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Amanda and Scott – Mass. engagement photos

November 1, 2009 – 9:49 pm

This morning I spent a  breathtakingly beautiful late fall morning – warm, reasonably dry, given a brief overnight shower, a gentle breeze -  with Amanda and Scott shooting engagement photos. The location was Willard Brook State Forest in Ashby, Mass and they couldn’t have chosen a more beautiful spot.

This is a couple who are clearly in touch with the environment -the fallen leaves on the moss covered rocks were as slick as ice and they scampered over them like mountain goats as we explored locations for photos. The mid July wedding will be at another spectacular location – Pat’s Peak Ski Area in Henniker, NH.

When I started to edit the photos, I decided to try another ShowIt slideshow – figured that I should try to remember how I did the first one. this time it took almost no time to produce the show so it was blog ready – I guess I remembered more than I gave myself credit for – and the fact is that the program really does make it doable…thanks again David Jay for making this great piece of software available!

So….here’s a slideshow of Amanda and Scott – can’t wait for their wedding!

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Caitlin and Andrew – NH engagement photography

October 5, 2009 – 10:43 am

Last week I had my nose buried in the computer trying to catch up on a pile of pushed-to-the bottom-of-the-pile processing when the email alert sounded. Understand that I’ve made this sort of commitment to ignore the email for a while to get the work done, but my eyes are going buggy and – so much for the commitment – I open the email.

“Jay, I know its last second but could we do our engagement photos tomorrow or Saturday?”
I’m shooting a wedding Saturday but I’m dying to get behind the camera instead of the computer…and Friday promises to be just  more editing and processing.

Salvation!!!
You never really know until you start shooting, but Caitlin, a nuclear engineer, and Andrew, a police officer are about as comfortable in front of a camera as is possible. We met at the Great Bay Discovery Center late in the day and walked and shot until it was too dark to focus. We shot all over including going out into the marsh grass for some stunning photos – just keeping moving enough  to (almost) keep the mosquitoes at bay.
Fortunately for Andrew and I, Caitlin is a mosquito magnet – we had precious few bites to show for the adventure.10-2-09 CAITLIN AND ANDREW EXETER HEALTHCARE10-2-09 CAITLIN AND ANDREW EXETER HEALTHCARE10-2-09 CAITLIN AND ANDREW EXETER HEALTHCARE10-2-09 CAITLIN AND ANDREW EXETER HEALTHCARE10-2-09 CAITLIN AND ANDREW EXETER HEALTHCARE10-2-09 CAITLIN AND ANDREW EXETER HEALTHCARE10-2-09 CAITLIN AND ANDREW EXETER HEALTHCARE10-2-09 CAITLIN AND ANDREW EXETER HEALTHCARE10-2-09 CAITLIN AND ANDREW EXETER HEALTHCARE10-2-09 CAITLIN AND ANDREW EXETER HEALTHCARE

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Joanna and Ryan – Maine wedding photography

June 18, 2009 – 1:13 pm

News flash – it was raining in New Hampshire last Sunday. It seems like its been doing that a lot lately…and two engagement sessions scheduled to boot.

I called Joanna and Ryan – “What ‘cha want to do?” Not even a moment’s  hesitation – “Let’s shoot in the rain!” was the response, then ” The rain won’t hurt your camera, will it?”.

We met in Vaughn Woods State Park in Maine and had a great time. The light was pretty subdued ( almost nonexistent in the deep woods) so I used a small flash with a warming filter. Put the flash on a lightstand and remotely triggered it…instant late afternoon looking sun! We must have looked like quite a sight, wandering through the woods, pouring rain, slickers, rain boots, photo gear, laughing all the way! But it was raining pretty hard so there weren’t any others to either gawk or laugh at us.

As we emerged from the woods the rain turned torrential so we headed for a small picnic shelter to finish shooting.

Ok, so we all got a little muddy, but nobody slipped on the wet clay or went tumbling into the river, the camera equipment all still works and I’m thinking we ended up with some very fun photos – here’s a selection from the shoot.

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Ashley and Shaun – NH wedding photography

June 16, 2009 – 1:00 am

New Hampshire weather being as fickle as it is, Ashley, Shaun and I kept getting weathered out on our plans for an engagement shoot, but managed to squeeze it in short days before their wedding. We caught a beautiful day to meander around Portsmouth’s Prescott Park and the area around it. Highlight of the day was a boat of fisherman watching the shoot and yelling their congratulations to the couple.

The advantage to doing it so close to the actual wedding day – it was a great way to relieve the stress that builds as the date approaches. 6-2-09 ASHLEY and SHAUN6-2-09 ASHLEY and SHAUN6-2-09 ASHLEY and SHAUN6-2-09 ASHLEY and SHAUN6-2-09 ASHLEY and SHAUN6-2-09 ASHLEY and SHAUN6-2-09 ASHLEY and SHAUN

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Katie and Nate – NH wedding photographer

June 5, 2009 – 9:40 pm

I met Katie at the vet where I take my dog. Sid ( the dog) was a cute puppy in for his first set of shots and Katie was swept away! We talked and when I found out that she had a boyfriend, I popped the question: ” Are you guys thinking about getting married? Do you have a photographer? Here let me give you a card and a CD of samples.”

Months later – and a few trips to the vet for more shots and the like, I got an email from Katie. “Nate ( finally) asked me to marry him – we’re getting married in the fall – will you be our photographer!”

So the other day I finally met Nate and the three ( I left Sid at home) of us wandered around Newmarket shooting engagement photos. Katie is a natural – should she change carrers, she could easily model and it didn’t take Nate long to warm to the process. We had a great time…now I can’t wait till their wedding.

Here’s a few photos from the shoot.6-4-09 KATIE and NATE6-4-09 KATIE and NATE6-4-09 KATIE and NATE6-4-09 KATIE and NATE6-4-09 KATIE and NATE6-4-09 KATIE and NATE6-4-09 KATIE and NATE6-4-09 KATIE and NATE

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New Website

May 19, 2009 – 8:16 pm

It’s been a labor of love – and sweat – and frustration – and major help from friends old and new…but the new website is finally live.

I started talking about doing a new site in the fall with the goal of being online with it by the end of the year. I was still talking about it in January, February, March…you get the drift. This afternoon it finally was as done as it was going to get without public viewing and feedback, so take a stroll over and let me know what you think.

A few thanks need to be made public:

Designer Erica Plante was instrumental – she thought of ways to use photographs that made a purist like me quiver…until I saw how well it worked – the designs of the text pages and the new logo are all her. Thanks, Erica.

Photographer and colleague Roger Ramirez – unbeknown  to me – knows the inner workings of websites – code to me is a CIA mystery movie – to Roger its a map to achieve cool things. His patience with me especially when I was afraid to hit the button to take down the old and bring up the new was fabulous. Thanks, Roger.

The shell of the site was purchased from Flash Pallette (http://www.flashpalette.com/. They have a number of really killer sites, but better yet, the guy who runs the show, Shannon, is all about customer service. He answered questions from me night and day, put up with my simplistic view of how a site oughta work…and solved problems, soothed my fears, and generally made me feel like he’ll be on my Christmas card list this year! Thanks, Shannon.

So, having said all that, please go to the site, check it out and send feedback – its a work in progress ( I hate that cliche) and I want all the input I can get.

And the signifigance of the mushroom…none really, but since this is a photo blog I wanted to have something of a visual nature…and I like the photo!

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Nina and Rob

November 23, 2008 – 9:55 pm

Early on a recent Sunday morning I hooked up with Nina and Rob to shoot engagement photos – we spent 3 hours walking all over Boston, shooting tons of photos and having a ball. They are one of the easiest couples I’ve ever worked with – and so comfortable with each other – and a camera – that the whole shoot was a cakewalk. Their wedding should be a super time if the esession is any indication.

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November 23, 2008 – 9:49 pm

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