we are off to photograph an engagement session and then tomorrow we are going to PDN PhotoPlus Expo. Hope to meet up with a bunch of photographers so leave a comment or shoot us an e-mail if you are going to be there. We are also going to catch up with [b]ecker and some fellow [b] School Members tomorrow night and then our CT Pug Group on Friday.

Check back soon, we will try to get a couple previews up. We will also have some previews from Deb & Tim’s Wedding as well as Marissa & Donald’s Engagement Session up soon so keep checking :).

Hope everyone is having a great week!!

More photos from the shoot yesterday…

I started going through all of the photos that I shot yesterday and was incredibly happy with the outcome. I experimented a little bit with the editing and am glad that I did because I think they came out really cool. I also through in a shot of just some of my peer photographers who also attended the shoot. The models were so great to work with. The blond model below is Nicole Frechette who is a country singer and a complete natural in front of the camera. The other two girls, Kara and Jaimee, are actually sisters and funny enough my brother knows one of them. What a small world. We also had the opportunity to shoot Justin & Mary at the Uconn Law School Campus, it was a great time!! Nonetheless, here are some more of the photos that I captured. Enjoy!!