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emily & nate
Emily contacted me a while back to let me know her husband Nate would be home on R&R from active duty in Southeast Asia (*edited to add: I mistakenly wrote Nate was deployed to Afghanistan. I get numerous calls from military families and guess I just mixed up his location, sorry). She found me thru Operation Love Reunited, but OpLove doesn’t include R&R in their free sessions so I decided to just do this session for them on me. Really, it’s the least I could do to thank him (& Emily) for his service! We met up at the Garden City Cathedral grounds for a mini session with their dog Webster.
Love these two shots- favorites for sure. 
Webster is still a puppy (and the longest, all legs and tail puppy I’ve ever seen! Oh, and tongue.) and has the craziest amount of energy, but comes right over when called. And smiles for the camera.)
Oh, hello pretty.
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kristen & raul- bbq
I had the absolute pleasure of photographing Kristen & Raul’s wedding a few weeks ago, but before the wedding day I got to meet lots of family and friends at Kristen’s brother & sister in law’s house for a bbq in their honor. It was a great way to start to get to know the bride & groom and their families & closest friends before the chaos and fun of the wedding day.
*edited to add that it was SO TOTALLY HOT on the day of the bbq. Like I can’t breathe hot. Like there is no air hot. Like I’m gonna die hot. Like worse than Africa hot. But everyone was having so much fun that it doesn’t even show in the pictures. Its a very good thing I was behind the camera though, cause it was not pretty. At all.
The lovely bride & groom.
In addition to my photographing the bbq, Kristen and her siblings arranged for me to take a family photo for her mom’s birthday. So here’s the whole family!
Raul, his brother, his mom & his bride. 
And the extended family.
Mom & Dad and their 5 kids. 
Mom and her BFF- they’ve been besties since they were little girls.
Cousins from Stockholm. 
Cheers with Grandma! (that adorable little guy is the same baby that’s on my blog header at a few months old, smiling big for me!)
A few faces from the party that I just had to photograph!
The beautiful flower girl.
More from Kristen & Raul’s wedding coming to the blog soon. Still trying so hard to catch up! -
the doyl family
Big multigenerational sessions are always so interesting- I love watching how big families interact with each other, especially the cousins who might not see each other that often. Grandma had booked this session almost two years ago for her whole family- I love that she decided to do it and include everyone!
It started with these two…
They had these 4 “children”…
..and they ended up with these 12 grandchildren! Pretty awesome, huh?
A few shots of each family…
And everyone together!
I would be remiss if I didn’t give a shout out to Angela for assisting me during this session. Thanks so much for your help & making sure I photographed everyone! -
the trio family
Well, if nothing else Hurricane Irene gave me some time to catch up on all the shoots I’m behind on editing. We’re all fine here and thankfully sustained no damage from the hurricane, just a somewhat sleepless night and lots of moving of furniture from outside to the garage. To those of you with flooding, downed trees, no power, smooshed cars, blocked roads…I’m thinking of you all.
This extended family was a whole lot of fun to photograph out on the east end. (I’m hoping that their beach is still there.) With 7 kids 4 years old and younger including 2 sets of twins and a one month old, I definitely had my work cut out for me! But with the help of some really fun parents and grandparents, we did great!
The sun was super bright that morning at the beach but we did the best we could under the conditions. 
The whole family! All looking at once!!
Fraternal twin boys.
Identical twin girls.
And the big brothers to the one month old baby girl.
And eveyone one last time before I packed up and jumped on the ferry to CT on my way to RI.Had a great time with all of you! Thanks for the singing and cheering-I couldn’t get the song out of my head the rest of the day! Hope you enjoy your photos.
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the danz families
Our annual East Hampton shoot had a new twist this year- the WHOLE family. It was great to meet the other parts of the family and it was so nice that they were all able to get together. They were celebrating birthdays and anniversaries and it just happened to work out with the photoshoot schedule. I actually have a few extended family shoots coming up on the blog over the next week or two.
We totally lucked out with the weather- it was threatening rain the entire shoot and we got it all in before it really did rain! Let’s hope we are all so lucky today with Irene. Wishing all of my blog stalkers a safe hurricane!
Hang on for lots of pictures- it was a big shoot!!
They are the cutest couple. Ever.
Giggles on the beach. Let’s hope the beach is still there after the weekend. 
And wishing C &S congrats on their recent engagement (which happened within a few days of these pictures)! 
Everyone!
