June 25, 2011 - Ellen & John's Wedding

Last Saturday was such a great time! I had the privilege of photographing Ellen & John at their amazing beach wedding up in Chatham, Massachusetts! Being on the Cape, they could have not picked a better spot! It was just gorgeous and the sky opened up and the sun came out just in time for their wedding! Their hand written vows brought a tear to my eye and a smile to my face. To top things off they had a Clam Bake where their guests enjoyed freshly cooked lobsters, clams, oysters and other crustaceans from Sam and the other fine folks at Clambakes Etc.

Here's a sneak peak, the rest of the photos will be up soon!

Enjoy!

A walk in the park!

I had the great pleasure of taking a walk today during my lunch break.

I love being outside and the fall weather makes it that much nicer! The leaves are turning, I had my hiking sandals on and my camera in hand...what could be better? I didn't really have anything in mind while shooting, just playing with my camera and doing what I love.

On my walk back to my car I noticed a small group of people up ahead of me on the trail. They were stopped and kind of circling around each other. My first thought was that someone was hurt! As I walked a little faster I noticed that they weren't hurt at all, in fact they were all smiling! It was a family of 4 and a photographer. The photographer seemed to be having such a great time trying to entertain the kids and get them to look at her camera. The baby noises, ohhs and ahhs, blowing raspberries...she was having such fun! Or at least it looked it to me! I said hi to everyone as I walked by (and yes, thought to myself...my lens is bigger..lol) and continued down the trail with a huge smile on my face.

I am a photographer and I LOVE IT!

I know I have said it in previous posts but I just can't help but share what an amazing feeling it is to be asked to share in people's lives. People ask us photographers to celebrate their love together, to witness devotion, capture pregnancies, be there when their infants are born, watch their children grow-up, party at their family reunions...all this through the lens of my camera and in the mind of my creativity. To my brides, grooms, mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, grandmas and grandpas and everyone - Thank you! Thank you for allowing me to do what I absolutely love! :)

Sneak Preview!

Hello! I've been busy and I'm so excited to share with you all the photos I took this past weekend! It was fun running around with little Mr. Chase LaPierre and little Mr. Cade Kiely. Sunday, I spend a full day traveling around with Debbie and Josh in their seasonably warm engagement session! :) Here is a teaser, can't wait to share the rest with you! Will talk soon! In the mean time feel free to leave comments! :)

Chase LaPierre:



Cade Kiely:



Debbie & Josh's Engagement Session:

Calendar Photography

So here is a sampling of my work that has been published in the ReminderNews annual calendar.

Enjoy!

First Blog and 4th Photography Outting

Blogging, what a wonderful world it is. This is my blog about my design work and photography experiences that I am currently working on or worked on.

First a little about me, I am a professional Graphic Designer/Artist. I work full time at a local community newpaper and on the side and whatever free time I have I work my freelance company and also picked up a job as an assistant Photographer with Carrie Draghi Photography out of South Glastonbury, CT. I met her while attending and semi-working at my friends wedding at Old Saybrook Point Inn. Semi-working meaning I was her violinist in the church ceremony as well as taking as many photos as I could. It was a lot of fun and I got bit by the Photographer bug! So meeting Carrie and working in the background as I saw her organize shots and have lots of fun with Ashley and Brian, I felt compelled to contact her about a possible internship. Yes, to get experience, I was willing to work my butt off for free. Upon meeting up with her, she simply states I will not let you work for free. So, she offers me an excellent paid internship opportunity.
Needless to say it has been wonderful, I've already learned a lot and this past weekend, I worked with Carrie with the lovely Julia and Bill and their wedding. Their families were wonderful and it was really rewarding. I simiply love doing weddings, for the most part so far it's been a lot of work, but SO much fun!

With my freelance company I more market myself towards clients looking for print work. I have done a couple websites but print Graphic Design is my strong suit right now. I am learning more and more about web design and photography daily to strengthen my weak points. In the near future I'll be posting some of my previous work as well as current projects and photography.

Award Winning Graphic Designer for hire! This is the part of my blog that I let you know I am always looking for new things! As stated I am a humble award winning Graphic Designer that is confident that I can create an identity for your company. I also am confident that I can design whatever it is your looking for. I love working with people to fully understand what kind of message you are trying to convey as well as getting the real feel of what you are looking for.

Over the next few days I will be updating this blog as well as adding photos and screen shots of current projects.

Thanks for reading and if you need to contact me my email is amyabo [at] gmail [dot] com or amy [at] amyabo [dot] com, my phone number is 860.670.0859, please leave a message if I am not able to answer and I will promptly return your calls.

Thanks again!
~amy abo