Bayshore Album

Late this spring I finally got around to designing a flush-mount album for Bayshore Grove in Oswego. George at Bayshore had the brilliant idea to separate the album into seasons, since Bayshore highly revolves around the outside scenery. I loved the idea of having sections specifically for spring, summer, and fall.

So I already gave George his copy because I was so excited to have him see it, but I ordered 96 mini-copies for me to hand out to prospective clients as well as Bayshore. Here is a photo of what they look like. They're cute 2.5x4" books that are 36 sides



Congrats to Clint & Nicole Pitts (05.31.08), Quame & Molly Patterson (07.04.08), Ryan & Michelle Terpening (08.02.08), and Brandon & Brittany Bean (10.18.08), for being the highlighted weddings in this new album! You guys will be getting a copy in the mail, unfortunately for everyone else the only way to get your hands on this bad boy is to be planning an upcoming wedding!

Chandler's Senior Sesson

Last week Isaac and I photographed our first double senior session. Shane & Chandler are good friends at Oswego High school. They decided they wanted to do their session together, and we happily obliged. It was so fun having two models to work with. The two of them fed off each other as they made faces at each other and tried to "out model" one another. I hope to do more double senior sessions like this in the near future.

Here are my favorites of the beautiful Chandler during her senior session:
























You can view the entire session by going to www.KainsPhotography.com. Click on weddings/portraits and go to the portrait proofing page. Once there look for Shane & Chandler's name. Tomorrow I will have my favorites from Beth & Paul's wedding back in late May.

Tis the season

Wedding season is in full swing, along with family portraits and senior sessions we are keeping ourselves really busy. Isaac's last day of teaching is the 15th and his last day of going into school is the 26th. I am very excited to have him back in the office for the summer months.
In the past 3 weeks we have shot 4 weddings, 2 senior portraits, moved my office back into my house, went to a 2 day conference (where I got to photograph 2 famous musicians up close and personal), celebrated 4 birthdays and our 4th anniversary. Wow I can't believe I did all that since Memorial Day.

For the next few days I will be sharing photos from all of our photo adventures including all of our past 3 weddings, portraits etc. This year we are really starting to focus more on our senior photography. We started off the senior season (May-Oct.) very strong with a double senior session of Shane & Chandler. These two were a blast to work with as we spent about an hour after school last week. This was our first senior session where we had two friends come together. It was fun to see them laugh at each other and I can tell they had a lot of fun. I think we might start trying to do more senior sessions with a friend or two. I cannot wait to see these photos printed out. Next summer we are planning on shooting more portraits and less weddings.

For the 2010 wedding season we are only going to shoot 10-12 weddings with a max of 1 per weekend and 2 per month. With our free weeks when we do not have weddings we are going to be shooting more senior sessions and family portraits. Woo hoo. I absolutely love weddings and If my body could take having a wedding every Friday and Saturday I would, but after 6 months of working every weekend my body hates me. This is good news for all of your Kain's Photography clients, because as my work load goes down, my quality and time available to answer your questions goes up! That is what full service support is all about... being available to YOU!

Now enjoy some of my favorites of Shane's senior session taken by the wonderful Isaac Kain himself:




















You can view the entire session by going to www.KainsPhotography.com. Click on weddings/portraits and go to the portrait proofing page. Once there look for Shane & Chandler's name. Tomorrow I will have my favorites of Chandler.

Erin & Chris's wedding

Erin & Chris Oldani renewed their vows last Friday, May 22nd, during their dream wedding at Bayshore in Oswego. It was a gorgeous May evening as the guests filtered in for our first Bayshore wedding of the year. Everything was perfect during the day. The staff at Bayshore was exceptional, as well as the food. Chris & Erin were so fun to photograph as I can tell their love for eachother is real. I was extra excited to shoot their wedding because I got to know them well during our engagement session a few weeks back. Sadly enough they are moving to the west coast in a few weeks, so our time with them is cut short! Here is the link to my blog post of their engagement session. You can view the rest of the engagement and wedding photos here. Have a wonderful afternoon. Enjoy the photos!














This photo is proof enough to hire a GOOD DJ. There is so much more to playing music, such as MC'ing the event, the light set-up and keeping the crowd going. Isn't this an amazing photo because of the lights! Thanks to Kevin Colangelo and his team, their setup made our photos pop!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEG

Today is the birthday of a very special person to me. One of my best friends and fellow photographers, Meghan Thomas, is turning one year older today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you, I couldn't ask for a better friend.
Unfortunately I am not on my main computer right now so the only photo I have of us is when she was helping me out with my makeup when she shot our 3rd anniversary photos last May. Meg is always willing to help out and will go out of her way to make everyone else happy. Little did I know that when Isaac introduced us at a bridal show in Syracuse back in 2006 that I would become friends with this crazy girl. Everyone wish her happy birthday!


A few weeks ago I was driving around at night at decided to stop to watch a lightening storm over the lake. It was very cool! Unfortunately I did not have my tripod on me so these shots are quite blurry, oh well.



This past Friday I had the lovely opportunity to shoot the engagement session of Caroline and Stephen, who are getting married this October at Bayshore. It was great to get to know this fun couple a little bit more before the big day. Enjoy some of my favorites, you two look wonderful!










Everyone gets one photo with their funny faces online...

I love spring!

Last week I met up with Alex & his mom for a portrait session of Alex. It was a gorgeous day to be out and about taking photos. The trees were beautiful! Today I have an engagement session and a wedding at Bayshore in Oswego. Can't wait to get out there!


Enjoy the photos we took on the river and over to Fort Ontario.

Jess & Brent married at last!

What a way to start off the 2009 wedding season (we did have a few weddings in the winter, but for some reason we don't count that in the wedding season... sorry winter brides)

Off with a bang we went to Northville, NY for the wedding of Jess & Brent. It was quite a rainy day, but we managed to dodge some rain drops and get some shots outside. While on the edge of the Sacandaga Lake it starting pouring down on us... poor bride, poor cameras. We made it back to out cars before we got too soaked. The reception was held at Eagle Crest Country Club in Clifton Park. What a beautiful golf course. I remember going there when I was little to play putt-putt. Brent & Jess were such a fun loving couple to be around. We were blessed to be a part of their special day.

We had some equipment malfunctions with Isaac's camera... but as always, we bring A LOT of back up equipment. So within 30 seconds Isaac was back in action and taking awesome photos. With that being said we are buying another D700 today for our weddings this weekend. We are very excited to be both shooting with Nikon D700's now, and you should be too! We are just kinda bummed we couldnt wait till the end of June when we were planning on upgrading Isaac's setup.

Exciting news!

Cool thing: during a meeting with George from Bayshore, he showed me their new menu. I was so happy to find out that my photo of Erin & Paul Krogslund from 7.3.08 took the front cover. Congrats to you two for being the new stars of Bayshore!