(sneak peeks) Tracie + Kirk

Beautiful summer’s day and they brought their joy and style with them! More to come!

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Camera: D3
Lens: 24mm f/1.4G

(sneak peeks) Sara + Matt

It was a real long wedding today, but one constantly filled with the laughter and joy of Sara and Matt..

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Camera: D3
Lens: 24mm f/1.4G

(Buffalo Wedding) Elyse + Chris

She was from Buffalo, the one who was always poised and never missing a beat. He was from Detroit, and was the one who lived on the edge. They met while studying in college in Cleveland, it was as though they met right in the middle and found that they fit each other like a jigsaw. It didn’t take them long for them to realize they completed each other and today they celebrated their togetherness.

Second shot on behalf of Onion, photography & design.

It was an amazing day to spend with the two of you, your friends and family.. and I wish you two the best!

(sneak peeks) Elyse + Chris

sneak peek from tonight’s amazing wedding with Elyse and Chris! full post to come in a week or two, so here’s one for now!

Camera: D3
Lens: 50mm f/1.4G

(Beaver Island Eshoot) Amanda + Eric

A warm, sunny summer’s day brought us to the Beaver Island State Park where I got to meet up with the lovely couple.. We started out as shy lovers, unsure of each move. But slowly, Amanda and Eric warmed up to the camera and boy, did it love them back! To them, it was weird in a good way, they have been together for so long and still looking forward to spending eternity together. Slowly but surely, their feelings came out of hiding and showed in their laughter and their smiles. So excited to be shooting their wedding in September!

Shot on behalf of Onion, photography & design

seriously, there wasn’t a need to be nervous, you two were great in front of the camera!

I love it when I can tell my clients to go stand in front of a restroom door and give me their best look… they agree to and look amazing!

Amanda & Eric, you two are just so fun to be with!

You guys look amazing together and I can’t wait to shoot your September wedding!

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(Beaver Island Eshoot) Erin + John

They met when he was a groomsman at her matron-of-honor’s wedding. She had brought a friend along as a date and he didn’t know it then but he was smitten by her. Plucking up his courage, he chatted with her and talked about the athletes they were coaching. At the end of the night, they parted ways but didn’t get each others’ number. Yet fate had a funny way of bringing them together when weeks later, he Facebook-friended her. And now together they are deciding to run life’s journey together..

Tip Thursday: New Freelancing Model, Doing What You Love and Changing your Attitude

Short Tip Thursday today, spent the whole of the last two weeks mainly on the road and traveling with friends!

David Hobby, aka the Strobist, guest-blogged on Scott Kelby blog and talked about a new model of freelancing, which he talked about briefly during the Flash Bus tour.

If you think about that for a moment, it starts to reset your compass. You can either be a pawn in an outdated economic model or think of yourself as a near-virtual company, ready and able to run on a shoestring. The challenge is figuring out a niche that exists that you can fill, and then how to create value by doing so.

Read the rest here!
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Next, Chase Jarvis talks about doing what you love and keep doing it..

Simply said, by trying to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one, especially not yourself.

read the rest of his very striking and poignant post here
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Lastly, David duChermin probably still in his venting mood 😉 but a really good point to follow up with the previous post from Chase.

Point and shoot is an attitude, an approach to photography; it is not – nor to my mind should it be – a category of cameras..

Get a camera you love to use. Make photographs you love. If that’s a simple, used, $50, beat-up 35mm camera, or a $700 iPhone, or a $10,000 Mamiya, just do what you love: make photographs. Leave the pointing and shooting for others. Your photographs are judged on their own merits, not the tool you used to create them.

Read the rest of his post here!
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And a sneak peek from yesterday’s Beaver Island e-shoot with Amanda and Eric..

(Elmwood Eshoot) Kathleen + John

She knows when he’s getting uncomfortable in front of the camera, keeping him relaxed and smiling.. he looks into her eyes and brings out her laughter. together they embraced and frolicked in the golden glow of summer..

Kathleen met John at college and fell in love.. they grew up right through it and their love became stronger than ever.. five years later.. they are planning their perfect wedding right at the place where it all started.. and I am incredibly excited to spend the day with them because after their engagement session last week at the Bidwell Parkway around Elmwood, I have no doubt it will be absolutely beautiful..

Here are some of my favorites..

Sneak Peeks

No Tip Thursday today as I just got back from NYC and showing my friends around Buffalo and Toronto! Did a graduation shoot in NYC when I was there though so here’s something to tide you over before I post again tomorrow! (assuming that you guys miss me heh!)

Loving the two new lenses, 24 and 50 and hopefully I will have enough pics to share and do a review soon!