Alyssa and Wes celebrated their stunning wedding on North Haven Island, Maine. We knew this was going to be a breathtakingly beautiful and adventure-packed weekend. After a foggy hour long ferry ride to the island, the clouds lifted and revealed beautiful Turner Farm as the backdrop. Could there be a more amazing venue? We don’t think so. The day was filled with countless laughs, beaming love, goodest pups and one hell of a party! Congratulations, Alyssa and Wes!
The Monahons reached out about a family session and mentioned they had spent most of the summer sailing. It didn’t take long to decide that doing a sailing photo shoot would be the best fit. We don’t photograph many family portrait session but the ones that we do are not your typical session, which suits us well!
This is by far one of the best ideas a client has come to me with. Stacey reached out during the holiday season and wanted to buy her father and brother a photo session of them flying their plane. I was thrilled as I love flying in small planes. We waited till summer to go ahead with the shoot. Meeting at sunrise we took to the sky to capture some scenic photos of a few landmarks around town as well as some family photos around the runway. I loved the idea on this family photo session. Capturing family doing what they love brings out natural, happy smiles and big grins. Thank you Hauser family for choosing me to create these photographs and I hope they find a good place in your home for years to come.
Thanks Tanner, Stacey and Laurel for the great morning exploring Worlds end State Park. Such a pretty area for some photos.
The Weber family have their portraits once a year. I love it, they have a large family and seeing everyone all at once is a rich experience for me. The kids grow quickly, Jeff and Lindsay get even more cool as the years roll on. We spent the afternoon riding Swain Resort in NY. It is the perfect place for family riding and everyone had a good time out on the hill. If you are interested in an adventure family session let me know and lets make it happen.
Madison and Zoe’s summer camp wedding was very special. Ashley and I met both these beautiful people (and each other) at Windsor Mountain International Summer Camp years ago. We worked as counselors together and even lived in the same neighborhood in South Philly for a little bit. If you had told me ten years ago that I would be photographing their wedding back at camp with my wife, I would have laughed in disbelief.
When Madison and Zoe let us in on the details of the wedding, from a run and yoga session in the morning to an amazing DJ spinning the best tunes (vendors listed below), we knew this was going to be a weekend filled with love and laughter.
Thank you so much for letting us capture your weekend in the mountains of New Hampshire, where the purple lilacs grow.
Vendors
Flowers: Posies by Trim
DJ: DJ Jodi
Hair: Bridal Hair Experts
Make-up: Alexa Gould Make-up
Venue & Catering: Windsor Mountain International Summer Camp
As I write this Ashley and I are currently in Mdumbi, Eastern Cape, South Africa. We are volunteering our services to TransCape, an organization which helps the Mdumbi Community with Education, Health and Livelihood issues. It’s been three weeks of our four week stay and we have loved it. Of course it has come with high and lows. But living in a mud hut, collecting water, managing food and electricity (when it works) has slowed us down and really appreciate what we have in our lives.
Four years ago, we visited the Mdumbi Backpackers as guests, after 4 days we both agreed it would be ideal to return for a longer stay and possible help with the community which is in desperate need. It really feels like the country has forgotten about this land and it’s people.
Being South African, I grew up in a suburb, in Cape Town, I thought I knew a lot about the Xhosa life. Since I have been here I have learnt more in the past few weeks that any amount of time at high school. Community living where everything is shared has been one of my biggest lessons to learn. We had a BBQ the other night, before the food was off the grill we had 4 brothers from our host family standing around the fire. We catered for three people and then ended up sharing it with seven. It feels good to share, coming from the western world mentality, we hardly share with strangers, even look up from our screens to greet them with more than a “Hi!”. People stop to ask how you are doing, how your day has been before continuing.
Our good friend Ant from Ant Hoard Films flew out for three days of shooting, we didn't get the weather we hoped for and only lost the drone once due to strong winds, but collecting some stunning footage with what we had to work with.
Hope you enjoy some of these shots, from the past few weeks. We have been updating our Instagram account @thephotofarm, if you want to see more images from our journey, hit follow.
We love meeting new people we connect with! While in Cape Town, we met up with Nicole and Mike for a couples session on top of Table Mountain. We got the most magnificent weather, a breathless evening and stunning sunset. We ended up having beers and burgers with these two after the shoot. We love it when clients become new friends.
After four weeks of traveling, surfing and shooting a wedding and couples in and around Cape Town, Ashley and I found the cutest little house, on Airbnb, tucked away in the Witzenberg Mountains. It is nestled on an apple and pear farm and called Oubos on Ouplaas. The hot tub was the selling point and the hike to the summit of the pass gave us a million dollar view over the Tulbach area.
At the beginning of fall, we left the orange and yellow leaves of the farm and headed south for a few weeks. A traverse south, Johannesberg to Cape Town through the Drakensberg Mountains.
