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Category Archives: photo of the day

Photo of the Day: Round and Round They Go

The Hudson Theatre is a very cool venue where you can be married a reworked Broadway stage. If you thought children tended to be performative at weddings any way, you should see what happens when they have a stage to play on.

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Photo of the Day: When Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here’s a photo I took of Jim Fisher, author of On the Irish Waterfront. A photo for this session was later used for the book’s author flap.
The clouds really looked like that. The only editing this photo has had is a white balance shift.

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Photo of the Day: Stephanie, West Coast Girl

If one of my favorite subjects — actress and friend Stephanie Danielson — had to move to California, at least she did it a week before I headed out there, so we could finally shoot in warm(ish) weather. I love bringing out the color of the crazy lighting you can find at night. I love...

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Photo of the Day: Multitasking

There will come a day when only the professional photographers know how to put the camera down and enjoy themselves unrecorded.

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Photo of the Day: Make Your Own Limbo

This one is all about the expressions to me.

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Photo of the Day: A Very Apple Preparation

The bride, reflected in an iPhone, checks her iPhone. Hey, Steve Jobs, where’s my royalty check?

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Photo of the Day: Party with the Ram

As I’ve said before, with flash composites (like most wedding photography), it’s not what you can do, it’s what you can do quickly. This was four shots, composited together for optimum lighting, and the whole thing was done quickly enough that you could stand on snow with open-toed shoes.
Maybe I’ll do a speed challenge at...

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Photo of the Day: Reflections on a Ceremony

This week, while I am in California to visit family, teach a bit, shoot some portraits and document an awesome Malibu wedding, I’ll be using the Photos of the Day to tease the next wedding I’m processing, the union of Viviana and Henry.
Keep in mind that I say the following as a go-to photographer for...

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(Story) of the Day: Moments, My Dad, and Me

An interesting thing happened the other day. I was on a forum where wedding photographers were talking about their favorite images from their own weddings. The vast majority of these were cute, quirky moments that captured the personality of beloved friends and families, not the amazing portraiture that we photographers tend to focus so much...

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Photo of the Day: “You SAID ‘Swing Your Partner…’”

One of the questions I got on formspring was “How do you get people to do such crazy things at your weddings?”
I don’t.
I don’t think my clients are much crazier than average (well, some of them are, and they know it). For example, this shot was taken at a wedding that had very little dancing...

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Photo of the Day: Moment of Seclusion

A quick portrait before the ceremony of Emily and Myles, in the beautiful St James the Less Church in Scarsdale.

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Photo of the Day: Hold Tight

A tender hold during Emily and Myles’s first dance. Myles has these incredible hands. Thank you for responding to my telepathy and putting them in the perfect position.

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Photo of the Day: Billionaires at Play

Richard Branson gives rock star face with his son Sam helpfully sticking his fingers and his mouth and nose at the launch of Virgin Galactic in 2006.
Betcha didn’t think you’d see a billionaire with someone else’s finger in his nose this morning, did you? Gotta keep on your toes around here.
I shot this for Wired...

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Photo of the Day: Bridesmaid-and-a-Half

I could have made an entire album just from this adorable fireball of a flower girl.

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Photos of the Day: A Proposal in the Park

I hope you guys all had a great Valentine’s Day weekend. Maybe some of you got engaged (hint, hint). I know one of my readers did, at least, because I was there.
Specifically, I was there in full ninja-mode, waiting on Central Park’s Bow Bridge, pretending to be one of the countless enthusiast photographers wandering around,...

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