BOSTON CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHER, BOSTON FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER, BOSTON NEWBORN PHOTOGRAPHER

I head down to Brewster to photograph another photographer who I now consider to be a close “internet” friend and now a real life one as well. She planned a family vacation, asked if we could make a session happen and I was thrilled to oblige. Not only did I love the session, but it was by far the easiest trip to the Cape I have ever made. I left from the South End of Boston and was on the Cape easily in an hour. Return home on a Friday night was door-to-door two hours and that includes me mostly maintaining the speed limit and coming from mid-Cape to North Shore! So really, it was a win and I am so glad she and I were able to connect.

I really loved meeting her entire family. It’s funny that sometimes as photographers we “talk” all day long on our various forums and boards, and often we share so much of our lives with each other… from a business and a personal standpoint. We really watch our kids grow up together. And we watch our businesses grow. So pulled the whole family together and making a real life connection is very amazing and I am grateful we had the chance to do so.

Here’s their slideshow, thank you for allowing me to share with everyone!

These girls are like sort of related to me, but not really. They are the cousins of my cousin’s daughters or the daughters of my cousin’s husband’s brother. My kids get really confused when I try to explain it to them, and they stare blankly at me and then say something like “OK. Now can we be twins too?” All that aside, I kind of love them like cousins and I am more loving that they have helped me out so much this summer. Seriously. I know you guys know that I operate on a very thin wire line of sanity and complete chaos, so knowing that at least Kendal or Paige will be at my door, sometimes with a twin or two, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, has breathed a tiny bit of calm into my life.

So I am hoping that Kendal’s reaction isn’t “Oh no, the entire slideshow on your blog. Really?” but more “Awesome, I looked GOOD for my senior pictures!” Because she really does, doesn’t she? I am honestly amazed at how poised, beautiful, smart, athletic and artistic the girls are in this town (well, in the all tri-towns). After every session I pick up the phone and call my mom and say “Seriously, how are they like this? they are incredible!” I make my mom check Facebook more than I ask my clients too!

Thank you for all you’ve done this summer, for inspiring me, and for helping me not age quite so quickly!

And here it is! Enjoy! Leave me blog or FB love (or at least like the post by clicking the thumb at the bottom) because it makes me REALLY happy. And if you knew what my last 10 days were like, you’d want to make me happy!

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Just because.

Which I have to admit, is incredibly lovely.  Incredibly.  You see, in Boston there is this sort of “north shore/south shore” thing that goes on… I am from the North Shore, that’s where I spent my summers, it’s where I live, it’s my peeps.  But the South Shore is pretty insane.  And so needing to expand my horizons, I tripped on down there on a summer evening and happened across these two.  I don’t want to call them displaced from the North Shore, because they have roots in both places… but I know them from up here.  Specifically from the playground up here.  Where I take my kids usually only under great duress when there has been just enough screaming at each other for one day and I realize we all need to let off some steam.  Inevitably I run into these two, and their mom.  And inevitably I say “I wonder why I don’t hang out with her more often!”  Needless to say, I was thrilled when she booked a session, and even more so when she said we could do it on the beach!

Somehow my crazy season crept up and began in July. Last year it was August, maybe September. But it starts out with me thinking that I am not that busy, and that I have life and work under control. And then I take vacation (for me it was vacation, staycation with family, staycation with friends) and I woke up in a cold sweat with orders to deliver and galleries to proof and everything else that keeps me up until all hours both worrying and working.

So with a few power hours in front of me, and nothing planned personally for quite a while, I am charging forward and catching up. Hopefully I can say that by the end of this week, everyone who has ordered from me will either have their goods, or will their goods will be ordered… and hopefully I will also be able to say that I only have my current week galleries outstanding. Dare to dream, dare to dream.

It’s also the time of year when I am HORRIBLE about blogging. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. And so look for more single images on Facebook... and sadly, look for blog posts with no words (for some, that might be a welcome relief to not have to read all my verbal diarrhea — wait, did I just put that word on my blog?).

So here’s a few from a session that goes out tomorrow, late, but still under three weeks, so in my overall timeline, not late, but for 2011 work, it’s late. My sincerest apologies. I loved this session, I loved this family, I loved this neighborhood, I loved this little boy, I loved the people that referred them to me… I loved the city that night and then going home refreshed and happy to see my own family. I love it when sessions do that for me. Get it, I loved it.

Enough said. And to just change it up, yo, and all BW post. Because every once in a while I wake up and say “I should just do this all in BW because I love it that much more.” No worries, the gallery and slideshow have both. This is just me being crazy at midnight.