We are on our way to Florida for a few days for some rest and relaxation. We decided to drive down to stop at a few places for some photo opportunities and see some family in North Carolina. On the way down, we picked up my mother in Pennsylvania.

Here are some photos that we’ve taken yesterday.

This is just a random building we passed. I like the design of it

My son…on his way to a nap. lol

Everyone was passed out within the first hour.

Gavin being funny with his hat. We stopped to play with the birds.

We could see the Jefferson Memorial across the river from where we were.

After, we drove down the way to the Jefferson Memorial to get an up-and-close peek.

Susie took this photo while I was driving. We found it a bit funny.

So, from time-to-time, I get the opportunity to do editorial pieces for magazines. I was very excited to have been asked to do this shoot on behalf of Tammy Elliot, President of Perfect Wedding Guide, because it involved photographing Sylvia Weinstock, Queen of Cakes and celebrity cake designer for celebrities such as Star Jones, Donald Trump, Eddie Murphy, Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro and many more. These photos were taken at Sylvia Weinstock’s office in New York.

For information on using these photos for editorial or educational use please contact my office at (203) 439-0808.

Sylvia Weinstock at her New York office.

Sylvia Weinstock’s gallery of celebrity clientele include Donald Trump, Star Jones, Eddie Murphy, Robert DeNiro and much more

Sylvia Weinstock’s artful presentation of taste testing.

Sylvia Weinstock’s cakes and filling

Sylvia Weinstock’s cakes from design.

Here’s the work area that her cake artists work in. Everything is edible.

Mmmm…sugar flowers.

Tools of the trade

That’s a lot of frosting

I hope that everyone’s year has started off on the right foot this year. Well it’s been a very busy year from the start. We started New Year’s Day with a Wedding and have been shooting weddings and portraits since. We’ve also been taking advantage of this slight downtime season to come up with some new things which have all been great ideas so far.

To my surprise it snowed today! I can’t believe it. We got about and inch and a half here in Cheshire. I took some photos before we went to our friend Nick’s for dinner.

I think that this one is my favorite.

I’ve been doing a fashion model shoot for a high fashion magazines based in New York and I had to create some custom color effects to give my photos a vintage feel to it. I will be including these color effects in my upcoming photoshop action set called Java Beans which will include various unique color effect that i’ve created. While I can’t show you photos yet of the editorial piece that i’m working on right now…I’ll show you the “look” that these actions will do for you.

Here’s the original images processed with Tommy’s Action Set: Volume I.

This image was processed with: Tommy’s Action Set: Java Beans “French Vanilla”

To really finish off the image, I added one of my rust textures.

I am taking pre-order registrations for purchasing this action set. All pre-orders will come with a video tutorial and a bonus texture package. Call me at (203) 439-0808 or you can contact me via my contact form on my website. Offer expires 3/1/09

For portrait photographers, you can expect something like this:

Before any color effects

Processed with French Vanilla

Susie and I have been very busy over the holiday season and we are sorry for the lack of posts. We took on quite a few fund raisers this holiday season and we really haven’t had much time to sleep let alone post. lol.

I’ll try to consolidate a lot of various photos that we took these seasons into shorter posts.

More photos to come ^^