We have had the pleasure of working with student “shadows” from RHAM High School over the years.   If there is a student interested in photography, we get a call from a career counselor at the school.  And, we welcome the student in to “shadow” us for a day, for a shoot, etc.  We had Brendan to the studio to participate in a studio shoot for a business client of ours.  And, before we knew it, or could resist it, he became one of us!!!   Last I knew, the Carrie Draghi Photography logo/sticker made it onto Brendan’s Mac!  :)  We are honored!!!  BTW, nice photo with the candy cane!!!  :)

Brendan’s plans are to finish high school, formally study film and begin a career in the arts.  As you can see from this little promo piece he made “for fun” from two of our winter family photo shoots, this guy has talent!

To Brendan – Thank you for sharing your talent with us!  Thank you for going out of your way to put this together for us.  I know you said  you were just procrastinating for mid terms, but we feel very blessed that you procrastinated!

To Brendan’s mom and dad – WOW, what a great kid you have raised!  You must be so proud.  Thank you for letting him hang out with the ladies at CDP!  He is always welcome here!

We have been nutty here in the studio in our “Off Season.”  We are still wrapping up our final weddings from 2010, making changes to our internal processes and workflow, trying to find the studio in the snow, meeting great new couples at the bridal shows…. whew!  Not to mention, we are all training for The Warrior Dash in June www.warriordash.com (more details on that to come!)  All I can say is OUCH!

It has been a great start to 2011.  We were honored as a Top Pick in The Knot Best of Weddings for 2011 – our third time in four years!  And, we were also chosen for Wedding Wire’s Bride’s Choice Awards 2011.  Both of these awards are so meaningful to me – as they are essentially given to us by our couples.  THANK YOU!

We also have some fun things coming up on the blog (because my new year’s resolution is not to be a crappy blogger!!!)  And, now that I have stated my resolution out loud, Colleen, our amazing Studio Manager, is going to hold me accountable!  Actually, I have always struggled with prioritizing blogging…. if I have 10 shoots in my editing backlog, I feel badly taking the time to put together a good blog post.  And, what happens, is that nothing gets blogged!  However, thanks to Colleen and our dear photographer friend, Richard Esposito, we believe we have created a systematic way to blog without slowing down our workflow.

So, I had to put together a little slideshow of recent work for a local business meeting…. It is a little bit of all that we did this year…. and I know that it happens fast!  So, grab a cup of coffee and don’t blink…. here is a crazy trip through some of 2010…  We have some wedding-specific slideshows and things to come.  Please come back and visit!