Wedding: Tammy + Gilles

Paul + I had the pleasure of fotographing Tammy and Gilles lovely wedding back in August, and have put together this collection of images in celebration of their reception in France that was this past weekend. Gilles is from France, so they had a wedding here in the USA and also in Gilles home country.

CLICK HERE to watch the Slideshow Premier of Tammy + Gilles day.

The gorgeous dress...I love the vintage-y lace!







Tammy's mom seeing her daughter for the first time on her wedding day. This day was also Tammy's mom and dad's anniversary, which we thought was so special...






The details were so pretty and elegant. The beautiful flowers were done by Peter's Florist in Stamford.



And we absolutely loved the paper globes....



Tammy's fantastic makeup was done by MAC makeup artist Marvin Speight,





Tammy's hair was styled by Erica at Noble. So elegant!





Tammy looking absolutely stunning!!







The wedding was held at the home of Tammy's very good friends Joe & Chris. Their home was so beautiful...full of original artwork and gorgeous furnishings. The property was just as beautiful, with luscious gardens, a lovely ivy-covered barn, and amazing stonework!



Meet Chris & Joe, the fabulous hosts! They were wonderful people, and such great friends for hosting the wedding at their home!



One of the very adorable flower girls...



The ceremony was a lovely, held in one of the gardens.



Gilles, the charming groom, seeing his bride for the first time.





A nice little moment during the ceremony.



Tammy's mom watching her daughter get married....maybe reminiscing about her own wedding day...



The ceremony was perfect...so intimate, with family and friends surrounding Tammy and Gilles as they took their vows...



A quiet romantic moment after the ceremony. If we can, Paul & I really like stealing away with our couples, away from the quests, to capture a few moments of bliss.



Especially if the light is warm and lovely...









These two were so natural!



Gilles.... happiness written all over his face.



Tammy looking very elegant against the ivy covered barn.



Gilles and his sweet folks, whom came all the way from France to watch their son get married.



Chris, Tammy's best man, toasts the couple with a very heartwarming speech.....







The food was excellent (and pretty!)! We're definitely going to be looking up these caters when Paul & I get married. I love doing detail shots of the food at weddings if I have time.




A fun little moment during Gille's best man's toast.



How pretty it looked as night fell.



Tammy + Gilles romantic first dance...



Tammy and Gilles, it was so wonderful to part of your wedding day- congratulations to you both!

Did Apple invent the flip phone idea?

OK so everyone knows I am kind of a technology nerd, but I am about to really out myself. I found this kind of randomly while looking through Google for some images. No I was not searching for it!! Its real as I can tell I looked up the patent # on the us patent office;)

Just picture this "Apple sues Motorola for the flip phone patent" ;) Anyway I thought it was kinda funny.

Wow! This is amazing.

So I stole this from Candace Jeffery's blog because it was so cool! Check out this company Still Motion an this Trash the Dress video/still shoot its awesome!

A Love Shoot: Michelle + Peter

This weekend we are going to be away for Michelle and Peter's fabulous three day wedding in New Jersey! In honor of their upcoming nuptials, we're sharing some of the awesome shots of the day we spent with them in New York City.

Michelle and Peter also had us design a Love Book for them. We really love to make these books for our couples....they are an great way to have collection of the awesome fotos that we take during the Love Shoot that we do for our couples. And they are so much fun to design! Their guests are going to be writing sweet little messages to them on the pages of this book on the wedding day. Click HERE for Michelle and Peter's fabulous Love Book!!!

Here is the cover:




The day of the Love Shoot, Paul and I met up with Michelle and Peter at Norma's in Le Parker Meridien, their favorite breakfast place in the city for some brunch that would blow your mind. Michelle was daring enough to let us put her gorgeous ring in Peter's sticky-sweet breakfast (we really think it was actually dessert in disguise)! Love is sweet!



After we gorged ourselves on amazing breakfast/brunch, it was off the Central Park to walk off some of the calories!



On a bench...how much do you think these two love each other? I always LOVE shots tight, intimate shots like this that Paul is so good at getting : )



One of my new favorite locations to shoot in Central Park is the beautiful, classic Bethesda Terrace area. The tunnel from above is spectacular...



especially when you have an awesome couple spontaneously dance...



Inside the terrace is just as beautiful (Michelle and Peter aren't too bad either) hehe :P







The textures, colors and architecture look like something that belongs in Tuscany...Michelle and Peter were so into it all.



We had a blast!





One of my absolute favorites from the day...how romantic is this couple?







We saw a gondola go past.....maybe we were in Italy afterall. No we didn't get the gondola in this shot...but I swear we saw one.



Beautiful...



Inside the tunnel...



Gorgeous, warm buttery light + gorgeous, playful couple= sweet fotos!



Michelle saw this cute, older couple sitting on a bench, looking still very much in love, and we had to ask them to be in some fotos together.



This is one of my favorite shots EVER... It goes perfect with one of my favorite quotes from John Lennon...."Grow old along with we, the best is yet to be...." It makes me so teary eyed everytime I look at it.



After Central Park, was off to the fabulous 5th Avenue for some sexy shots. Check out the cool texture on the front of the Fendi store.... we could rock that all day long! How hot is this couple?



Sizzlin' HOT!!!





Fun!!!



Michelle was a good sport to sit in her dress on the NYC sideswalks. We say anything for a great shot....and she agreed!!



Love, love, love, finding awesome walls to use as backgrounds....this building happens to be the Armani Exchange






So Michelle and Peter were engaged at Rockfeller Center (while iceskating). So we of course we just HAD to incorporate this location into their love shoot.

Here's a very romantic engagement story: So Peter didn't even know how to ice skate, but managed to propose to Michelle in the most romantic of ways. He brought along Michelle's sister to keep her on the ice right as everyone else was let off. So the rope goes up in front of Michelle so that she and her sister can't get off the ice (kudos to Peter for coordinating this with the skating rink). So sister and Michelle go around the ice one more time and here comes Peter skating into the rink (not one one knee, though he admits that if he were a better skater he would totally have done a Victor Petrenko slide-on-one-knee action for romantic effect.) So he asks a very stunned and excited Michelle to marry him....and she of course says yes!!!! Much to Michelle's surprise the ENTIRE area up above the rink starts to cheer and clap, and Michelle looks up and she's her ENTIRE family and friends witnessing the whole thing!!! How ridiously ROMANTIC is Peter!!!! He should go an award for that proposal....but of course he is getting to marry his love Michelle!



We of course had to go on Top of the Rock to get a spectactular view of the city. Paul & I had never been, so we were very excited to get to see NYC from a different view! It was absolutely amazing, and we planned it just right to get up there at around sunset!!



Peter is from Germany, and Michelle's background is Turkish (but she was born here), so we thought it would be fun to show this somehow.



Paul took the following two incredible shots (along with about half of the other shots in this post), but I definitely have to give him kudos for these two....how timeless and romantic.



And check out the reflection caught! This shot reminds of a romantic old movie.



It got dark quickly, and we thought light (or lack there of) might be an issue, but our next location was the ever famous "Meat Packing District", which we knew we could totally rock with street light!! Michelle and Peter were super excited to shoot here...the idea was to create more moody shots, and also some very stylized, fashion shots.

Here are some of the moody shots we got. This one totally reminds me of an old movie still too. I love trying to get those kind of shots. I can take credit for this one :)







I love shadows. Especially sexy ones. Scary ones not so much.








Sexy legs...



Hot mama!



Totally rockin' the graffiti! I love the way that her blue dress coordinates so well with the art.



Had to work the "red light" too, of course.



Michelle and Peter both work for Mercedes-Benz....it's actually how they met. So of course we had to take a shot with Michelle's Benz. These two could be models for Mercedes, don't you think?

Guitar Under the Stars

Krystal and I don't get to go out much, but that's changing. This year at our Photographers retreat our friends and fearless PUG(Pictage Users Group) leaders, Justin and Mary from Justin Marantz Photography had us make a list of 101 goals to be accomplished in 1001 days.

So one my goals was #29, Spend more time with Krystal outside of work or making dinner or daily activities. So last night we went to "Guitar under the Stars" in Hartford right on the river front. This event is on its 16th year and was put together by the amazing Daniel Salazar. Over the past year we have become friends with Dan Salazar the III his son. After hearing about it we had to go....I mean a night of FREE yes free Latin, Spanish music Featuring the Hartford Festival Orchestra and the following:

Lorena Garay – guitar, Puerto Rican cuatro,
Carin McClure - violin
Esteban Arrufat - Latin Percussion,
André Balazs – keyboard,
Gene Bozzi – drums,
Roberto Clavijo - cajon, zampoña, misc. instruments,
Gonzalo Cortes - flute, quena,
Genevieve Rose - acoustic bass,(She dances all night while rockin' the bass)
James Hunt – trumpet,(Man this guys is amazing)
Daniel Salazar III - guitar

So now I am going to out myself. We do not own a point and shoot camera so bringing a camera to an event like this is a bit to do. I loaded one of our cameras with a battery, a memory card and a lens....then I thought it would be more advantageous to bring the camera with the flash and I swapped over all of the necessary things right;) Well...we get there we settle down on the grass and bring out our cheese, grapes, peppered salami, and other smorgasbord of snacks and then I notice our friend Dan is playing and I pull out the camera to take a shot of him. I focus and press the button...then the dreaded "no CF Card" message pops up and I realize while swapping cameras I forgot something important. Yes the Memory card is still in the first camera;) Oh well, Krystal and I had a great time, we bumped into some people we know and danced and laughed and just had fun.

So that explains the photo on the top:)

I highly recommend everyone goes to this. Its every year at the same place and there entertainment, food and amazing music.Connecticut Guitar Society