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It’s Winter. So What? | Rochester NY Wedding Photographer
January 22, 2012Yup. It was cold. So cold that that my fingers were sticking to my equipment. (That’s cold.)
But who cares?
Neil and Jess braved 12 degree temps and a snow storm for their session. I wore jeans (WHAT was I thinking) and got completely soaked.
Dana and Mike were fearless on their wedding day and we did ALL their photographs outside! I was so into it I forgot to put on my coat! Yeah. The whole day outside in a shirt. Go Tam. ::laughing shaking head.::
2011 Where Hast Thou Gone? | Wedding Photography Rochester NY
January 11, 20122011.
So I was faced with a dilemma about 2011.
How to talk about it. How to show you my work. How to make you happy to see it. (I’m still working on that one! ::grin:: )
Do I talk about the new studio?
Or how we’ve grown in leaps and bounds?
Or my team?
Or the cool projects I’ve gotten to do this year?
Or the traveling?
Or what I’ve learned?
Or what’s new?
…. I could. But then the blog entry would be 156 pages long and you’d be here until Sunday morning reading this. And I’m frankly, not that interesting. 
Then I thought, well, maybe I can post a lot of photographs and talk about each one…but I want you to watch all the way to the end, right? (Yes Tam, all the way to the end. Gheesh!) I don’t want you to get overwhelmed, or bored, and stop mid-story. Fail.
So my dilemma was (and always is, btw) — how can I present images in a way that pushes a little bit? …in a way that draws you in, makes you think and engages you from start to end?
This is the result. It was a huge CHALLENGE to put together because (and you’ll see this if and when you watch) it had to flow — so we had to edit down brutally. That infuriated me — but sometimes…less is more, eh? Tell me less is more. So I have forced myself to stop fretting over how much I COULDN’T show you. Or this would be 4 hours and 37 minutes instead of just a couple. I am exercising restraint. Someone had to!
So I am disproportionately proud of the final result. It’s EXACTLY what I had in mind when I was scribble-scrabbling for the right way to present 2011.
Be prepared. It made ME cry — and I TOOK the images.
Also — I just had this headshot done by the RIDICULOUS Carla Ten Eyck — and I LOVE. So I’m debuting it just because I think it’s perfectly ME.
So in order to see the review you have to click on my head. ::laughing::
Or…if you absolutely don’t WANT to click on my head (we can discuss the implications of this later… ) – then click here.
(And please do not judge the fact that I cannot figure out how to embed a video on this blog to SAVE MY LIFE. ) Now on to 2012. BRING. IT.
At first we we’re like, “No way!” But when I watched Will & Kate’s wedding all I kept thinking was how they were having this REALLY BIG IMPORTANT moment with the whole world watching them! I knew I didn’t want that, even with a small part of the world. I just wanted it to be a moment for US 
1.14.2012
I love that photo. Your video is just perfect. I sent it to my daughter as she is in Costa Rico and I need to remind her to wear her sunscreen.
1.15.2012
Love the video…so many incredible photos in there! And I’m also a huge fan of the accompanying poem
Congrats on a wonderful 2011.