Model session with Kelly

Tom photographed this wonderful young lady at Southford Falls.



converted to Black and White...



Black and White converted to artwork...



Tom has a whole series of these with this background and I love them all!



cropped to a vertical


Black and White


chocolate (I love the B&W chocolate effect!)



with the waterfall behind her.



at the covered bridge



again at the covered bridge, a sexy profile...


black and white, canvas flipped



We will be photographing her more in the future so stay tuned...

Trenita & Greg -- Two lives, Two hearts

A sneak peak at last Saturday's wedding.

Two lives, two hearts, joined together in friendship, united forever in love.

Saturday we photographed a lovely couple at the First Cathedral in Bloomsfield. http://www.firstcathedral.org/ This church's journey began in 1968 and the current pastor, Archbishop LeRoy Bailey, Jr. has been leading it since 1971 (the groom told us that he was a little boy at this church before the Archbishop). The Most Reverend received Christ at the young age of seven years old. He began ministering at the age of ten and is in his fifty-first year of ministry. This church was absolutely amazing (plus they currently have 11,000 members!)





Trenita accompanied down the aisle by her two "boys"



and how touching...
there are tears of JOY on two of their faces.

More tears followed as the Groom sang to his new Bride (WOW!!!)



The wedding party.



The groom talked to us about this photograph the night before the wedding at the rehearsal. This image would work well for a 'Thank You' card. We soooo enjoy it when people like Greg get involved and have creative ideas!!



The day went by soo fast!

After the ceremony the couple led us to Elizabeth Park http://www.elizabethpark.org/
for lots of GREAT photographs there !!!



Trenita near the Purple Clematis...looking radiant...



I love creating watercolor images and this composition of these two wonderful people just led itself to a watercolor painting...



Trenita had requested this fun pose on her "purple sheet" and doesn't she look like she is having a grand ole time here at Elizabeth Park!



The ladies looking VERY elegant in this wonderful two toned bridesmaids dresses.



OK, here is an unusual view of the wedding party -- turned into a planet.
What do you think????



One of our favorite images of the two of the newlyweds at Elizabeth Park.



FYI for future wedding couples...

Elizabeth Park is an AWESOME place for pictures of all sorts.

Please note that you do need a permit in order to take wedding photographs there. You must obtain the permit, which only costs $25, but the application must be sent in at least 60 days before the wedding (and the park does require liability insurance).

http://www.hartford.gov/Forms/Wedding_Photo_Elizabeth%20Parkpdf.pdf

Fledging birds

This bird house is located in our butterfly garden. We checked a few weeks ago when the mother wren flew out and there were 4 eggs in the tall twig nest. Then we heard peeps and then checked inside to find 4 babies.



Sunday Tom was outside photographing flowers when he noticed the little ones getting ready to fledge. He took these in the early am and by afternoon the nest was indeed empty.

Our Backyard

I took photographs of our yard and gardnes on Monday. Yesterday Tom got out there early in the morning and photographed some of the flowers that were blooming. What a difference a week makes!

This is one of the flower gardens that we put in. The Bee Balms have really florished, in fact they crowded out all my poppies :-( and the cone flowers are over five foot tall!



We put this 4th flower garden in late last Summer as a "baby garden" because we had gotten a whole bunch of little baby plants from Mary Lou and we were afraid that they would be choked or shadowed out in the larger gardens. Well, some of these plants are not HUGE and will need to be transplanted this year. This little bird house in the Butterfly garden had Carolina Wrens last year and this year cute little house wrens. Sunday the 4 little ones fledged and Tom got photos of them about to fledge (I will post these separately).



The white gooseneck loosestrife is about to bloom. This year i found some PINK variants being sold for cancer fund raising and I put two of those in.



This was a little baby put in late last year as a small single plant -- it really took off!



The bee balm are growing and multipying like crazy, but they look so pretty and they do attract the hummingbirds. They bloomed a week earlier than last year and they are twice as wide and twice as tall.



This year I tried pink geraniums on the planters near the driveway, more delicate looking than the red ones I usually put in.



These couple day lilies were the only flowers here before we moved in. SOME DAY I am going to runa whole row of day lilies and daffodils along the front property line. The daffodils come up early and then just as they start to look scraggly the day lilies will be lots of green and then they will bloom for the rest of the summer.



We have been hearing these hawks in the backyard for the past three days -- really loud and for long periods of time. Yesterday Tom borrowed my 500mm lens and set out in search of the nest (ther has to be babies because there is too much noise). He found the mom calling and calling but did not locate the nest.





We put in our first real in ground veggie garden this year. We bought an easy to install raised bed garden from Gardeners Supply http://www.gardeners.com/

Dad gave me some cucumbers and a whole bunch of tomato plants.



Tom also took a few photos of some of the great little birds at our backyard feeders. Here is a cute little tufted titmouse.

Wedding Invitations, Programs, Thank you notes, etc.

We were excited to see our photograph of this special couple on their wedding invitation and wedding program. The invitation was printed on a translucent paper with the words of the invitation on the page attached underneath. The Wedding Program was a folded brochure with the photo on the front and printed information on the other 3 sides.

We can offer the rights to use our photographs for STAMPS (yes -- legal tender with your image on them), invitations, programs, the very popular signature photographs, magazine covers, thank you notes, etc. etc. Please share your ideas with us...and let's see what we can create...














A 'Thank You' Card that was custom created for this Fall wedding. Don't you just love the mums!

I just love Black and White and Color!




Many of the couples who had an engagement session with us had an 11x14 photograph matted to 16x20 as a signature photograph at their reception for people to sign.

We are pleased talking about a possible collaboration with Sassi Concepts & Designs Inc. http://www.sassiconceptsanddesigns.com/ to offer you custom made high end products.