Images of Lucas in the Actor’s Workshop , a newly developed theater for aspiring actors.
A place to experiment and learn. The interior of the school is tons of fun visually…
a true learning center, Oakhurst NJ is lucky to have people committed to the arts.
here’s what we came up with.

Thanks Lucas

What a beautiful teenager Alexandra has become. poised, confident, fun, funny, smart and sensible.

It’s an honor to be asked to photograph Alex at this stage of her life. I’ve been watching her grow up in front of my  lens since the Sand Sharks Swim Team at Sands 8 years ago.

Here is a few shots from the day. Susie was hair and Makeup but mostly She hung with my Sara and they discussed what Jagars moves are!

I used my 70- 200 mm Canon lens on my 5D mark 2 as well as an off camera speedlight source in a chimera 24 inch box. I dressed the light with lite grid  and a heavy diffusion with a bastard Amber gel closest to the source. ( TJ held my light and did a wonderful job.)

The background all about timing, I love civil twilight. We shot this at North Beach, Long Branch. So sad after going to monmouth Beach, Irene really beat the heck out of it

Thanks Susuie and Alex, it was fun.

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Clara and her family are native Monmouth County Jersey folk. They moved away to Nebraska due to work four years ago. When they come back to visit it becomes a priority to get some senior images of Clara- RIGHT HERE IN BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN LONG BRANCH!

we also needed to visit the plush woods and the awesome beach at sunset.

But what could not be passed up were making part of our session at the fabulous walls of  the future downtown arts district on Lower Broadway.

The draw to this artwork and it’s possibilities is so strong that even as lower broadway remains in disarray awaiting it’s fate,  family folk want pictures infront of these murals. Let’s face it, It’s vibrant, exciting and theres nowhere like it.

Again my plea goes out-Let’s keep our lower Broadway for the arts! Don’t fill it with expensive cllothing stores and more restaurants. If we build an amazing artistic center, they will come! It’s proof, these folks had no problem stepping over the broken glass, garbage and even worse items to have a picture taken in this enviornment to savior forever in their memories. Just think what it would be like if it was cleaned up a little but left this neighborhood to the creative community to develop.

Maybe give them some funding to make it great…It can be done! It would be great!

Like Frank and Missy’s yard this releationship is in bloom. This couple knows where they are going. They are young BUT they are wise.

They have been going out for almost six years and slowly simmered this love affair. They are lovely, gentle and sweet. The kind of people who will do wonderful things together and touch many lives. Their success is clear and their love the foundation of everything they will build.

Thank you Jill and Dan for giving me the honor of telling your story. It is the highlight of this photographic season.

I want to wish them the best life has to give and  I am  thankful to be able to tell the story of their wedding day.

Some technical notes: I photographed this session with my canon 5d mark2 with my medium lens 24-70 mm and an off camera light using the Canon the 580EX through a soft box.

Weather wise it was just how I like it – cloudy.

The fog was thick and soupy, the makings of a magical atmosphere for photographing. However, not so easy for human subjects, because even though there was no bright sun to make you squint
(yeah!) the ground was super soaking wet from 4 days of rain and for the shot I needed them to sit on it! To make things even a little trickier this blooming bush that John planted when he and Lizzie got married only blooms for approximately two weeks each spring. After coordinating with john to get us together for a photo,  the challenge was heightened as we had deal with mother nature’s mood swings and wait out the 5 days of torrential rain. On a monday night,  a super foggy sunset minus the sun, we did it, we literally went inbetween raindrops and made these photographs.

And the four legged memebers of the family- well, they didn’t mind the wet ground at all!