Great shooting Jayda, Ashley and C. Devone at the L’Oreal Tech Center on 5th Avenue in August for Dark and Lovely, L’Oreal’s black women’s hair line of relaxers, colorants and more.  Dark and Lovely celebrated their 40th anniversary in October and did a special advertorial page published in Essence and used their images for their website.  The three women aren’t models but they were so professional, fun and easy to work with you’d never know!  Jayda is an amazing stylist…see her website here! Ashley is an up and coming actress and C. Devone is a professional DJ.  Also great working with Nicole from Bratskier and Damien of L’Oreal!

We were in Storrs back in September to photograph Geno Auriemma, Chris Dailey and their super-talented team along with the SNY broadcasting team–which now includes our local friend and former UConn bball player Meghan Culmo, along with UConn star Kara Wolters, Andrew Catalon and Kerith Burke.

The players were so fun to photograph…beauty and strength, with a huge playful side to them.  The photos are being used by our client, SportsNet NY (SNY), and UConn for their websites, press photos, billboards, TV and more.

Click Read More for more photographs from the 2012 UConn Women’s Basketball team shoot…go Huskies!!

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We had the opportunity to shoot for Walmart World magazine–Walmart’s in-house magazine–this summer for a photo of Sarah Sloat, a Walmart associate from their Hanover MA store.  Sarah’s the force behind a food pantry at their local church.  Walmart invited her to speak at their annual meeting in Arkansas…and now she’s featured in their magazine!  Well deserved Sarah and great meeting you!

Last month we shot for the London-based agency Beetroot.  Their client, RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) owns Providence-based Citizens Bank and their in-house magazine was doing a story on mentoring between Citizens Bank execs and their business clients. We shot at the MGM Grand casino at Foxwoods and were happy to find this simple background.  Great meeting and photographing Arvin, Lynette and Hugh and hearing their story!

A few months back we had the pleasure to work with the team at Xerox Corporation to photograph Christa Carone, their Chief Marketing Officer.  We were thrilled they were okay to incorporate their new branding into the shoot!  You can read more about Carone and Xerox’s rebranding here.

In addition to shooting an environmental portrait of Bond No. 9’s Laurice Rahme, we also photographed black and white portraits for the CEW (Cosmetic Executive Women) Beauty Awards for Laurice’s being named an Honoree for Bond No. 9.  While we needed a shot with her eyes open for the award, here is a favorite intake/outtake that we are so glad Laurice chose too!

Great meeting Luis Ramirez, CEO of GE Energy!  We were recently hired to shoot several environmental portraits for GE’s use.  While we did some traditional office and conference room shots, this internet cafe on the way in struck us as a great setting…with GE Energy’s involvement in the electric car chargers it was a great modern alternative.  One of the great things about photography is getting to meet leaders in all areas…great to talk with Luis about his company, Apple and Gloria Estefan!

Looking for a great story this summer…check out the new book, Just Cate, which as co-authors Angela Martin and Noelle Alix note, “is a dual memoir and story of lifelong friendship, of being there for each other through it all.  When Noelle’s daughter Cate was born with Down Syndrome, we unknowingly began our second stage of growing up.  Discovering little by little that it’s the simple things that matter most.  And so life continues, the road behind us and the road ahead of us.  Forever friends, forever changed.�

Last year I photographed Cate in her blue robe holding her favorite fruit for the cover shot of Just Cate and it’s been great getting to know their families!  I love how the cover came out with it’s beautiful design from Liz Panke.

You can order Just Cate at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble or direct from their website: justcate.com.

It’s been a great opening week for the team at Citi Field (and Santana’s back on the mound!) and we can now show you the portraits we took in March in Port St. Lucie FL at Spring Training.  As always it’s great working with our client at SportsNet NY (SNY) and The Mets which use the photos during game broadcasts for player intros, etc.  This is our fourth year shooting the team at Spring Training, where we set up a studio in the visiting team’s locker room and shoot all the players at 7am on “Picture Day� in 90 minutes.

Our assignment is to capture a different side of the players from straight sports photography–this year SNY’s art director asked for a split-face shot for their on-screen use.  Click here to see photos of David Wright, Johan Santana, Ike Davis, Manny Acosta, Daniel Murphy, R.A. Dickey, Mike Pelfrey, Ruben Tejada, Miguel Batista, former ’86 Met and 3rd base coach Tim Teufel…and others. To see photos from our shoots from 2011, 2010 and 2009, click here!  Take a look and root for them in their 50th season!!

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This past winter, I had the pleasure of photographing New Britain High School’s Principal Michael Foran, who was awarded the MetLife / NASSP Principal of the Year award, for the cover and a feature article in Principal Leadership magazine.  I love the people side of this business and love spending a day in other people lives.  It was really interesting walking the halls for a few hours with Mr. Foran, seeing firsthand all the creativity and energy of the students.  Mr. Foran’s got a great passion for teaching and leading New Britain High and improving the skills and future of all his students–congratulations on his well deserved award!  Great to see our local Connecticut schools getting this kind of national recognition!