Anniversary Portraits

Took these photographs for my lifelong friend Heather and her husband Mike as they celebrated their 5th year of marriage!  Got some suggestions and feedback from Heather and snapped away at a few picturesque places she had chosen.  They loved the results!  Here's a sampling:

  

Greene County

Pretty (Ugly Before)

In the "Winter" I am unemployed and everything is ugly.

In the Summer I work with plants and everything is pretty.

Maine, Cont'd

If any of you ever wondered what I have been doing up in Maine for the past two Summers... well, this is it! Summer 2010 I worked as a cabin counselor/newspaper instructor at Camp Manitou in Oakland, ME. Manitou is a sleep-away camp for boys ages 8-16. Needless to say, I had a BLAST and a half. Manitou also runs a non-profit called the Manitou Experience, which is essentially the same idea, except it's only a week long, and it's strictly for boys who have suffered the loss of a loved one- they are sent to this camp FOR FREE! I volunteered for the Experience in 2010 as a counselor/photographer, making my stay up in Maine about three months altogether, and returned for the week-long camp to do some more counseling and photography in 2011. I was also able to travel to Portland and Boston while up North, and I decided to include a few shots from Portland, which I've marked as such. Anyway... enjoy! More adventures to come VERY SOON.

Portland, ME.

The lovely Ms. Althea Grogan in Portland, ME.

Constantly yearning to be back at this place.

Maine, Summers 2010 and 2011

On the ferry from Portland to Great Diamond Island.

Other Columbia Paper Photos

Sheep shearing extraordinaire at the Chancellor's Sheep and Wool Festival at Clermont State Historic Site. A man who is from Plymouth, VT, where I lived in AmeriCorps. Turns out it's the same guy who taught me how to drive horses at the cheese festival at the Coolidge State Historic Site when we volunteered for an ISP! Very cool dude. His horses were the best.

Boarder Collie demonstration at the Chancellor's Sheep and Wool Festival at Clermont State Park.

Hudson's Rampfest 2011.

Jazzish jug band from Brooklyn. Don't remember what they were called... hmm.

Hudson's Rampfest 2011.

Germantown Clippers Vs. Hudson Bluehawks non-league game. In a situation such as this I'm not sure who to root for, but the Bluehawks ended up dominating this game.