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: PERSONAL
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.
FREE FLYING : PHOTO OF THE MONTH
07.16.10 – 2:07 pm
Photographed at Huntington Beach, CA, July 4th, 2010. I wish summer never ends..
I’ll be back soon with a new blog post! Stay tuned!
THE FIRST..
06.23.10 – 12:24 pm
Well.. we’re back! Happily and finally married! Back in California and still flying high on cloud nine after our crazy trip back to Connecticut, for our wedding! I will have to be honest and say that with all of the crazy planning and stressed out days and nights, it was all worth it! To have our closest family and friends there for our wedding, minus a few that we wished could have made it and sadly missed, it was an amazing night! We’ve never really felt such an overwhelming and genuine love for the two of us in our whole lives, it was truly one of those experiences that you’ll never ever forget! So much so that we didn’t want the day to ever end!
I want to thank all of our over the top amazing vendors that made our day possible and our friends and family that helped throughout the day. We love you all! And I can’t forget my clients that have been so patient and understanding throughout our processes, thank you! The warm congrats on Facebook and Twitter have been such a joy to read, thank you all for those as well!
So it’s back to blogging for me! I’ll have so much to share in the weeks to come, including personal photos from Boston and Connecticut and engagement sessions and weddings that I photographed. And of course hopefully our wedding video and photos!
I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of this on the blog, so get used to it! “The First” ice cream cone we shared as Mr. and Mrs. Photographed at Ben & Jerry’s in West Hartford, Connecticut, June 21st, 2010. Fuji Instax Camera. Phish Food and Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream on a waffle cone!
ON THE 11TH YEAR..
05.10.10 – 4:27 pm
I am finally marrying my best friend in June. It’s hard to believe that Helen and I had our first date 11 years ago on this day. Never ever in my life, would I have imagined how wonderful my life is today. To have someone that’s always there for me, who absolutely loves me unconditionally. She honestly pushes me to be the best that I can be and I always push myself to be the best for her. I get choked up still when I think about us and how far we’ve come together. And how I’m truly the luckiest guy, that gets to spend every waking moment with her.
Helen, from every strand in my heart, I truly truly love you and everyday I fall more in love with you. We’ve been through the worst of times and the best of times together and through it all, I somehow found you, there, just there to talk, to let me know that it will all be ok, to celebrate together or cry together, you’ve always told me that you loved me and honestly, that was all that mattered. I want to grow old with you and be happy and in love as your grandparents were. I celebrate you today Helen and how amazing you are just being you and I celebrate us today and the life long journey that we have just begun. Cheers to us and many more amazing years to come! I love you.
Here are some photos of us from over the years.. and yes, the first space is blank.
THE GUILTS OF WRITING
05.07.10 – 7:41 pm
I’m sitting in my office now and it’s a little after 7:00 PM. I thought about this all of yesterday and into this morning. What will I write about today? This morning as I was planning out my day, I thought to myself, “Today is just such a crazy busy day today, because tomorrow I’ll be photographing a wedding and there will be much prepping that needs to be done, so I can skip a day and not write”. But as the day progressed and more of my to do’s were getting checked off, the guilt of not writing started to kick in, like Bruce Lee just landed a kick to my stomach and “Whaaaaing” away, as he goes in for the final blow!
Maybe it’s just the fear or guilt of not completing what I set out to accomplish. I’m sure most can attest that it’s pretty normal to feel that way. Either that or I’m just an overachiever or would like to thinks so anyways. Happy Friday!
Obviously I didn’t take this photo, but if I did, my cool points would be off the charts!
WE NEVER FEEL CRUSTY
05.05.10 – 2:12 pm
It was the spring of 1999. I was in the kitchen making myself a PB&J, peanut butter and jelly for those who don’t know and Helen which at the time, I just started dating. Helen noticed something about me that day. And it was just the smallest, simplest thing, that somehow even fate new, would forever bond our lives together. Yes, we shared the love of crustless bread!
It really is the smallest, simplest indulgences in life that we love and appreciate so much! Some even told us back then that “WE” would never work, but we always had our crustless bread to prove them wrong. Now we just need to find something to do with all this crust! Any suggestions?
Photo below taken with THIS CAMERA.
