WOW! Time flies. I feel like I just spent a wonderful time with Lauren and Jos on their wedding day and now I get to see their first born turn one!. I truly feel privileged to have had the opportunity to photograph Luke’s first year.

Happy Birthday Luke!!  You are one of the happiest babies we know!

LOVE this hat!

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!

Who could ask for more fun than this beautiful family!  Did I EVER love Mom’s suggestion to dress up and do the shoot on the family farm.  And, no shoot on the farm would be complete without including all three dogs!  Actually, the setting reminded me a little bit of where I grew up in Southern Colorado which made it extra fun for me.  It was DUSTY!!!!!  Our feet were black when we finished – but, it was worth it.  Thanks to you guys for trying something a little bit out of the ordinary.  I am really happy with how they came out.  I applied a little bit of a “vintage” feel to these in post production – it just felt right for the subject!

Enjoyed a day at the beach in Old Lyme with the McFall family recently.  We had yummy lighting from the setting sun and just a great end-of-summer evening!  We set up the portable studio lighting on the beach and went right to the task of capturing a family photo that included two young boys – one age 2 and one age 4 and both full of great little boy energy.  It is a good thing their mommy and daddy are both runners because these two boys kept them mid-stride!   LOVED it!  And…. love these glasses!

I think this is the only time they stayed within the same frame for more than a split second!  Yay for rock piles!

And no photo shoot involving small kids can be complete without a “silly face” photo…. let’s call it a wrap!

I had the wonderful experience of photographing Lauren and Jos’s wedding a few years ago in Mystic.  When they called about expecting a baby, I was very excited.  So, welcome Mr. Luke David.  He was so much fun to photograph.  We ran over our typical allotted studio time because he was just so sweet and easy!!!  Lauren got him good and “milk drunk” and once he drifted off to sleep by daddy’s rocking, he was out COLD!!!!  And, we certainly had fun with him!  Thanks Lauren and Jos for having me be a part of your experience as new parents.  You have a beautiful new family.  And, I can’t wait to watch Mr. Luke grow up.