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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 2:31pm Posted in Uncategorized
I was dreaming of winning the 100k last night…wouldn’t that be awesome? I bet Mike would have some video gear that he has been drooling over shipped to our house in about 2.2 seconds…me? I would want to put a nice down payment on a house…I love where we live but it would be nice to own something and start to make it our own!
Regardless of whether we win, this competition was so fun and made a cute little 2:20 memory of what life is like right now at our house! Check it out, and if you don’t mind leaving a comment over there we’d be forever grateful…stay tuned for a ton more blog posts in the next few weeks as we’ve moved on from shooting to designing until January 2nd when we kick off the new year with an awesome wedding at the World Trade Center in Boston!
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 7:52pm Posted in Uncategorized
Have you ever been gone for so long that you are scared to come back? Hi, blog, it’s me, Kate!
We have so so so much to share with all of you out there in the blog world! First I am so excited about The Boston Wedding Photographer’s Guild which I know is going to be the best resource for all of our Boston brides for not only photography, but for everything! We’re so excited to be a part of it all!! We thought we’d start off with the highly anticipated water skiing bride….check it out over there by clicking on the image!
Andrea Water Skiing in her Wedding Dress
8.22.09
Andrea and Billy were friends at our wedding in 2005…Andrea is Mike’s best friend Bob’s sister and she brought Billy (the son of a guy Mike worked with) as her date. Little did we know 4 years later we’d be shooting their wedding! They certainly picked a hot day…it was over 100 degrees at most points during the day and I would love to say that it was just blue skies all day but it did it all that day. It sprinkled, poured, thundered, and then cleared to a crystal blue sky with white puffy clouds seconds before Andrea arrived at Holy Family of Nazareth in Leominster, MA.
I know you don’t come here for the words…but just thought I’d let you know that this is just the tip of a very big iceberg of posts we have from our very awesome summer of shooting!! You know when the blog slows down it really just means we’re focusing on shooting, editing, and making albums…and now, finally, we can turn our attention to our blog!! Yay!
These are all from “The Camp” where Andrea and her family spend their summers boating, water-skiing, wake-boarding, and having a ton of fun to which we are sometimes invited!
That day Andrea invited to the camp the following day…she told us to bring the kids…she told us to just come hang out…and then casually mentioned that she would be water-skiing in her dress…um, yea. We’ll be there!!! We also had fun with them in the water! Emmie kept saying, “Is she going to wear that dress again or WHAT??”
Thanks Billy and Andrea for an awesome day!! Thanks loyal blog readers for coming back to us!
November 2, 2009 - 7:22 pmMark F - Best. Dragon. Ever!
November 12, 2009 - 9:58 pmChristine - It was great meeting you yesterday too, Kate!! Your little monkeys are precious and your work is lovely!! :) Christine & Andy
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10:54am Posted in Uncategorized
Yesterday I had an awesome engagement session with Jess and Max. I was just going through them for the first time and found this shot–I love fall! I love sweaters, fall colors, leaves, the cold air, the blue skies, Chai Tea, venti vanilla steamed milk from Starbucks, Halloween, back-to-school….I love it all!
October 8, 2009 - 7:59 amSharon Wheaton - You are soooooo lucky! Beautiful. I am super jealous... the leaves don't change in Georgia until about the end of the month, and it does not last too long before they are all on the ground!
October 8, 2009 - 7:10 pmVelvet - This is just beautiful!!!
October 9, 2009 - 3:24 pmAmanda - Stunning! I also love fall!!
October 26, 2009 - 12:30 pmAnne - Mmmm... chai tea. The colors are absolutely amazing today!! I love New England!
November 15, 2009 - 12:18 pmLeela - That is gorgeous.
Leela
October 2, 2009 - 9:02 pmSarah - That's SOOOO cool!
So do you get to keep the larger than life posters of Emmie after?:)
October 2, 2009 - 9:04 pmKate Duval - Mike says it is about 24 feet by 18 feet...I don't even think she would FIT anywhere :) I'm glad she's not that big in real life!
Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 12:23pm Posted in Family
It is raining like crazy today so we rescheduled our e-shoot and this is the first weekend in a long time where we don’t have a wedding or some other shoot. Can you tell always tell with our lack of blogging just how busy we are! So much has happened in the last few weeks! We have so much to blog about, this Fix-It post is certainly first on the list, but it was quick and easy to get together for you since it is still currently going on behind me….and I don’t know if I’m wearing my mommy goggles or not, but this is just too cute not to share!
I’ll be back soon with fun things like a bride waterskiing in her wedding dress, 4 weddings, a bunch of engagements, seniors galore, a fun baby shoot or two, cute family pictures from a shoot with Pizzuti Studios and from two family trips and much much more…and if you know me well, you know I won’t be able to do that all in a week, but really, stay tuned for a blogsplosion very very soon!
October 1, 2009 - 8:50 pmJeff @ Idol White Pen - Brings back precious memories when I had the fortune to have little helpers around. Still fixing but without the best help I ever had.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 8:06pm Posted in MKD Wedding
Just found these gems while editing Noelle and Matt’s wedding which you’ll see soon!
Mike fell off the balcony in the church but managed to get this image while smashed on the floor….just kidding, but it does look like that, no? This program just didn’t want to stand up on its own and I didn’t want to have my hand in the picture holding it up…and there was such awesome light coming in from the stained glass…so we propped it up with Mike’s cell phone and he hit the deck. I think with the image on the left it was worth it!
Friday, August 21, 2009 at 7:17am Posted in MKD Weddings
I recently had the pleasure of 2nd shooting for Megan Dupuis of www.perspectives-photography.com for Chikako & Masaki’s wedding here in the United States. It’s not often that I have time to really get out and play when Kate and I are working. This was fun because I wanted to see what it would be like to shoot an entire event with the Nikon 200 f/2 (rented from www.lensprotogo.com). It was a challenge to think about capturing all of the details from 20-50 feet away. I spent a lot of time pressed against the walls or opening doors to shoot from outside but the ultra smooth bokeh this lens creates it totally worth it.
Thanks for having me along Megan! And thanks to the Boston Photographer’s Guild for setting up an awesome network to connect with other local photographers!
We’ve had the honor of working with this amazing band a couple times now–First Class Band is truly that. Every wedding that we go to with this band has such an awesome energy to it. Everyone is dancing. Everyone is sweating (thank goodness we do the formals first) and everyone is smiling and laughing and singing and having a good time…don’t worry, I meant for that to be a run-on…think of it like I’m talking in that and then and then and then excited tone!!!
So, we had some time at the last wedding we were at with them to get some fun shots! Thanks, Concetta, Anthony, Vance, Michael, Jeffery, Jeff and Palmen…we would be as happy as Obama at the Inaugural Ball (so cool that they were the official band of the night) if you were at every wedding we shot!! Our dancing pictures pictures are always amazing and it’s a pleasure to dance/shoot while listening to your band rock out!
This is one of my new favorite shots…great capture, Mike!
P.S. Back stage eating with the band is always fun…they chat, they sing, and they keep us smiling!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 8:50pm Posted in MKD Baby
We’re in the process of launching an all new portrait section for MKD and this is the MKD Kids highlights montage…some awesome kids, the amazing studio space at LensProToGo.com which is only about a three minute drive from our house, and Mike and I are officially psyched to start shooting more studio stuff where there is a need. I’m also looking for some newborns to shoot from 3-10 days old, I have a special that I can offer them if you steer any expectant moms our way…they need to be due in the next two months, though! Exciting things are around the corner, we’ll keep you posted!
August 20, 2009 - 12:25 amDoug - New logo for Kids = some serious badassery!
August 20, 2009 - 8:18 amSarah - love the logo! awesome, awesome, awesome!
August 28, 2009 - 2:38 pmKerri Blake - I have an expectant mom for you! It just so happens that I am due in 5 weeks and you know how much we love working with you guys! Who else would we get to shoot our newborn child? Tell me about this deal!
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