new york wedding photographer – top 10 in the world – brian dorsey studios

a few times a year we pack the boys and the dog in the car and head upstate to spend a weekend with our good friends at their country house.

along the way we get to stop at the cute roadside fruitstands and pick up some fresh fruit from california.

and while the local fruit wasn’t quite ready for us, as you can see below, the local animals were ripe for the pickin’.

there’s nothing quite as relaxing as just hanging out with friends.

shuckin’ corn.

playin’ games.

and takin’ pitchurs… (see the kountry is growin’ on me)

cole and his good buddy maddie -

miles and his pal mason -

turned out, the blueberries were in season so we got a couple of buckets of “pick your own.”

and some great old trees….

this one below is like a “where’s waldo” – where’s miles?

as much as we love living in the city, getting out periodically is a necessity for maintaining one’s sanity.

I have to say, Dawn had one of the sexiest bridal gowns I’ve ever seen. This nifty little number had a corset of very sheer embroidered tuille and boning. I can’t imagine what kind of gym routine you have to have to pull that one off but she did it well.

Matt and the bellringer take a chill in the Maxfield Parrish-esque setting.

Meanwhile the ringbearer was throwin’ gang signs.

Many of my clients have been opting for the self-portrait studio setup that we make available at weddings so that guests can take their own pictures. It’s really a great time and you get pictures of people goofing around that you won’t get any other way. More on that a bit later… But first…

I am always refining our equipment and setups and had been testing out the self-portrait studio at home and left it on while I took a break to do something else. Well it’s summer time which means my kids are around a bit more and they happened upon the self portrait studio and managed to get it going.

As you can imagine, when a 5 year old and a 7 year old are left alone with a setup that will take pictures and instantly display them on a 19″ monitor you know you’re in for some trouble.

Case in point.

The funny thing is that unsupervised 5 and 7 year old behavior tends to degrade in the same way that adult behavior does (although we’re yet to see underwear on the head at a wedding).

The only downside of being a photographer is that you’re NEVER in any pictures – you’re always on the wrong side of the lens. Now that doesn’t really bother me at all with the possible exception that my kids will look back on the photographic legacy that I’m creating for them and will be like, “Hey Dad, where were you when I was growing up?”

The other day, I was out with the boys and we bumped into our nanny who took this shot of us. See boys, there’s proof that I really did exist.

Susan and Damian did their engagement session in SoHo to take advantage of “the local color”.

One thing I really love about street portraits is that you never know what you’re going to bump into that day that you can use. The people, the graffiti, the traffic, the light, the weather – NYC locations are really never the same twice.