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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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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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Empty Spaces

May 3, 2009 – 11:35 am

My search for locations for the empty spaces project found a mother lode this weekend – gaining access to an old knitting mill in North-Central New Hampshire. The day was spent more just looking and planning than actual shooting, but it was incredibly fruitful nonetheless. I met an amazing artist who I’ll properely introduce in a later post, came across the cutest pug and managed a few cool photos. I’ll share some of the non empty space photos – since I really didn’t shoot any on Friday.

For those who might not know, the empty space project is about those places that have become abandoned or otherwise left out of use. I’m alwqays looking for places to explore and welcome ideas or names of people to contact.

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Spring morning

April 6, 2009 – 10:10 am

Out with the dog for an early morning, see the sunrise, take the camera because who knows, walk in the fields. The sounds of waking geese singing on the pond, the squish of mud as winter slowly thaws away. No coffee just the early chill of the false dawn to pop open the eyes. Life really is good!

And if you can’t get out of bed for it, here – enjoy the sunrise!_jay1970

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Winter – still

February 22, 2009 – 1:01 am

Took a walk today with my wife – out on  snowmobile trail so the dog could have a run and we could get some fresh air after spending most of the day in the basement trying to make some progress in the madness of the chaos.

As we walked by a frozen beaver pond she remarked that it had been a great winter – lots of snow, cold, no slush. It made me think about the complaining I’ve done this season because, you know, she is right – its been a great winter. Lots of snow, cold, no slush.

Made me appreciate perspective and what I’ve got.

The economy may be in the tank but we’ve got it pretty good – as we suffer through the recession, depression, whatever you want to call it, we still have it better than so many other places in the world – its just we’ve come to expect luxury.

Perspective, what a great thing.

Thanks Donna.

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Inspiration

February 9, 2009 – 9:20 pm

The idea of where inspiration comes from has always fascinated me. It can be a pretty esoteric, philosophical topic – or we can cut to the chase and realize that our ideas come from triggers we see, hear or feel – whether its another photographer’s work, a painting, a chord in a piece of music, a cloud in the sky. Sometimes my inspiration comes from watching a little kid’s fascination with the ordinary…a trait so many adults have lost.

I was thinking about inspiration tonight and thought back to about a year ago when an artist I had the chance to become acquainted with by the name of Adam McEwen turned me on to a British photographer named Jane Bown. Bown is one of the most incredible portrait shooters I’ve seen – she has that feeling for light and how it plays on her subjects , a feeling that comes from the heart and soul not from formulas- so here I was thinking about Bown’s work ( actually I was more thinking about a book she did that’s now out of print that I would love to own but can’t afford) and I went digging for a couple of portraits I did that were inspired by her.

I figured as long as I had them open I’d do an extra post to make up for some I’ve missed.

The first one is John O’Gorman, the father of my good friend Tom.  John and his wife were visiting from Ireland and I did the portrait at Tom’s house.

The second is dancer Ronald Brown who was in New Hampshire to do a master dance class and performance at the Music Hall in Portsmouth.

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