tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66324784492588485662024-03-08T06:00:43.044-05:00gwyneth colleen photographythe hijinks of a freelance photographer in northern(ish) new england.gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-89187063477296115912008-02-12T09:08:00.000-05:002008-02-12T09:11:06.845-05:00NEW BLOG!hey party people...i've got a new (and much improved) blog! so head on over, and update your RSS feeds. i moved everything from here over there, so...no need to come back here EVER AGAIN.www.gwynethcolleen.com/blogthere'll just be a few minor things that need tweaking, so bear with me while i get everything all shined and polished, and then...enjoy!(incidentally wordpress > blogger...bigtime.)gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-5308804751178597762008-02-06T14:03:00.001-05:002008-02-06T14:09:46.944-05:00confessioni am a cat person. i love my furry little feline...i think he is hilarious and cuddly.to wit:wanna see it bigger?gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-61893860362656933932008-02-02T23:50:00.000-05:002008-02-03T00:43:49.855-05:00jessica & brian: wedded blissremember jess and brian...? you should...they're just one post below this one. the two lovely people with the GORGEOUS blue peepers? (fyi: it's late, and i just typed "GORGEOUS blue peppers"...i'm not sure what gorgeous blue peppers look like, but if you know, please enlighten me.)anyway, they just got married on 1/19 at the bedford village inn in bedford, nh. and it was a FANTASTIC party! gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-70062139589513008512008-01-22T10:05:00.000-05:002008-01-22T10:08:29.593-05:00travel on the cheapholy cows, guys!i've been booking travel for some out of town weddings i have this summer (one in columbus, one in indianapolis). i live fewer than 10 miles from portsmouth, so...www.skybus.com is my new best friend! i do not feel guilty asking someone to drive me 20 mins to the airport. and my roundtrip ticket to columbus in may was only $106!so...my friend suggested that for the indianapolisgwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-63144732486128632932008-01-10T11:16:00.001-05:002008-01-11T13:43:40.336-05:00jess & brian: engagedjessica and brian are getting married in bedford, nh. in 9 days. getting married in january...they had their pick of vendors, so i am so honored that they chose me to be their photographer!we didn't have much time to try to fit in an engagement session...especially with the holidays right bang in the middle of our 1.5-2 month window. but we made it happen! amy of ardent photography (in neenahgwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-11694695802865071702008-01-08T10:14:00.001-05:002008-01-10T11:05:55.004-05:00surprise!a few months ago, i got an email from a lovely young man named fred. he wanted to surprise his fiance for her birthday with a photo session.they're both archaeologists, and in addition to organizing everything with me, he also did his homework. he went scouting and had lots of ideas for locations. (usually, during these types of sessions, we agree to meet in a particular area, and then we kindgwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-81218641250805544252008-01-03T10:04:00.000-05:002008-01-03T10:07:39.136-05:00chris & kate: engagementa few weeks month and a half ago i went up to south portland/cape elizabeth, maine to do engagement photos with kate and chris.i love their story...they grew up on the same street...then met randomly 15 years later in a bar. she heard someone go, "is that katie?" and turned around to say, "who is calling me katie?" and left knowing he was going to look her up. she was right.we met at fort gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-55244933899633065162008-01-03T09:47:00.000-05:002008-01-03T10:08:34.269-05:00belated.happy new year, everyone!what's the deal with time? it just barrels at you like a freight train, and NEVER gives you a break! i feel like i'm always on the run...anyone else?and, because of that, and my oldest child penchant for "being right" and "doing it well"...combined with my fierce procrastination tendencies...i am always loathe to make new year's resolutions. because as i've been told..gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-32437257413348199032007-12-03T14:01:00.000-05:002007-12-05T01:30:06.631-05:00claire & ben: engagedi have a problem. i'm not very good with exclusiveness. i SAY i have favourites...but it carries a bit less weight when i tell EVERY NEW COUPLE they are my favourites.so. claire and ben are my favourite couple getting married in february of 2008. the fact that they are the ONLY ones who've hired me for a wedding that month (thus far) should mean nothing to you, because if they were not gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-35950640217704883292007-12-03T12:23:00.001-05:002007-12-03T12:59:01.429-05:00so, this one time...i actually ATTENDED a wedding.my friends hannah and zach got married. and then they got married again. and then they had a wedding. we all find that quite tremendous. (he's in the army, so...the multiple marriages/ceremonies were for logistical AND sentimental AND tradition purposes)their wedding-wedding was in oklahoma, and it was the first one i've attended...in a non-involved (ha!) capacity...maybe ever.i went to my gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-81856578937030958962007-12-03T12:18:00.001-05:002007-12-03T12:23:01.607-05:00that's just what i wanted to heari changed my hair fairly recently...(went UBER blonde.) i've had a few client meetings/engagement sessions since then, and i was mildly concerned that they wouldn't be able to recognise me because the photo on my website (and here) is me with darker hair.but all of them said, "oh no...i could tell it was you from your glasses."NICE.have i ever mentioned how much i love my vintage cat-eye glassesgwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-15801197660092746382007-11-28T10:52:00.000-05:002007-11-28T10:54:50.097-05:00contritea friend just informed me that it is UNACCEPTABLE that it has been 20 days since i last posted here. i don't like it, but i am inclined to agree. please accept my humble apologies and recycle through some of my old excuses...because i don't have any new ones.so...to appease her, and hopefully you, here's my favourite image from a recent senior portrait session i did with abi in portsmouth. gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-7099140421198918502007-11-07T23:12:00.000-05:002007-11-07T23:34:53.124-05:00warm fuzzy emailstoday i got an email w/ the subject line, "vegan shoe girl with backpiece". it was a guest from a wedding i photographed in may writing to say that she loved the photos i'd taken of her and her husband. (whenever anyone tells me, "i'm not photogenic...i always look _____ in pictures", i take it as a personal challenge.so, i grabbed her and her husband (he was the best man), and did a 5 minute "gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-25766312089728378682007-10-31T13:55:00.000-05:002007-10-31T14:18:26.175-05:00downtown weddingi am so in love with this image from saturday...lesley and ken had an absolutely gorgeous reception at the algonquin club, and we stole 15 minutes to walk across comm ave to take some photos in the little park area...i snapped this one on the way back. (lesley was very certain she wanted to be there for her cocktail hour.)gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-84982716590236905692007-10-28T18:16:00.000-05:002007-10-28T18:21:22.501-05:00oops!to anyone who has sent an inquiry via the form on my website: i did not get it. :(i was trying to protect myself from spam, so i listed my address as gwyn [at] gwynethcolleen [dot] com. however, like a bonehead, i did not read the fine print (this is the email address to which your client inquiries will be sent.)so. if you wrote to me, please write again! i want to hear from you!lastly, thisgwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-35441422508707755202007-10-16T21:37:00.000-05:002007-10-16T21:40:08.284-05:00my hoodi am so infatuated with and privileged to live near portsmouth, nh...i went there w/ a friend on sunday...we were walking around, and he said, "i always thought your pictures were so colourful...and i'm sure you do some processing, but it really is that vibrant around here!"behold...these were all taken w/in a block or two of each other, in about 10-15 minutes:gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-75829883456041740922007-10-13T08:39:00.001-05:002007-10-13T08:40:57.686-05:00haaaaaaa!over on this post at offbeatbride.com, someone asked about "roles of honour" other than having a friend stand up as a member of the wedding party. in the comments, someone mentioned that she attended a wedding that had a "best dude"...he had interesting responsibilities, including keeping people "well-liquored".tremendous.gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-42395436734074718452007-10-12T16:05:00.000-05:002007-10-12T16:12:57.866-05:00playing ketchupi was a weird kid...one year for my birthday, i wanted to have an egg-fight party. no seriously. i did. my mom told me i could have x amt of people, and we'd each get a dozen eggs. she took us down to this vacant lot, and we ran around throwing eggs at each other for, oh, about 2 minutes. i don't know if anyone actually got egged, but...i was happy. i have, uh, different creative outlets gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-35089262401546594942007-10-03T16:34:00.000-05:002007-10-03T16:41:29.339-05:00Catherine & Davestop me if i've already told you this one...catherine contacted me a few months ago to see if i could come photograph her everything-but-the-ceremony in PA near Philadelphia. i was all over that, because my sister lived nearby, and hey...bonus! through back and for emailing, it didn't seem like it was going to work out...but the promise of a long weekend with bek-the-sister had been dangled in gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-88083102219411805422007-10-02T15:01:00.000-05:002007-10-02T15:04:45.520-05:00not photography related...just AWESOMENESS related!my friend erin has this incredible design blog. little o' this, little o' that...she's got some great, eclectic, and colourful taste. go check it out if you don't like same old, same old furnishings and aesthetics.(and, if you're reading MY blog, i'm betting you don't fit into the cookie cutter mold, so go give her some love!)design for mankindalso, the title of her gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-87156046905588093892007-09-27T23:03:00.001-05:002007-09-27T23:10:44.411-05:00new website!well, it is 12:03am on 9.28.07...which means 2 things:1. my new website is finally live! (it's still a teensy bit under construction, so please bear with me...september is pretty much the most ridiculous month in my universe. i don't think i've cooked anything besides popcorn--the non-microwave kind, i'm old school--since sometime in august.)www.gwynethcolleen.comi love it soooooo much, and i gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-43951529400465213462007-09-25T02:00:00.000-05:002007-09-25T02:07:17.816-05:00favourite. EVER.soo...on 9/1 i headed down to philly-ish-town to photograph the everything-but-the-ceremony-because-they-already-did-it-in-PARIS-i-KNOW!-i-feel-bad-for-them-too of catherine and dave.we met at a park to do some couple and family photos before we headed to their family restaurant for a pretty awesome party/reception.as per usual, bridal hairdos take longer than expected, so our time was cut a wee gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-77661321692018263062007-09-19T08:48:00.000-05:002007-09-19T10:57:08.707-05:00rachel and ali...engagedso, basically...the highest honour you can ever receive is to be applauded by your peers, right? because they're the ones who really *GET* what your job entails, and if they think you're good at it...you totally are.so.i was extremely flattered and hugely intimidated when Rachel (of decent urban weddings fame), the fabulous one, who gave me my start in wedding photography, asked me to shoot gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-63596043593074916822007-09-12T21:32:00.000-05:002007-09-12T21:33:35.012-05:00new stuffmy new macbook pro arrived...it is glorious. it also has photobooth, so after i got home from getting my hair cut tonight, i played with it.gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6632478449258848566.post-50145458888945979162007-08-31T13:12:00.001-05:002007-08-31T13:27:37.998-05:00family sessioni feel so behind on life right now! and there's no respite in sight. in the next 4 weeks, i have 5 weddings, a conference, and three engagement sessions. ack!i'm out of town this weekend for an everything-but-the-ceremony (they took care of that in Paris last weekend...i know. i feel bad for them, too.) in Philadelphia. i'll see my sister, and we've bandied about the idea of getting some gwynethcolleenphotographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117680669423741179noreply@blogger.com1