My Baby Brother got Married

On December 27th my baby brother, Josh, married the love of his life, Kristine. It was a beautiful day and I was lucky enough to be there to take the pictures for him. To make it even better our baby sister was my second shooter. I gave her my backup camera and set her on her way and for her first time using a DSLR she did a fanatastic job.













One advantage to taking pictures for family... You might not get paid but when else does the groom carry your tripod, or does the sister of the groom fill in as a second shooter and you don't have to feel guilty..

Tis the season

Well I couldn't let this year pass without snapping a shot of our Christmas tree, so i drug out the trusty tripod and snapped a few. You might be wonder why I needed a tripod, well the setting on this shot were ISO 100, f/22 ss 15 seconds



I was able to considerably shorten that time by bumping the ISO up to 500 for this one still f/22 but only a 4 second exposure



of course they would look nicer without the surround sound speaker in there, or if i straightened the tree skirt, or if the sofa was not in the way.. but you get the idea..

One HOT Mama to be on one really COLD Day

Even thought it was only int he 20's today "E" was a trooper and we headed over to Valley Forge Park to do some maternity pics for her. The belly Monster as she affectionately refers to her little boy #2 is due in about a month.


"E" is beautiful to begin with but she has that amazing Pregnancy glow now on top of all that beauty. I can't wait to meet the Belly monster and do some newborn shots for you next month...

Three more Christmas Angels

I got to got take the chance to take some Christmas card pictures for a coworker. She has the sweetest little girls and now she has a sweet 6 month old puppy to add to the mix.

Why I will not be sending Christmas cards this year.

I thought it would be fun to get some cute pictures of Grover to use for a Christmas card this year. Grover had other ideas.

He was not a fan of the hat.




















We got a couple that were okay but not in the little area I had set up for his pictures. Grover is clearly on the top of Santa's Naughty list this year!!

An interesting art collection

I have shown pictures of where I work and mentioned it is a pretty unique place. Here is a bit more about it. The CEO and founder of the company I work for along with his daughter have spent the last 10 years or so building a very unique art collection. It is called The West Collection. Many of the pieces in the west collection are on long term loan to the company. They even have art tours that the public can sign up for.

The other night there was a networking event that started with some wine, fruit and cheese and an art tour. I got to go and snap a few shots of people enjoying the event.





Where else can you see giant shoes made entirely of licorice.



or Lit up art work made from cockroach wings. (Yes I said cockroach wings)




or large portraits of crying runny nosed toddlers. (By Canadian Photographer Jill Greenburg if you know of her)




or and enormous oil painting of a dead fly that sits right between the rest room and the cafeteria...




or one really angry giant 9+ foot giant diptych Toddler. (As a side note years ago where I sat was right in front of this giant toddler and I always felt like she was watching me...)

Service Award banquet

The great thing about being a photographer is you get to capture a lot of different things with your camera and meet all sorts of fun people. This is the 3rd year I have gone to the McNeil Service award banquet. It is always a great time, this year was no exception.