Diana and Greg

WOW, I love my job. But sometimes life hits you fast.

Diana had email me a few months back about photography, but I had never heard back from her. So I'm on my way out to NYC a few weeks ago and I get a phone call from Diana to see if I can shoot her wedding the following Friday.

I wasnt busy that night, so I happily said yes.

They had a beautiful wedding at The Frick Pittsburgh, with a small group of friends and family. Then they headed downtown to Hyde Park for the reception.

You and Greg were so much fun and I am looking forward to shooting with you two again soon. I hope you and your family are doing well, and I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed shooting them.

Enjoy.

Here are some pre ceremony photos





After the Ceremony we grabbed a few beautiful shots before the sun disappeared

The cake of course!
Walking in from the limo.

1000+ views

Yep, thats right. Today I hit the over 1000 view mark. I am pretty excited, since no one really knows who I am yet. I would love to reach 1000 unique visitors, but that will come with time.

I finally was able to upload my Be The Change Uganda Video to You Tube, and here it is for the first time, for the public to view:

I am putting together a team to head back to Uganda for a month and shoot a documentary on the lack of education in Uganda. I don't believe that I can change the world, but I do know that my gifts involve showing people a problem in the world. That is one of the reasons that I studied journalism.

I am really excited to get this project underway becaSchool of Visual Arts in NYC to get equipment but that still isn't going to take care of the logistical side of the project, like getting into Uganda, or housing, transportation, and food. If you or a friend, or corporation would like to get involved with a project that is the first to examine education, please e-mail me as soon as possible. I would love to send you more information on the project.

OK, now for where I left off last time.

As I had previously posted, I was in NYC for three days, and that was about as long as I could take it there. Everything moves at warp speed, and unless I was up there for continuous work, I couldn't handle it for an extended period of time.

However, myself, and nearly 15 other photographers from around the mid-Atlantic met up in NYC to hang out with [b]ecker on his 34th birthday, or as he prefers to say, the 5th anniversary of his 29th birthday. He was traveling with Marisa Holmes. She is a great photographer that is associated with [b]ecker. He wsa also traveling with his video team for the [b] School, Vu and Lan Bui. They were a blast to hang out with and were constantly joking around and laughing.

Here is a shot of Allan Zepeda sporting the ShootSac by Jessica Claire. [b]ecker came with four bags and handed them out in a guerrilla marketing fashion.

Here is a shot of [b] and Marisa. Look at the photo and you'll get the idea.
Here is a shot of [b] with the owner of Grimaldi's Pizzeria in Brooklyn. The Pizza was unbelievable.

Here is a shoot of the Brooklyn Bridge looking over to Manhattan. It is such an amazing site, and while I hate being up there, I found some definite perks. This view was one of them.

This was just a fun abstract I took while sitting in a park on the upper east side the night I left to drive home.

The USS Sequoia

JFK had his last birthday party there. President Clinton, and Russian President Gorbachev have hosted parties there, and on saturday night, a very close and wonderful family friend had a birthday party there.

Where is there? There is aboard the USS Squoia Presidential Yacht.

It was amazing to be on board vessel that has so much history. Kathy had her birthday party on borad with a close few friends, and i was asked to come along and shoot the photos.

As we sailed up and down the Potomac, we listened to wonderful piano, had an amazing dinner, and enjoyed eachothers friendship.

I've known Cathy 17 years, and actually grew up riding with her niece, who was always at her aunts side. But over the past few years, Cathy has spent more and more time in Washington DC, and so it was a great party because there were old friends and there were new friends.

AS Cathy walked up the gangplank, the piano player started singing Carly Simons #1 hit "You're So Vain" and everyone started to sing until the end of hte first line where it says "You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht." at that point everyone began to laugh and talk, and the song never got finished.

It was one of the most fun events that I have had the chance to photograph this far, and that has to be because she is such a good caring friend.

So here are a few from the night...

Cathy walking up to the ship.


Cathy and Alec boarding the USS Sequoia


An unbelievable cake (soon to find out who made it)



An end of the evening group photo on board.


That last photo was taken with one sb800 up and back on camera left, and fired with a nikon d200

In memory of that great night, todays video is Carly Simon "You're So Vain"