My Loves: May 2008

Second Shooting With Jeremy - Bobby & Asha's Wedding

I worked with Jeremy Evans Thomas this past weekend shooting a huge Indian wedding. A 450 guest wedding!! My job was to start off at Bobby's home and photograph he and his family getting ready before the ceremony. Bobby was such a handsome groom and showed such emotion during his family's blessings before his marriage to Asha. I had a blast photographing this wedding because all the women wore their traditional Saris which added so much fabulous color to the event!

Here are the women getting ready at Bobby's home...

Beautiful Mariam walking down the stairs to meet her son, Bobby. Every time I photographed her she said 'Thank you'! And there were a lot of 'Thank you's' that day! :)

Noah, the ring bearer, with his father.

The young boys seemed anxious to get out of the house and start the show..

Ha Ha Ha.. Jeremy you've got a cute little boy dancing on your head!

The flower girls head down the aisle..

Proud Bobby at the altar.

Bobby and Asha are Married!

Nothing like throwing up a 'Peace' sign with your Bride on your wedding day!!

While Jeremy was photographing portraits of Bobby and Asha, I was covering the gigantic spread of a cocktail hour at the Curtis Center. The front lobby was packed to the gills!!

Details, details..

The First Dance..

Thank you Jeremy for hiring me!! I had a great time and I hope to get the chance to work with you again!
Best Wishes to Bobby and Asha! Congratulations and have fun in sunny Mexico!!

My Second Mother's Day!

My beautiful mother with me,2, and my brother Tony,1, at our home in West Chester.

Happy Mother's Day to all the fabulous Mamasitas out there! We hope you enjoyed your special holiday. ...however I would like to think that everyday is Mother's day and Valentine's day ;)
My wonderful little nuclear family went to Rae for Mother's Day Brunch, a restaurant in the Cira Center, or what I refer to as, the Amtrak building next to 30th Street Station. It was a lot of fun to dress up and go out with my men :) We had a gorgeous view of the city with floor to ceiling windows which allowed the light to pour right in! Carver was a sweetheart as usual and a woman even came up and told us how good he was! He did however just want to push his stroller back and forth for just about the whole meal. I managed to have a taste of 3 delicious beverages, not finish them.. but taste them I did!! Yumma Yumma! Their Shepard's pie was divine along with their mini funnel cakes!
Thank you so much Kyle and Carver. I couldn't have asked for a more lovely Mother's Day. I love you!

View of the Cira Center from 76.

View of Philadelphia from the top of the escalator inside the Cira Center. Photo//Kyle

Quick observation of the plethora of beverages I consumed..

After a nice one hour much needed nap, we drove down to center city, walked around the Rittenhouse area and I treated Carver to his first pair of Puma sneakers. Watch out all you B-boys... Dub-C's in town!

Cappy Love

Just a real quick post before Carver wakes up from his nap...
Cappy's been such a great dog and friend to all of us, especially Carver. Here he is napping in his 'pod', and then I woke him up for a quick open-eyed portrait. Before Carver, Cappy was always in the camera's spotlight! Love you Cappy!

A.J. At The Big East Conference

Kyle's cousin A.J. is a senior at Pittsburgh University this year, and also a very strong man!
Yesterday we checked him out at the Big East Conference for Outdoor Track & Field at Villanova University. A.J. competed in two events this year, the discus and the hammer throw. I just checked out his stats and they are crazy good! Kyle and I are bummed that we couldn't stay for the whole hammer throw event but it was fun to see and support our big cuz'!
Of course we brought our camera along to document...

Here he is waiting his turn for his warm up throw..

This shot cracks me up! Not that I have a ridiculous facial expression, but that I barely come up to A.J.'s shoulder! Seriously my head is almost size of his bicep!

A.J. warming up. I wish I didn't have that net in my way, but I wasn't attempting to sweet talk my way into photographing him from the front side of the net, plus risking my life for photographs isn't on my agenda anymore.

Carver had a blast crawling in the plush grass and went over to say hello to Uncle Tom, A.J.'s father.

Carver tried his hand at the hammer throw...

One last shot before we left :(

Good luck on future events A.J.! We Love You!

Shooting With Joe - Kristen & Yong's Wedding

This past Saturday I worked as second shooter for Joe. The bride and groom were so awesome they had fantastic personalities AND couldn't keep their eyes AND hands off each other! They were perfect...especially dealing with the gazillion gnats outside. I love shooting with Joe, he's very quick and witty with his subjects and always knows how to make people comfortable for his portraits. I'll be the first to admit that I do not like to set up group portraits, but watching Joe in action definitely teaches me how to get 'er done.

The light pouring into Greenville Country Club was fabulous! We saw beautiful portrait possibilities around every corner, I was in 'light' heaven!

I loved the way the light made each portrait resemble a chiaroscuro painting from the 17th & 18th centuries!

The ring bearer and his father getting ready.

The talented Mr. Joe Pulcinella strutting down the garden path.

Kristen was a gorgeous bride!

I couldn't pass this up while Joe was shooting from above on the stairs. I wish I had photographs of Kyle ravishing me on our wedding day! Hot tamales!

The happy couple on the church balcony after their ceremony.

Yong was so cute with the little babes during the reception. They loved the hamming around too!

Joe clowning around with Linda from Perfect Weddings, who wasn't having it at all!

I asked the girls if they would like a photo together and this is what I got.

Thanks again Joe, looking forward to the next wedding!

Starting Off May With Mon

One of my bestfriends, Monica Hoover, is in town this week. I posted about the last visit she made, last June. She's in town again for business and set some time aside to hang out with me, Carver, Jess and Mischa. I wish we could have spent more time together but the woman is just too stinking busy!! She is now working on finalizing another business venture in the old Wonder Bread factory in San Diego, CA. and it's going to be amazing! I wish she was setting this up in Philly! A restaurant, art gallery, music venue and photography studio, Voice 1156 is upgrading to Voice 171. We can't wait to be there for the ribbon cutting!!
Mon, Jess and Mischa came by our new house yesterday afternoon and we played in the backyard.