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November 2007 (editing on 11/30)

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Thursday 29

Wednesday 28

Tuesday 27

 

Monday 26

Calling All Angels.

St Brigid's Cemetery, Easthampton, Massachusetts

As of today my angel of an agent has booked 9 weddings for me in 2008 (maybe 10); and I got one today through a referral. So, that's 10 (or, 11).

Sunday 25

Winter Cleaning.

Saturday 24

Peace.

 

Friday

Amy and Thomas. Traveled to Boston today to photograph an Irish/Italian wedding. Fun. Good people. Very gracious. Lots of beer and cigarettes. I think this is a beautiful portrait of the father of the groom.

A few more here from today (and one from a few weeks ago):

Thursday 22

Thanksgiving. Danielle and Daryl (and Susan) came over for breakfast. I made home-fries and Tamago-Yaki. We watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I woke early and got a turkey in the oven at 6:45; later Susan and I brought the turkey to her parents' house and had Thanksgiving Day dinner there.

The Lower Mill Pond early Thanksgiving Day morning:

Wednesday 21

Contemplation.

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread upon my dreams. ~W.B. Yeats

Tuesday 20

Snow.

Monday 19

Quote of the Day

I do almost all of my photographing in an area no farther than a 20-minute drive from my home in Newburyport. To the east lies the Atlantic Ocean and Plum Island with its miles of unspoiled sandy beaches. To the south lies the Great Marsh with its salt-water marshlands that stretch for miles parallel to the coastline. To the west lies Maudslay State Park with its acres of beautiful woodlands and fields that once formed a private estate. To the north flows the Merrimack River, a wide tidal river that once brought clipper ships to the harbor of Newburyport and today provides a habitat for bald eagles that once again breed along the river. I visit these places over and over again. The better I know a place, the more subjects I see. -                                                                                       —John Geesink

Looking at his pricing I can only come to the conclusion I need a new audience for my work.

Sunday 18

 

Saturday 17

Dr. Danielle Barone. My daughter a doctor. Dr. Danielle Marie Barone. Amazing. I am so proud of her.

(photo)

More graduation/family photos here:

Friday 16

Wistariahurst. Confirmed; I have an exhibition at Wistariahurst in May 2008. My plan is to

 

Thursday 15

BNI and ECA.

Wednesday 14

The Lower Mill Pond.

Friday 09

Candlelight Wedding. It is dark. The church illuminated only by candlelight.

Thursday 08

The Duck Whisperer. In between editing pageant photos

and editing engagement photos

I go for a walk. A duck is stuck in the Eastworks parking lot. It will not fly. Later, down at the pond, where Jen and Jennifer have brought the duck in a box, I reach out to it and it flies away. Jennifer laughs and calls me "the duck whisperer."

Wednesday 07

Weddings by Bruce Barone. I started to work today on a new online slide show of my wedding photography.

 

Tuesday 06

The Art of Lyalya. Lyalya passed away one year ago today. Yesterday, her son writes to me and ask if he can come over and review our project.

 

Monday 05

Editing Images. Today I continued to edit photos from The Junior Miss Teen America Pageant and the engagement session with Adam and Sherry. The photo below was taken at The Lower Mill Pond.

Hi Bruce!   I love the images!! They look great! I set the high contrast one as my backdrop on the computer.  I love it!! Thank you so much for doing this for us! I am so excited to see the rest of the pictures and I look forward to our big day! Sherry

Sunday 04

Planning.

Saturday 03

Marketing.

Friday 02

Sherry and Adam. Sherry and Adam, whose wedding I am photographing September 2008, drove up from Connecticut today for an engagement session. We had a blast! First we went to Nonotuck Park, then The Lower Mill Pond,  then a factory next to Eastworks, and then my studio.

Thursday 01

Self-Reliance. Susan says, "Read to me." I read Emerson:

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego The yoke of men's opinions. I will be Light-hearted as a bird, and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, I hear continually his voice therein. The little needle always knows the North, The little bird remembereth his note, And this wise Seer within me never errs. I never taught it what it teaches me; I only follow, when I act aright. Essay here

In my other readings today I came across this note from a friend:

"It just occurred to me that the world has such a tendency to reflect back to us the "negative" aspects of ourselves. There is triple magic in your photos because in stark contrast, your photos reflect all that is best and beautiful in people and the earth. Your vision/gift is priceless."

Evening brings: