Recent Paintings

Here are three recent paintings I have done this week. Just wanted to share them with you.
This lovely lady just had her 80th Birthday, and she celebrated by wearing her red shoes to
her family portrait session. I couldn't resist such a beautiful subject. Here it is in full length, and
then a closer up detail so you can see the brush strokes better.









Baby Rochelle- Before Painting Baby Rochelle- After Painting

Our Latest Ad in the Yellow Pages

This is our latest ad in the Yellow Pages. Photographers are often asked to be in the books,
but there are so many now, some that cover individual towns, some that cover 2 or 3 towns in a region, some that cover the whole Cape. But nowadays, do you still use them? Or do you search for businesses over the internet instead now? I am curious as a small business owner if my clients still use this method or if its worth advertising here anymore. Let me know your opinion.

Yippee!

How do we feel about Cape Cod in summer?? Having some fun at the end of a session, all the kids get ready to jump in.....

Grandmother's Garden

I just recently did a family portrait at 10:30 am on a Saturday morning, which is generally unheard of. Why? Because 98% of the time people want to only do their family portrait at the beach, which means we have to shoot it at sunset around 7:30 pm. But this family chose to do theirs in the special garden of the family Matriarch. This location had special meaning to them since this was where mom/grandma spent a lot of her time, and the final family portrait was a birthday gift for her. How wonderful to have her family AND her treasured garden in one wall portrait that she can enjoy year round! Here are a few images from the session...

Meet Rusty!

This is Rusty, my son's recently adopted puppy. He is part boxer, part lab mix. As you can see he is very handsome! He was rescued from a kill-shelter in North Carolina, but was brought up here to my son and his fiance. He has the sweetest disposition, and visits me often. So you may meet him sometime if you come by the studio.

Sandwich Firefighters

I strongly believe in giving back to the community in which you live and do business. So, about five years ago I photographed the entire Sandwich Fire Department, both in their formal dress uniforms and some fun ones with their gear on with the firetruck and equipment. I had a lot of fun doing it, and donated a free 8x10 to each firefighter to give to their spouse or mother. What a great group! I also photographed the Chief, Dennis Newman, at the time and a large wall portrait of him hung proudly in Town Hall.



Well, recently I was asked to come back again in order to photograph all the recently hired, and of course, the new Chief, George Russell. So here are a few of the images from that session. At the end, some of the older guys wanted to "initiate" the new guys into the group by squirting them with the fire hose at the end of the photo shoot. They took it with a great sense of humor, don't you think? I elected to stand waaaay back for that shot though....


One thing that I found really impressive was that several of the guys I met previously now had their sons join them on the department, so I was fortunate enough to photograph some father/son portraits too.