The day before the wedding, we ventured out to Yale University, where the wedding in Connecticut was going to be held. I have to say that I’m in love with New Haven and the Yale University campus. The architecture and history there is amazing! The only thing that I was sad about, was that Louis’ Lunch was closed for the month. They are where the first hamburger was created! Even living in Connecticut all of those years, I still haven’t tried it. I guess fate wasn’t on my side on this trip, but I’m sure I’ll be back to give it a try!
Stay tuned on Monday for a fresh wedding that I’ll be posting! Have a great weekend!
If you don’t line yourself up at the right point, the street art piece looks like this. Pretty cool huh?
Category Archives: FILM
FILM : YALE UNIVERSITY
08.27.10 – 1:02 pm
FILM : THE MANSIONS AT NEWPORT, RI
08.26.10 – 1:32 pm
At the end of our trip to Newport, RI, we heard through the grapevine, that when you visit here, you just have to checkout the mansions. So the first thing that came to mind was, google it, because we had no idea where it was. Not realizing that it was literally down the street from where we parked! So we headed down to checkout what everyone was talking about and I must say, although it was at the end of the day and we couldn’t really get the full tour, the area with all the mansions was pretty impressive! Some mansions were still occupied to this day too! Which must be strange now that I think about it, to have random strangers take pictures of your house. But I’m sure they’re used to it by now.
FILM : NEWPORT, RI
08.25.10 – 1:07 pm
Maybe it was the idea of seeing sailboats, eating seafood by the docks and wearing my favorite Sperry Top Sliders and Jcrew attire, that brought me to the small town of Newport, RI. I always feel right at home in New England when I wanna dress it up and wear my bowties and seer suckers. I kinda laugh at myself though, thinking that I lived in New England all of those 20 some-odd years and never really played the tourist card and explored. It’s funny now that when I come back to my home town of Connecticut, I wanna see it all! And eat it all!
I decided to capture most of my travel photos back East on film. All of my film was of course developed at Richard Photo Lab. They are just so amazing at what they do. I absolutely did nothing on these photos, besides just shoot them.
LA FLEA MARKET
11.25.09 – 8:00 pm
Are you curious what I do on my weekends off? That’s easy, I go digging for junk! Well kinda. I’m a huge HGTV fan and home decor is my favorite past time. I’ve been hearing rumors of these huge flea markets full of all kinds of antiques, but never was adventurous enough to go find one, until last weekend. Me and the usual suspects, headed to LA on Sunday to have a nice breakfast by the beach. Patrick’s Road House to be exact. If you haven’t been, you need to go! After we fed ourselves into food commas, we headed to an LA Flea Market digging for junk. It really reminded me of the stuff we found in our garage, when we first moved to our new home back in the 80’s. I guess it’s true what they say, “One man’s junk, is another man’s treasure”. Helen and I ended up buying an antique wood looking boat centerpiece. We still have no idea what to do with it, but we like it.
Here’s a photo of me and Helen at the flea market on Sunday. It’s been awhile since we posted any personal photos of ourselves. This was taken with my old Canon AE-1 film camera and so are the rest of the photos in the gallery below. Have a great “Thanksgiving” everyone!
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FILM PHOTOS FROM THE BRIARS IN MISSISSIPPI
09.21.09 – 12:45 pm
Here are some more film photos from The Briars in Mississippi. I’ll be posting more photos up shortly. Stay tuned tomorrow for a new engagement session on the blog. Happy Monday!
FIRST DANCE : FILM
09.12.09 – 10:59 am
I just wanted to share a photo that I took from a wedding back in July. This was the couples first dance and I love the emotion in the photo. This was photographed in near darkness with Fuji Neopan 1600 film. There’s something so timeless about film isn’t there?
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A MIDSUMMER DAYS DREAM PICNIC : FILM PHOTOS
09.03.09 – 11:00 am
Back in July, yes I know I’m a bit behind on blogging this, but for good reason. Friends gathered together for a picnic which was hosted by Bonnie Tsang, Kelley Gin from Picture Perfect Events, the ladies of Utterly Engaged and Carissa from JL Designs and Events. I decided that day, that I was going to photograph the event completely in film. There’s something about gatherings, food, friends and picnics that makes me think about the good old days, when all we had was film. The hostesses didn’t leave us with nothing to do, they planned a bunch of games and activities for us all, including a water ballon toss and baby bottle drinking contest.
All of the photos below were photographed on my old Canon AE-1 and Canon EOS-1. Thanks to Richard Photo Lab who developed the photos, they always do an awesome job! Oh and I didn’t retouch or photoshop the photos below. That’s the beauty of a good lab and shooting film!
FILM AND DIGITAL HAPPILY EVER AFTER
07.30.09 – 7:34 pm
Well in my life it is. As you all know, I’m mainly a digital photographer. It’s been my tool since I started professionally as a photographer. I love digital for the ability to just shoot, shoot, shoot! and to instantly see what you are shooting. Not to mention that you don’t need to change film depending on the speed that you need or to decide if you want to shoot black and white or color photos. So many excellent things can be said about digital and not to many negatives.
Film for me though, has always been about a certain look. There’s just this unexplained thing about film, that’s there and can’t be replicated digitally. I know that first hand, because I’ve tried countless times with no success. So I said, why try to replicate it, when I can just shoot film! So I’ve been on a mad hunt lately picking up film camera bodies that looked semi familiar to me, from the photographers that used them at the weddings I’ve attended as a teenager.
I’m not saying that I am going to totally switch to film or that digital is all that I use, truth be told is that I love both. And hopefully sooner than later, film and digital in my professional life, will meet at the crossroads of photo making, so stay tuned!
I know most of you have seen my updates on Twitter or Facebook, but here’s a recent photo of my film family. I like to keep it old school!
