meeting kira

Our good friends from college - Tom, Mina, Julia and Timmy came up to visit us and meet our new daughter, Kira for the first time. You think Timmy knew I was taking his picture when he was holding her?? After holding her we went outside to play and get some photos. I asked Timmy to try and hit the camera with the Nerf ball - close but no cigar! He nailed me in the head on one of them. And I think Julia likes having her photo taken... Bonus Kira photo included!

more of you know who...

We have weddings and engagements to post! All of a sudden this is The Kira Blog! By popular demand I'll continue to add photos to our public Facebook photo gallery of her here: Kira's Album and some of the really good ones may (will) make an appearance on our blog here and there (or every hour)

Kira day 2!

I promise I wont turn into one of those parents who need to show every picture ever taken of their child - but look how cute she is!!! I think she looks just like her beautiful mother Melissa but i think this batch has one photo where she kinda looks like daddy...

kira shaun mahoney

Open Photo Contest - 1st & 2nd place!

Exciting news! For me at least. I enter photo contests every now and then to see if anyone else thinks as highly of my images as I do (or my mom). It's also a good way to see which images are marketable. I was fortunate enough to win 1st place in the "animals" contest and 2nd place in the "wedding details" contest. The first image is a lone periwinkle in the surf leaving a path behind and the second is a ring shot with the bride's bouquet of calla lillies. The great thing about the Open Photo Contest is that anyone can vote - 4 random images show up onscreen at once and you click your favorite then another 4 show up and so on. Cheating is nearly impossible as the image selection is completely random. There are no stuffy judges on power trips - just random people, mostly photographers, clicking their favorite images. And a nice boda bag for me!

Memorial Day 2008

I am home sitting here blogging safe and sound. I am thankful for the men & women who have served and protected this country throughout history and especially during World War II. I thought I'd post some images I captured in Washington DC and France to help honor those who haved served and are serving. The first one is Omaha Beach - Normandy, France. It's unreal to think about what happened there on June 06, 1944 and how peaceful it was in 2005 when I took that photo.

Graduation!

We have officially graduated from child birth class! Here is the diploma to prove it! With this piece of paper we are ready for anything parenting can throw at us. I know our little girl needs to be wiped front to back, melis knows how to candle breathe (which solves everything), and all we need to do is sleep when she sleeps - we should be all set. And here are our versions of some maternity shots. We went on a little tour of some of our favorite places so our little girl has a record of it!

How can you not love this commercial??

This is the best ad I have seen in a long time. I love the Discovery Channel! Boom de yada!

Rusty and Cooper - Cat vs Dog

Who needs the UFC?? I could watch these guys go at it all day! Melissa's sister's family have a cat and a dog that wrestle and chase each other all the time. Here's one of many title bouts:

Christmas Jersey Style

We visited my family in New Jersey this weekend. Of course it had to snow the day we left and now our driveway is a frozen sheet of snow 4 inches deep. But our friends took us to see this CRAZY house all lit up. And it was ALL LIT UP, probably enough to see from space! It was below freezing out so I didn't take too many shots as my eyes were freezing over. Check these out:

Let it snow! You could be famous...

Ok, so in 1996 I was on the front page of the Boston Globe! Crazy! I was traipsing around in Scituate during that insane storm taking photos with a disposable camera (maybe the beginning of my career...) And a photographer from the Globe was there and I was the only fool outside so he snapped my picture and the next day I'm on the cover! Here it is: (the story continues)



That is me in a Navy issue hood my uncle gave me. I still have those gloves. So... Melissa and I were in Borders book store and she happened to pick up this book to check out:



And lo and behold there I am on page 8, full page! Of course they don't have my name but they had it in the paper. So my 15 minutes of fame lives on! At least in my head.

Our Christmas Ornaments

Melis always does a crazy good job of putting up the tree and decorating it. This year is no different. Here's a bunch of our ornaments that decorate our fake tree. Just a little something to put you in the holiday spirit if you didn't go to the mall in October to see the Christmas stuff already out on the shelves. Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas!

Milty and his new home

We had a wedding in Milton last week and the center pieces were goldfish bowls. So at the end of the night we were packing up our gear and there sat this lone goldfish in a bowl on top of a piano. I set up our monitor for the "day of photos" slideshow on the piano right next to his bowl so I really couldnt tell if people were crowding around to look at our photos of the wedding or to watch Milty cruise around his bowl. But he was unclaimed at the end of the night and Melis and I decided to adopt him and save him from a possible flushing. Here he is in his new, spacious pad. I think he has Ich but I treated him for it right after I snapped this fisheye shot of him. I've always wanted to take a photo of a fish with a fisheye lens! Long live Milty!