New York City.  I love New York almost as much as Paris!  Any kind of food you want you can find.  Looking for a whatchamacallit to go in a whosudunit?  You can find it.  Looking for a great image to take?  There is an unlimited number of subjects everywhere you turn!

The Expo was kind of cool.  Lots of companies there hawking their wares.  Scott and I met with Doug Murdoch, the President of Think Tank Photo - he's one of our Facebook buddies!  Great guy and he has terrific products!  We also saw Joe McNally and Scott Kelby giving short seminars on lighting techniques.  We met with Jim Garner, a Seattle-based wedding photographer after he gave a talk about his wedding portraiture style.  We picked his brain a little for new ideas...

We spent a lot of time just walking around the Expo and then around Manhattan shooting.  Central Park was beautiful!  We had a gorgeous fall day on Saturday and there were lots of people out trying to get in what could be the last hurrah of the fall before the weather turns.  Couples walking hand in hand.  Kids skateboarding.  Row boats on the lake.  People feeding the ducks and squirrels.  Just a photographer's paradise!  

For one reason or another we ate each night in an Irish Pub!  The proximity to Guiness could have had something to do with that but you never know.  Shepherd's Pie, lamb, pork, gravy - yum!  There's so much more ethnic cuisine to try there but couldn't talk Scott into falafel or doners.  He says that he's a burger and fries guy!  If I lived there I would probably gain 10 pounds a day and then walk it off every night!

All in all it was a great few days and we will definately plan on going back next year!  Maybe I can talk Anne into going down for Christmas...  Hmmm....  Here's some few of the images I took while we were there.  Enjoy!

Hi!  Scott and I are back from NYC and the Photoplus Expo!  It was a grueling three days of walking, talking, and shooting.  We had a lot of fun and met some fantastic people...

Thursday night we went to the Kodak PDN 30 reception after spending some time at the Expo in the Javits Center.  Dan Milnor surprised us by showing up - just to see us of course - and besides, his wife Amy was at the Canon reception!  

We met one of the 30 photographers being shown, Graeme Mitchell.  He's a very nice young man from Manitoba, Canada with a great love of black and white photography and film.  His style is very different from ours but very cool!  Loved meeting him and hopefully we can visit him in NYC again!

We also met with a bunch of our Kodak brethren, Audrey Jonckheer and Joe Paglia among others!  What a great bunch of people.  Sometimes I wonder how Kodak can go wrong with people like these working for us...

Anyway, look for some images from NYC coming here soon!

On Sunday Anne, Shannon, and I went to McCracken Farms Great Pumpkin Patch which happens to be right down the street from us.  This is an annual trek that we make with the Patterson's, Molongoski's, and the Lage's.  The Molongoski's moved back home to Boston so they didn't make it this year.  As always I took my camera and made some images.  Good times and great people!  Have a good one!

Last night Anne, Shannon, and I went to a concert at the Blue Cross Arena here in Rochester - Ashton Shepherd, Kellie Pickler, and Sugarland - all country!  Probably one of the best shows I've seen!  Sugarland was absolutely terrific!

Now, on to Abigail!  This morning I went back to Kevin and Kimberly's to get a few more shots of parts for Abigail's Baby Parts poster.  She was in such a great mood that I stayed a bit longer and shot a whole bunch!  Here's some of the images from each of the two sessions!  Have fun!  I'm going back to crunching images!

Had a great time shooting Josh's senior portraits yesterday afternoon!  Josh is an scholar/athlete who swims for Brockport High School and Sharks and Eagles Aquatic Sports, the club swim team in Brockport.  He is also in the 3-1-3 program with SUNY College at Brockport, my alma mater!

Josh is also a sponsored paintballer!  Looks pretty cool Josh!

Scott and I did our last wedding of the season on Saturday with Erin and Anthony!  We had lots of fun with the girls - Tessa, Eva (sp?), and Jordan.  Tessa and Eva were Jr. Bridesmaids and Jordan was the Flower Girl.  They had so much energy!  Really wore down the adults!  

Now to crunch images and catch up!  Of course we never really slow down...  Sunday I did a portrait session with Julia for her One Year portraits!  Scott did a family portrait for the Smith/Dobles clan at Hamlin Beach and then another family portrait with the Purushotham family!  This week is a Senior Portrait for Josh Briggs on Tuesday, some corporate work for Bergmann Associates, and lots of editing.  Then we can start concentratiing on marketing and websites and other stuff.

We'll be going down to NYC for Photoplus Expo on the 23rd and hopefully meeting up with Dan Milnor and other photographers we know for some much needed face time rather than Facebook time.

Yesterday's session with Julia turned into a family portrait session also as Ann's siblings were visiting from Minnesota and Ohio.  We found a great location under a couple of hugh yellow maple trees by the Mount Morris Dam with everyone wearing jeans and white shirts.  Looked really cool!  The leopard lighting (shade with spots of straight sunlight coming through the trees makes you look like you have big white spots) was a bit difficult from time to time but we dealt with that by making small adjustment to positioning.  All in all a great time and some great images!  Here's a couple of them...

Keep in touch and, if you are on Facebook, join our group - Slattery & Crist Photography!  We'll be putting out some portrait session specials soon for Fall/Christmas portraits so watch for them!

The last few weeks have been have been nuts!  One more wedding this Saturday and then we have to crunch away at the 10,000 images that we took!  When we say that we are charging for shoot, edit, print, and store we really mean edit!  It's amazing how much time it takes and how painful it is to, as Chris Usher says, "Drown Your Puppies!"  There are so many great images that never make the cut.  And when it's your own work it is really hard to choose sometimes.

Our wedding last Saturday with Kaylin and Nick was an absolute blast!  After the ceremony we took the wedding party up to the Charlotte Carousel and boardwalk, after the stop at McDonald's of course.  Lots of terrific images there - I can't wait to see them!  They are all downloaded and backed up, I just need to get to them.

Sunday morning I went to Kevin and Kimberly Wake's for a portrait session with their new daughter, Abigail.  I love to shoot the babies!! She's a doll and we were going for the baby parts poster images.  You know, a poster print with 9 or 16 images that have parts in them - a foot, a hand, an eye, etc.  Can't wait to put that together!  We also made images of Kevin's niece and nephew who we also have images of from Kevin and Kimberly's wedding last summer.  It's great to see the kids growing up!

Yesterday afternoon I went and did Senior Portraits for Christopher Gartley, Alexander's brother.  Christopher wants to go to school to be a sound engineer so we made images at his church where he plays the piano and works the sound board.  It always amazes me to see someone just sit down at a piano and play something that I recognize!  Wish I could do it.

This Saturday's wedding is with Erin and Anthony in Webster and at the Daisy Flour Mill.  Should be a good time as Scott and I will both know people there and Scott did Erin's sister's wedding a few years back!  I haven't been to the Flour Mill in years - all I remember is good food!  Wish us good weather and look for images here soon from Kaylin and Nick and Erin and Anthony and Christopher and Mary and......

Hey all!  I was talking to one of the swim parents at the pool (where else?!?) the other night.  She and her husband had just attended a Spanish wedding in Dallas where a cool tradition was taking place.  Instead of gifts and monies in envelopes the guests provided sponsorships for the wedding!  Some sponsored the florist, some the photographer, some the caterer, some the dj, etc.  Essentially the wedding was partially paid for by the attendees.  What a great way to help a newly married couple defray some of the high costs of a wedding day!  Of course, they don't get all the cool gifts - but who needs three toaster ovens anyways?!  Maybe someone should start this here! 

On another note Scott and I have been discussing last weeks wedding show at the Clarion Riverside.  We met a couple who we would love to photograph - the groom to be is an ex-marine!  Scott is ex-navy and I am ex-army so of course we hit it off immediately.  Unfortunately there wedding date is July 3rd, 2009 and we are already booked!  Real bummer!  Then we started thinking...  We need to offer a discount for active military members!  So, from now on all active military from each of the branches of service will enjoy a $250 discount for our services!  Give us a call!