Senior Portraits

This week I had my first session of Senior Portraits.  Lucky me, it was my sister Carly!  She graduated from college last week and so we thought it would be fun to take some portraits of her (ok so I asked her if I could).  We went to Highland Park, which was packed with people for the Lilac Fest, so it was a bit tough, but we found several quiet places to snap some shots.  We had a really good time (we always do) and the photos came out great!  It's hard not to have good photos when you have such a good looking model (sometimes people mistake her for me, ok that's a lie...)  :b   Here are my favorites from the evening. Enjoy!

What a week!  I have started to advertise myself as a business...figured I have nothing to lose.  I absolutely love photography so why not try to make it a little business on the side of my full time job.  I created the below flyer and emailed it to some of my co-workers, family and friends.  The first day I scheduled 2 new appointments!

I was excited to get a good response so quickly!  Now if I can keep it going, that would be fantastic :) Fingers crossed for me. 

The past few weeks I've also been learning more in Photoshop.  I've learned how to antique photographs:

How to select certain parts of photographs to be in color/BW:

and my favorite - learning to make collages!

LOVE IT! 

Quick blog today...stay tuned for more later this week!

Wedding Planning and Hiking in the ADK's

This past weekend Jay and I headed to the High Peaks in the ADK's to do some wedding planning and hiking.  We stayed at a nice B&B called the Rooster Comb Inn.  Very cute and cozy!  The owners were very nice and accommodating. 

We started off on Saturday by visiting one of our favorite restaurants, just south of the main stretch in Lake Placid called Chair 6.  Really good food (best breakfast burrito EVER) and at a good price.  Left my camera in the car, of course...

After stuffing ourselves, we headed to the florist: Lake Placid Flower & Gift.  We met with the owner who helped us put together ideas and secure our date.  Lots of variegated orange/yellow/red mums with green ferns, with a few freesias mixed in my bouquet.  I don't have any photos and am unsure I can use others online...sorry. Anyways, she was very helpful and we were able to check one more thing off the wedding to do list!

THEN we hiked! Finally...good to get outside and hiking again.  We chose Dial Mountain.  In order to get to Dial you have to hike over 2 smaller mountains, both with good views.  Here are a few photos from the hike:

Also came across a cool barn...

The trails were wet and muddy, so we were covered by the time we got back to the car.  Headed back to the Inn, showered and went out to dinner at the Baxter Mountain Tavern.   SO GOOD - love the alfredo!

Sunday, we met with our amazing caterer Green Goddess at The Mountain House.  This is where we will be married! Tammy is wonderful to work with.  She has great ideas and has gone out of her way to help us with rentals and reception set-up.  The food is all organic and local and DELICIOUS.  Can't wait!

The Mountain House:

Overall we had a very successful and fun weekend! Looking forward to going back over Memorial Day weekend :)