I will be launching a new version of this web site on January 1, 2013. It will be quite a change from what you see now.
In addition to the new site, all of my work is being looked at and organized into a reel. One part of that reel will feature my photographs. A little tease never hurt anyone, so I am posting the photography portion now. Here’s to a great new year!
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I love photographing weddings. Because wedding photography is a very intimate relationship between myself and the couple, I like to shoot a few weddings per month. That keeps me fresh and yields photographs that will make your heart sing. Destination weddings are also welcome.
Pricing information can always be found on the pricing page of my site.
Here a few of my favorite shots from weddings and engagements I have photographed.
Want to help restore the New Jersey shore? A lot of it simply isn’t there anymore. Houses that weren’t leveled by the hurricane will eventually be reduced to rubble from flood damage. The pictures we see of the damage cannot fully measure the impact. Do whatever you can to support the coast. I personally stand by Comic Book Afterlife Sandy Relief and their grassroots movement of raising at least $10,000.00. The money will go to the areas that need it most. If you donate to something like The Red Cross, that money can be squandered. I remember specific stories back in 2001 when The Red Cross was using funds to help the rich move after they lost family members in the World Trade Center. That didn’t leave a good taste in my mouth.
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I’ve been working with Blair Lazar for many years and recently did a photo shoot in his brand spanking new office in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. The old office was downstairs and had been hit by several floods in its 20 years. Blair finally had enough and built an amazing space upstairs. Totally new. Totally custom. The sink looks like a chili pepper!
His pride and joy in the office, besides his awesome team behind Death Sauce, is a glass sliding door that was etched by hand. Really impressive piece of work to say the least. All of the different layers and textures absolutely blows your mind when you see it up close. It’s a THICK door, too. This isn’t dinky etching you see on the front door of a lawyer’s office.
Every year my friend Eric peddles his bicycle from New York to Washington D.C. to raise money for the Police Unity Tour and National Law Enforcement Officer’s Memorial and Museum. It’s a very worthy cause and I do my best to support it through purchasing a shirt and putting it front and center on my web site.
My first impressions of Chicago as a kid were brought on by cinema and television. Between “The Untouchables” and “Perfect Strangers”, I half believed the visit would include gangsters shooting tommy guns and a sheep herding weirdo from Meepos. None of these things were present though. Chicago is a cleaner and more precisely designed city than, say, New York City.
We also visited the famous Billy Goat Tavern and enjoyed delicious CHEEZBORGERS.
One last photo before class is dismissed. CRAZY ASS RONALD MCDONALD! This maniacal bronze statue was placed in the middle of the sidewalk to terrorize passerby.
I was hired by an advertising agency to photograph children for a Y’all Ball toy line. They are giant inflatable balls with stretchy heavy duty material on the outside. The shoot was a lot of fun and I brought my energy level up to facilitate the kids. Honestly they are easier to work with than most full-sized adults.
Lindsay and I visited Times Square on our annual trip to commemorate our engagement. When we entered the Toys R Us, the Ya’All Ball display was front and center. I always freak out when I see a project I worked on “in the wild”. Below are three packages that used my photography.
Great photo shoot to celebrate Halloween and my love for horror movies. There have been great vampire movies and there have been vampire movies that depict the undead nightcrawlers as the most pitiful characters in the movie. Stake through the heart. Garlic. Seeing if they have a reflection. Sparkling in the daylight. If you are a believer in the last one, you may stop reading and proceed to never read anything I post here ever again.
Models: Andrea Hoch & Vincent Meli
Makeup: Karen Buttacavole
Hair: Jessica Cleaver
Want more? View the gallery of all photos from this series.
Hurricane Cyclone Noreaster Superstorm Sandy was a nice training session for the upcoming zombie apocalypse. First thing I learned is that I need more hobbies that don’t involve electricity. I developed some black and white film though. That was fun for a while. Here are a few snapshots of my equipment and the finished negatives.
…final scan of a medium format black & white negative.
At night we burned as many candles as we could find. Leftover beer and snacks from our annual Halloween party helped the night along.
At one point we stopped at the local supermarket and they had absolutely no meat or dairy. Bizarre to witness. They either sold out prior to the storm or threw it all away because they couldn’t be kept cold without power.
Cabin fever was setting in so it was time to take a little drive. I fueled up prior to the hurricane, so we didn’t drive around in a panic.
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Lindsay and I made a variety of ridiculously unhealthy meals for the past few days. I think the healthiest meal was peanut butter & jelly sandwiches on whole grain bread. Filling. Not too salty. When we finally left the house on Halloween, we traveled to Clark, NJ and had lunch at Clark BBQ. This place is fantastic on a normal day and THE BEST MEAL EVER CONSUMED after being stuck inside for three days.
The photo of the PSE&G guy sitting at the lunch counter really sums up how exhausted and hungry everyone must feel trying to fix this mess. Good luck to everyone out there and remember to stay safe! There’s still a lot of power lines on the brink of coming down from excessive damage to the poles.
