Carl and Carl Jr.

Oddly enough all of our family portraits recently have been between Father's and their sons and this past Saturday afternoon was no exception. We met Carl and Carl Jr. up in Hartford at the Connecticut Science Center. It was such an awesome experience to see the science museum through the eyes of a four year old and we really had so much fun running from exhibit to exhibit seeing, touching, and playing with everything! (Yeah, I have to admit there were a few times that we played at the different exhibits too!)
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So seeing the world through the eyes of a four year old!


At the museum they have a traveling exhibit which while we were there was the Ends of the Earth: From Polar Bears to Penguins exhibit. Which was very cool and Carl Jr. showed us just how cool it was...

The next stop was the invention dimension!

At about 5 O'clock it was time to leave the museum and Carl Jr. was not all about that but his face was so precious that we could not help taking a few shots.


Carl Jr. was such a ham... he has so much energy in front of the camera and it made my job so easy. I mean seriously look at this kid!


Even giggling he is adorable!!!

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Thank you Carl and Carl Jr. for a great time at the Connecticut Science Center we had a great time looking at and running around the exhibits with you!!!

Greg and Dominick's Day at the Beach

There are definitely times in life when you truly get to witness true love and as photographers Jay and I have been blessed and honored to bare witness to the most genuine forms of love more times than the average person. We have been honored to see the love a man has for his soon to be wife, the love a mother and father have for their newborn, and this past weekend we got to watch the true and unbiased love that a father has for his son. Greg truly is a father that loves his son for everything that he is and everything that he will become and its obvious that Dominick feels the love for his father. Even though as a seven year old Dominick has a short tension span for posing we were able to obtain some great pictures of him and his father just being themselves and having fun. I personally feel that those natural “journalistic” style of images are more meaningful and are the type of images that days, months, and years from now when Dominick and Greg look back they will be able to go back to that moment and remember the moment and the feelings that were present. So without further ado Greg and Dominick’s day at the beach!!!!!

I really liked how this one of Greg and Dominick walking to the beach turned out!!!

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So seeing these two together makes me think of that will smith song you know the one Just the Two of Us. “Everytime I look at you I think man, a little me, Just like me Wait an see gonna be tall Makes me laugh cause you got your dads ears an all Sometimes I wonder, what you gonna be A General, a Doctor, maybe a MC… Just the two of us, we can make it if we try, Just the two of us, you and I”

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Seriously, look at the love here!!!!

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Love how both of these turned out!

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Ok so we have a shoe fetish, but come on how cute is this!!

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I have learned that parents look for any excuse to turn any experience into a learning experience and our photo shoot was no exception from Jay teaching Dominick how to use the camera to Greg stopping to take a moment to explain to Dominick about PFC. William A. Sodderman. PFC Sodderman received the Congressional Medal of Honor and this monument was placed in his honor to commemorate his bravery.

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On the way home a very hungry Dominick, sat perched on his Dad’s shoulders as we headed back to the cars after a great afternoon.
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Thank you Greg and Dominick for an awesome day at the beach, we had a great time and look forward to playing with our Nerf guns.
~Maggie

ATTN: Talent

We are in the middle of a complete facelift of our website and blog.

Since we are expanding our horizions in 2010, if you are a musician, hair stylist, makeup artist, floral designer, wedding gown designer, or anyone that would like a spotlight on our new website please email your contact information to photos@jasonhenriques.com.



We will be featuring alot of special somethings this year. We are opening our hearts and minds to all talent to help build a better world and spread the love.


J

St. Patty's Day PUG meeting

St. Patrick's Day is generally associated with four leaf clovers, green beer, and luck. Let me tell you that this St. Patrick's Day Jay and I were blessed with a ton of luck. We were the proud hosts of this month's CT PUG meeting. For those readers who are unsure of what a PUG meeting is it is a group of photographers who get together once a month at different locations. What happens at these meetings well the PUGs mission statement I guess sums it up the best in saying that the PUG is meant “to facilitate communication and education among professional photographers at a regional level around the nation in order to allow photographers to learn from each other and share experiences.” What is truly great about this group is photographers get the opportunity to network and build really good relationships and even friendships with others in their industry. These relationships make it an easy forum to share what has been working for you professionally and what you are struggling with and allows others to help you. But above all things the best part about the PUG is how much fun we have!! These meetings are always filled with laughing so hard that your stomach hurts and smiling and joking around with friends that understand your life as a photographer.
Well this month we were incredibly lucky for several reason first off Justin and Mary the leaders of our group were back in CT to lead our group after their super successful Spread the Love Tour. We were also super lucky because our speakers were the ever amazingly talented Jerome and Jennifer Braga of Studio 1923! They gave a great presentation similar to what they presented at Mystic 5 to a very packed living room/ dining room/ kitchen. (People were packed in everywhere and anywhere).

Check out this picture courtesy of Studio 1923 of our very packed living room!!!
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Jay and I really enjoyed this St. Patrick’s day partying with our photography friends and we really want to extend a huge heartfelt thanks to everyone that came and made this a successful PUG meeting and another huge thank to the Braga’s who were fricking amazing!!!! See you all next month!!!!!!

Steph's 6 month baby bump

Jay and I have been friends with Steph for a few years now and we were even blessed to be in her wedding party last May! Steph and her husband are a totally awsome couple and I cannot begin to even tell you how excited we were to hear that she was pregnant with her first child!!!! She was so excited and anyone can tell just by looking at her how happy she is about being pregnant and being a Mom!! (and she will be a totally awsome Mom!)
Steph is currently 6 months pregnant so we are all looking forward to some more pregnant belly pictures as she and the baby both continue to grow. So make sure you check in for more photographs!!!

Totally love the belly!!
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Look how happy she is, Steph you are truly glowing!

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Some more belly bump shots!!
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Now in case you were curious because I know that on Feb 2 when they officially found out, Steph is having a baby ….
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This little girl is going to have some awesome shoes!!!

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Now for the awesome baby block revealing of the little girl’s name!!
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Thank you Steph for allowing us to take your picture we had such a great time as always and look forward to more pictures of you beautiful belly and of little Braelynn!
~Maggie

We Support Our Troops!!!

If you are a family member of a serviceman or woman currently serving overseas and would like to send some professional family portraits to your loved one. Please contact me as this is a completely free service that we are going to offer in thanks to our troops.

Contact me for complete details. photos@jasonhenriques.com :)

Thank You and God Bless America




On my facebook fan site, someone brought up doing something for emergency personal such as EMS, Fire, and PD. As a EMT-I, I completely agree that all emergency personal are on the line everyday as well. If you are a member of any emergency service I would gladly offer a 50% discount torwards any portrait package. :)

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Baby Lucas' Teasers!!!!

This weekend Jay and I had the pleasure of photographing Little Lucas and his Mommy and Daddy. We had such a great time and they are an absolutely amazing family! So of course we wanted to share a few teasers from our session.

Lucas is so adorable!

For a 2 week old who was sick I could not believe how much energy he had!!


Lucas holding Mommy’s hand


Love how this one came out!


Okay when I saw this picture it really brought a tear to my eye!! They make such a cute family!!!


Okay mommy and daddy are frickin smoking hot!!!!


If you are followers of our blog you probably know that we are really trying to do more with lighting so we were super excited that Amanda and Scott were up for playing outside for a bit!!! I mean come on these two look awesome!!

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Stay tuned for more pictures!!!!! I am so excited to share them they are frickin awesome!
~Maggie

Fun Times in BPT

So last weekend we decided to practice some of our new lighting techniques that we learned at Aurora’s workshop and somehow our model Jess talked me into also modeling. Still not quite sure how that happened, but either way I was able to have fun both in front of and behind the camera! We lucked out with a totally awesome space to shoot in. We were down at an industrial building in Bridgeport which made for some totally awesome shots. While we were playing around our friends Eric and Lynn stopped down and of course they ended up in front of our cameras as well. Here are just a few teasers from this awesome shoot!!!

Here I am pretending to be a model!

Jess totally heating up these shots and we even were even able to play with our new found lighting skills!

Eric got sucked into having portraits taken!!

Eric and Lynn are such an amazing couples and it truly was a pleasure to photograph them. It was also nice to have a couple that was willing to let us practice and tweak are lighting techniques to be just right and man aren’t they frickin HOT!!

Stay tuned for more from this awesome photo shoot!

Christina and John's Maternity Session

Wow what a weekend! Jason and I had such a great time hanging out with a fabulous couple who are awaiting the birth of their first child Joshua who is due in 25 days! Christina and John were great to work with and our dog Frankie was a total fan of their shoot and just wanted to keep their feet warm.

So without further ado meet mommy to be Christina


Joshua is going to be some awsome present for Mommy and Daddy!!


Earlier before the shoot Jay took a road trip to Babies R US and bought some baby blocks to play around with during the shoot and I am totally a fan with what we came up with!


In case you didn't figure it out yet Joshua is a little boy!


Okay now this was probably one of the shots that made me laugh so hard when it came to going through all of my shots, because while we were trying to shoot it little Joshua kept kicking Mommy's tummy and knocking the blocks over and then mommy would start laughing and they would all fall off. So after about 10 minutes of pure laughing we eneded up taping the blocks to Christina's belly so they would stay there!


Now John is a huge Red Sox FAN so our maternity session would not have been complete with out highlighting the fact that little Joshua will be a future Red Sox fan!


Okay so on a total side note Jay and I love ring shots so of course we had to add a few in!




Of course we had to throw in a hand shot!


John and Christina make such a beautiful couple!




How Hot are these two!!!

Joshua is a very lucky little boy and he will be coming in to a very loving family who cannot wait to meet him and give him all the love in the world!

Lights, Flare, and Ambition

Long long ago in a far place just like this light was created. The old saying "and God said let there be light", but what he did not let us know is how many different ways it can be used. That is one reason human-kind is so fascinating, we have the ability to expand and create anything and everything. So about 2 weeks ago Aurora Onorato from Aurora Photography invited Maggie and myself to Illuminations, a lighting workshop.

She and her team did a fantastic job in picking a venue and vendors. The night before I was so anxious making sure all my batteries were charged, and all our gear was packed up for the fun filled trip we were about to embark on. Then before I knew it the alarm was going off and we were out the door. Next stop The New Haven Lawn Club, we lucked out with a beautiful sunny sky and the chill in the air was quickly heated up by the gorgeous models and details.

The Hair and Makeup team did a totally awesome job. Those lashes go on foreverrrrr :)

Not to mention the details, they were incredible.

The Wedding Embassy provided some beautiful dresses

The floral arrangement were very visually appealing :)

The Makeup artists had a vast array of every color of everything, lol

The Entry way to the building has such a incredible feel so I had to get a few photos of one of the Wedding gowns dead in the center.

Who doesn't love shoes and rings??

Every where you turn inside the club has a certain feel you can not describe with words, thus we have photos :)

All of our models were so full of life, having fun and looking good doing it was surely the theme of the day.

A little back lighting in combination with the vintage lighting completely made these images very royal and lavish.

I am convinced that this model's eyes and my lens had a thing for each other, come on just look at that deep stare... amazing!!





So you know when you just happen to find a piano in the hallway, and have to get all vintage. I do, so we did.

This should be Bergmann's next ad for pianos, Beauty in every aspect.....

So theres a piano, 3 amazing models, pristine attire, and a magical ambiance. What comes next? That's right... the rockstar group shot, and they totally rocked it :)

Thank You to all the great vendors, models, and a big Thanks to Aurora!!

Wardrobe- http://www.theweddingembassy.com/

Floral theme- http://www.stylishblooms.com/

Hair and Makeup- http://www.shine-salon.com/ and http://www.kimberlybordeaux.com/

Table linens and decor- http://www.partyrentalltd.com/

Venue- http://www.nhlccatering.com/

And of course our fabolous models-

Thomas Ibbison

Emma Stanley

Samantha Boelke

Rhanda Gaudio

Chellie Kyle