October 14, 2009Bonnie LOVES the water, so Robert suggested that our prewedding portrait session take place near the waterfront. One of my favorite places in Boston is the seaport district, near fan pier. We had a nice session and I got to know them a bit before their THURSDAY wedding a few weeks later. More from this Kenyan-in-America wedding soon.
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September 8, 2009On Sunday I met Bonnie and Robert near the ICA in Boston, and we played.
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August 29, 2009
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July 24, 2009Kristin and Thomas are currently doing the “she lives there, he lives here” thing until their October wedding, so we needed to plan the official engagement session strategically around one of her wedding logistic visits to Boston. I met up with the two of them at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel, right after they finished their tasting meeting. It was also the Saturday of the Tall Ships action in Boston, so that [normally secluded] part of the city was crazy crowded.
We opted to spend most of our time in the hotel with the wonderful decor. The Renaissance has this amazing spiral staircase with birds suspended above your head.
Guys… will you stop being so beautiful together?
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July 8, 2009
I don’t often show much from my boudoir sessions, as the privacy of my clients is of highest concern, and these intimate photos are meant for an audience of one: the beloved.
Images I do post are with the permission of the subject, and usually do not show identifiable face to further protect privacy.
I think human bodies are beautiful.
For booking information or to schedule a boudoir portrait session, email me at boudoir@mergeweddings.com.
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June 30, 2009I have a special place in my heart for intelligentsia.
Together Jeff and Livia hold ridiculous amounts of degrees from the following institutions: Caltech, MIT, Harvard… and she wanted to shoot at Harvard’s campus even though I did my best to convince them of MIT’s greatness.
So on a recent rainy day (sound familiar, Boston?) we found our way through the Harvard science building. I love the eccentric mix of industrial-academic that MIT does so well, and this Harvard location did not disappoint.
A classic moment was when I caught the two of them discussing the structure of the molecule that was hanging above the staircase. NERDS!
Finally, no smart-people engagement session would be complete without some faux-awkwardness. Presenting: the yawn-stretch!
[ more photos here ]
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June 12, 2009Eileen, Wouter and I spent much of our time in the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge MA. The building is very “community” designed with an open interface and crazy architecture. I think it’s a delightful building, but many of MIT’s engineers hate it because of its structural challenges (apparently, it leaks when it rains!).
We also spent time in Wouter’s Physics department offices with the colorful floor tiles. Finally, we stopped out at the MIT boathouse, a site of their first date, for a few charming, cuddly outside photos.
I’m really looking forward to photographing Wouter and Eileen’s wedding at Park Street Church next month.
What you won’t want to miss from the photo set — a series we themed “the hot T.A.”
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May 28, 2009Back by popular demand, some more images from Claudia and John’s recent love shoot in Albany, New York. These two were SO worth the three hour drive back and forth on Mothers’ Day.
The diptych above means the most to me from our day full of adventures. John is a teacher to the deaf, and the two of them say goodbye every morning by flashing “I love you” in a cuddly version of sign language. (And this is where all the ladies in the audience go “awwww!”)
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May 27, 2009If you’re looking for wedding photos, look HERE.
Julia and Andrew, who happen to be fellow Lowell residents, took me for an adventure in history-besmooched Lexington, Massachusetts. I had fun exploiting Andrew’s long legged stature and serious demeanor to uncover a small part of his silly and lovable personality, and of course enjoyed getting to know the way they interact by asking them to do ridiculous things together in public (this is what an engagement session is all about!). We lunched in Concord, of course.
The fern photo, which is absolutely my favorite from the session, was us frolicking around in the church yard in Lexington next to an ancient graveyard that holds the bodies of some very famous people. I think by that point I had finally convinced Andrew that being in photos wasn’t so bad after all.
Looking forward to your wedding, J and A!
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May 22, 2009
Ali and I drove out to Albany to meet up with Claudia and John for their love shoot. We had a fantastic time shooting through the crowds at Albany’s famous Tulip Festival in Washington Park, and then went over to this cool independent theatre and café that Claudia and John like a lot.
One very very special thing about these two is how goofy they are together. Literally every other image is something silly and sweet…. but not in a way that says “I am so uncomfortable in front of the camera”… more like “I’m so excited that I get to spend the rest of my life laughing with you.”
They are incredible.
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