Wendy & Jen's Signature Session

I've known Wendy for about sixteen years now and when she contacted me about her union ceremony to Jen I jumped at the chance. They are such a nice couple and since she's my wife's step sister I felt honored for her to have the confidence in me to capture their special day. We decided to create the images next to a small pond in DiCaprio Park in Guilderland and I think we did well ;-)
Congrats Wendy and Jen!

Melissa & Chris's Engagement Session

Melissa and Chris hired me for their wedding next year and I couldn't be happier to have them as clients. Melissa is so bubbly and happy, so it's not hard to see why Chris smiles when around her. With fall fast approaching we decided to use Tawasentha Park for their engagement session.
Enjoy!
Jeff

Alisa & Dan 9.27.09

They say that a little rain on your wedding day is good luck, so I hope it holds true for Alisa and Dan. Even with the rain the joy and happiness was so thick in the air you could cut it with a knife... Birch Hill as always served up great food, great service and the conservatory was beautifully decorated to properly celebrate this wedding!

Congratulations guys and all the best!
Jeff

Nancy & Todd's Engagement Shoot

Talk about tough cookies... Nancy and Todd booked me for their 2010 wedding and wanted to do their engagement shoot at the DEC 5 Rivers facility in Delmar. The weather was a little cold for the last days of September (50's) and Nancy wanted to wear a cute outfit for the pictures.

You can see how warm they were together! Fun, exciting and pumped to do photos! Can't wait for the wedding...
Jeff

Alisa and Dan's Signature Session

I don't know how it happens, but it seems that all of my clients are fun, happy and energetic people that are just a pleasure to be with. Alisa and Dan are no exception - they are so happy together and have such great energy. They had to include their "kids" in some of the photos so we spend some time trying to get the dogs to pay attention to me without running over to greet me.

After the session at the house we drove to John Boyd Thatcher Park and did our photoshoot at the lookout where you can see a vast majority of the Albany area. The Signature Session is really meant to get clients comfortable in front of the camera, but Alisa and Dan were already there!

My favorite and surprisingly theirs too is the sun burst B&W image - great job guys... See you on Sunday!
Jeff

Heather & Dan 9.19.09

What a day! Sunny, warm, clear sky, an unbelievable River Boat band - and two fun loving people... Heather and Dan's wedding was at the Pruyn House in Colonie on this sunny September afternoon. Just a great time surrounded by friends and family for this happy couple. The band was such a change from the usual DJ - live music and they were GOOD!

I mentioned to Heather and Dan that it felt like Pat O'Brien's in New Orleans with the music from the band playing in the background... Best of luck and congratulations!
Jeff











For Kelly...

Nicole and David 9.5.09

I think that the image below of Nicole and David outside of the banquet house may be one of my all time favorite images from Riverstone. All natural light, no flash and hand held at 1/15 sec for all of you techies out there...

Nikon D3 ISO 3200 Nikkor 28mm 1/15 @ f1.4 - hand held...

It's hard to believe that the wedding is here already! I remember meeting with Nicole and David for the first time and it seemed like their wedding date was so far off... We weren't sure how accurate the weather reports were because it started to cloud up and actually rain as we drove to the church, but it brightened right up for them!

The ceremony was simple and quick - thank you pastor :-) Once we finished with the formals in the church we were off to Riverstone Manor for some fun and excitement with this energized young crowd! As usual Skip and Patti along with the staff made the evening a pleasure with excellent service and food.