Last Chance to Be a Part of Our Portrait Weekend

We have a couple sittings still available this weekend we'd love to fill up.  Remember, there's no sitting fee & no obligation to buy anything.  This is a fantastic opportunity to get a family portrait, holiday cards, a professional headshot, maybe even a pet portrait! (Ask us, we'll probably photograph anything!)  It's all in the name of a good cause.

Just email us at portraits@forevermomentsphotography.com & we'll happily fit you in!

FMP Portrait Weekend For Charity

Forever Moments Photography would like to formally announce our first annual Portrait Weekend For Charity. This year we are raising money for Talk About Curing Autism, an organization that provides information, resources, and support to families affected by autism, a complex developmental disability that now affects 1 in 150 births and is growing more common every year. To that end, we are offering a limited number of portrait sessions with no sitting fee for our loyal FMP friends. This is a great opportunity to bring your loved ones in for a family portrait just in time for holidays, while helping out a worthwhile cause.

The details:

• Limited to 5 sessions each day, Saturday & Sunday, November 15 & 16
• Reservations required.
• No sitting fee.
• No order minimum.
• Special package pricing available on the day of your session.
• All orders placed at your session will be available for holiday delivery.
• Maximum 6 persons per session due to space constraints.
• A percentage of all sales will go directly to Talk About Curing Autism

E-mail us at portraits@ForeverMomentsPhotography.com with your name, telephone number, size of your group, and preference for day (Saturday, November 15th, or Sunday, November 16th) to reserve your sitting. Make sure you include all of that information so we can process your reservation quickly!

Mallory & Pete

Mallory and Pete were married September 13, 2008, on a quaint hilltop in a former vineyard, overlooking the Hudson River. We were excited to work with them again after a really fun engagement session in Cold Spring, NY, and they did not disappoint. We had a fantastic time photographing their special day & even got to bring a tear to everyone's eye with a touching Yesterday & Today slideshow for all the guests just after dinner. (Check out our Facebook page to view it online!)

Just a smattering of images from the day:

Facebook

All things considered, we're quite up to date on our computer and camera technology. In fact, I've started shooting with a Nikon D700 lately because it represents the latest and greatest in 35mm digital camera technology at the moment. (Those of you in the know understand it's almost taboo to switch camera brands from Canon to Nikon and vice-versa.) However, Nikon took a bold step ahead of Canon and I jumped camps to keep providing the highest quality images I can for our couples and clients.

As a Lisa and I love to say, "I told you that story to tell you this one." While we're always on top of the hardware side of things, sometimes other new things sneak up on us. One of these had been Facebook. I say "had" because now I've jumped in with both feet! If you're on FB, look us up! You can become a fan of our page and/or a fan of me! Why should you? Well first off, we have plans to run special deals only available to our clients that are FB fans. In addition, if you're not a client yet, you can see our absolute latest work, including slide show videos. Lastly, if you're already a client, we tend to post our first public photos there first - and you can share them with all your friends on FB, too!

A Public Service Announcement from The Office

Logan at 6 Months

One of the joys Lisa & I have as wedding photographers is becoming life photographers. We witness the beginnings of families, and very often, their continued growth. We help decorate the walls of new homes with wedding photos. We help create announcement cards for the birth of a new child. We photograph first steps and first teeth, first communions and first dances. We recently had the pleasure of photographing one of our former brides, Krissy, with her son, young Logan, 6 months after he received his official certificate of birth.

Back in Civilization

Admittedly, I'm a bit of a technogeek. I keep up on the latest technology, the new tools, new ways to get things done. I rarely go more than a few hours without popping online somewhere somehow. So in some respects, photographing Yiting & Scott's wedding at Onteora Mountain House up in the Catskills (Boiceville, to be exact) this weekend involved a small step backwards towards a more primitive but simpler time. There was no wireless broadband or cell phone access. No emails, voicemaills, IMs, txts, or one of 1,000 other distractions from our everyday life bothered us.

Instead, up in the mountains, surrounding by nothing but forest and beautiful views, Yiting & Scott exchanged vows of love and fidelity in both English and Chinese, then danced like Fred & Ginger to the delight of all.

A sampling of images...






























Our dear friend Maggie and fellow photographer from Maggie Wallace-Cullen Photography assisted us to provide wall-to-wall coverage for the day, and our favorite DJs, Stephanie & Jeff Paduani from The DJ Solution kept the crowd dancing non-stop through the night. In fact, they've blogged about the day themselves.