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Spring officially sprung this weekend… yay! After living in California for so many years, the drastic changes with each season of upstate New York have me in a constant state of amazement. With spring, I find so much inspiration from the warming weather, small flowers pushing through the once frozen ground, and sights of feathered...
Two weeks ago we had one of our larger snowfalls of the season, and in about two weeks spring will officially arrive. Right now we have clear blue skies and rising temperatures, and yet still plenty of snow is holding the ground hostage. So I’d say today is the center of a two week seasonal...
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What adorable boys! Great images on your blog.
Nice job!
These are all awesome – especially the best friend part!!
I couldn’t agree more Derek!
That was a really fun day! And the pictures came out great! Nice job!
I love my dogs + I love my house = My Vintage Dog Collection I like to go to thrift stores, antique shows, flea markets, and even the occasional auction in search of vintage dog pieces that speak to me. There is a lot of it out in the world, and not all of it...
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Beautiful work!
If you ever come across an airedale piece, snag it for me! see you soon!
I love this!!!
I am so glad your sharing this intimate side of you. I love the colors, sizes, and uniqueness of each piece. Just further tells me of your great eye. Your amazing Alice!
Your dog collection makes me smile :)
I’d describe it as delightful, complex (more than one breed, age, or style, and enviable (as I wish I had some of them)….LOVE THEM (and the photographs)
The Irish Claddagh ring is so cool when it comes to expressing love. On it’s own it symbolizes the key factors of love with three design elements. A heart representing love, two hands holding the heart for friendship, and a crown to honor loyalty. Cool, right? If that weren’t enough, you have four options of...
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I love this shot: so dramatic.
Like fire and ice, sometimes opposites attract… Big thanks to Beth for making me this awesome ice candle… such a clever girl!! xoxo
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Thanks Nanci… I’m digging this image a lot!
Wow! Love the big snow heart. The candle brings thought of warmth.
I’ll always love the Beatles. Anybody a Beatles fan? If so, you might understand the Beatles reference with the repetitive number nines. On with the 14 hearts blog challenge. No. 9 is pulled from a wedding I photographed in San Francisco, way back when I was shooting with film. I’ve always thought this cake was...
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Thanks ladies! I’m with you Mindy… I love it when couples really add ambiance to their wedding with great details in their decor!
Love the cake and the candles together! Great shot!
Film – how awesome – and a lovely distinctive cake for No 9! This is a great challenge!
What is your favorite dessert? I love chocolate cake, but chocolate cupcakes rank pretty high, as well. Today’s heart comes from my cupcake photo shoot in January… Mmmm, delicious!
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Wawesome shot!
Laure, you missed it, we had chocolate cupcakes at the first meeting… mmmm!
Can’t go wrong with chocolate cupcakes
Where were those last night????
Such a fun shot!
These images come from Julie and Rick’s engagement portrait session last summer. I followed them along as they picked blueberries, which they used to make homemade blueberry jam for their wedding favors. They were so nice to send me a jar. I thought I would make a nice Marthaesque picture of the jam, but instead...
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Heart number six is in honor of my new friend Clayton Austin who is visiting this weekend, all the way from Texas! In addition to being the speaker at our CNY PUG meeting on Monday, Clayton also flew all this way so he could photograph some portraits in the snow here. With that in mind,...
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Don’t forget I’m a newbie at this blog challenge business, but hang in there with me. Today’s entry is a little different from the rest. Instead of making a heart, Beth my sister “found” a heart. Kind of like when you’re laying on a blanket looking up at a summer sky and you see a...
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Great hair style Beth and you know I’m a sucker for an abstract heart found in nature.
Love is everywhere :)
Excellent heart – and great update on your studio manager <3
If you are new to the blog, I’m in the midst of my first personal blog challenge. I’m posting a heart a day for the first fourteen days of February just for a little bit of Valentines Day fun. So here is heart number 4. It’s another example of Michelle and I having fun making...
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This is a great image- I love this idea, Alice!
Hi Lindsay, Thanks for coming by. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but it took me a little while to figure out your little message was a heart… guess I’m not quite as cutting edge as I imagine myself to be. xoxo
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I dipped into the archives tonight to bring you heart number three in the 14 hearts blog challenge, but this one is worth repeating. Karina and Bruno had an amazing wedding at the Figueroa Hotel in Los Angeles famous for it’s Moroccan flair and the Blue Door. Here is a little fun my second shooters...
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Erica and I trying doing that one night! We had the wrong kind of flashlight!!! Very cool!
That is really cool!
Seeing as I am a photographer, and this is my blog, it is perfectly acceptable for you to assume that I am going to post another photograph with a heart in it for day two of my 14 hearts blog challenge. Well look out! This is a curve ball post, as I just have to...
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I love the party hat the best…. it’s a lovely drawing…. and perfect example of hearts in art!
What an accurate portrait of Lulu and the love Besso has for you!
I love the drawing, the artist, and that you’ve got your own file dedicated to Besso’s treasures!!
I’ve heard people complain about holidays, saying that they don’t “believe” in them. That we should all just treat our loved ones special everyday. Well, who can really argue about treating each other special everyday? Not me. Yet, while Valentines Day has been notoriously called a Hallmark holiday, I still like it. In fact,...
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Andy, that is hilarious! I think you and Carrie did eat that cupcake.
I think I ate that cupcake!
Too cute!
Until it happened to me, I just didn’t know how quickly and drastically one’s life can change from one second to the next. Many of you know that I relocated to central New York from California, just about two years ago. What you may not know is that I spent the majority of 2008, recovering...
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I thought of another title I could have given this post… Plaid to the Bone! Oooh my funny meter just went on the fritz.
Hi Beth and Alice!
We LOVE your blog. And thanks for your sweet comment on ours. So sorry to hear of your injury. However, your narrative is priceless and your photography is lush! We recently moved from California too, I spent 12 years in LA. Crazy place :) May 2010 bring you joy and prosperity!
I second the great coat moment. I’m glad your arm is all healed, carrying those big camera’s around is hard enough with a healthy arm! Happy New Years!
Happy New Years to you! Thats awesome that you are healed, I wish you the best for 2010!
Yikes! Glad you are doing better! Great coat, a ‘no’ was definitely in order.
Great photo by beth on last one, holding the camera and doing snow balls, not an easy task. Wow, I can not imagine the pain and ice is so brutal, once I was waiting for some parents at my church for we had just finished a rehearsal with the kids and teens and two teens were standing by some ice, goofing off and one fell, she cut her chin so deep, had to go get stitches so I know ice is so brutal, that must of been so hard to loose the feeling of your left hand, and so glad you are doing lots better and even posing in some shots~ happy new decade!
So now you know how it feels to be a bride at an Orthodox Greek wedding!!!
whoa…
Happy New Year and New Decade Alice G.
Meet you soon at the next PUG!
Laure
So glad you saved your coat – - and even more importantly, so glad that your arm works!!! I love the photos, and love you and Beth.
Happy New Year! So glad your arm healed up, and you can use your hand again! I love your coat, too. :)
That coat is timeless!!
So sorry for that awful experience but thankfully your in better health and getting back to what you do best. I love all your images and you give me inspiration!
Happy New Year!! You’re so much fun!
the last image is my fave
Sooo glad it was just temporary! Love the snowball fight shots! You’re just too funny!
A great post – - and I recognize that face!!
Happy New Year!
First off, thank you so much for all of your wonderful cards, emails, and gifts… they all mean so much to me! I had a blast putting together this year’s holiday gifts, for all of my amazing clients! It was hard for me not to share them on my blog before today; but now that...
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You rock!
So glad you all are enjoying them! xoxo
Alice, what a wonderful surprise: I will always treasure the ornament you gave me. Thanks!
OMG Alice, thanks for the ornament! You’re the best!!!
I’ve been in business for myself for about fifteen years… give or take. Throughout all of those years, I’ve been the girl wearing ALL of the hats… photographer (that is my favorite one), marketer, accountant, errand girl, editor, etc. If you have ever been in business for yourself, you know there are A LOT of...
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The pictures are wonderful. My cousin Beth looks just like she did 20 years ago.
Good to meet you in New Orleans – wasn’t that city amazing? I’ll be in touch.
Nice shots and great team! Congrats to you both!!!
ABP, Chicago
Thanks for the awesome introduction :) . I am so excited to be working with you! You have amazing skills as a photographer and with me working on some of the other things, you’ll be able to concentrate on the things you’re best at! Like you always say, “Two Pattersons are better than one!” (Of course usually we’re just trying to open the ketchup bottle).
It looks like you guys will make a great team!
This morning my sister Beth (aka my newly anointed studio manager) and I hopped on a jet (blue that is) to New Orleans. We are here to attend the Pictage Partner Conference; and let me tell you, we are beyond excited! If you are going to be there, drop us a line and let’s get...
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Great meeting you and beth. Such a fun few days in NOLA! KIT ;)
The colors of fall here are so amazing… I mean super aaaaammaaaaazzzziinnnggg! The contrast of being in sunny southern California one day, and back in New York’s fall the next is striking. It feels like I have on rose colored glasses… but I don’t! The colors against the bright blue sky are simply breathtaking! Well,...
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Love the new blog!!! And you DO live in a gorgeous neighborhood! Blessings : )
wow, these colors ARE amazing! we don’t really have seasons where i come from, so to see it like this is beautiful!
I absolutely love the picture with the tire swing!
Cooper donned an awesome halloween costume for his school parade yesterday! In fact, it was such a great costume, he won first prize in a costume contest held at the McHarrie Museum last night! Here is cute a snap I took with my sister’s point and shoot… It you think about it, this getup adds...
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