francine + peter – engagement photos in soho

so.  funny story about this engagement portrait session.  francine, peter and i are walking through Soho taking photos and I’ve got them on this stoop pictured below.  we had just started shooting and I wanted to give them a little space to get comfortable so i went across the street to take some long shots.

of course, this being NYC and Soho no less, there are cars driving down the streets between us and taxis etc. and when the light changes red, they tend to line up between us so I can’t really get a shot.

so at one point a taxi pulls right up in front of me and someone starts getting out of the cab and  i figure, well, it might be cool to shoot THROUGH the taxi, maybe get the meter in the corner of the shot or something…

i was working it but it didn’t really work.

but as the taxi pulls away a doorman comes up behind me and says, “that’s really nice, a**hole!”.

and i’m kinda caught off guard.  “huh?  what are you talking about?”

and he starts going off on me, “you f**in guys! – get the hell out of here and leave our people alone.”

anyway – to make a long story short – it turns out that Ricky Lake was getting out of the cab to go into this hotel and he thought i was a papparazzi stalking her.

if i was a papparazzi, i was either very good – to know that she would be pulling up in a taxi right then and there – or i was very bad – because i didn’t get a single shot with her in it.

here’s what i did get of the francine and peter though…

we’ll be shooting their wedding in September right in our own neighborhood at Tribeca Rooftop.