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Just a little something to make you laugh on a Friday morning. Over the holidays, our daughter Grace (20 months) decided to get a little caffeine crazy!
Grace Goes Coffee Crazy from Michael Connor on Vimeo.
**No coffee was actually consumed (so don’t worry — just laugh)
The only thing Abby and Eric didn’t do right on their wedding day was not buying a lottery ticket. When you plan your outdoor wedding in this area for April 18th and get the first sunny/75 degree day, the only thing left to do is win the lottery! Not only did they get sunny and 75 but they planned a sunset ceremony and got a GORGEOUS sunset.
I was lucky to have Katie Falkenberg helping me to photograph the wedding. We started out with Abby and Eric at the Annapolis Westin where they were getting ready. From there, they took shuttles across the Bay Bridge to the Chesapeake Bay Beach Club for their ceremony and reception. Luckily, they had the whole Beach Club to themselves!
The wedding was gorgeous on the deck overlooking the water at sunset. Abby was absolutely stunning in her dress and she was surrounded by one of the most beautiful groups of bridesmaids we have ever photographed.
After the ceremony, the reception just never stopped. The dance floor stayed packed and everyone had a great time.
We just had too many favorites to narrow down to the normal 30ish we usually post so we hope you enjoy this slideshow. Take a second to let it load — well worth the wait!
Abby and Eric — thank you to both of you, your families and your wedding party. You were wonderful to photograph and we wish you nothing but the best!
Wedding Day 411:
Reception & Ceremony: Erin Janes / Chesapeake Bay Beach Club
Photography: Michael Connor & Katie Falkenberg / Connor Studios
Florist: Nancy Garner / Chesapeake Floral Arts
Band: Larry Elliott / Retrospect
Yesterday started when I left my house at 5:30 a.m. for D.C. to photograph the Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Race. Grace woke me up around 2:30 and I never went back to sleep — little did I know that my day would end the next day when I got home around 2:00 a.m. from an assignment in Dover, Del. (but more on that in the next post).
I photographed the race last year and it was COLD and WET. Thank God neither of those were true this year! Yesterday morning was beautiful.
Whenever you photograph these, you can’t help but think that it might be a good idea to run a couple more of these than you shoot – but I digress… :-)
The sun was just rising in the distance over the Capitol when I arrived:
My favorite photos of the day were from some guys warming up as the sun was rising in the distance:
Here is the start of the race. I had the camera set low hoping to frame the Washington Monument nicely in one of the frames:
After flipping through the 100ish photos I shot of the start, I thought it made a nice sequence so I set them all together:
Sorry to post these two videos at the end of the day on Friday. I mean, what fun is watching a video on the internet while you AREN’T at work!? :-)
The beauty is that you can always watch them on Monday as well!
The first is a link to a video made by a fellow photojournalist named Stephen Crowley who works for the New York Times. It’s a glimpse at what we go through to get that photo of the President meeting with others in the Oval Office. It’s definitely not pretty and DEFINITELY not slow!
Click here to watch his video. He made it by attaching a point-and-shoot video camera to his SLR that he was shooting with. Not great quality but it shows you how little time we get and what we have to work around.
The other is a time-lapse video made by Tel Aviv photographer Eyal Landesman. I just can’t stop watching it. Once it hits the 18th second, you are hooked!
Two great blog posts came out today by two photographers I routinely follow.
The first is by Vincent Laforet who is an AMAZING shooter and will be one of the photogs covering the Olympics for Newsweek (they picked a dream-team of shooters). He just started his own blog and will be linking to the Newsweek blogs he is writing every day from over there. This whole entry is about how much we have to pack for the games and how it can take weeks to do it all. It’s fascinating to me and I know this stuff — I think it will blow you away if you aren’t a photographer. It’s just a little insight into how difficult it can be just to make the pictures you see.
The second is from the blog of Chase Jarvis. The movie below is a full commercial shoot of athletes compressed into 180 seconds and is worth every second. :-) It definitely shows a lot more of how much it takes to pull off the photos you see in magazines and ads every day. The funny thing is that in Washington, we are lucky to even get 180 seconds to shoot someone! Enjoy…
Also, make sure to check back soon. Shot Media Day for the University of Maryland football team and got a killer portrait of one of their wide receivers. Have to let it run in the paper first but will definitely post after it runs.
Below is the typical 400 photo morning photo shoot that Grace subjects herself to.
Let me know if you know what song is playing.
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