New Niece and Hannah & Wes E-session

I just found out that I have a brand new baby niece born this morning at 10:55am, weighing 8 lbs 5oz. Her name is Elliott. I Can't wait to see her. Congrats to my sister and brother: Tess & Alan, and of course Michael, who is now a big brother! What a great day :-)

Here are some of my favorite photos from Hannah & Wes's engagement session from last Friday. We met up in the late afternoon, and it was surprisingly cold. My fingers were numb after we finished. Hannah & Wes are getting married on May 16th of this year. I already have a wedding scheduled in Clifton Park, so I will not be shooting their wedding, but my assistant, Leanna Chapman, will be shooting it for me! Enjoy!

Welcome Spring

The sun is shining and it is now officially spring. I just wish it wasn't 30 degrees outside. Brrrrrrr. We leave for Spain in less than 3 weeks and I cannot be any more excited. I have 2 albums left to design for 2008, and a few other little projects to finish up before we leave. It is March Madness time and I am so excited to have duel display on my computer so I can work on my main monitor while watching the games on my secondary monitor.
*** Go CUSE!***

This afternoon I have an engagement session, but for now enjoy a photo from a photo session last week.

Last day of Winter

I don't know about you but I am very excited for this upstate NY winter to be ending. There are many reasons I am excited about today being the last day of winter:
1) No more snow, shoveling, snow blowing
2) The flowers will start coming up and the grass will get green
3) Wedding season is approaching
4) Flip flops soon!

I have been busy getting things done. It stinks being in my office when it is so nice outside, but it will only get nicer so I should just keep plugging away and wait for the warmer weather to come. Click on the photo below to view my newest album design. This album is from Brittany & Brandon's last minute wedding in October. The photographs came out so beautiful from their wedding. I had such a hard time designing this album because I didn't want to narrow the photos down. If I could make a 60 page album from their wedding I probably would have no problem filling it! Enjoy!



Also here are some previews from Katie & Rob's Engagement session in downtown Oswego from last week. These two love birds are getting married in November of this year. I cannot wait for their wedding. (If you are my friend on facebook I already posted a link to all the photos from Katie & Rob's E-session... so be my friend already)

What was in that box anyways?

Last week I put photos of a huge box I received in the mail. It was up to my chin... hUUUUUUUUUGE, as Billy Fuccillo would say. Anyways this what was in the box:




Remember when you went to those parties in college where there were tons of frames on the walls that looked like this... yea me neither. But this was my first sorority composite I did. It is 30"x32" and I am very pleased with how it came out. Huge thanks to Jeff Welsh from Foliotype design house for the great logo reproduction! Check out his brand spankin new website.

This past weekend was quite busy. I haven't had a photo shoot in quite some time, and this Saturday I had 2: An engagement session in the morning and my very first boudoir session. Stay tuned this week to see previews from each session. 2 months from today is my first wedding of the 2009 season. I have big plans to overhaul my website, redo some albums and so on... so I better get started because May 16th is going to come quick!

here are some shots from the Lakeside-Statewide art opening I attended this past Saturday. on our way into the show the sky was lit up so pretty!


This was the piece I got into the show. Over 200 pieces were entered and under 50 were accepted. Unfortunately out of the 10 awards given no photography pieces were awarded. I feel this "art" community doesn't appreciate photography as much as they should! Congrats to everyone who won!



Have a great day

Thursday is good!

Today I got a HUUUUUUUGE box in the mail that comes up to my chin. I'm thinking... Oh my GOSH I must've ordered the wrong size frame. UPS delivered in the middle of writing my blog and I am so amazed by this box I felt a need to blog it too!







Come back tomorrow for the unveiling of what's in the box!!! Oh man I need to get out of my office.

On a less-weird note here is some good news:

Annie & Brian's album is online! (click the photo)

Dan & Jolynn's Album

Dan & Jolynn Dorsey's album is available to view online now. (Click the photo to see more) I have only 5 albums left for the 2008 wedding season. I am hoping to get them finished in the next 3 weeks! Hooray! Enjoy

Random Monday's

Random Monday:

- We are leaving in exactly 1 month for our short term missions trip to Granada, Spain. Follow our journey as we travel here.

- I know 15 people in my sphere of life that are pregnant right now. That makes almost more pregnant ladies than not in my life! My sister-in-law Tess is due towards the end of March, but the doctor said she can go any day now. I CANNOT WAIT to take photos of the little girl! Congrats to all my friends and the blessing God has given you!

- My mom will be coming back from a month in Mexico, where she lived with a Mexican family to learn Spanish fluently. Hopefully she can teach me before I leave for Spain.

- I have my very first Boudoir photo session this Saturday. It'll be awesome!

- We have many calls for 2010 & 2011 weddings but are waiting to book any until we figure out our schedule for next summer. Oh how I hate having to plan my life 1-2 years in advance... but I love love love wedding photography, so it is a nice trade off

- I finally stopped being lazy and submitted a photograph into the 2009 "Lakeside-Statewide Juried Art Show". I was happy to hear that they selected my photograph "Bones" to be a part of the art show. The opening is this Saturday from 7-9pm at the Oswego Civic Arts Center, in Oswego,NY. Here is the digital copy of the photo. I will make sure to take photos while I am at the opening.

Some of you may remember seeing this photo during my missions trip to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. On our last day in DR we went to an open air market. I was wondering around the streets taking photos of all the produce, spices, and crafts, when I stumped upon some skulls in the middle of fruit. Oh the things you see in foreign countries!


Random photo of my nephew Michael during our 10th annual Men's raquetball tournament sponosered by Oswego Alliance Church. Isaac ended up coming in 2nd place in his bracket! You're a keeper


I am so bad at taking photos when I am a guest at an event. I usually just want to enjoy myself, but I decided to take a few shots at Tess's baby shower this past weekend. This one is of my pastors wife, Wendy Smith, speaking words of encouragement to Tess.


Isaac and I have been busy doing some things to our house. Once wedding season comes we have no time for anything, so we try to get as much work done during the winter and early spring. This past week our task was to redo our upstairs bathoom. I won't even show you what it looked like before, because it is embaressing, but I will show you what Isaac and I came up with.










I found this really awesome waffle/linen shower curtain at Walmart. it reminds me of something you would see in a spa.


The last thing we have to do is tile the bathroom floor. We picked out some pretty sweet 6x6inch tiles that are natural. It's gonna look awesome!

Have a blessed day!