Hi all. Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while, I know you are always anxiously waiting my next post, ha! I have been busy, to say the least. I just wanted to give you a preview of what will be making it’s way to the blog soon since I haven’t had the time to make full blog posts for a while. As I think most of you know, I have a day job as a web developer and due to a recent project that I have been on where I had to be at the office for 12+ hours a day for a month and a half, I have had very little time to blog. It’s most important to me to get images to my clients first, blog second. Here is a preview of what I have been up to lately:

First, a lovely back yard wedding in Winterport, Maine for Audrey & Homer.

An e-shoot for Sarah & Karl in the fens

A super-silly e-shoot in the North End with Michael & Jeffery:

My very first wedding in Oregon! This one is at McMenamins Grand Lodge in Forest Grove for Chantel & Mike:

A wedding in a barn in Holliston, Ma for Linda & Steve:

I was away in Oregon for a week for the wedding and something else happened. Danny and I are engaged!
This is where he did it, not bad eh? (I took this the day after, because the day he did it the weather was overcast, you’ll see in the next photo) I have received many comments on my ring and people wanting to see photographs of it. Here is a link to jeweler Heather Wang’s page about it: My e-ring. I think it’s the coolest piece of jewelry ever made, but then again, I think that about every one of her pieces!

Thank you for taking the time to read this, I have two more weddings this weekend and those will be added to the queue! I super miss blogging my shoots but hopefully once things relax a little, I will have time once again! xoxoxo

I picked up a nikon 105mm 2.8 for macro shots a couple of weeks ago. I decided to take it out this weekend to the fells reservation, where we take Emma on the weekends for some rompin around. I have to say, I like it a lot even for bringing to the park.

I’m sure every photographer who has a dog says this but, I think Emma is the most photographed dog on the planet!

I am so excited to have my very first giveaway on my blog! I met Heather through my friend Emily when I was looking for a local jeweler to set some of my mother’s stones into something that I would wear. They have just been sitting in a plastic bag for the last 3 years and I made it my New Year’s resolution (along with many other things) to get them set so that I can wear them and have a great memory of my mother with me every day.

I took the stones to Heather and she came up with the most awesome design! It’s not finished yet, so you won’t see any photos until it’s done. hehe

Heather holds an MFA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewelry and gets commissioned to make many wedding bands, engagement rings and other wedding related accessories. If you want something unique and not the plain diamond solitaire, you must go to her. She also teaches jewelry making classes during the week! Can you see why I love her?!

I ask a lot of questions whenever I meet crafty people like, “what’s this for? what do you do with these? How do you cast things? you use these cool colored powders for what now?” and Heather is happily ready to feed my curiosity, I love that!

I went to her studio this weekend to check on my piece and I had to have a pair of her earrings, so I got one pair for me and one for you! Here are some photos of Heather in her studio and I have a pair of her Bright white enameled copper Cherry Blossom earrings swing from fine sterling silver hoops to give away! (I got that description from her Etsy shop)

All you have to do is leave a comment and I’ll use a random number generator to choose a winner on Sunday, March 7th. Please limit to one comment per day.

Heather Wang Jewelry: Website
122 Western Avenue, Studio # 319
Lowell, MA 01851 USA

UPDATE: Jess is our winner! Here is the random number generator screen shot to prove it:

Thank you everyone for participating. Jess, congrats girl! You deserve it because you commented every day, too xoxo

It’s been a while since I’ve had a free weekend with no photo shoots and decided to take it easy, it is *freezing* here after all! We have dog walkers who take Emma to “the fells” every mon/weds/fri and when we asked where it is that they go, the directions seemed so simple yet we would always get lost. The place we would end up stopping was beautiful for sure, but we never saw other dogs around. After reading the boston dog blog Fidoloves.com that had a specific map with directions to the spot where people take their dogs, we headed out! There were so many dogs and Emma had a freakin’ blast! Isn’t she the cutest?!