Caitlin & Jarrod on 100 Layer Cake!

   Caitlin and Jarrod's beautiful wedding is featured on 100 Layer Cake today! I just loved this wedding with its hip-vintage-garden theme.

   Almost all of these images were shot on film with my Contax 645 - an incredible old camera with a Zeiss lens that is my primary camera. The studio details and Photo Booth shots were all taken digitally with a Canon 5D.

Nutcracker Party

Another recent project with Darcy Miller Nussbaum of Martha Stewart Weddings. She even treated my husband and I to go see the Nutcracker at Lincoln Center as a thank you!

 All images were shot digitally with a combination of daylight and a little handheld daylight-balanced LED light that I used for fill. 

 More from the shoot: http://www.lilsugar.com/Nutcracker-Party-Ideas-26230028

NY Magazine - Fall/Winter 2012

   A shot from Rain and Michael's wedding just ran in the latest New York Magazine's Weddings' issue! This wedding was at Public in the East Village, and I just love the dark and moody interior.
Congrats, Raina and Michael!

It's in a Gesture

In a touch, true tenderness is revealed. But to reveal it, we must see it first.
Shot with my Rolleiflex, HP5 black and white film. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 I recently had the great pleasure of working with Darcy Miller Nussbaum, the Senior VP and editorial director of Martha Stewart Weddings. Darcy needed some last minute shots for a Thanksgiving story she had put together for Good Morning America. Darcy chatted about tablescapes on the morning show, and these complimenting images circulated the blogosphere in a major way over the subsequent few days! They ran on the GMA site, Martha Stewart Living, Martha Stewart Weddings, Apartment Therapy, L'il Sugar, and Darcy's Pinterest Board (as well as my own).
 Thanks for all the great press, Darcy!
 I shot all of these images digitally with daylight. 

Ayla and Emlen's Wedding in BRIDES

 It truly is the best when two of your best friends marry each other. Emlen went to business school with my husband and Ayla is my dear girlfriend who I met through work. Soon after my husband and I started dating, these two met and voila! A perfect match was made! Within weeks, we knew they would get married and what a wonderful wedding it was!
 Ayla would have looked beautiful had she worn a paper bag to her wedding, but instead she decided to wear a blush pink Monique Llhulier gown with snakeskin Manolos. They had a quaker ceremony filled with heartfelt wishes, followed by a family-style luncheon, an a capella serenade, and a confetti departure!
 This last shot ran in the November 2012 issue of Brides Magazine as the entire back page of the issue. This "outtake", as Brides calls it, is one of my favorite candids from the wedding. It is shot with one of my Nikon 35mm cameras, on 3200 speed film. This departure was so fast (and unannounced) that I shot as many frames as I could with the hope that I would capture something worthwhile. The out-of-focus bride and the snow-shower of confetti demonstrate the chaos of the moment. If it were all sharp it wouldn't be nearly as exciting!

 

 

Fall Update!

A new season, a new look! Bring on the cool weather, changing leaves, and marshmallow roasting because I love fall! And I've updated my homepage to be a little bit more seasonally appropriate.
The Country section also got a full makeover, so take a look!

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