Modern Photographer
Did some of the standard christmas stuff this year. Drove to my parent's house in Central NY on the 23rd for my sister's birthday, spent christmas eve and christmas morning there, then drove the 5 hours back to Jersey to catch Meg's family's Christmas celebration and make sure we were there for Sambuka Clause. There's also some pre-christmas cookie baking photos thrown in for good measure.
I spent my first year of college at SUNY Cobleskill... a miserable little college about half an hour outside of Albany, NY. The only good thing about that place was the people that lived on the 3rd floor of my dorm, Fake Hall (yes, it was actually called "Fake Hall") Right after the new year, Sean organized a mini Reunion of some of the better people from that particularly awesome floor. Sean and his fiance Sarah (whose wedding I'm shooting this year, stoked) G was in from California, and Meg and I. We went to a bar called the houndstooth in Manhattan, and it was planned on being a very civil sit down over a drink, maybe two, possibly discussing political science, maybe the works of Jane Austin. As you are about to see, it went EXACTLY as planned.
One of the great things about my jobs is that sometimes you get to shoot the weddings of friends. Jen and Meg (my beautiful fiance) have been friends for somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 years. The day after Jen and Luis got engaged they came to me and said "Dennis, we want you to shoot our wedding." Awesome. They got married the day after Thanksgiving in Ridgewood and had their reception at the Tides Estate in North Haledon, NJ. Everything was great, the food, the ambiance, and to top it all off there were a ton of our friends there. People finally got to see some of my god awful dance moves! Anyway, on to the photos. I did my best to widdle this down so it wouldn't be a ridiculously long post, but this was the best I could do. Congrats you two.
My prices for weddings have recently changed for the new year. I hope that doesn't catch anyone off guard, but in order to make things easier, I will be honoring the 2009 prices through the end of January. If you book before January 31st, you can still get the 2009 prices. Thanks... more to come
So, I've been seeing a lot of stuff around the photography world lately of people looking back on 2009. People posting their favorite images, talking about their favorite this and their favorite that. I'm not going to do that. Instead, I'm going to look ahead. Not to diminish what 2009 was, it was a great year. But lets look ahead... "To the Future, Conan?!"
What does 2010 hold for me?
Thousands upon thousands of great photos to take. Tons of new people to meet, weddings to shoot, adventures to go on, trips to take, music to listen to, movies to see, insights to discover. Putting some good stuff out into the universe (more on that when it is appropriate, but it's really good stuff) and let's see here, I feel like I'm forgetting something... oh yeah, the biggest thing of all.
I'm getting married this year! HOLY SHIT!
Here's to a good year to come folks.