Engagement Session in Downtown Utica – Jeff and Erin

Today we did Jeff and Erin’s engagement shoot in downtown Utica and the surrounding area. The weather was perfect and the sun was shining perfectly through the fall color in the leaves.

4th Annual East Coast Road Trip

I just returned from my fourth annual east coast road trip. This year I spent some time driving through the small towns in southern Vermont and New Hampshire and then spent an evening hanging out with my old friends (read more in the last post). I then went on down through Boston to the tip of Cape Cod. I past through the insane mansions in Newport Rhode Island and then back through southern Massachusetts before heading home. I found myself NOT shooting a lot of scenes because since this was my 4th fall color trip, a lot of the fall color type scenes felt like “been there, done that” so I was looking for different subjects. Heading through Boston, I was unfortunately there during Friday rush hour on the day of a world series game which was very frustrating to the point where I just kept going and didn’t stop. Then on the Cape, the weather was dark, rainy, windy and just all around gloomy. All in all, I was able to get some good pictures, but many of them ended up being taken in very unlikely places which I guess is part of the adventure.

Jude

While I was gone on my trip out east this week, I got to visit up with my friends Joel and Rachel Hartter who just moved to New Hampshire a couple weeks ago. Joel is a good friend of mine from back in the day at the University of Michigan….we worked together in the International Studies office as we both had a heart for overseas travel/study. We became really good friends and have stayed in contact over the years. Joel has quit the engineering world to pursue a career in teaching at a University out there. He is also doing a lot of work out in Uganda as part of his research and is in the process of starting a non-profit organization to start libraries in impoverished regions. I’ll post more info about that once it’s available. Joel and Ray just a baby 9 weeks ago and you can see more about them on Joel’s blog:

http://3jandray.blogspot.com/

Here are a few pics I took of baby Jude while visiting with them:

Inn at St. Johns of Plymouth Wedding – Alvin and Jenny

Earlier today, Alvin and Jenny got married at the Inn at St. Johns in Plymouth, MI. They had an absolutely gorgeous day and seemed to enjoy every minute of it. Emerald City Designs did an amazing job transforming the Grand Ballroom into a masterpiece.

Caroline

This afternoon we did some pics with little Caroline at Rochester Park. Their family stuck it out through the intermittent wind and rain and we got a ton of fun pics!!

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