Photography Bloom

What's Happening

-Lots of my photos are in the newest issue of upFront magazine from Penn Nursing Science

-I shot my first Bar Mitzvah!

-I did a family shoot with Carol and her son Nick that I loved and have another family shoot coming up next week.

Year in Review (how original) 2011, Welcome 2012

Happy New Year, friends!

2011 saw very little blogging from me here, but a lot more photography work! Most of that work was for publications so the photos can not be shared until they are printed. It's been a good year for me, building up more steady work slowly but surely. I somehow am still managing to make things work balancing this with my art endeavors and eking out a very meger living.

Some highlights of 2011 included traveling to Brooklyn, NY to photograph Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan

Oh, who am I kidding--that was probably THE highlight. :)

I had a wonderful experience shooting a three-day conference put on by the International Herbert Marcuse Society, where I met and marched with Anglea Davis!

I shot several creative happenings for the beautiful White Pines Productions

I did several new family shoots and one repeat customer.

 

I shot some art events during Homecoming Weekend for the Penn Gazette for my third year in a row.

I gained a new client with Penn Nursing Science and have already done several really interesting and fun shoots with them and am looking forward to more!

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In 2012 I will be shooting a Bar Mitzvah in March, doing more work with Baby Loves Disco, and continuing to work with the Gazette and Penn Nursing. My goal is to find more university press work from one of the many other schools in my area in the hopes of having a few shoots every month to keep things solvent.

May your new year be full of love and peace, no matter what turmoils you may face. May your goals be reached. May you find surprises along the way. Be safe and be well.

Happy New Year. xx

Re-run

Wonderful when a client asks me back a second year in a row!

Fore!

I had the pleasure of shadowing and photographing my good friend Lee Wybranski while he worked the AT&T National out in Newtown Square, Pa. a couple of weeks ago, signing the posters he had designed for the event. Lee and I know one another since our college days, which was longer ago than should be possible based on the laws of physics, but here we are: older.

Lee has built a business using his great skill as an artist and his natural abilities at the kind of social networking done with real handshakes, shared drinks, and the occasional cigar. What started as custom pen and ink drawings of people's homes turned into country clubs, and then turned into a full-fledged art and design studio called Group W Art Works. He works his tail off regularly and couldn't be prouder of him. He's designed the poster for the US Open (yes THAT open) for the past 4 years along with many other golf events; he had a coup last year with designing the poster for the Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia; and he's recently been highlighted in this Ralph Lauren Magazine article.

Olivia

The day we had scheduled turned out to be cold and pouring down rain, so we postponed for a week and were gifted a beautiful, brisk morning with some passing clouds. Ana had contacted me thanks to a referral from a family I shot two years in a row who have since moved away (thank you, Stephanie).

We agreed to meet at a playground her and her husband frequent with their 16-month old daughter in Philadelphia. Olivia was a delightful child, so happy and fearless on the playground, and her parents were lovely people with beautiful smiles. I knew they were going to make my job easier, and they did---fun to shoot and fun to chat with! Here are a few highlights from the session: