Art of The Garden Legacy Portraits

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One June 2nd we are offering a limited edition photo shoot, Art of The Garden, a soft, classic yet modern set brimming with roses.  Here is an opportunity to be photographed surrounded by the most romantic of flowers, the rose.  The idea was inspired by Chloe & Isabel’s Jewelry and we include a necklace of your choice with your photo package.  So the photo shoot, print or digital imagery, a beautiful necklace, and as if that is not enough, a hairstyling and makeup application is also included in our photo collection options.

Perfect Idea for yourself or give a gift certificate for Mother’s Day or Birthday.

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from this Irish Lass!

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Top of the mornin’. Luck of the Irish. May the road rise up to meet you! Tapping into and enjoying my Irish Heritage on this special celebratory holiday St. Patrick’s Day! I asked my father who has studied our ancestors and family tree for a list of our relatives that came from Ireland. Continue reading →

Love Actually at My Grandmother’s Table

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It happens. You cross paths with people you are somehow meant to know.  Not that it’s all predestined and such just that if you are on a road and traveling in the direction of your dreams all the time, the right ones just come.  It’s been that way throughout my life and that rule is still guiding me.  So I’ve got so many things I want to do with my life and my photography. Last summer I came to know a gal, now a wonderful friend that is aligned with me on making some really cool things come to pass.  That girl is …. Dina Valentini Wanamaker of Passionate Kisses Cakes & Catering of Slatington PA. Continue reading →

The Popularity of the Pin Up Endures!

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Attention to detail makes every photo shoot stronger, especially when collaborating on a Pin Up Calendar.  Laughter, Lighting, Props, Cupcakes, Hair, MakeUp, Wardrobe and super fun creative people makes for a really enjoyable project.  Working with Mika Romantic and Kate Elfatah of House of Minerva, Event Planner Holly Trout of Holly Events, and many other experts on the team made for a smooth shoot with fab results! Here’s a look at some of our favorite images from that Pin Up Calendar Shoot.

For a Pin Up Shoot of your own contact our studio at 215-679-4376.

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New Life for Old Christmas Treasures

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About a month or so ago I was planning my holiday set for upcoming Christmas photo shoots and was on a hunt for snowflake decorations.  I’ve collected all sorts of snowflakes over the years and knew I had many but was not sure exactly where I’d packed them. Therefore I was in a dark section of the basement pulling down high stacked boxes and looking through each one to find snowflakes that I could use for the new set design.  Well I came up short as my desire was to paint them red and it turned out all the snowflakes I had were far too beautiful to alter. Continue reading →

The Valley En Vogue

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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel

 

I’m absolutely taken with fashion and though I don’t live in NYC, fortunate for me and many other lovers of fashion,  our Lehigh Valley is an exciting fashion mecca. Boutiques and many designer stores hold elaborate fashion shows throughout the year in great venues around the Valley. I love documenting these fashionable events and here is a compilation of images shot within the last year entitled, The Valley En Vogue set to the music of The Black Keys, Gold On The Ceiling. This particular piece was accepted into Slideluck Potshow, part of the Olympus InVision Photo Festival and shown recently at Artsquest at Steel Stacks. Great fun!Enjoy!

The Beauty of Being a Woman

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I believe all women are beautiful and though so many that step in front of my lens try to make me aware of what they think are their flaws, I don’t see those and neither does my camera.  What I do see and is what makes them beautiful and we all have something don’t we? A part of our outward physical being that we feel confident about like a smile, great hair, a fabulous pair of legs, or a super fit abdomen.  Let’s go beyond that though, deep inside to the spirit of a woman, that is where the true, enduring beauty lies.  When I photograph a woman that is what I search for the inner spirit and when it emerges look out because therein lies the beauty of being a woman!

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“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”

The poetic wisdom of the Italian physicist, philosopher, and stargazer, Galileo Galilei.

Eyes wide open, always looking for something new. It could be something very small or huge even but the point is I have very strong force within me that is insatiable when it comes to learning about people, places and things.  Basically I love to be fascinated. Recently I had the chance to see something I’ve never before seen and thus fell in love with something new, the way the grapes grow and hang from the vine. This summer on a beach day the dark clouds with threat of lightening rolled in and the lifeguards promptly closed the beach so we along with hundreds of others were among the mass exodus from the perfect summer day. Now what? After scouring the free magazines of what’s happening at the beach we saw an ad for the Cape May Winery and off we went. Continue reading →