Krista Photography Blog

Katie & Joe’s New Year’s Eve Wedding – Boston

Krista Guenin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:50:35 +0000

The 2009 wedding season ended with a bang! Literally. My last wedding of the year was Katie & Joe’s rockin’ wedding at the Seaport Hotel on New Year’s Eve – complete with fireworks provided by the city of Boston! This was the first time I’d ever photographed a wedding on New Year’s Eve, and I actually loved it! I’ve always found New Years to be a bit of a let down – expectations are high for some big fun time, and it’s never quite as exciting as you’d hoped. But celebrating at a wedding and dancing the night away with my camera in hand definitely did not disappoint!

The evening started with the bridesmaids helping Katie get ready. She was so cute and excited that as soon as I got there she wanted to get into her dress!

Katie was such a beautiful bride!!

My second shooter, Melissa Coe captured this shot of Katie & her Dad walking down the aisle

So happy!

One of the fun things about big bridal parties is all that goes on in between portraits…

I LOVED the shots of the girls helping Katie bustle her dress! Melissa’s take was particularly beautiful…

My take on the moment…

After we got Katie all bustled, we ran outside to the bridge to the World Trade Center for a few night shots with the city lights.

Melissa’s shot

And mine

It was FREEZING out, but Katie & Joe were total troopers for making these happen!!

I love the cake, but the colorful lights behind make me love this shot! That, and I’m kinda hungry right now… ;)

The band for the night was Brickpark Entertainment, and they were SO fun!

First dance

3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!

And perhaps my favorite part was that Katie ended the night singing a little Journey with the band. A girl after my own heart ♥

Katie and Joe – thank you so much for inviting me to document your wedding! It was an absolute pleasure to spend New Year’s Eve celebrating with you and your friends & family!

And thank you, Melissa for giving up New Year’s with your husband to shoot with me! You were a huge help, and so fun to work with… not to mention you got some great photos! :)

To view more of my favorites from Katie & Joe’s wedding, check out my Facebook Fan Page!

Featured Wedding on Beantown Bride!

Krista Guenin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:00:30 +0000

My friend and fellow photographer, Brittany Blando, recently launched a great new wedding resource for planning luxury weddings in and around Boston, called Beantown Bride. Martha Stewart Weddings even twittered about it the other day, so you know it’s good if Martha likes it ;) It is a fabulous blog, full of great local inspiration and I was very excited when they asked to feature Liana & James’ wedding! The article was just released, so head over here and check it out!!

Baby Chloe at 4 months – Year-in-the-Life

Krista Guenin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:48:54 +0000

I am really loving these Year-In-The-Life photo sessions! It is so fun to capture all the changes as a child grows over the course of her first year on this earth! It’s pretty amazing, actually.

You may remember baby Chloe, who was born to Gretchen & Justin last summer. Well, she’s just growing and growing, and we had some time right around her 4-month birthday to capture some new images. This may be my favorite age…somewhere between 3 months and crawling is the sweet spot. They’re adorable and chubby, they have personality and expression, they can handle being moved around and will put up with a lot of photo taking, and they can’t get away! And Chloe proved to be all of those things…

oooooh, she’s too cute!

haha! Love this one!

The next few images were taken with my Nikon 105mm micro lens – it let’s me get in nice and tight!

Some fun with Mommy & Daddy

And then it’s back to sleep…

Gretchen & Justin – I hope you guys are well, and Chloe’s enjoying her first Boston winter! Thank you for having me into your home yet again. Chloe is adorable, and I can’t wait to see how much she grows by our next session! :)

Baby Delia – Newborn Portraits

Krista Guenin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:24:13 +0000

Not long ago, I captured some maternity portraits for Eileen & Fabio as part of a Year-In-The-Life Session. Well, just a couple months later, baby Delia came into the world! I met up with them over the holidays to capture some of Delia’s first hours at home.

Newborns are so tiny and delicate and precious, and they grow up so fast! It’s great to be able to get there to document the first days of a brand new life!

Fabio with his new baby girl

Totally cozy in Momma’s arms

YAAWWNN!

Oh, the tiny little eyelashes!

Dalia’s aunt looks like she’s about as happy as I was to become an aunt! It really is the BEST!

3 Generations on each side of the family

Eileen & Fabio – thank you so much for inviting me into your home and your life. I’m so excited to document Delia’s first year! She’s SO sweet. It’s going to be a blessing to watch her grow and change over the next 12 months!

To view a few more of my favorites from Delia’s Newborn Session – check out my Facebook Fan Page!

Sylvia and Ricky’s eSession – Black and White FILM

Krista Guenin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:45:39 +0000

When we were planning Sylvia & Ricky’s engagement session down in New York City, Sylvia ask me to help her surprise Ricky with a little treat. They’re both super excited about the black & white film we’re going to shoot at their wedding, so she decided to have some shot at their engagement session too! I, of course, loved the idea! So, here you go, Ricky! I hope you enjoy your surprise :)

The first two images were shot with my Widelux

This one’s my favorite :)

I shot this one with my Holga. For a toy camera, it sure gives me some of my favorite film images!

And this one was shot with my Nikon F100

Sylvia, I hope you guys love the film and I hope Ricky likes his surprise! :)

Sylvia & Ricky’s eSession – NYC

Krista Guenin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:11:01 +0000

Just before the holidays, I went down to New York City to photograph Sylvia & Ricky’s engagement session. I love the City, so it was totally a great excuse to go down for a quick trip! Plus, it was fun to shoot in a new place with such a different feel from the usual Boston-area eSession. Not to mention that Sylvia & Ricky are awesome, and totally fun to hang out with!

Sylvia wrote me right after the shoot… “I just wanted to write and say thank you so much for coming down to NYC to shoot our engagement session!!! We had *so* much fun shooting with you … and on our drive back today we were talking about how it actually kind of felt like a (v. non-traditional) date! We’ve been kind of bogged down with work and wedding planning stuff … so it was a really refreshing and much-welcomed break. I can’t wait for May 1!!”

I loved that! I hadn’t really thought of an engagement session as a date before, but it really is. A chance for us to hang out together and get to know each other, and a chance for the couple to hang out and focus more on each other than on the wedding, or on the busyness of life. These sessions are really fun for me, and for my couples. Not to mention how helpful it is on the wedding day to have shot together already. This is why I make engagement sessions “mandatory” for all my couples! ;)

The original plan for the day was to walk around their old neighborhood and hit up some of the locations that have been important to them in their relationship. Then we realized that we were just going to be hopping from one restaurant to another ;) After scouting out the area a bit more, we decided to start out at Milk & Cookies in the West Village and just walk around from there. It was a cute little bakery, and the cookies were DELICIOUS! However, I didn’t get a ton of photos there because I was stuffing my face ;)

After stuffing our faces with chocolatey goodness, we walked around the neighborhood and found some cool buildings to use as backdrops

Haha! These guys are so much fun!

After a little walk, we jumped in a cab (and no, it did NOT turn out to be Cash Cab), and headed over to the High Line. I was basically in love with the sunlight coming in over the tall grass. You can ask my friend Lauren who came down to assist, I was totally giddy!

I can’t totally put my finger on why I love this shot so much… It’s the light, and the color, the depth of field. But also the stoic, motionless feeling – even though they were walking away from me. There’s just something about it!

These guys were awesome! Two random older gentlemen sitting on a bench, painting in the sunset…

And now, back to our regularly scheduled engagement session…

We got off the High Line and walked around the Meat Packing District a bit. I’d never visited that area of New York before, but I totally liked it. If I had millions of dollars, I’m sure I’d shop around there all the time… haha!

haha! These guys crack me up!

So sweet!

Oh, I loooove my 50mm f/1.4!

Love is the answer, you know

It’s nice that when the sun went down, the buildings provided me with plenty of light :)

Sylvia & Ricky – thank you so much for taking me down to NYC, and for the yummy cookies, and for the fun afternoon! Lauren & I still talk about how much fun the whole day was :) It was wonderful getting to know you both better, and I am SO looking forward to the wedding this Spring!!!

To view more of my favorite images from this shoot, check out the album on Facebook or Flickr.

GIVE: Hope For the Children of Haiti

Krista Guenin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:44:09 +0000

A of couple years ago around this time, I was thinking and dreaming, and making plans for my business. I went through an extensive branding project, which is how I ended up with the Krista Photography you see today. Part of that process led me to make a pretty significant change in how I price my packages. I call it GIVE. I believe it’s my responsibility and privilege to give back from the abundance which I’ve been given. Not that I’m some extravagant lifestyle, but compared to rest of the world, I live in absolute luxury. Part of how I have tried to give back as a photographer over the last few years is through documentary missions photography. I’ve been able to help some wonderful non-profit organizations tell their story by providing images of the work they’re doing throughout the world. I am passionate about this kind of work, would love to do more! But I wanted my wedding photography to GIVE back as well. So, I began a program to GIVE 10% of every wedding package to charity. My couples can choose from a number of great organizations that I’m passionate about and it’s been a blessing to me to see how much we’ve been able to GIVE back together.

This week, one of the organizations dear to my heart has been especially on my mind and in my prayers. In June of 2008, I was commissioned by Hope For The Children Of Haiti to document their work in Port-au-Prince. It was a wonderful experience and am I’m so glad that they have been able to use my images to tell their story. While perusing Facebook the other day, I discovered that a massive and deadly earthquake had hit Port-au-Prince. As the hours passed, friends more intimately connected to the organization began posting news. Almost everyone from the organization is alive and accounted for, praise God, but their home and school have been destroyed. They are sleeping outside on a basketball court. And I can’t even begin to imagine how much death and destruction is all around them.

If you’ve seen the photographs coming out of Haiti, you may have some idea of the enormity of the damage. We can almost imagine it because here in the States, we saw Hurricane Katrina’s destruction. But we’re not talking about the wealthiest nation on Earth – we’re talking about one of the poorest. We’re talking about a country that has been devastated by hurricanes, mud slides, poverty, and cruel dictatorship… and now this.

This image is from my trip in June 2008, after a rain shower.

Imagine all of these homes, flattened. What are these people going to do now? In a country where you don’t always have power, sanitation is questionable, and infrastructure lacking – how are they going to rebuild?

Image taken the morning after the earthquake, from The Big Picture

Even the President of Haiti is without a home…

Image taken from The Big Picture. I just keep imagining what it would do to our morale in a time like this, if the White House was damaged so badly.

Please pray for this city, and for these people. Pray for the 50,000+ who have died. Pray for the tens of thousands left at risk for death by disease and starvation. Pray for the hundreds of thousands left homeless. Pray for the children left orphaned, and the parents left childless. Pray for HFCH as they care for their children, and as more children will surely come.

This was the boys’ home

If you would like to do something to help, please consider giving to Hope for the Children of Haiti. HFCH has set a goal to raise $250,000 to provide for the immediate needs of the children in their care, to rebuild their homes and school, and to minister to those who are suffering in their community. With your help, they’ll be able to reach that goal. As for the GIVE program – all weddings booked within the next 30 days will have only one option for their 10% donation… It will be going to Haiti.

KPW

Krista Guenin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:49:41 +0000

Boston Weddings

Krista Guenin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:46:00 +0000

Boston Weddings Magazine

Krista Guenin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:39:48 +0000

If you remember Elizabeth and Ryan’s wedding from early this summer, you’ll know how absolutely gorgeous it was! It was just such a beautiful day and they have been such a wonderful couple to work with! So, I was super excited when the editor of the Boston Weddings magazine called to talk with me about publishing their wedding in the Spring/Summer 2010 edition!! Eeek! Talk about excited!

I didn’t want to mention it until it was official – you know, just in case. But the edition came out not too long ago, so I guess it’s ok to share now!

Eek! I’m so excited for my first publication!! Go out and pick up a copy! Or, go here and read it online :)

Also, I’d like to note that Images #4 & #9 were shot by my 2nd shooter, Mark Higgins, and image #8 was shot by my assistant, Elizabeth Hannah. The photo credit should have read Krista Photography instead of Krista Guenin – every wedding is a TEAM effort!!!