Memorial Day Celebrations

Monday was the West Haven, CT Memorial Day parade. So of course we had to go, I mean its so far away too. We walked and walked and walked some more then about 38 seconds later we were there, come on now it runs past the end of our street, haha.

I know I say it all the time but I am super proud of our troops and all they do for us. So we went to show some love, and decided to brinf along our dog Frankie. Well he lasted about 5 minutes because he has a hatred for bicycles, and of course some kids had to keep riding by and getting him all worked up. Or maybe it was those creepy street vendors selling blow-up spider-men :)

After a brief trip home to let Frankie relax I got back to the parade where Maggie and another friend were all setup in our fold-up chairs watching the festivities. I don't know about you but when I was a kid I loved parades except for when I had to march in them, hehe. So we grabbed a photo of these not so excited kids, come on kids get jumpy about it, yeay, hoot and hollar or something. geeze.

As a supporter and a son and grandson of war veterans I hail to the troops as they pass, God Bless Them All. Thanks for all you do. :)

Here is a little bit of my tax money, um I mean one of West Haven's Finest on a nice little Harley doing some little figure 8's and all for our enjoyment.

Now who's got it better than Hankee the clown? You get to do the craziest, stupidest stuff and most people love it except the ones that have nightmares about Hankee eating you in your sleep, but seriously clowns rock.

These folks actually live up the street from me and walk this giant dog on a leash, I swore it was a horse but who walks a horse on a leash, hahaha. ;)

One of our good friends just got hired on West Haven's Fire Department as a Firefighter/ Paramedic, Congrats to him but 4 days after being out of the academy he gets stuck driving the new Rescue truck in the parade. I thought for a moment he may of needed a medic with all the pressure, but he did a great job. Oh yea that's a little more of my tax money ;)

After the Parade we headed down to Long Island for a Family picnic with Maggie's relatives. It's a bit of a ride but always a good time, here are some shots from the picnic.

Maggie's god daughter was all about working the camera and she had so many cute little faces.

and pose...and pose...and pose

Its always a good way to end the day star-wars style.

I hope you all had a fabulous Memorial Day, and again a big thanks to all the veteran's!

-Jay

Melissa S. Trash the Dress Shoot

Last Saturday we had the pleasure of doing a trash the dress shoot with Melissa S. We absolutely love TTD shoots since they are such a blast for us and the bride or model. It's a easy way to be Fun, Sexy and Elegant all in one.

We headed up to an old abandoned bowling alley and took advantage of the departed building.

Half of the building was missing but the lanes were still there, the ball returns were filled in with dirt and gravel but make a great leading line.

and the boots with the Wedding dress COME ON, how hot is that?

The sun coming through the huge hole in the ceiling made a awesome cast on Melissa and completely accents her.



We found some construction tape lying on the ground that made a dope accent with the fallen bricks she was propped up on.

We then moved to another location where there was lots of great backgrounds everywhere.

So all in all it was a great time, Melissa was a super trooper especially when there were many people driving by, beeping and honking. It made us all laugh and figured out that doing a shoot like this in the open public on a main road and getting that response was a great ego booster for all of us.

Kevin and Little Kevin

So last monday Maggie and I had the pleasure of doing a photo session with a good friend/crew chief/ captain! I know, I know Kevin or Squeaks as he is more formally known is a man that goes by many different titles! Not only is he a son, a husband, an awesome father, but he is also an EMT, and a Fire Fighter. Which led us to the inspiration for this photo shoot. Squeaks' son is already looking as though he is going to be following in his Dad's foot steps every time he visits his Dad at work he is always wanting to jump in the driver seat of the ambulance or play with the sirens in the fire truck! So Maggie and I met Squeaks his wife and little Kevin at the fire house for an awesome photo session. Little Kevin even came totally prepared with his own turn out gear it was soo cute...

so we were able to get on to the fire trucks and take some great pics!!

We had such a great time shooting little Kevin and his Dad!!! We can not wait for Kayla's photo shoot at the ambulance core!!!

Some fun night shooting with Maggie

Last night we decided to go shoot at West Haven Green to catch the rest of the Christmas spirit, it was beautiful with all of the lights still up decorating the trees. Maggie just added to the beauty isn't she cute ;)