I’ve been doing portraits and engagement sessions almost every weekday of the summer. Here’s a few…
Eileen and Anthony in Times Square…
Where Eileen ditched Anthony for a shot with NYC’s Bravest.
9/10/07 update: Ok, apparently I need to give a little visual guidance on the above photograph since my brother called me today asking what the deal was with that Armageddon-esque shot of Eileen and Anthony. Confused, I asked him what Armegeddon shot we was referring to. He said, “You know, the one after the fire truck where it looks like the end of the world and the city is on fire and it’s billowing smoke and it’s raining ash and debris and there’s this couple kissing amidst it all as the city comes crashing down around them…”
(I think the fact that today is September 10th has everyone a bit on edge)
Here’s the deal – Look closely at the bottom edge of the image. Those are Eileen and Anthony’s feet.
Upside down, yes.
The shot is their reflection in a puddle in Times Square (just a few feet from where the picture above it was taken. In fact, if you look closely you can still see the fire truck reflected behind them.)
In fact, risking who know’s what kind of disease and pestilance, I had just reached into the puddle to pull out some nasty street detritus that otherwise would have ruined the effect (anything for my clients).
The “smoke and fire” above the buildings is simply the light being refracted by an oil slick on the surface of the water and the “raining debris” is just the rest of the litter in the gutter as well as the larger rocks in the macadam.
Here’s the image flipped around.
And while I don’t put my clients in the kind of peril my brother suspected, I do look for those oh so common moments when a young couple decides to sit on the ledge of a “jersey barrier” on the broadway island in Times Square to share a romantic moment while risking having their legs sheared off by a careening taxi. (Hey, they owed me that for plucking that nasty and virulent wet rag thingy out of the puddle.)
Patricia + Chris at The Victorian Gardens in Central Park
Joanne + Anthony on The Brooklyn Bridge
Sayuri + Jeff where he proposed to her…
And with the kids we adopted at the park that day.
Claudia + Ryan looking for something that showed off urban nyc….
sure that doorway smelled faintly of ammonia…. but we were having fun!
Alana + Andrew wanted to do their session in midtown (but I dragged them to the park a bit for some romantic stuff too).
Only in this town can you be so surrounded by so many people each of whom are in their own world…
And Kim + Rahul in the Central Park Conservancy Gardens.
