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ShootStyle Shoot Out | Maine

More from Sunday’s shoot in Ogunquit -

Loved the play with 1, TWO, 3, 4. Perhaps too obvious, but I was still amused with myself.

Way to play with wide angle lens distortion, Allana!

ShootStyle Shoot Out | Maine

At the ShootStyle workshop Sunday, we each got to work with four sets of couples in various places around Ogunquit.  Coastal Maine is beautiful, and very different than the beaches I’ve been used to shooting on in California and Baja.  Not only in the rocks, the waves, the color palette – but [dawn breaks on marble head!] the sun doesn’t set over the water on the east coast.

First couple I photographed, who will be new parent this spring.

ShootSyle Shoot Out | Maine

I’ll be posting this week some images from last weekend’s ShootStyle workshop in Ogunquit, Maine. Carpooling up with Meg Belanger and Mark Higgins and having a photo-saturated road trip and shoot out.

The adorable Meg – as stand in for a portrait I was pre-visualizing at the grounds of the Ogunquit Art Museum.

Derby Dames

I’m working on a project with the Derby Dames, and so Trent and I went to see their bout on Saturday night.
A few images to share:


my interview with phodcast’s Robert Norman

A few weeks ago, at Inspire Boston, I was interviewed by Connecticut photographer Robert Norman for his Phodcast series on local New England photographers. It was a fun evening, and everyone else seemed to be fairly marinated in various liquids from the Pictage hosted open bar, which is in my limited experience a decent way to prepare for a recorded interview.

You can listen to it on itunes.

step 1. search phodcast in iTunes

step 2. Scroll down to #18

step 3. pour a glass of wine

step 4. press play

Road Trip | Vermont

With summer wedding season in full swing, and maintaining a deliriously exhausting bi-coastal business, it’s been a while since Trent and Sadie and I had any length of pack tie. We  relived our cross country road trip experience a few weeks ago, when we drove up to Northfield, Vermont to attend a wedding celebration. That’s right, I didn’t take my camera out at all except to take a few landscapes.

We cooled off my jumping in Sunset Lake in Brookfield. Lake swimming – the perfect way to handle August.

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Portrait | Molly the Molecule | Walden Pond Redux

Molly is a year older and still an amazing subject. Once again I was able to spend an afternoon with Molly and her mom at one of their favorite summertime haunts, Walden Pond.  It was so hot this week, as my New England readers can attest, that diving into the water after a sticky car ride on route 2 offered a revitalizing and memorable relief.

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Though we’ve been spending more time together, Molly eyes me with a bit of skepticsm.

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A little square format love.

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Regional Cuisine | New England

Another treat from childhood – the sticky joy of devouring a fluffernutter sandwich. [For those of your who are inexperienced with this New England classic click here]

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Still Life with Fluff

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Fluffernutter on wheat.


streets I’ve been on recently that I suspect have something to do with JK Rowling

In honor of the new HP movie . . . .

I’ve created a list of streets I’ve been on recently that I suspect have something to do with JK Rowling

1. Holloway Avenue

2. Sneath Lane

3. Ormsby Cutoff

4. Buzzard Lagoon

Portraits | Emily & Ayden | Summertime

Childhood and summer. They go together pretty well.  Spending so much time this summer back on the east coast, I began to remember how divine the heat of summer could be.  The delight of jumping of things. The glee in hanging upsidedown from the monkey bars and watching the world from a new prospective.  And so I was able to vicariously relive all this with the irrepressible Emily and her patient big brother Ayden.

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Monkey bars.

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Swinging.

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Trying to do what your big brother can do.

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Jump.

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A little ‘Lyrical’ happening.