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

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Two of my oldest, dearest friends from summer camp days growing up are having a baby!

Over the holidays in Tennessee, we thought camp would be the perfect place to take some pre-baby portraits with the 2 of them and their sweet dog, Parker.

I won’t need to describe how much these two camp sweethearts laugh together…

What i love most about snow in the city is the blanket of quiet that comes with it.

The morning after winter storm Hercules, i walked up to Prospect Park and along the Greenwood Cemetery. In Prospect Park, if you can get there before most of the sledders hit the hills, it is just the dog owners and cross country skiers.

here are some quiet photos from my walk.

I can’t believe it is winter again!  After a freezing cold late November portrait shoot on the High Line a few weeks ago, I was reminded that just because it is cold outside, it doesn’t mean you have to go indoors for portraits and loose the beautiful natural daylight.  Just plan ahead with a few layers of clothes, and you are good to go.

One of my favorite winter portrait sessions of 2013 was back in February on a cold Sunday afternoon. I went with Alissa Schwartz to Red Hook, Brooklyn to take some portraits for her to use on her business website, and it was a great success!  She had done her own location scouting and had found a variety of buildings to fit with the feel of her business – Solid Fire Consulting.  She wanted to convey a dynamic, enterprising feel, full of energy and fun, and she had picked some perfect colors as backgrounds to brighten up a gray winter day.  And she kept on laughing, despite the snow flurries and cold fingers and toes.  I think that is one of the key factors that makes great portraits – you can tell when someone is having fun.

Below are some of the photos from our afternoon ~ and then check out how the photos were used on her website.

One of my best friends has never really been happy with me taking photos of her – we’re talking for the last 16 years or so… until her baby Willa came along.

Here’s a few photos of three of my very favorite people, beautifully battling the wind in Prospect Park.

Thank you, sweet Willa!

Instagram = fleeting photos;

I have fallen hard for Instagram ~ in a photographer’s world of large photo files and overshooting and working with tons of photos every day, it’s allowed me a place to quickly document the small moments in a day that give me pause. And in New York, those moments happen all the time.

But not many people these days have the patience to go through a person’s entire feed of photos – you discover someone on Instagram and you probably scroll through a few pages of their most recent photos. Someone’s beautiful photo taken a year ago stays hidden to most. So there is a sense of impermanence.  And one thing that often gets lost in the speed of the mobile photography — letting a photo stay with you, re-visiting that photo that moved you to understand why you clicked ♡like, or to take a photo of that moment.

The city, too, is full of fleeting moments – fast paced with movements and a rhythm that creates a symphony all around us.

Here, a page of some city moments to keep re-visiting.

I have to share some of my favorites from this family portrait session ~ we’d been watching the weather all week to set a time to avoid a summer thunderstorm, but instead it started raining right when I arrived…  turns out that a little rain makes for some very fun family photos!