Just a very quick post of a few of my favorite shots from a wedding a few weeks back, that I second shot at for Sam Liang, of Ze Liang Photography. Erin and Patrick were married at Atlantica in Cohasset and were really great to shoot with, as of course was Sam.
Look forward to posting a few more shots and blog posts soon from this and the other weddings I have shot in Boston so far in 2012, but for the time being will have to act as an appetizer for more to come. London next week for my good friends, Joe and Claire’s wedding in Surrey. Looking forward to catching up with you guys soon!!
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I had been looking forward to shooting Emily and Carlos’ wedding day for sometime. Actually it was since I met them for the first time to discuss the photography for their big day. The hotel Nine Zero in Boston is a wonderful venue and offers a stunning array of places to shoot portraits. This was one of the reasons, but the main reason was because Emily and Carlos were such great people and I had been really looking forward to seeing them for their Boston wedding day, especially after we had shot their Beacon Hill engagement session a month or so earlier.
EMILY & CARLOS | BOSTON WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY
They had the perfect day planned out. A nice early afternoon start meant that they were able to relax into their day and spend a bit of time with their immediate families before the ceremony and getting ready.
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I started the day shooting with Emily and her family to capture some stunning getting ready shots of her and also to shot some of them all together before she headed downstairs to her and Carlos ceremony. I think that you’ll all agree Emily looked absolutely gorgeous in her dress and that we got some wonderful shots of her and her parents and brother.
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Carlos was already waiting downstairs when I met with him on the day and was looking perfectly dapper with his smart tux and wonderful orchid boutonnière. We had the chance to capture some great portraits of him and his brother Cesar, before they went to the front of the ceremony room to wait for Emily. The Nine Zero hotel offers a really great place to get married in Boston. Apart from its perfect location close to the heart of the city, it has a great space for getting people together to celebrate. On top of that all the staff there were great to work with and very accommodating.
EMILY & CARLOS | BOSTON WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY
Their ceremony was great and Emily and Carlos were both very emotional which had everyone else going as well. Carol Merletti did a wonderful job of officiating the wedding and was a real pleasure to work with as well and I hope to shoot more weddings where she is officiating in the near future.
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The party was great and it was a wonderful atmosphere. I did borrow Emily and Carlos a couple of times from the dancing and celebrations to grab a few more shots of them before the end of the night. There was one shot in particular that we had had in mind and that was to work in the “Beantown Pub” sign, just next door to Nine Zero into a wedding photo or two. You can’t get much more of a Boston wedding photograph than under a Beantown sign.
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This was not actually planned out as an engagement shoot, nor was it the ideal conditions for one either, with the rain starting to come down pretty heavy. When I met with Sarah and Nick to talk about their wedding photography at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury MA, they said at the end of the brief meeting we had, that they had not really had their photos taken together before. I couldn’t help it, I had to get them at least a couple of shots.
WAYSIDE INN ENGAGEMENT SESSION
I don’t normally bring my equipment with me when I go to meet couples for the first time. I’m also a Boston event photographer and on this day I happened to be shooting later that afternoon at an event at Gore Place in Waltham and so I had some of it with me. As I said the conditions weren’t great, but popping up the umbrella and shooting for literally a couple of minutes in the rain we got them some photos with each other. These are just a few Sarah and Nick’s favorites.
WAYSIDE INN ENGAGEMENT SESSION
Despite the weather these guys had a great smiles on the go and The Wayside in and that surrounding area are really great fun to shoot it.
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Looking forward to catching up with these guys later in the Fall.
A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to help out and shoot with a fellow wedding photographer here in Boston. Sam Liang of Ze Liang Photography was shooting Rebecca and Mark’s engagement session at MIT and then down by the Charles River at the MIT boathouse just on Memorial Drive. I came along to help out with reflectors, lighting and to get an extra couple of shots as well.
MIT ENGAGEMENT SESSION
Boston as a city, I have found to have a fantastic local, and even not so local, community of photographers, willing to share and help each other out at almost a moments notice. The great thing about this is knowing that you are surrounded by a very good network of professionals who are able to help out when needed.
MIT ENGAGEMENT SESSION
Rebecca and Mark were having their wedding day, the following weekend (again photographed by Sam) and they looked just great together in the grounds of the MIT campus. The wonderful buildings and the early evening light provide a classic setting for a Boston engagement shoot. The large pillars of the main MIT building gave a perfect backdrop and fantastic control over the lighting conditions. MIT is a really great location for engagement photos.
MIT ENGAGEMENT SESSION
We finished off the MIT engagement shoot down by the water, with the familiar Boston skyline in the background and surrounded by the sailboats at the MIT boathouse. The jetty here gave a low vantage point onto the water and with the light now dipping below the tree line behind us and casting a warm glow over our couple. The evening provides some of the best lighting and these locations really capture it very well.
MIT ENGAGEMENT SESSION
Sam did a great job capturing their MIT engagement photos and you can check these out and some more of his work at Ze Liang Photography.
MIT ENGAGEMENT SESSION
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A little while ago Laura got in touch with me and asked about the possibility of having some photographs taken of herself and her friend Natalia, who were both living in Boston for six months and studying here after coming over from their home country of Spain. They wanted to have some photos taken of themselves along the Charles River so that they could have some great images of themselves here in this wonderful town.
BOSTON PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
Whilst wedding, family and landscape photography is my main area of work, as a Boston photographer, I am always open to other requests and a portrait session like this is something I’d hope to do again in the very near future. The Charles River and along the esplanade is a wonderful location for any photo shoot. Be it an engagement photography session on the Charles, a Boston family shoot or simply to have some personal photos taken like Laura and Natalia decided to do. The weather was fantastic on the day and we walked along the esplanade from Charles MGH, west along the river.
BOSTON PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
We started latish in the afternoon so that we could be along the Charles for a sunset and be able to capture some of the great light that floods across the open expanse of the river at that point. There are some great spots and a good variety of them as well, in a reasonably short distance. This allowed us to capture a wide selection of images and not have to walk far to achieve that.
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I have photographed along the Charles River before, shooting a Boston engagement session just near the Science museum and down closer to the sea. It is one of my favorite locations to shoot at and Laura and Natalia were great fun to work with. We managed to get some fantastic images as the sun was setting with the Longfellow Bridge as the perfect Boston backdrop to their images.
BOSTON PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
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Ashley and John are getting married in Rockport at Halibut Point State Park in September this year. We met up at the end of last month, to visit a few of the locations and do a Rockport engagement session as well, while they were both up from Long Island to sort out some more of the details for the day.
ROCKPORT ENGAGEMENT SESSION
The town of Rockport is a wonderful place in itself and Halibut Point States Park is a truly beautiful location to have their ceremony. Only a short drive from Rockport town center, this State park is site to an old quarry right next to the ocean and beach. They are going to have a ceremony over looking both, in late fall and I can’t wait to work with them both again for that.
ROCKPORT ENGAGEMENT SESSION
We started of at the entrance to the park, at an old out building. This provided a great backdrop to get going and definitely gave it that New England feel. After shooting here we quickly moved on into the park, as the number of locations on offer were fantastic.
ROCKPORT ENGAGEMENT SESSION
I have shot e-sessions in Rockport before and every time I come back here I like the place more and more. Being a Massachusetts wedding photographer I offer coverage throughout New England, although find that most of the time, I shoot in and around Boston. I always relish the chance to get out of the city and to the coast and this day was a really great one to be by the sea.
ROCKPORT ENGAGEMENT SESSION
We made a looped trip around the quarry and took the chance of popping down to the beach as well; giving us a great variety to the look and feel of their New England engagement photography.
ROCKPORT ENGAGEMENT SESSION
I don’t think that you can come to Rockport for an engagement or your wedding photography and not try to get the famous red lobster house in at least some of the shots. Once we were in town we grabbed a cup of coffee, because although the sun was shining it was a little colder than it looked, and then headed straight there. Ashley and John were a real pleasure to work with and I’m looking forward to getting back to Rockport in the Fall for their wedding day.
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So this Boston engagement session is a little different. These guys aren’t engaged, but are actually friends and this shoot was set up so that we could help each other out and capture some great images, that hopefully they can both use as well. Marcella and Dennis are both models here in Boston and when we were talking one day about locations we’d like to shoot, Boston’s Waterfront came up, so we decided that we would take an afternoon to scope out its possibilities.
BOSTON ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY
We started off the “Boston engagement session” at South Station were we met up. This hadn’t been my plan, I just couldn’t help but shoot some photos in the wonderful light that was bouncing off some of the tall glass buildings there. The gold doors to the station then created a wonderful backdrop to frame Dennis and Marcella with.
BOSTON ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY
I’m a Boston wedding photographer, but I haven’t grown up here and have actually only been shooting in this city for just over a year now, after moving from London, England. There are a TON of places that I see everyday that I would really love to shoot in and having been down to Boston’s Waterfront a number of times felt it would make for a really great Boston engagement shoot location.
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It was a colder day than the crazy 80F temperatures that we had felt the week before in March, but the sun was shining and bringing a little warmth, when out of the wind. Normally bright sunshine isn’t the best for your Boston engagement or wedding photos but working with it, you can still get some great results nonetheless.
BOSTON ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY
Boston’s Waterfront provides a mix of old and new to work with and really provides some great locations. There are some great spots where you can really get great light for shots and others that if you work with the light will give you a great Boston backdrop to your engagement or wedding photographs.
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We wrapped up the shoot in the North End, just a short walk away. This was another location that had been on my hit list of potential “Boston engagement session locations” and although by this point we were all starting to get a little cold, the guys did great and we got a good selection of images from here as well. We finished up the afternoon with an espresso in one of the Italian cafes on Hanover Street. You can’t get a much better coffee in Boston than there.
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If you are interested in having your Boston engagement photos taken by the waterfront, in the North End or any other part of town then please get in touch, I would love to shoot more in both of those locations as well as a big list of others too! I’m currently booking Boston wedding photography and engagement session for 2012 and 2013 so please don’t hesitate to get in touch by clicking here and dropping me a line.
BOSTON ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY
A big thank you and shout out to Marcella Sacco and Dennis Mulherin!! I would definitely recommend working with these guys if you are another photographer looking to do a shoot in Boston.
I met Emily and Carlos back in October 2011 on a wintery night out in Waltham to discuss their Boston wedding photography coverage, and I was extremely happy when a week or so later they said that they would like me to shoot their day. They are getting married next month at the Nine Zero Hotel in Boston just near Park Street and the State House, with what sounds like a very wonderful and intimate wedding.
BEACON HILL E-SESSION WITH EMILY & CARLOS
We had spoken about doing an engagement shoot in Boston and were waiting for the weather to pick up a little, not that this winter was a bad one at all. Emily and Carlos both love the Beacon Hill part of Boston and this would prove to be a great location for their engagement shoot. We met up at the Nine Zero Hotel so that we could go through the location and check the venue and see where they were going to have their day. We then had just a short stroll across Boston Common and into the Beacon Hill area.
BEACON HILL E-SESSION WITH EMILY & CARLOS
We start off at the very beautifully cobbled Acorn Street. This wonderful old street provided the perfect backdrop to start Emily and Carlos’ Beacon Hill engagement session. Whilst the weather hadn’t been as warm as it had been just a few days before, we still had a very nice day to shoot.
BEACON HILL E-SESSION WITH EMILY & CARLOS
It was great fun working with these two and I really can’t wait for their wedding day next month! Engagement sessions really are a great way to get to know each other as well as to capture some really great shots! It means that come the wedding day you are more comfortable in front of the camera and we can concentrate on capturing those great emotion between the two of you.
BEACON HILL E-SESSION WITH EMILY & CARLOS
After shooting on some more of the wonderful streets around Beacon Hill, we stopped in for a quick coffee and ice tea break! We popped back out again just to catch the sun starting to drop over Boston and to give us the opportunity to get a couple of lens flared shots to finish off their Boston engagement session.
BEACON HILL E-SESSION WITH EMILY & CARLOS
Emily and Carlos, you guys were really fun to shoot with and I think that we got some really great shots that day. I’m really excited to catch up with you both next month for the big day!
BEACON HILL E-SESSION WITH EMILY & CARLOS
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Since I have been in Boston I have had the opportunity to capture Christening and Baptism photographs for a few couples and the very important moment for their newborn children. As a wedding photographer in MA, I’m more often in Church for weddings (or to attend Mass myself), but the opportunity to photograph this moment in a couple’s life and Christening of their child, is equally as great a pleasure to capture.
Christenings are important milestones in a child and a couple’s life, just as their weddings were. To have images and photographs of this moment is a great thing to look back on over the years to come.
I hope that as I establish myself here in Boston as a wedding photographer, that down the line I will have the chance to work with some of the couples whose weddings I have photographed and have the chance to photograph the Baptism of their children as they expand the family unit.
Christening and Baptism photography can follow the same style as wedding day coverage, without maybe the preparation shots. There is normally a wonderful service or Mass that provides the opportunity to capture the Sacrament in candid detail and many times family get together from different parts of the country or world, providing the opportunity to photograph people that may not often meet up.
The celebrations after, although not on the same scale as a wedding can be just as great to photograph and again give rise to opportunities for some wonderful photos.
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I was contacted just before Christmas by Michelle with an inquiry to shoot some family portraits of her and her siblings as a present for her parents wedding anniversary, which was on Valentines Day. They were based up in southern New Hampshire, and when they called I had the perfect place to get them some family shots.
FAMILY PHOTOS AT BENSON'S PARK HUDSON NH
A little while back, my wife and I were told about the rejuvenation of Benson’s Animal Farm, and all the changes that had been made in the last couple of years. I unfortunately never knew it in its original glory, but my wife can remember going there as a child and often remembered seeing the elephants and the giraffes from the road, on the way driving into school.
FAMILY PHOTOS AT BENSON'S PARK HUDSON NH
They have recently revamped this place, and it is now a true gem of a place for families and anyone wanting to take a walk or even enjoy a spot of fishing in the pond. Benson’s Animal Park has been transformed, thanks to the hard work and efforts of the local community, who got together and made this place a really great asset to Hudson and New Hampshire once more. If you haven’t already, I would definitely encourage a trip to Benson’s as well as “liking” their Facebook page here.
FAMILY PHOTOS AT BENSON'S PARK HUDSON, NH
Benson’s now has wonderful cared for gardens and landscapes, as well as a touch of more natural habitat as well. This has made Benson’s a great location to have family photos taken, and I hope that in the spring and summer, I’ll get to work with a lot more families to capture their New England family photos here.
From the wonderful variety of plants, the perfect backdrop of the pond and trees around it, and the great old buildings at the top of the hill, you are really spoilt for choice when it comes to locations for photographing families. The open spaces and brand new playgrounds make it great for little ones as well to have a run around in.
FAMILY PHOTOS AT BENSON'S PARK HUDSON NH
For Michelle and her brother and sister, we wanted to get some great photos of them all together, as well as some individual shots. They were awesome to shoot with and it was a great idea for an anniversary present to their parents. While it would have been nice to have had a little snow on the scene to make for a more seasonal feel, Benson’s Animal Park is such a great location to photograph that it didn’t really matter. That, and the fact that these guys were such a pleasure to work with.
FAMILY PHOTOS AT BENSON'S PARK, HUDSON NH
If you would like to have your family photos at Benson’s Animal Park with me, then please don’t hesitate to get in touch by visiting the contact page and dropping me an e-mail or just calling me on the phone. While I am a Boston based wedding photographer, I’ll always make the time to get up to Hudson, NH for family photos or even senior portraits in New Hampshire.
In fact, Benson’s would make the best location in Hudson, in my opinion, for engagement photos. In my last post, I listed some locations in Boston that I would love to shoot wedding or engagement sessions at, but in New Hampshire, Benson’s would definitely be at the top of my list.
Looking forward to shooting more with families and couples in 2012 and beyond.
