I have been conceptualizing a project for my studio, and I finally decided to give it a go. I have always photographed children, and always said that I am putting way to much pressure on these kids. There are a few things that stress kids out and all of those seem to be thrown at them in a quick one hour session. They have to meet a new person, wear some crazy outfit and the worst of all, SMILE. I have heard hundreds of parents begging these little guys to, “smile. please smile. if you smile I will buy you a Mercedes.” Okay, maybe not a Mercedes; but for sure they were going to get any new toy they want. : )
For this reason I decided not pressure everyone, parents included, into a one hour session. I want to spend a few hours with you guys. All the details have not ironed out yet, but the concept is to be sort of “a fly on the wall”. I show up around breakfast and shoot all the little moments that unfold. After around half a day of shooting, I feel that I will have such a relationship built with each family that I will for sure get more than the one shot everyone is always praying for.
So, for my first attempt at this I decided to photograph the Restiano family. Yeah, yeah that’s my family so its not really hard. Anyway, this morning when I woke up I grabbed my camera and started shooting all the little moments that Catherine and I usually take for granted. Here are just a few of the hundreds of photos I shot.
G got to wear her new kicks in honor of this special day!
After breakfast we headed out to our cousins house to enjoy the warm weather. G swiped this cool tricycle.
WOW, I never thought I would get such a great response : )
So Irvington it is, all I need is to find some space!
In response to some of the comments below:
- Mark. As a loyal tax paying citizen, I’m doing my part in keeping the bridge OUT of the water.
- Christina. I thought the map would get a chuckle. If you liked that I will email you my stick figure giraffe and elephant, two of gretchens favorites.
- Jo. Looks like your gonna have to get in your car to come see me.
- Jake. Yes Hiku is the best, but obviously you have never eaten at the Red Hat. Oh my god that is the best food in Westchester. And its located right on Bridge street!!!!
Thanks for the help everyone. In reality I’m not 100% sure yet that I’m moving, I will give everyone plenty of notice before the day comes. Thanks for the help. I have such a great bunch of people supporting me!!!
If you called the office today you undoubtedly got the machine. I decided to take the day off and spend my birthday with my girls. Yes another year has passed, I can’t bring myself to say my age so I got my little G-Star to throw up a gang sign to tell everyone how old I am. I will be back in the office bright and early tomorrow one very long year older!!
I only have one wedding this weekend. So, instead of just hanging out and relaxing, I filled my schedule doing some food photography at my favorite restaurant Zuppa in Yonkers.
Before that I had the pleasure of attending a four year old birthday party for my niece, Scarlett.
I try really hard to get every wedding I shoot on the blog but there is that rare moment when I forget or get sidetracked a bit and never blog a wedding. People might take that the wrong way, like maybe the photos were not so good. Nothing can be further from the truth, I really just get sidetracked. So here is a wedding that was truely a lot of fun to shoot and we got some sick visuals down on the Hudson river in Hastings. The Catering hall was the new Half Moon (old chart house). Its a great location for a small intimate affair and thats exactly what Jeannie and Ed had. Alright enough explaining here are just a few of the photos that I thought were really cool. Sorry guys for not posting, It was really a great day!!
