tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66324784492588485662012-01-27T11:07:52.973-05:00the hijinks of a freelance photographer in northern(ish) new england.gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.comBlogger621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-89187063477296115912008-02-12T09:08:00.000-05:002008-02-12T09:11:06.845-05:00

hey party people...i've got a new (and much improved) blog! so head on over, and update your RSS feeds. i moved everything from here over there, so...no need to come back here EVER AGAIN.www.gwynethcolleen.com/blogthere'll just be a few minor things that need tweaking, so bear with me while i get everything all shined and polished, and then...enjoy!(incidentally wordpress > blogger...bigtime.)

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i am a cat person. i love my furry little feline...i think he is hilarious and cuddly.to wit:wanna see it bigger?

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remember jess and brian...? you should...they're just one post below this one. the two lovely people with the GORGEOUS blue peepers? (fyi: it's late, and i just typed "GORGEOUS blue peppers"...i'm not sure what gorgeous blue peppers look like, but if you know, please enlighten me.)anyway, they just got married on 1/19 at the bedford village inn in bedford, nh. and it was a FANTASTIC party!

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holy cows, guys!i've been booking travel for some out of town weddings i have this summer (one in columbus, one in indianapolis). i live fewer than 10 miles from portsmouth, so...www.skybus.com is my new best friend! i do not feel guilty asking someone to drive me 20 mins to the airport. and my roundtrip ticket to columbus in may was only $106!so...my friend suggested that for the indianapolis

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jessica and brian are getting married in bedford, nh. in 9 days. getting married in january...they had their pick of vendors, so i am so honored that they chose me to be their photographer!we didn't have much time to try to fit in an engagement session...especially with the holidays right bang in the middle of our 1.5-2 month window. but we made it happen! amy of ardent photography (in neenah

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a few months ago, i got an email from a lovely young man named fred. he wanted to surprise his fiance for her birthday with a photo session.they're both archaeologists, and in addition to organizing everything with me, he also did his homework. he went scouting and had lots of ideas for locations. (usually, during these types of sessions, we agree to meet in a particular area, and then we kind

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a few weeks month and a half ago i went up to south portland/cape elizabeth, maine to do engagement photos with kate and chris.i love their story...they grew up on the same street...then met randomly 15 years later in a bar. she heard someone go, "is that katie?" and turned around to say, "who is calling me katie?" and left knowing he was going to look her up. she was right.we met at fort

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happy new year, everyone!what's the deal with time? it just barrels at you like a freight train, and NEVER gives you a break! i feel like i'm always on the run...anyone else?and, because of that, and my oldest child penchant for "being right" and "doing it well"...combined with my fierce procrastination tendencies...i am always loathe to make new year's resolutions. because as i've been told..

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i have a problem. i'm not very good with exclusiveness. i SAY i have favourites...but it carries a bit less weight when i tell EVERY NEW COUPLE they are my favourites.so. claire and ben are my favourite couple getting married in february of 2008. the fact that they are the ONLY ones who've hired me for a wedding that month (thus far) should mean nothing to you, because if they were not

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my friends hannah and zach got married. and then they got married again. and then they had a wedding. we all find that quite tremendous. (he's in the army, so...the multiple marriages/ceremonies were for logistical AND sentimental AND tradition purposes)their wedding-wedding was in oklahoma, and it was the first one i've attended...in a non-involved (ha!) capacity...maybe ever.i went to my

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i changed my hair fairly recently...(went UBER blonde.) i've had a few client meetings/engagement sessions since then, and i was mildly concerned that they wouldn't be able to recognise me because the photo on my website (and here) is me with darker hair.but all of them said, "oh no...i could tell it was you from your glasses."NICE.have i ever mentioned how much i love my vintage cat-eye glasses

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a friend just informed me that it is UNACCEPTABLE that it has been 20 days since i last posted here. i don't like it, but i am inclined to agree. please accept my humble apologies and recycle through some of my old excuses...because i don't have any new ones.so...to appease her, and hopefully you, here's my favourite image from a recent senior portrait session i did with abi in portsmouth.

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today i got an email w/ the subject line, "vegan shoe girl with backpiece". it was a guest from a wedding i photographed in may writing to say that she loved the photos i'd taken of her and her husband. (whenever anyone tells me, "i'm not photogenic...i always look _____ in pictures", i take it as a personal challenge.so, i grabbed her and her husband (he was the best man), and did a 5 minute "

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i am so in love with this image from saturday...lesley and ken had an absolutely gorgeous reception at the algonquin club, and we stole 15 minutes to walk across comm ave to take some photos in the little park area...i snapped this one on the way back. (lesley was very certain she wanted to be there for her cocktail hour.)

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to anyone who has sent an inquiry via the form on my website: i did not get it. :(i was trying to protect myself from spam, so i listed my address as gwyn [at] gwynethcolleen [dot] com. however, like a bonehead, i did not read the fine print (this is the email address to which your client inquiries will be sent.)so. if you wrote to me, please write again! i want to hear from you!lastly, this

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i am so infatuated with and privileged to live near portsmouth, nh...i went there w/ a friend on sunday...we were walking around, and he said, "i always thought your pictures were so colourful...and i'm sure you do some processing, but it really is that vibrant around here!"behold...these were all taken w/in a block or two of each other, in about 10-15 minutes:

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over on this post at offbeatbride.com, someone asked about "roles of honour" other than having a friend stand up as a member of the wedding party. in the comments, someone mentioned that she attended a wedding that had a "best dude"...he had interesting responsibilities, including keeping people "well-liquored".tremendous.

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i was a weird kid...one year for my birthday, i wanted to have an egg-fight party. no seriously. i did. my mom told me i could have x amt of people, and we'd each get a dozen eggs. she took us down to this vacant lot, and we ran around throwing eggs at each other for, oh, about 2 minutes. i don't know if anyone actually got egged, but...i was happy. i have, uh, different creative outlets

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stop me if i've already told you this one...catherine contacted me a few months ago to see if i could come photograph her everything-but-the-ceremony in PA near Philadelphia. i was all over that, because my sister lived nearby, and hey...bonus! through back and for emailing, it didn't seem like it was going to work out...but the promise of a long weekend with bek-the-sister had been dangled in

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just AWESOMENESS related!my friend erin has this incredible design blog. little o' this, little o' that...she's got some great, eclectic, and colourful taste. go check it out if you don't like same old, same old furnishings and aesthetics.(and, if you're reading MY blog, i'm betting you don't fit into the cookie cutter mold, so go give her some love!)design for mankindalso, the title of her

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well, it is 12:03am on 9.28.07...which means 2 things:1. my new website is finally live! (it's still a teensy bit under construction, so please bear with me...september is pretty much the most ridiculous month in my universe. i don't think i've cooked anything besides popcorn--the non-microwave kind, i'm old school--since sometime in august.)www.gwynethcolleen.comi love it soooooo much, and i

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soo...on 9/1 i headed down to philly-ish-town to photograph the everything-but-the-ceremony-because-they-already-did-it-in-PARIS-i-KNOW!-i-feel-bad-for-them-too of catherine and dave.we met at a park to do some couple and family photos before we headed to their family restaurant for a pretty awesome party/reception.as per usual, bridal hairdos take longer than expected, so our time was cut a wee

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so, basically...the highest honour you can ever receive is to be applauded by your peers, right? because they're the ones who really *GET* what your job entails, and if they think you're good at it...you totally are.so.i was extremely flattered and hugely intimidated when Rachel (of decent urban weddings fame), the fabulous one, who gave me my start in wedding photography, asked me to shoot

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my new macbook pro arrived...it is glorious. it also has photobooth, so after i got home from getting my hair cut tonight, i played with it.

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i feel so behind on life right now! and there's no respite in sight. in the next 4 weeks, i have 5 weddings, a conference, and three engagement sessions. ack!i'm out of town this weekend for an everything-but-the-ceremony (they took care of that in Paris last weekend...i know. i feel bad for them, too.) in Philadelphia. i'll see my sister, and we've bandied about the idea of getting some

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i have not run any number of steps in the boston marathon, much less all but the last mile. the rest of them are totally true!those who actually know me know that i ABHOR running. yech!(course, when i get really hot, my face turns purple, and that, my friends--is just not attractive.)tell me something unique about you!

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one more day to guess which thing is the fib on this post.I'm gonna spill the beans tomorrow!(If a client gets it right, I will give you a complimentary 8x10 of your favorite image.)

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Margaret Singer-she of the rockstar hairdo-tagged me. I am meant to tell you 8 things about myself...but I like the spin she put on it. Sort of a 3 truths and a lie flavor. I am going to tell you 9 things, and one of them is wildly untrue. Tell me which one you think is the fib. I like comments!1. I name my cats after horrible international despots2. I once ate Thanksgiving dinner on a

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gwynethcolleenphotography is gonna look a whole lot different in about a month. I'm more excited than a 2 month old puppy meeting you for the first time. Only with less piddling on the floor.There will be a brand new website (that is going to rock your worlds. I promise.), I'll have a slightly different email address, AND...my prices will be going up significantly. All these changes are going

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Scott and Carabeth are getting married today. In about 4 hours, to be exact. I figured I should post about their engagement session before I take their wedding photos.These two are so cute...and so fun. At our initial meeting, I asked them, "so...are you guys more serious or goofy?" (I always try to get a feel for clients so that I can make sure we capture the kind of moments they want to

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I went to college with Nick. We were in the same literature class, and I was always impressed and mildly intimidated by how successfully cerebral he was. I say successful, because I'm sure you've met intellectual people that just kind of...weren't quite right. They were either obnoxiously pretentious, or completely inaccessible, but not in an appealing, mysterious way. Anyway...he was

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I'm still behind. Meredith and Kevin were married 30 June at the Stevens Estate. I was once again second-shooting for the fabulous Rachel of Decent Urban Weddings. (Being a second shooter is great; there's less pressure, and I get to do lots of fun, creative stuff and let her worry about getting all the "money" shots. It's a nice change of pace every now and then!)Meredith and Kevin are a

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I've been lugging my 16x20 studio sample canvas to client meetings because it's so freaking awesome! You need to actually see one of these in person to fully appreciate how much more amazing your creative portraits will look at a larger size.It's not really possible to take photos of a print and do it any justice, but at the request of a portrait client (who has an amazing, beautiful, and

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Remember Jean & Jack...the couple whom b&w loved? Their wedding on the Cape in June was the exact opposite. I couldn't bring myself to do much b&w because the colors were soooo delicious.I think beach grass is very romantic.as soon as I saw this little wooden dock, I knew I needed to do some photos on it. Jean was such a great sport. It was a little wobbly/floaty feeling, and she was nervous.

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in this day of PDAs and iphones and...sync-ing calendars and laptops, oh my!--i am a misfit.i do not have a PDA.i only use my phone's calendar to check how many days i have left in the monthly billing cycle and figure out how many minutes per day i have for the rest of the month.i still use a planner. i have had the same brand for, like, 5 years now. i love it. it's one of the cheapest ones

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time for true confessions with gwyn: the main reason i get behind w/ blogging is the time it takes to pick my favourites to post here. marion and scott asked for some images to use on their wedding site...so i figured i'd go with their favourites. :-Danother true confession: this is way out of order. this late at night i'm employing the "shotgun" method of completing to-do list items. order

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know what my problem is with this whole blogging thing? i'm so busy doing other stuff that i kind of let it slide...and then more and more and more happens, and i feel like i could type forever.you know how some people are pithy and succinct? i am NOT one of those people. i am kind of rambly and chatty, and the part where i can type around 100wpm does not help me stem the tidal flow that

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i am SUCH a lucky girl. i love what i do...and i get to meet great new people every week. granted, as a single girl it's not really the best life strategy...ha!i'm not sure if it's ok to have favourites among clients, but...i do. halida and jeff are the cutest, most fun couple i think i've ever met. i've already gushed about them, but this is going to be one big post of virtual cotton

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1. i watched "when a man loves a woman" (13 years after it came out...) last night, and OMG, it is SOOOO sad. i didn't cry, because i do not cry at movies. or weddings. or...very many things at all, but my eyes were slightly prickly. :-D2. the harry potter book was tremendous. you should read it.3. have you ever watched the series "i propose" on the style network? it is SOOOO cute. (

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alternate title: proof that commercials really work!i just saw a commercial for nova scotia...and it reminded me HOW MUCH i want to go to halifax and prince edward island.i LOOOVVEE to travel. (i've been to viet nam, singapore (coolest airport ever!), bolivia, mexico, colombia, philippines, UK (x3), indonesia, new zealand (FAVOURITE! x3), australia (x2), ireland...and...that might be it. wait!

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when I was first starting out in wedding photography, a great friend and fellow photographer took me under her wing and gave me my start. she taught me sooo much, and I'll always be grateful to her. one of the things she told me that I've never forgotten was that the moments right after the ceremony are beautiful and priceless...I love this series of Halida and Jeff right after they'd walked

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on June 9th I traveled down to Gloucester, MA (location of "the Perfect Storm"...which, if you ask me, was a perfectly depressing movie. and a perfect waste of two nearly-perfect specimens like Mark Wahlberg and George Clooney...that's why I don't like "true story" movies...happy endings, Hollywood! Happy endings! That's what I'm paying you $9 per ticket for.) to second-shoot for the fabulous

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I first met Sarah and David last December. We walked around Boston Common and the Gardens for some engagement photos...and boy were we lucky! It was warm enough to do a few shots without their coats. I think this is my favorite from that session.Sarah is just sooo beautiful, and David loves her sooo much...Her response after our session was that they were able to have a few 'moments' they

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so, I need some help! My to-do list is so unbelievably long...and that includes SIX weddings I need to post here. My goal is to post one wedding per day for the rest of the week...if I don't do it, harass me! gwynethcolleenphotography [at] yahoo [dot] com.I had an amazing time in Indiana, and the 7.7.07 photos are...well, they're a treat. Definitely worth the wait. I've done a LOT of

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weddings are this huge industry...I cannot even fathom it, and I am part of the machine. My sister got married a few years ago, so I remember concern over costs...from the big stuff like meals and venues all the way to smaller stuff like favors.I have been obsessed with this penny-pinching idea ever since I read about it on offbeatbride.com. One particular vendor appeals to budget conscious

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(and a lot of parenthetical expressions)first, the bitterness:I think "Live Free or Die Hard" should have something to do with New Hampshire.affection:The reason I have any bitterness about that is because I *HEART* New Hampshire. I have since before I moved here. I was thrilled that the winding stream that is life deposited me here. And I've lived in my current apartment longer than I've

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i've been hiding this from you for months now: but i can't hide it any longer. just for today, i'm going to let the real me peek through.i hate capital letters. i appreciate punctuation and grammar and spelling...but i hate capital letters. it probably has more to do with my love of symmetry than with any particular affinity for e. e. cummings. in fact, it definitely does, because i don't

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I'm so behind on posting! I've got 3 weddings to write about...scratch that...4! I still haven't shown you all my May 19th wedding *hangs head in shame* and there are some beautiful images that I've been looking forward to sharing.But...I've been bogged down with image processing and album designing. As I told one client this week, "'tis the season"...Wedding season is in full swing, and I'm

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today I got this email from Jeff (see post directly below this 'un):Gwyn-these are a HUGE hit with us and our families and we absolutely love them! great job and we're looking forward to this weekend, thanks again,Jeff warm fuzzies. like...mint hot chocolate and sweat pants on a winter day, Gloria Jean's iced mochas, kittens, and polka-dots. THAT'S how I feel when I get emails like this.

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The story of how Halida and Jeff found me is my favorite to date...my friend Amy works in an awesome shoe store in downtown Portsmouth (bestplaceonearth). Halida was in there..and I guess they got to chatting, and Amy mentioned that she knew a wedding photographer. They exchanged information, and I think Amy sent Halida the link to my website.I was actually in dialogue with another couple in

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I'm shockingly tardy in posting this, so without further ado...Perhaps you'll recall Chrissa and Daniel from this post. They were married on May 5th at the Codman House in Lincoln, MA, which is a fantastic venue! Their caterer was amazing, and the Codman House's coordinator, Nancy, was friendly and helpful. And of course, the day was gorgeous--sunny and clear.Chrissa had some very normal

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This past weekend I went down to Rhode Island for my friend's birthday. She...well, she loves pirates. a LOT. and Newport was having a pirate festival, so we all pirated-up and sailed on down.Even as a pirate, I have a camera. It's my role on deck, you could say.Also, I only included this one because I didn't want anyone to mutiny...Some of them were QUITE committed to achieving that piratey

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last Tuesday, I had the most amazing engagement session ever. Everything was perfect. And I am so addicted to the internet, that I was mentally composing this post to share it with you as I was taking the photos. Ben and Aimee are some friends from church whose wedding I will be photographing in September. They weren't super concerned with engagement photos, but I insisted. We decided to meet

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Like any normal person, I love compliments. I always enjoy it when guests tell me, "you're doing a great job!" (I do, however, wonder how they can tell? I always figured the "proof was in the pudding", but I'm not about to turn up my nose at a compliment, so I always thank them and feel buoyed by their praise.)My favourite compliment yet, though, came from the crazy dancer at Sarah and David's

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So, I am a total daddy's girl...and I just read Emilie Sommer's (of Emilie, Inc Photography) blog, and I love her idea so much I'm going to "borrow" it...Send me an email (gwynethcolleenphotography @ yahoo . com) before May 31st (that's only a couple weeks away!) telling me why your dad is the best (mums with young kids--you can write their entries for them. I won't tell. And be creative--this

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so, first I have to tell you: did you know that Target is now selling wedding dresses? yeah. That's what I said, too. It's kind of hilarious, but the dresses are actually not hideous.Also...I just heard from my June 16th couple-Halida and Jeff, and I have to say that they are the kind of couple I dream about! Their details are just absolutely fabulous. They're getting married in Maine, and

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I promised I'd post more of these two...and I have no excuse for why I haven't. They were so very, very lovely, in appearance and manner. They had placecards and a table for all of the vendors and asked us to join them for an absolutely DELICIOUS dinner!as we were leaving the hotel to go do portraits in the gardens, these rowdy Yankees fans in town for the Yankees-Red Sox game thrust their

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I've been so truant about posting here...busy busy busy little bee I am!I've not been around for a month of weekends--the life of a freelance photographer is never quiet or dull. If it's not a photography project, it might be taxes to consider. (Don't ever take your w2's for granted!)Anyway, Saturday was Danna and Shinji's wedding, and they are the most gorgeous people I think I've ever seen.

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After I went walking with Chrissa and Daniel (below), I got to go for a walk with Jack and Jean. Jack and Jean are so great. I had such fun with them. They're so in love, and that made my job easy! They were such great sports--right down to showcasing their swing dancing techniques in Central Square.They're getting married in June on the Cape, and get this: after they say their vows, these

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I had a busy weekend! 3 client meetings (and 2 mini-engagement sessions) Saturday, and another meeting on Sunday. Fun times.Chrissa, Daniel, and I went for a walk through Cambridge's Central Square on Saturday...and we got some GREAT shots. I was really digging the color and texture of this concrete wall.Look how fabulous they look! And Chrissa was wearing a polka-dotted skirt. You should

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This past weekend I went with Rachel to photograph Amy and Jeff's wedding in Groton, MA. FAN-tastic! My absolute favorite is couples who let their personality and quirkiness come out and want something "different from the norm." Amy and Jeff definitely achieved that with bridal portraits in front of a bullpen. (No, not where the pitchers warm up...where the matadors keep their opponents!)

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My website is coming together, slowly...but surely. I'm learning all sorts of stuff that I wouldn't have otherwise known! This post is really just a placeholder until I can find some time to tell you about my latest projects...well, aside from working on my website. I think I've found my white whale...

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