He surprised her with a trip to NYC, he surprised her with a proposal in Central Park, and he surprised her with a photographer waiting to take engagement portraits. ♡

April 23, 2016

Claudio and I photographed another beautiful Brooklyn wedding at the Green Building in September ~ we love photographing in our own ‘hood, but this time it was filled with some friends we’ve known for years. Beautiful flowers by the lovely Patricia at Una Floral in Cincinatti!

And one more view here on Instagram!

Here’s just some of the many photos we took.  Love these two…

On the afternoon of December 3, 2014, I sat waiting in the Blue Room of City Hall, waiting to photograph a number of bill signings by Mayor Bill DeBlasio for the organization Make the Road New York.  Someone from the administration soon informed us that the bill signings would be cancelled, and some of us began to the wonder if something had happened in the grand-jury decision for the police officer in the death of Eric Garner.  Soon reports from the media announced that Mayor DeBlasio was heading to Staten Island to speak about the decision.

Fast forward a few hours, after a number of news sources were describing the protests around the city, I headed to Union Square around 6:30 p.m. Things seemed pretty quiet aside from holiday market shoppers, but then I spotted someone in a “I Can’t Breathe” t-shirt, and a few others approached him at the same time to ask where groups were gathering – “Everyone is heading to the tree lighting in Rockefeller Center,” we were told.

I popped back down into the subway and was swept into a crowd of protestors heading to the tree, which I quickly snapped with a cell phone:

I exited the subway with the same group of protestors, heading for Rockefeller Center, and soon small groups of marchers had turned into hundreds – some reports say 1000s.  The following photos were taken from 7:00 pm until about 9:00 p.m. all throughout midtown Manhattan.

Chants heard throughout the streets:
“Hands up, Don’t Shoot”
“Eric Garner, Michael Brown – Shut it Down, Shut it Down”
“Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter”
“Whose Streets? Our Streets”

And finally, as protestors made their way to the West Side Highway to shut it down, police grabbed one marcher and began to handcuff him on the back of a car.  As a camera person went to get footage, the police pushed him down on the car, as well.

The End for this night of protests.

Shut it down.

I spent the summer working with High Line Art to photograph 27 female artists out on the disused – soon to be torn down – Pier 54, in part a response to a 1971 show at the MoMA entitled Pier 18, which included works from 27 male artists and photographed by Harry Shunk and János Kender.

Read more about the Pier 54 Exhibition:  http://art.thehighline.org/project/pier54/
Now on view through December 13, 2014 in a gallery space at the corner of 11th Avenue and West 20th Street in Manhattan, NY

High Line Art is featuring one artist a day on their Tumblr called Pier Peeks – check out their twitter feed links and view the Pier Peeks at  http://highlineart.tumblr.com/search/pierpeeks and view some highlights below.

HIGH LINE ART TWEETS:

#PierPeeks – highlighting each of the 27 artists in #Pier54. Today’s peek is Leonor Antunes: http://t.co/ciDwP75bSw pic.twitter.com/wlF2QbFFAi — High Line Art (@HighLineArtnyc) November 7, 2014

#PierPeeks – Francisca Benitez and her “Soliloquy in Signs”: http://t.co/dgwo5SYfZr #Pier54 pic.twitter.com/MUSTSU3MeU — High Line Art (@HighLineArtnyc) November 10, 2014

HIGH LINE ART TUMBLR: 

I loved meeting sweet little Ella and her parents on a beautiful October day in Central Park!

A few weeks ago, we spent another fun day in Hoboken and below are a few of my favorites.

Check out Elizabeth’s books on her website: www.elizabetheulberg.com

Artist Danh Vo’s new exhibition We The People is on view now from the Public Art Fund at the Brooklyn Bridge Park and City Hall Park.  Vo has recreated full scale replicas of the Statue of Liberty in individual segments that are not intended to be pieced together and are on view throughout the two parks.  Read more about the exhibition: https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6042_danh_vo_we_the_people

The opening last week was in the perfect location on a hill on Pier 3 at Brooklyn Bridge Park, with the central piece being a fragment of Lady Liberty’s sleeve overlooking the Manhattan skyline and many sites including the Statue of Liberty herself in whole. And it took place on a perfect evening after morning showers and some brief sun had evolved into a dreamy fog settling over Manhattan.

Since I can’t bombard Instagram with more than a photo or 2, I’ve included some of my favorite cell phone highlights from the evening ~ featuring the sleeve with bridges and boats and more…

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sleeve with pier & Manhattan skyline views:

sleeve with the Statue of Liberty:

sleeve with the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges:

detail of sleeve with the Brooklyn Bridge:

sleeve with sailboat:

disappearing Manhattan skyline in the fog: