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I haven’t had the opportunity to post anything in a while, its been a little hectic.  I did this shoot two weekends ago on a Sunday that started out pretty dreary and miserable.  We spoke around noon time and decided to risk the weather, hoping the local forecast was correct.  By the time we met in Concord center it was warm, sunny and just a gorgeous afternoon.

As with all of my portrait clients we had several discussions about locations, wardrobe, makeup, jewelry, shoes etc… we started out with the semi formal clothing in Concord center, and planned to move to some more casual stuff in a wooded area I found on my scouting trip.

This young lady was amazing, not only bright and energetic, she didn’t even blink an eye when I suggested climbing a tree…

After this location we moved off to the Old North Bridge.  Not so much for the bridge itself, but for the beautiful fields and natural landscape that surrounds it.

The last stop on our shoot is a secret…  Why you ask?  Well we weren’t exactly supposed to be there.  It was a 15 min hike into the woods to find the perfect spot, and when we did look what happened…

Yep that’s a rainbow.  I know where this spot is, and would happily shoot there again, but cannot promise mother nature will provide such a landscape.

This is another senior portrait that came together in the span of 3 days.  They had goofed up the deadline dates for the picture, and well we made this happen quick!  When we had our pre-consult phone call the desire to have a simple grey backdrop was sort of the theme.  It was the girl’s choice not moms surprisingly.  So I brought my grey backdrop and set it up in their driveway

My style is well at little more “lifestyle” I want these senior portraits to be about documenting this time in their life, sadly they can’t say 18 forever.  After we finished up with the grey we went off to the high school.  We had so many more fun things to play with, things that were much more relevant to who she is now.

This particular subject has a love of lacrosse and martial arts.  So we found the lacrosse goal and had some fun.

This next image is the one she ultimately chose to go in the year book… after all that it was an environmental shot, not a studio type shot   And its an excellent shot if I do say so myself!

After we wrapped up the lacrosse goal area we went over to the bleachers.  The grauaing class is allowed to paint their year onto the bleachers each summer.  Well needless to say my graduating year only had 2 numbers not four.  We had a lot of fun, I hope you enjoy!

I had the privilege of shooting my first New England Bat Mitzvah recently.  It was at Temple Mishkin Tefilla in Newton MA, and it was the niece of Jon Fischer.  Jon is owner of Jon Fischer Photography and well like so many of us long for, he wanted to be a guest!  So thats where I came in, I got to work, Jon got to play…

So now on to the images…  The bat mitzvah girl is gorgeous! goes without saying right?  Well let me say it again in case I didn’t make my point clearly the first time, this bat mitzvah girl is gorgeous, and to boot, sweet as sugar.

Not to leave out the family unit as a whole, they were a pretty sharp dressed bunch…

When it came down to brass tax, this girl was focused and flawless during rehearsal…

Now for the reward, and these kids know… its all about the party!  This party, cool as ice…

Many of you have seen my Face Book updates about #ImagesForACure a grass roots movement started by Kristen Weaver. This simple little project is designed to bring awareness to a disease and to bring people together.

On October 11th, 2009 over 80 photographers in 31 states and 2 countries are participating in this event. Its very simple, contact me to setup a time to shoot, then go to Schedule a Session, they are taking care of the financial aspect of the day, its very cool. My session fee for the day is $125 for a 45 minute portrait session, after you donate forward the confirmation email to me, and away we go!  All products purchased from Images For A Cure sessions are 20% off.

Whether you want an engagement session….

Or a family portrait…

It is entirely up to you!

One special thing I am doing as part of this project is pet sessions. Because of shooting location restraints it will be limited to dogs this time. But I believe each and ever member of your family is worth of being photographed… so bring out, fido, max or daisy!

Lastly for you seniors out there, if you haven’t done your senior portrait this is an excellent opportunity! The fall deadlines for many schools are fast approaching!

Last weekend, as part of a marathon of shooting (blog posts coming very slowly) I had the opportunity to do a senior portrait for a Dracut HS Senior.

We spent about 2h in varous parts of Manchester NH, downtown doing some great street scenes and then to Wagner park, AKA “Pretty Park.” I didn’t want to stop, but alas all good things come to an end at some point…

Yep you read that right, my friends… These beautiful people (yeah I called a guy beautiful so what) are getting married this November, and after a summer of email tag we finally set a date for their engagement session. It was last Friday as the skies got dark with the approach of much anticipated tropical storm Danny. Well we took that pre-storm light and had some fun, sure we risked being soaked, but hey, its only water…