Taking a little Break - Happy future New Year Everyone!

I am taking a little break until Jan. 3rd 2008. There are many great happenings to look forward to in 2008. I am going to be spending the last days of 2007 going to the MET in NYC tomorrow to see the Baroque Christmas Tree along with the Rembrandt Exhibition with my hubby and friends. Then I am off to work on cleaning up the home for the big New Years Eve Party on the 31st.
I can't wait until 2008, 2007 was just such an amazing year for my photography business. Its amazing to see it grow so much in the last 6 months. I can only hope for amazing things to happen in 2008.
-L

Merry Christmas to All!

Just want to wish everyone a Merry X mas, I had a great day and I couldn't help but to take photographs of my niece. We had a blast, played with some barbies, she posed for my camera with her new red coat and doll..I remember vaguely about the details of my 3rd Christmas in 1981, all I remember is a shiny Strawberry Shortcake bike. Well my niece got a ton more than that and this doll. Here she is investigating it.

Happy Holidays to all !

I want to wish everyone a happy holiday!!! I will be off seeing my family and having my first newlywed Xmas with my hubby. As you can see we got along with our decorating style, Keith put his Star Wars Tie Fighter hanging out in the xmas tree. ( I really don't mind at all) And I bought this really interesting Folk art Christmas sculpture by the artist Becky Geis. We are going to have a interesting Christmas collection.
Anyway more blogging to come in the next week and recap of the year!

Folk Art Angel, originally uploaded by vintagegirl1.

-L

More photos from Dawn & Joe's Wedding

Last Wedding of the Year!! Dawn & Joey @ the Crescent Beach Club, NY

Long weekend but a great wedding this weekend..
Meet Dawn & Joe, they planned their wedding to a "T" in six weeks. Christmas theme with red accents.. Beautiful and I had to many favorite shots:(click on links to see the images larger)

Thanks to Kimberly Hurst for 2nd shooting and Christine for assisting..

Tommorow is my last wedding of the Year.. on that note

Focusing on looking at my own wedding photos again
Photo by Farnaz

Colds

Colds are not fun. If if there is a delay in email/phone call response please be advised that I am suffering from a pretty bad cold. My voice is lost and my nose is stuffed.. thanks for being patient..
-L

Turning 2007 photos to mid 19th century photos

Having fun with textures.. :)
I love the look of a vintage photograph..

Art Exhibit time -- Info on 2007 and 2009 Bookings

Its the time again.. I will be in the Firehouse Gallery Art Exhibit in Bay Shore, NY with some of my fellow artists. The opening is Dec. 14, 2007 at 4pm.
Here are some previews of photos that will be on exhibit.. I usually include one or two wedding photos that I have done in the year 2007 along with some personal work. I have been taking alot of photos of children lately. Being that my niece is getting older and more photojournalistic. In addition to that I have been slowly exploring child photography.

Just one annoucement on weddings, due to the overwhelming response to my recent website launch(which is great) I am going to be limiting the amount of weddings I will be doing in the year 2008. That way I can give proper individualized attention to the brides and grooms I book with. There are some dates left but not many. I will be booking for 2009 at the beginning of March.

Anyway here are some of the images going into the art exhibit:

a Private 80th B-day Party

A 80th Birthday Party is a milestone in ones life and this birthday was a special one that the whole family planned. This shoot was for a friend I know, this is not something I do often (since I do weddings 99 percent of the time) however it was alot of fun.
-L

Wedding Season Coming to an End

Well I can't believe 2007 is almost over.. It has been exciting photography year. Actually one of the best. ( Also because I got married lol)
2008 is almost upon us, I am pretty psyched for some of the weddings I will be shooting next year. There are tons more which are just to cool to mention right now, we will see over the blog as I shoo them next year.
I have one more weddings left in this season, so I hope to be updating soon with new photos.
Coming soon recap of 2007 year some of my fav. photos.

Dawn & Brian get announced in the Newspaper !

Dawn and Brian a wonderful August wedding I shot, just had their wedding announcement in the NY POST Today. I am so glad the NY Post picked one of my favorite photos from the bunch. Congrats Dawn and Brian!
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Photo Plus Expo 2007 - Javits Center -NYC

These last couple of weekends have been a blast... I am having the time of my life and had an even bigger time of my life meeting some famous wedding photographer celebs.. So let me explain why! This past weekend I spent two days at the Photo Plus Expo. The Photo Plus Expo is one of the largest expos on Photography on the east coast. I attended two seminars on Macs Aperture & Adobe Light room. All really amazing stuff! My photography friend Kimberly met up with me and we had a blast.

On Friday I got to meet the world famous Harry Benson. Harry Benson is a well known photojournalist who shot extremely famous photographs of the Beatles, Truman Capote, caught Robert Kennedy's assisanation on film, many presidents and more.
I don't think he likes looking at the camera though:


The next day I worked at the Shootsac booth. I helped out all day long with selling the shootsac. An amazing lens bag designed by Jessica Claire who is a amazing wedding photographer out of California. (yes I read her blog often) This bag which can hold about 4 various lenses at a time, (this is a great lens bag if you have tons of prime lenses and yes it can easily hold the 70-200mm) is also very fashionable as you can change the types of covers you put on the front of the bag.The cover on the bag is also a lens cleaner!!!
If any photographer knows how it is a pain to have to change lenses, with the Shootsac you can just go into your bag put your lens down in the bag change the lens, etc. etc. I had a blast hanging out with Marissa and Keats all day long at this unique event. I was happy that I could help them out and had a good time selling the bag to customers.. I wish I could had met Jessica, she had went home the day before.
I will post pics of my new Shootsac in action in the upcoming weeks.

Seven hours later we were taking the booth down and famous wedding photographer Gary Fong who is well known for the Lightsphere walks up and I got a pic. Wow its just so strange meeting people who you read about online all the time!
Ok enough geekdom!

Monica Z Photography meets Laura Ryan Photography

I have "wedding photography" friends online. What better way to expand on your abilities as a photographer than to talk to and meet someone else who is a wedding photographer. Monica came out to NY from Indiana on a vacation and I met her and her husband in NYC ( I brought along my husband to) for a fun photo shoot outing which included:
1. Brooklyn Bridge
2. China Town
3. Battery Park City
4. Native American Museum
5. Union Square Park

Here are some pics from the adventure that I have posted so far from Monica :


I told you I like details, even this beautiful slice of cake gets attention from me below:


Photo I took of Monica, its overexposed but I really like it though:

Julie & Ed - Old Field Club - Setauket, NY

Julie and Ed had a beautiful and enduring theme for their wedding. Lemons. There were lemons on the cake, lemons surrounding the centerpieces of calla lilies of the table settings, even a lemon tree (instead of a card table) with their guests names attached as leaves to the lemons. So detailed!!! I love detail and I love photographing detail. When the guest found the lemon they had to cut their lemon off the tree and take with them. How cool is that?? Everyone had an amazing time and they had the time of their life. The "before shots " were taken at the brides home. Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful old greenhouses surrounded this home. I had to get some shots of Julie posed in them.
The Old Field Club was a great place for this setting, I can't wait to shoot there next year.