Ketty & Shaun - Engagement photos in the Boston Public Gardens

Look how bright Ketty's smile is! They even brought some cake from Finale to share and celebrate their engagement! We met Ketty & Shaun in person for the first time at the Public Gardens and they were so easy going and nice. I think it shows in the photos. Oh, and Melis and I also went to Finale after for some crazy good dessert!

Rena & Will - Engagements in Beantown!

The Big Dig paid off!! The corruption and billions of misspent dollars worked in our favor - the parks they created are beautiful and we used some in our shoot! We started out at Rowes Wharf and worked our way over to Faneuil Hall and had fun doing it! Plus where else can you get an engagement photo with Ben Franklin shading you from the sun with an umbrella while you make out? We are very much looking forward to their wedding at the State Room!

Keryn & Dan - Wedding at Ocean Edge Resort, Brewster MA

The photos are way more important than my words. Plus we have a newborn and there's no sleep to be had so I may not make sense! So I'll be short and sweet - Ocean Edge Resort is beautiful, the weather was perfect and Keryn & Dan had a great wedding. They had a great sense of detail and family that we love to see!

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...

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Jenn & Shawn - Engagement photos in Brewster Gardens, Plymouth

Or should I say Jenn, Shawn & Pleepleus. We had fun walking, er, waddling (with Melis - due any day now) around downtown Plymouth and Brewster Gardens. Pleepleus rules! Wild monkey - Run!! No - he just made an appearance in some shots. Jenn and Shawn managed to have some fun even without him. Whose idea was it to restore Plymouth Rock in June?? Jenn has never seen it and that's still the case! And that guy on the Harley shot is not photoshopped...

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!

Byrne Family Photos at World's End, Hingham

This was one shoot that we had to reschedule way too many times! But as luck would have it this time we had amazing weather and light for such a beautiful family. Look how cute these kids are! Some of these look like GAP ads - that's how photogenic this family is!

Katie & Mike - Wedding at the Red Lion Inn 1704

The weather held out for us again! It rained during the ceremony, but no worries, it was inside St. Anthony's Church in Cohasset. It stopped raining when the ceremony ended and off we went to the Cohasset Harbor for some beautiful photos. Katie & Mike did not stress one bit about the weather either way. It's great advice for something you can't control and it may even help things work out like they did that day! They both come from great families with lots of love. The reception at the Red Lion Inn was perfect. DJ Tucker had everyone dancing and singing, especially during The Boss's songs all night. Katie & Mike are both from Jersey - so am I! But I did not see any IROC-Z's in the parking lot.. Enjoy!