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A Visit to Bow Street Flowers

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

I recently visited Shelley at Bow Street Flowers in Somerville. Shelley has done the flowers for a few weddings I’ve photographed, including the beautiful arrangements at this Commander’s Mansion wedding. Her shop is located on Beacon St. in Somerville.

What could be nicer on a Spring day than to spend some time in a flower shop? We talked about living in Boston and Providence, gardening, Ancestry.com and of course, weddings. We also talked about Thomas Jefferson, because that begonia she’s holding in the photo below is a direct descendant from a begonia he planted.

Petal the bunny is so adorable I could just photograph him all day. He enjoys eating rose leaves.

Joyce & Jesse: Engaged in Boston

Thursday, April 12, 2012

This past Saturday I photographed Joyce and Jesse’s engagement portraits in Boston’s Back Bay. You’ll see them here again this Summer, when I photograph their wedding at the Old Sea Pines Inn on Cape Cod.

Wedding Couples Revisited: Norah & Chris

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Their kiss under an umbrella remains one of my favorite wedding portraits ever. Since their 2010 wedding I’ve shown their photos so often that they were once stopped by a stranger in a restaurant and asked if they were “that wedding couple.”

Sometimes a photo becomes so iconic that you have to remind yourself that these are real people whose lives go way beyond that moment and that day. I pick up old wedding and family photos at flea markets, and I love to wonder and imagine the peoples lives. I do the same thing at estate sales – going through the places where people once had their lives, seeing their books and records and furniture, and I think about who they are or were. I guess it is one of the questions that I’m always asking, and a good part of why I love documenting peoples lives with photographs. My camera is a passport to know people. In return, I hope that the photos bring them some joy.

So what ever happened with the couple who kissed under an umbrella? I recently visited with them at their Cambridgeport apartment. They showed me souvenirs from their honeymoon in Peru and talked about an upcoming vacation in Morocco. Norah showed me artwork from the gallery she manages, and the website where she curates $1k art. And who knows, we may see Norah and Chris again soon. I’m photographing their friends’ wedding this Summer in Providence.

2012 Bookings Update

Friday, March 30, 2012

I love that quote: “you have to establish relations….. you have to be warm. You have to like people.” The more I photograph, the more I realize how much photographs are a reflection of a photographer’s interaction with people and the world. If you want to capture emotion and poetry in your images, then you have to feel those things. The gifts of observation and empathy are two of the most important attributes a photographer can have. I’m convinced that anyone can learn to be a very proficient technical shooter in six months. The other part – seeing and observing and feeling, having a voice and vision… Those things require life experience and having a state of mind. I don’t know if you can ever completely get “there,” but the journey is what it’s about.

One of the best parts of my job is all the people I get to meet and know. That’s why I’m doing a photo series on people I’ve worked with in the past – I miss them and want to see what they’re up to. But I have so many new people and experiences I’m looking forward to this year.

This year, I’ll photograph an Indian wedding in Ohio, a veterinarian’s wedding where horses and dogs will be among the honored guests, and a chapel wedding in Ithaca, New York. I’ll travel to rural “Down East” Maine to document a couple exchanging their vows in front of a mountain, and I’ll photograph a wedding in my own back yard at the Roger Williams Botanical Gardens in Providence. I’ll revisit Circa 1799 Barn in the Hudson Valley, and photograph a Swiss couple celebrating their wedding at the Boston Public Library. I’ll document two families – one traveling from California and the other traveling from France – as they celebrate the wedding of a Parisian couple at the Overbrook House on Cape Cod. In July I’ll travel to Paris to revisit and photograph a couple whose iconic, classic Boston wedding I was lucky enough to photograph in 2010. And there’s so much more: couples in Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, the Berkshires, and of course many weddings in Boston.

So as of this week, I’m fully booked from April through the third week of October. If your wedding is taking place during those months and you were interested in booking your photography with me, I can still refer you to some excellent New England photographers who I know and can highly recommend. On to 2013!

Wedding Couples Revisited: Nisa, Will, & Family

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

They were one of the first couples to put their trust in me with photographing their wedding. Their celebration Boston’s Beehive ended up being featured in Brides Boston Magazine and to this day remains one of my favorite weddings ever. As part of my photo series “Wedding Couples Revisited,” I recently caught up with Nisa and Will and their growing family at their house just outside of Boston. And the family tub photos? That’s where their daughter was born.