Busy Week Recap #4,524,216 section 671:

Wedding with Leslie and Victor — was soooo beautiful.  every single thing was beautiful. Victor’s mom was traveling from Latvia for the wedding — so they planned this whole thing in like…a blink.  And did I mention the food?  OMG.  It was amazing.  I also got to work with two of my favorite vendors:  Stacy K Floral and Events by Jen.  Amazing job as usual girls!

Seniors.  This week — let’s see — I climbed a MILLION stairs at a house on a lake, convinced a senior that a piece of cloth wrapped around her head was going to be amazing (her=dubious)…and got to hang out with some of the coolest kids ever.  My seniors are so INTERESTING AND THOUGHTFUL AND DYNAMIC.  I love that they friend me on facebook — because then — I see them getting through their senior year and then going off to college…it’s really really incredible to see.  The weird thing for me is that this year — MY SON is a senior — so it’s much more personal.  Gheesh.  How did that happen??

Headshots.  I LOVE when I get asked to do headshots.  This week my good photographer friend Lou (who tells me he hasn’t actually been photographed since he was 13.  huh?) asked me to “take a couple of pics of him”.  Um…no.  I made him do a whooooolllleeee session with clothing changes and all.  It’s good for photographers to be photographed — it helps us remember that it ain’t so easy being in front of the lens instead of behind it.  It was SO MUCH FUN — and I was honored to be asked.  Thanks Lou!!

Kerry Cannan.  I tell you — when this CD hits the market — this girl is going places.  I MADE her (I’m bossy.  Sorry.) sing in my studio and her voice.  or I should type it like this:  HER VOICE.  ZOMG.  GORGEOUS.  As was she!  We had a huge session creating images for her CD and promo materials for the release.  LOVE!

Other things to note:  A family that is getting married in October — we did a combined engagement and family session with James and Robyn’s daughters that was simply too much fun for me to even TALK about.  Charlie’s Angels?  Super Force 5?  Star Wars?  Yeah.  We went there.  And had a BLAST.

Also — the award for “Most I’ve EVER Laughed During an Engagement Session” goes to Beth and Brian.  I cannot even BEGIN to tell you how funny they are.  Who agrees to cartwheel in the dark?  And one of us ALMOST ended up in the water because we were being so dorky and laughing too hard.  Yeah.  I LOVE my clients.  LOVE.

This weekend I will be in Manhattan and Brooklyn all weekend shooting engagement sessions — so — I’m expecting AMAZING IMAGES to share next week.  ROCK ON!!

I have more to share but frankly, if I don’t start editing the 1.5 million images I have to get done — clients are coming to lynch me.  And then who would write these addicting blog posts?  You would miss me, right?

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Oh.  And if you were patient enough to actually READ all the blah blah blah above — let me say this — I’m shocked.  ::grin::

PS — I also went to Pirate Weekend with my mother.  Shiver me timbers!

I couldn’t stop with just Katie and Michael’s pics.  I mean…there’s only ONE of Katie.  That’s just wrong and doesn’t do her justice.

She has the most expressive beautiful face don’t you think?

The coolest of the cool.  I can’t begin to tell you how much I j’adore this photo:

And then Ran.  Let me tell you about Ran.  The sweetest, most inquisitive guy ever.  I mean seriously.  I have never been asked as many questions (and HARD MAKE YOU SWEAT questions) about photography before in my life.  Ran might have a second career as an interviewer.  ::laughing::  But he’s the coolest kid ever and I adore him and this photo…

I had SO much FUN editing these images.  These guys are so much fun to work with — all from the Eastman School of Music — all creative, fun and willing to try on my craziness!  I am so grateful when my peeps trust me enough to be goofy — ultimately it’s the goofy stuff that looks the BEST in images.  Dunno why.  Dunno how — but it works.

Here’s a couple of my favs…

ROCK IT OUT!  I’m in love with the clean lines of this image.  FAV!!

ROCK ME AMADEOUS — Michael is total rock star material!  CHELLO!  (get it?)

Or wait…what about Katie?  This is the yummiest pic  — I LOVE LOVE LOVE Katie’s FACE in this photo!  Angelic!

That’s part one.  Wait.  It keeps getting better and better!

We ROCKED out this session.  It was so much fun — Katie has the kind of personality that absolutely SHINES out of the images.  These are going to be so much fun to edit!

Katie — here’s your sneak peek!