Bridgets thoughts...

Field Hockey, and trying sports photography

2009-12-01T21:40:00.001-08:00

All eyes are on Michaela Seigo, a senior at Cornell University from Annandale, V.A., as she looks to switch fields in Saturday’s Cornell-Brown Field Hockey game at Cornell University.

Katie Durkin, a freshman at Brown University from New Canaan, N.J., looks disappointingly across the field at Brown’s net as Cornell scores another goal, leaving the game 7-3 Cornell.

mr. sanchez

2009-09-01T18:21:00.000-07:00

my perfect model.. who knew this background would work perfectly?.. why fredo himself...

Family Reunion

2009-08-19T19:53:00.000-07:00

This summer marked the first family reunion at my dads house...

Aunt Kate and uncle Paul (right here------>) and cousins Tessa Lindsey and Quinn came at the end of July, and my other Aunt and Uncle Sue and Pat came up a week later, shortly followed by my Aunt Kerry and cousins Sally, Lindy, Skyler, Justine, and her boyfriend Morgan...

We did a ton of stuff, went to the beach, Boston twice, restaurants, the pool, zillions of games, whale watching, shopping, etc...

Its great having so many people at your disposal to play whatever card or board game you can think of...

Here's the guys in the North end... and some more of Boston...

and some other things...

^beauty

cousins... and

family

Welch-Dickey Mountain

2009-07-27T21:00:00.001-07:00

Nat and I hiked on Monday Welch-Dickey moutain... what a beautiful day to be outside... I brought my camera and took a few shots... the blues of the sky and the green of the trees was perfect for picture taking...

Good thing no ones afraid of heights, huh?

Natalie's tattoo

2009-07-27T20:38:00.000-07:00

So my friend Natalie has been in the process of finishing her tattoo for a little over a year and she just got it finished earlier this month... I've been lucky enough to take pictures of the whole thing, which has been in three installments. It's cool, too, I don't know if you'll notice the different but the pictures from the first time are used with a Canon camera instead of the Nikon I got this year.

I was trying to get a bunch of different angles and I tried every idea I could think of during the whole time I was there. Here are some of the ones I think show the whole picture pretty well...

Props to Mike who gave her all the tattoos.. the guy was really cool and let me get my camera up all in there... and plus he did a really great job on all the work he did on Nat..

this is Mike who drew all of Nat's tattoos by hand...

Myke and Mary came for the third time...

and the final product...

Osi & Lee

2009-07-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

About ten days ago Dave, Jarrod and I shot our third wedding... Osi and Lee met on myspace! I thought that was pretty interesting...

Dave and I met up with Osi while Jarrod shot Lee getting ready...

Her dress and shoes were crazy.. so were the flowers. The wedding colors were red and black, and there were tattoos everywhere. It was cool to photograph a wedding that was so modern...

Here are some pics we got from it..

once they got dancing, it got to be easier to shoot ..

Catherine and Zach

2009-07-04T08:09:00.000-07:00

On June 27th Zach and Catherine got married in Derry, NH and had their reception in Candia, NH. Dave and I met up with Catherine at 9am in her hotel, and to our surprise she was completely done up already, dress and makeup totally on... we worked with what we had though and ended up getting some pretty cool shots of them before they left.

It was another really quick day of shooting, always on our feet. The guests at the reception ended up being hilarious - once everyone was dancing people were having a great time.

I felt a lot more comfortable at this wedding compared to the Kimberly and Luke's - we've got another wedding next Saturday, I hope that one turns out even better. It's going to be way up north, so Jarrod and I are planning on camping Saturday night to go hiking on Sunday!

I got this picture of them walking in and liked the tracking effect...

Kimberly and Luke

2009-07-01T11:35:00.000-07:00

On June 20th, Kimberly and Luke got married and Jarrod and I got to shoot their wedding with Dave, one of Jarrod's friends. They were such a beautiful couple, it was impossible to take a bad shot of them. Jarrod and I got to spend time with the groomsmen while they were getting ready and they were a riot... they actually ordered a school bus to transport them from the hotel to the ceremony... it was great... The couple was so happy to be together, I couldn't stop smiling...

Here are some shots of the ceremony...

Weddings have a great energy that I don't think I could ever be sick of... everyone's so happy for those getting married and just looking to have one of the best parties of their lives... the atmosphere is great!

The whole wedding was a blast... and I can't wait to do more of these... I think this is something I am really interested in and could possibly do... I never want to give up photography just because it can't pay my bills, I've got to find a way to incorporate it into my career..

Vacation

2009-06-30T16:12:00.001-07:00

This post is long overdue!

Jarrod and I took a week off and headed up to Rangeley, Maine earlier in June. Before the weather got completely rainy, we got several great days up by a cabin near Saddleback Lake.

The vacation consisted of a lot of fishing, cooking, chess, knitting, and of course, hiking. Amy and Matt, my friends from school, also visited one night we were staying. It was a great time.. I wish we were still there!

Here are some shots from the trip:

Credit to Jarrod for this one:

Jarrod took this one of me too:

^The highest I have ever been!

And he took this one...:

This picture below is from literally 10 minutes earlier, in the exact same spot:

Hiking

2009-05-25T19:49:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

I hope that this blog will help me organize my photographs and share them easily through the world wide web. Only two months ago, I added a Nikon D80 to my photography collection, becoming by far the president of my elite camera club which consists of a dinkier Nikon film camera and several lenses. I mostly have been using my 18-55mm lens which came with the camera, as well as a 50 macro lens.

My boyfriend Jarrod and I have been hiking lately, preparing for Mt. Washington later on this summer. We're heading up to Rangely, Maine, on Saturday for a long week of relaxation and hiking. For now, I will leave you with a few pictures we took today in Northern NH climbing Indian Head trail and Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey, NH.