Gathering photos for our end of the year recap is not an easy task. It involves searching through each and every shoot, wedding and personal folder to gather some of our favorite images. When I first started, I had gathered over 700 images. Narrowing down from there was not an easy task, so rather than [...]
Gathering photos for our end of the year recap is not an easy task. It involves searching through each and every shoot, wedding and personal folder to gather some of our favorite images. When I first started, I had gathered over 700 images. Narrowing down from there was not an easy task, so rather than relentlessly selecting *just the right photos* I decided to adopt the mantra “done is better than perfect.” So, you’ll be getting not one, not two but THREE separate blog posts today categorized into three types: Lifestyle (see above), Engagement and Wedding. We’ll post all three today – so get ready for a lot of photos! It’s been an incredible year filled with photography, so we hope you enjoy a small recap of the hundreds of thousands of times we clicked our shutter this year. The above photos include many personal projects (from Paris to Guatemala to the Badlands of South Dakota) and also a few snippets from the senior, family, baby and head shot clients we get the honor of photographing each year. The majority of these photos were taken on film, which is our preferred method of taking personal photos since it forces you to slow down and think carefully before you take the photo – something you don’t always get the luxury of on a wedding day. We hope these photos make you as happy as they make us!
Antigua Guatemala Travel Photos, Minnesota Senior Photos, New England Landscapes, Photos of Paris, South Dakota Senior Photos, Travel Photography
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There are some days that I feel the need to pinch myself. From as long as I can remember, my dream in life has been fill my days with good things: family, good food, beautiful friends and lots of art. These are the things that light me on fire and ignite the best parts of [...]
There are some days that I feel the need to pinch myself. From as long as I can remember, my dream in life has been fill my days with good things: family, good food, beautiful friends and lots of art. These are the things that light me on fire and ignite the best parts of who I am. The fact that I get to make art for a living still blows my mind and there isn’t a day that goes by that I feel incredibly grateful for this gift. As many of you know, dance is my first love. I’ve been dancing for over 20 years, have traveled around the country and world training and performing and have a BFA in dance. For any dance major, the ultimate goal is to be able to incorporate dance into your life post graduation in any way possible. We unfortunately live in a time and place where arts funding is limited making jobs very difficult or nearly impossible for many extremely talented dancers. I knew this going in (and out) of my college program, but somehow knew it was all going to be okay and that if I was pursuing something I loved more than anything that I would learn things along the way that would make it work. After moving to Boston from Minnesota I never once regretted my decision to study dance – even though the free lancing dance world can be exhausting and you live on close to poverty level salaries. When photography came into my life, I realized that it wasn’t necessarily dance itself that has me in rapture – it was creating art. Now my days are filled with lots of weddings and beautiful love stories to document, but I still get to dance. It’s a beautiful thing and I’m beyond grateful. Three years ago I started a small dance company here in Boston in hopes to have a deeper and more meaningful relationships with dancers and choreographers. When the company started, I had no idea that it would be where it is today. No, it’s not an international success with dozens of funders or scholarship programs or national tours. In fact, I’m sure that many people in the Boston Dance Community don’t even know we exist. Instead it’s grown into a beautiful space for dancers to share bits of themselves and their lives and for us to create art together to address these snippets of our collective perspectives through performance. It’s a beautiful group of women who are open and honest with each other and have hopes for making our world a better place simply by being better people. These women inspire me every week to live bigger and take risks. Once I year I convince them to allow me to photograph them – and once I year I feel the most exhilarating surge of excitement combining my two creative pursuits. Aren’t they beautiful?
Dance Photography, Six One Seven Dance Collective
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We thought we’d unveil our trip to Guatemala for Kelsey and Danny’s Wedding over a few days on the blog, so today we’re starting off with some personal travel photos from our fast and furious trip to Antigua, Guatemala. We arrived on Friday and had a portrait session with Kelsey and Danny, shot the Wedding [...]
We thought we’d unveil our trip to Guatemala for Kelsey and Danny’s Wedding over a few days on the blog, so today we’re starting off with some personal travel photos from our fast and furious trip to Antigua, Guatemala. We arrived on Friday and had a portrait session with Kelsey and Danny, shot the Wedding on Saturday and flew back on Sunday so we had limited time to explore the city on our own (we couldn’t really afford the time off during peak wedding season because it would slow the workflow down too much) but we had a fantastic trip with the time we did have as personal down time. Some highlights included wandering the streets to see the Spanish colonial ruins, (which were caused by a series of earthquakes in the 1700s) visiting the food market (aka – a maze) that boasted delicious looking fruits, vegetables, live chickens and other delicious things US customs would have never allowed us to bring home as souvenirs, and the fresh avocados (I may have ordered the same thing twice in three days because the avocados were so good). I couldn’t help myself when I saw the barber shop donning the same name as our handsome Guatemalan groom. We left feeling excited to return someday to explore more and grateful for the opportunity to share in such an amazing country, culture and wedding. Tomorrow we’ll be sharing Kelsey and Danny’s Engagement Photos – stay tuned!
Antigua Guatemala, Antigua Guatemala Travel Photos, Guatemala, Summer Street Photography Destination Wedding Photography
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We’ve got one more Parisian photo session to share with you, but first we thought we’d take you to a different part of Europe. A few weeks back we showed you photos from our honeymoon in Paris, and today we are back to show you a few shots of the city of Florence. After we [...]
We’ve got one more Parisian photo session to share with you, but first we thought we’d take you to a different part of Europe. A few weeks back we showed you photos from our honeymoon in Paris, and today we are back to show you a few shots of the city of Florence. After we were in Paris for a few days we stayed in Tuscany for a week, and while we thought we might spend more time in Florence, the weather was so warm that we could only manage one day exploring this ancient city. One of our favorite things in Florence was the Mercato Centrale, where all kinds of wonderful and delicious food is sold. We’re still savoring the truffles that we bought there!
duomo, florence italy photos, italian food photography, open air market photography, tuscan photography
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We thought you might enjoy taking a peek at a personal project of sorts…not that looking at couples in love ever gets old. Kendra has a Dance Company in Boston called Six One Seven Dance Collective and they are preparing for a show in June. We decided it might be fun to do a non-traditional [...]
We thought you might enjoy taking a peek at a personal project of sorts…not that looking at couples in love ever gets old. Kendra has a Dance Company in Boston called Six One Seven Dance Collective and they are preparing for a show in June. We decided it might be fun to do a non-traditional photoshoot for their upcoming show, as well as cross off a personal photography goal of ours: shooting underwater. Special thanks to the pros at LensProToGo out in Concord for mentally preparing us to trust the underwater camera housing that we rented from them especially for the shoot. (that thing looked like a submarine!) Since Kendra also dances in the company, I (Matt) was the primary photographer for this shoot. For any photographers looking to attempt this in the future; be sure to bring along ankle weights, good goggles and a lighting rig to shine into the water. We did this in an indoor YMCA community pool, so there was very little natural light. Also be sure to check out Kendra’s company and come to their show in June!
Boston Underwater Photographer, Dance Underwater, Six One Seven Dance Collective, Underwater Photoshoot, Water Photoshoot
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We don’t often share personal photos here, but we’ve been meaning to get around to editing the 3,000 photos we took on our honeymoon last summer to France and Italy. With this being a slower season, we have a bit more time to share fun little things like this! (And who doesn’t love taking a [...]
We don’t often share personal photos here, but we’ve been meaning to get around to editing the 3,000 photos we took on our honeymoon last summer to France and Italy. With this being a slower season, we have a bit more time to share fun little things like this! (And who doesn’t love taking a five minute vacay to Paris?!) We’ll be showing you more in the coming months, region by region. Paris is up first. Oh how we love Paris. Actually, love is an understatement. It’s everything wonderful: food, history, art, food, architecture, shopping, food, city walks, food…..Did I mention food? 
Ironically we didn’t take that many photos of the food we ate…..a task we plan on remedying on our next trip. We did manage to take photos of most other things. There really aren’t words to capture our true feelings on Paris. We’ll keep it short and simply say, if you’ve never been you have to go. It’s pretty much our heaven on earth.
2011 has been a truly amazing year. I think we will always remember this year with great fondness, as we ate, breathed and slept all things wedding. With the early part of the year leading me (Kendra) into the transition of being a full time wedding photographer, to the middle of the year when we [...]
2011 has been a truly amazing year. I think we will always remember this year with great fondness, as we ate, breathed and slept all things wedding. With the early part of the year leading me (Kendra) into the transition of being a full time wedding photographer, to the middle of the year when we got married ourselves (which has given us SO much more to truly relate to our clients and know exactly how they feel) to the end of the year when we shot 26 weddings, 42 engagement sessions (amongst other non-wedding related work) and got to meet the exciting bunch of 2012 Summer Street couples. With all of the wedding talk, gorgeous rings, adorable proposal stories and sweet moments, the funny thing is that we still can’t get enough. There is something deeper than just a ‘wedding’ that keeps us artistically motivated. It’s you. Getting to know our clients and having the honor of telling their stories makes us tick. We’ve never felt so at home. We say it a lot, but we truly feel blessed to have this job. Here’s to each and every one of you who ‘liked’ something on our facebook page, commented on a blog post, encouraged us in our buisness, and trusted us to document your event. We are nothing without your support, and we can’t wait to share 2012 with you!
