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So what do you do when you want to get an eyeful of NYC on your wedding day?

First, you get a suite at the Mandarin Oriental so you have a sweet view of Columbus Circle and Central Park South.

Then you bring along your beautiful daughter Kienna (and her rabbit.)

Then you take a subway downtown….

Arrange for a private double decker bus tour for everyone in the …

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Great weather means everyone wants to get outside for their portrait sessions. I wanted to share a few images from some of the recent sessions we had.

Jen and Mike have an amazingly friendly dog, Baxter, who they wanted to feature in their session.

For the most part, Baxter is a total ham.

Although occasionally he gets embarrassed by all of the attention he gets.

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Next we have Carla and Stephen.

Carla and Stephen met at McSorley’s so that’s where we went for their engagement portraits. Now most New Yorkers will know that McSorley’s isn’t really the kind of place you go looking for romance. It’s more the kind of place you go for homemade beer (light or dark) with good friends. You can only go with very good friends because the primary food there is a plate of cheese, onions and Nabisco saltines (still in the white wrapper). After a plate of raw onions, the only people that will still talk to you will be your very best friends.

And if raw onions alone don’t stifle the opportunities to find love, the fact that McSorley’s has not been dusted since it was founded in the 1800′s and therefore has it’s own ecosystem hanging from the lamps will.

But against these odds Stephen and Carla met and ultimately fell in love. Such a cute and fun pair…

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Sarah and Tim had come into town from Boston just for their engagement session and they weren’t about to let a little rain deter them from having a good time. So we went on a hunt for dry spots in SoHo…

and we always manage to find something that’ll work.

Here’s our secret… the glass overhang… like magic – no rain.

Finally, the rain backed off a bit and we got to move out from under the overhang…

I love it when people just don’t let the weather ruin their day. In the end, these people always manage to make their own sunshine.

Maggie got ready at the waldorf which is really one of the best places a bride can get ready. The suites are really quite large and the light is great. Sweet Suite.

Awaiting the bride.

Her Dad, ready to take her down the aisle…

The funny thing about winter weddings in nyc is (besides being cold) that daylight is done by 4pm. So going outside to take pictures following a ceremony becomes a night shoot. Apparently, people come out for hot soup after dark as well.

Colin with his boys at Hot Soup across the street from the Met.

Now, my clients look to me for something different – something that doesn’t look like wedding photography – and for something lively, spontaneous and fun so very often I end up seizing opportunities that magically appear (if you’re always looking for them). Being stuck in stop and go traffic on 5th avenue seemed like a great opportunity for a sunroof shot. So I find myself squeezing through the sunroof of our LandRover while Celeste is driving is signaling to maggie and colin in the limo next to us to see if they can fit out of theirs. They do and the crowd on 5th starts cheering and they’re waving and I’m shooting and swapping out cards and lenses on the roof of a moving car.

Isn’t creating spontaneity perfect.

Except for the fact that there was an undercover NYPD car behind us who cranked up their siren up at me – 140 decibels of whoop whoop!

Ooops. Who knew that you couldn’t do that? I didn’t have a “no sunroof photography” section in my drivers’ education manual!

But in the end, I got the shot I wanted.

All is fair in love and wedding photography.

Not only are Joanne and Anthony a lot of fun, but their friends are a blast as well. They had their reception here in my neighborhood at Tribeca Rooftop and the couple left some time for pictures in the area following their ceremony and before their reception started.

Now, as a person who doesn’t really like having my own picture taken (having spent waaaayyyy too much time as a kid feigning a smile while waiting for my Dad to focus and push the button and – wait, hang on, I forgot to cock the shutter…), I’m really sensitive to others’ “in front of camera” time. I do my “formals” or non-photojouralistic portraits really quickly. I find that if I keep things moving and lively and fun – people really don’t have time to think about the fact that they’re in front of my camera. And because this is a day of celebration (and very often, there’s an open bar a-waiting) I don’t want to keep people any longer than the absolute minimum.

But the funny thing is that, if you make the entire picture taking process fun enough, people can actually enjoy the time they spend with you.

Joanne and Anthony and their wedding party took it even further – they didn’t want to stop.

I kept asking if they wanted to stop and they kept saying, “no, this is a blast, let’s keep going”. And who was I to say otherwise. So even though I would have been happy just to get a shot like this:

(will you just look at the expression on that flowergirl?)

They wanted to do more and so we got this…

and this.

I mean, when I saw T&A coffee – I just had to do something funny with the bridesmaids…

Tribeca Rooftop is a wonderful space for those looking for something upscale downtown – great views, a huge, fun, loft space, a roofdeck.

And check out the great “interactive” menus – those fun little folding paper thingys that you played with when you were a kid.

At this size you probably can’t appreciate all the great goings on in this shot but many of the expressions are priceless.