Ashley and Mike -- Engagement session

We photographed Ashley and Mike two weeks ago for their Engagement session. Wow, what a session! They wanted the portrait session at Quinnipiac because they both graduated from there and the grounds are awesome so we met at the Mount Carmel Campus and afterwards went to the York Hill campus. Ashley and Mike were so easy to work with, and that fact combined with the awesome venue, meant that we took a few hundred photographs! You can view the highlights here in their  video

You can view our top 100 favorites here in their gallery on our website and all of the photographs from their session here in his this gallery on our website.

Ashley's father also surprised her and purchase a few printed photographs and gave them to the wonderful couple yesterday at their Engagment party at the Victorian House in Cheshire. One of the photographs was this bottom image of the two of them on top of the QU marble. The original image (top) was SOOC (straight out of the camera) while the bottom image was the final result of merging three images and creating a High Dynamic Range (HDR) photograph.

This next image looks like something on the cover of a magazine...Tom took this with that awesome 70-200,, f 2.8 lens -- gotta love what that lens can do for selective focusing! Love it!

This next image had a "fairytale" effect applied to it and I really like the way that it turned out!

These next two photographs were Tom's idea.

He had Ashley and Mike sit and look a tthe blank black screen in the York Hill campus center, knowing that we would add in a photograph of them via Photoshop! Fun!

We had an absolutely great day photographing Ashley and Mike! What a fantastic couple!

Quinnipiac Physician Assistant program

I photographed the incoming students (52 students!) for the Quinnipiac Physician Assistant program this afternoon. It was a fun experience, shooting very fast but still making sure that everyone was smiling and their eyes were open.

Special thanks to Amanda, who we have been mentoring, for her assistance today getting the equipment all set up and making sure that we had the order of the 52 students written down for their composite photograph.

Quinnipiac team plunge in icy waters on Saturday

Quinnipiac Roots & Shoots team members plunge in icy waters on Saturday.

For more photos: http://tlc.smugmug.com/gallery/6765072_oVD2g

2008 East Haven Penguin Plunge

It was 39 degrees on Saturday in East Haven, but the wind made it feel even colder for those of us watching the shivering, bathing suit clothed penguin plungers at East Haven Town Beach (Cosey Beach Ave) in East Haven. The event started at 11am with music, a penguin mascot, breakfast pastries, and a barbecue. At 2:00 the National guard entered the 35 degree water, followed by teams and individuals moments later.Over one hundred people ran, jumped and even dove in the long island sound to raise money (almost $15,000) for the CT Special Olympics. The first plunge was in 1990 in Madison, Connecticut. There were only 30 plungers and we raised $5,000. Over the years, the Penguin Plunge has raised over $650,000 for SOCT.

The two Quinnipiac teams, the Quinnipiac Otters and Roots & Shoots, together raised over $1500 for the CT Special Olympics.

There are many other Connecticut penguin plunges scheduled for 2009.

And if you don't want to plunge...do an "Un-Plunge". Set a monetary goal you'd like to raise, and have people pledge you not to go in. If you reach your goal, you don't have to go in! If you don't reach your goal, then you go in!

Sign up for an upcoming plunge...http://soct.org/plunges/

• Winding Trails, Farmington January 25, 2009
• Hammonasset Beach State Park, Madison January 31, 2009
• Highland Lake, Winsted February 7, 2009
• Lake Quassy Park, Middlebury February 15, 2009
• Ocean Beach Park, New London February 15, 2009
• Crystal Lake, Middletown February 21, 2009
• Crystal Lake, Ellington March 7, 2009
• Compo Beach, Westport March 7, 2009