That is what my mum used to say, instead of Merry Christmas. Because you never know what people celebrate, perhaps? I never got around to asking her, but that is my best guess. Christmas was her favorite holiday, so much so, that there was always a santa painting on the wall, even in June, and not because she was lazy about taking decorations down.

Hanukkah falls during Christmas this year, and so it’s been fun to join everyone else in the merriment, food making, and cookie baking this year. We celebrated the first night of Hanukkah at a friend’s house with homemade donuts, latkes, kugel, spätzle, ah – it was amazing. I hope everyone has a great time celebrating with friends and family this weekend and next. This year has been so amazing and I am *so* looking forward to what is in store for 2012. Thank you to all of my amazing clients, family and friends who have supported me this year. I wicked love you.

I took these a few weeks ago up at the Fells on chrome and cross processed them. In high school we used to call it “pross crosses” to be funny. Anyway…I have also started to unroll my film a little bit and wave it around in the sun so that a few frames will come out like the last one…all light-leaky.

It’s snowing in Boston right now (!) and today is the first Saturday since late June that I haven’t had a wedding. It was carefully thought out, and I had been planning on spending today with Danny and Emma since we rarely see each other during the busy wedding season. I, of course, ended up sick and curled up on the couch most of the day. Luckily it was so gross all day that I didn’t feel guilty for not moving and being taken care of.

I got some film scans back recently and loved these two images from the Fells shot on Kodak T-Max 3200. I snapped these a couple weekends ago with my Mamiya 645 & 80mm 2.8 lens. Still loving medium format. Someone asked me recently why I like medium format so much, my answer was just “wapow!”

I hope everyone is having a great weekend! xoxo

I always love asking my couple’s where they plan on honeymooning. As an avid traveller I like to get tips and hear of new places that I must go to! A lot of people opt for a Caribbean vacation or some other beachy place, and some end up going on adventure vacations like we did. I keep telling myself it would be nice to do a “relaxing” vacation because after we get back from ours we never feel rested, because we were go go go the entire time. Someday, maybe when I am 80! Because we were already going to be on the west coast for our Oregon wedding, we decided to venture up to Anchorage and cruise down to Vancouver, then hop a plane to Calgary where we would then drive to Banff, and continue on to Jasper. I had heard that the “only way to see Alaska” was on a cruise. There aren’t roads that go from town to town, so your best bet is to boat it, or fly around on a teeny plane. We actually made that first part of our honeymoon open invite, and had 6 other people with us on the cruise! I am really happy we did that, because it was nice to have other people our age to hang out with and it was just perfect to be with family for the week after our wedding. I had never been on a cruise before, and that one will probably be my last. I couldn’t really handle “cruise culture” as we called it while on the boat. All in all, Alaska was amazing, my favorite parts being Hubbard Glacier and Glacier Bay. It reminded me a lot of Milford Sound in New Zealand which was my favorite place in the world before I went to Glacier Bay. Imagine Milford Sound but with Glaciers and icebergs all around! We went rafting with bald eagles hanging out inches away from us, and kayaking with seals poking their little heads up around our boats – Heaven!

Here are some pictures of our Alaska adventure. I only brought my Mamiya 645 and Kodak Ektar 100 film with me on our honeymoon, and a lot of the time we were too busy watching bears tear salmon apart to carry it around, so there are only a few photos from Alaska.

We spent one night in Vancouver, which is when our real honeymoon began – just the two of us. We *loved* Vancouver, I could definitely live there. Then we were off to Calgary, and ready for our Canadian Rockies adventure! We stayed in Banff for 3 nights at an *awesome* lodge called the Rundlestone, I highly recommend staying there if you make a visit. Banff was cool, and we did a little visit to Lake Louise and Morraine Lake, both gorgeous. There isn’t a lot of good beer in Canada, I found out, but the Banff Ave. Brewing Co. had one yummy IPA. We headed up the Icefields Parkway to stay in Jasper for a few nights – my favorite part. I LOVE JASPER. I can’t even talk about it anymore, it’s too awesome and you must go. Think ski town that is not developed yet. Everything is locally owned, everyone knows everyone, and people take care of each other. We made friends with a waitress at the *best* restaurant in town and ended up going there two nights in a row. Here are some of my favorites from Banff and Jasper:

What would we do without them? You had better believe with my wedding just around the corner (10 days, but who is counting?!) I’ve found my “sentimental” side. I wanted to share some photographs that I took of my friend, Meredith a few weeks ago. Every time I go to Maine, I make sure to fit a visit to Mere, Michael, and Orvis into my schedule, even if it’s just for 10 minutes! I just tried to scroll through pages of emails to find out when we first “met”. Sometime in 2009 is all I have! I remember falling in love with her blog back then and my brother, who is in the pet industry, had met Mere before. I think I asked him if he would “hook us up” or something, I can’t remember exactly. Since then, and especially over the last year and a half, she has become one of my closest friends. She’s one of those people that you could call at 3am crying in need of a major vent-session. A keeper. I am so so so excited that next week she will be shooting our wedding out in Oregon!

As much as she dislikes being in front of the camera, she is always there to let me test out rolls of film on her (so nice!). These are taken with my Mamiya 645 80mm 2.8 on Kodak Ektar 100. Love the greens!