Sunday, August 29, 2010 Posted in Wedding
There are two things a bride and groom wish for on their wedding day and Katelyn and Mike had both. First is perfect, blue sky weather, with not a cloud in sight. And the second would be, look as amazing as Katelyn. We all decided as a group in the bridal suite, before the guys arrived that we were going to abandon all the wedding plans, and just spend the whole day photographing Katelyn in her amazing wedding dress. Well, I guess someone exercised a veto power since the day proceeded as planned.
I’ve been planning on writing a book on secrets and tips every bride and groom need to know to survive their wedding. Within minutes of arriving in the bridal suite, I knew that this was a fun group when the father of the bride offered advice on Chapter 12 of my book titled, “how not to cry”. I was informed that the best method when you’re about to cry is, “squeeze your butt checks together real hard!”. I guess that’s chapter 12… AND 13.
The ceremony proceeded in front of the most beautiful willow tree I’ve ever seen (I honestly expected two since the wedding was at the “Double Tree”… hardy har har). I knew I just had to incorporate it into a wide angle photo during the ceremony.
With the sounds of DJ Angel, the crowd of 200 packed the dance floor all night!
Ceremony: The Double Tree – Tarrytown, NY
Reception: The Double Tree – Tarrytown, NY
Music: DJ Angel Productions
Saturday, August 21, 2010 Posted in Wedding
Thursday, August 12, 2010 Posted in Portraits
First a big congrats to a long time friend ours, Jonathan Real! Some of you might recall a blog posting (CLICK HERE) from last month which featured a promotional photo shoot in NYC for Jonathan and his show Real Magic TV (RMTV). What I wasn’t allowed to say in that posting is, we were hired specifically to capture photos that Jonathan would use when his partnership with Hulu was announced. After years of hard work, RMTV launched it’s featured page of original programming on the exclusive TV section of Hulu last night. My photos are now prominently featured as RMTV’s main banner on Hulu as well as all the photo links that populate the different sections of Hulu that link to RMTV. I’ve had photos published before but never on such a grand scale, visible to millions of people.
In addition, Jonathan was both creative and kind enough to shoot some video of behind the scenes of his photo shoot and that video is now the first video in the “Behind the Magic” section.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Posted in Wedding
We’ve said it time and time again that The Grandview in Poughkeepsie is one of, if not THE, best place to get married in the hudson valley. In fact, The Knot rated it so last year. But just incase we needed one more reason to like ‘em: Today I got a call from The Grandview asking if they could add to their main website, the video that we created and posted on our Facebook page a few weeks ago. The video was a fast paced montage of my favorite Grandview images over the last few years. Uh Yeah you can!!!
A big thanks to Rachel and the rest of the Grandview crew!
The video can be viewed on The Grandview’s website under the section called “view our facility”
Talk about a blast from the past! I had an opportunity to check out the underground museum at Tekserve in manhattan today. Their amazing collection of historic cameras, radios and of course, all of the first Apple products ever introduced from 1983 thru today.
It was a thrill for a tech dork like me to hold the predecessor to the iPhone, the less then successful “Newton”. What school child of the 1980’s could forget the clunky keys of the Apple IIe and how difficult it was to float the wagon down the Oregon Train (I usually broke an arm or died of typhoid before the river anyway).
So next time you drop a call on your iPhone or get impatient when your 50 photos take more then 15 seconds to upload to Facebook, remember the frustration when mom picked up the phone and threw you off AOL!!
(Ironically: this is my first mobile posting from my new iPhone. I think it’s fitting.)
by Gary
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