tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:14:35 +0000I'm a Salem MA wedding photographer who captures the imaginations of my brides with photography from an unusual perspective. I'm a member of PPA, NAPP. MAA, NAA and a bunch more). I shoot weddings in Salem MA and all over the New England area. My weddings and lifestyle portraits are fresh and exciting giving evidence of my passion for capturing real moments. Contact me through my website www.Vistaphotography.com and check out my photography.http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)Blogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-4083387103148386296Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:51:00 +00002009-10-23T10:01:40.368-04:00 color for the sake of color, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography. Walking around my neighborhood the last few days has been a real treat. I have an embarrassment of riches in the way of fall color. Most of our trees didn't start to turn until the last week, so the wind storms that have come in on the weekends didn't do too much damage. This is true of much of the north shore of MA and http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/10/color-for-sake-of-color.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-6295066731917682548Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:17:00 +00002009-10-18T15:23:08.546-04:00 Waterfall closeup 2, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography. I visited Vermont's south west corner over the Columbus Day weekend and we traveled all over. We drove on the Danby Mt Tabor road (also known as NF10). As we drove along Danby rd I saw many barns with horses and a cemetery. It's very scenic and the connecting road (NF10) is listed as a Scenic road?. We saw along the side of a road a http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/10/vermont-waterfall.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-80796492249710096Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:43:00 +00002009-10-04T10:00:48.704-04:00Foot of Mount Washington, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography. Greetings Fall Foliage Peepers!I got an email the other day from a family from Belgium who are coming here to be leaf peepers and they have a great itinerary but they asked me a stumper, yes I can be stumped. They want to stop at a bunch of small country stores! Now you may ask how that could be a stumper? Well unless you live http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/10/view-of-mount-washington.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-8258217482355503252Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:56:00 +00002009-09-09T00:16:26.842-04:00Patrick at the The Raven's Barrow website is running a contest with some pretty good prizes. He is also building up his fan page and friend numbers which gets the spread about his social network on Facebook.If you become a fan of his page or become his friend or blog about him you get so many votes...One of the neat things about being in his network is that you get info on how to Zombify yourselfhttp://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/09/halloween-is-coming-and-new-contest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-7852328719074170456Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:49:00 +00002009-09-04T11:52:14.076-04:00St Albans farm road Cover shot for Globe Magazine, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.Just a short note since there's so much going on...I was contacted by the Boston Globe a few weeks ago wondering if I had any fall photos... Me? Jeff Foliage?? Surely you're jesting... So I steered him over to my online photo gallery where he preceded to pick a few favorites. This one won out for their http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/09/st-albans-farm-road-cover-shot-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-3624728881829274655Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:25:00 +00002009-08-16T20:34:38.736-04:00Pond color, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.Well I wasn't so much published as they decided to do a story about my fanatical obsession with fall foliage. I know most of you have been to my Vistaphotos website or my new one Vistaphotography. If you haven't been there you can remedy that quickly enough.The first one I think you can tell I made myself and the second was created by http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/08/jeff-foliage-published-in-yankee.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-3122638814001275275Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:09:00 +00002009-07-16T12:12:33.261-04:00Excuse me?, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.This little fella was enjoying the new planter/bird feeder (stress the bird part) and then he looks over at me and plainly says more please...How do you help but feed them along with the birds.. I don't put too much out in the summer but occasionally I put out a little to let them know it's still here... That way in the winter they'll be here inhttp://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/07/excuse-me-by-vistaphotography.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-6345968287332622199Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:43:00 +00002009-07-07T13:43:15.574-04:00All hands on deck!, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.Well last week we had one morning without rain and this little guy felt brave enough to come visit me on the deck... Of course the fact that he/she has a hurt foot might mean that if he doesn't have to travel to far for breakfast is a good thing.So she and I shared the peanuts while I snapped a few pictures. We had a great sunny weekend http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/07/all-hands-on-deck.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-3927310803586315306Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:16:00 +00002009-07-01T09:16:51.543-04:00Thinking about it, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.Or is it wordless Wednesday? I forget...I had the opportunity last week to fritter away a whole hour on the deck, it happened to be the only sunny morning in weeks so I deserved it!Anyway I brought out a bag of peanuts which the squirrels and Jays love dearly. I sat back in the corner of my deck and I would trow the peanuts somewhere in http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/07/bokah-wednesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-7995926877597066280Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:43:00 +00002009-06-23T08:54:40.770-04:00Photo Safari Lisa, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.I often wonder what I've done to deserve my wife but here is one more example. We went out to the Canon Photo Safari at the Crane Estate in Ipswich MA.There they lend you a camera and lens and give you a flash card which you get to keep.They give you minimal instruction but do talk about composition and a few other things then you go and http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/06/sunny-smile.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-248404004093300023Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:02:00 +00002009-06-08T23:02:30.877-04:00Dropping in for a bite using flex mini's, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.A couple of friends (sisters) who like to play act and happen to be drop dead gorgeous! (Pun intended)Helped me out with an advertising brochure in Salem.Strobist info: One 580 to camera right 1/8th power on a flex tt5, shooting through a larson umbrella and one 580 to camera left bare bulb on a PW plus II set at http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/06/vistaphotography-using-pocket-wizards.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-2871120167705661389Fri, 29 May 2009 12:13:00 +00002009-05-29T08:25:31.623-04:00Lady in orange, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.David Lind from Virginia Breeze down in (where else) Virgina suggested a title for this picture. I love the picture conjured by David Frosts poem where he comments on us taking the road less traveled.Either metaphorically or literally, the road less traveled usually presents us with many opportunities to enrich our lives. I usually blog http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/05/road-less-traveled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-7800676478490911521Tue, 19 May 2009 13:41:00 +00002009-05-19T10:05:07.525-04:00I just read an online article from Down East Magazine and while you don't usually see me talk about anything that isn't Yankee Magazine and this article was written by Al Diamon for Down East Magazine yesterday and it's titled: We’re Old, We’re White and We’ve Got Cheap Lobster The article goes on for a while and is worth your time to read, here is an excerpt: According to the U.S. Census Bureauhttp://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/05/omg-maine-has-new-slogan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-6558424640728455876Fri, 01 May 2009 13:00:00 +00002009-05-01T09:11:29.614-04:00RI pond in 2008, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.Hi all! I haven't gotten down to the little big state (I've seen them call themselves this) as often as I would like. But I have gotten down there a few times and hopefully again this fall. I found this shot on the north western side of the state as I was doing a drive through. Although I don't remember where this spot is exactly I have my http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/05/rhode-island-pond-view-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-6914818613533348855Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:51:00 +00002009-04-21T14:38:13.399-04:00Hi all! I found a great tutorial over on the Layers magazine website and this is a sample of the free stuff that they have to get you to want to pay to get inside... I'm a NAPP Member (National Association of Photoshop Pros) and I will admit to being pretty good in most thing Adobe but I always hit these sites to learn new skills.(Technical stuff from Wikipedia)HDR or High Dynamic Range is a set http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/04/hdr-in-lightroom-by-vistaphotography.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-8781847773608201289Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:32:00 +00002009-04-21T15:15:43.687-04:00I was up in Vermont several years back and during the spring rains (which flooded several valleys) I stopped to look at a map and this truck was just off the road in a stand of trees.It screamed at me to have it's picture taken. So I took it and there it sat on my hard drive for these past years until I dug it up again and I applied a B&W filter to it in Lightroom with a bit of a infra red http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/04/alone-and-forgotten.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-3274170586652791093Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:36:00 +00002009-04-15T09:22:16.277-04:00My wife ended up hosting this years Easter dinner at our place which is on the small side (to say the least) and neither one of us has in recent history hosted a large party like this so we were a bit nervous.Lisa was on the ball as always and started preparing the seating and creating the centerpiece (which went from a big bouquet of flowers to fresh lemons and limes with flowers placed in it.I http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-dinner-party-for-13-off-camera.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-6201998482662394778Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:27:00 +00002009-03-25T09:26:53.996-04:00PhotographyFacebookSEO"social media"VistaPhotographyTwitterlinksbusinessI am Vistaphotography hear me roar! What this translates into is that our businesses are getting in tune with the social media...?WOW You say you aren't up on any social media sites???This is where your customers are hanging out and you need to be also.So I twitter, therefore I am, as Shakespeare might have said if he were writing stories today and if he wanted to inform his fans that he had ahttp://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-am-vistaphotography-hear-me-roar-what.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-1090706045345127290Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:41:00 +00002009-03-11T09:30:44.369-04:00Full moon over Newburyport, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.Full moon over Newburyport MA... Enjoy!By Vistaphotographyand my new art galleries on Vistaphotographyhttp://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/03/wordless-wednesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-8675962383050254125Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:24:00 +00002009-03-04T12:33:18.456-05:00I'm constantly trying new things in this challenging economy. As a small business (VistaPhotography) I started a project in 2007 to create a package for new parents. A photo book that covers their new born from birth (or before) until their first birthday.Miss Sophia (my first subject) turned 1 last Aug (08) and it finished a year long process that started with me finding her mother at a craft http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/03/babies-first-year-book-is-great-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-117878927813969853Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:47:00 +00002009-02-06T09:48:42.544-05:00Watter side visit, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.It's a rare occurrence but I was in Jackson NH (a large group of fairies there) and near a several statues in a water fountain I saw this little whisp of a creature at the waters edge.I tried not to intrude and scare her off so I was able to capture this single shot... I've been back to Ravenwood many times but only this one time was I sohttp://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2009/02/vistaphotography-sighting-of-fairy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-1058101653004171218Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:51:00 +00002008-11-11T08:51:08.164-05:00Bittersweet color, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.I shot this bittersweet vine last weekend on a cloudy day with little else to interest me. I'm adding a portion of a poem I found that speaks to the nature of bittersweet..The writer of the poem is Mark GibbonsI'm sure nobody planted the vine;it just grew there at the base of the treeand persevered.The vine is a symphony of rhythms:like http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2008/11/bittersweet-color.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-3266012317044857198Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:08:00 +00002008-11-02T09:23:15.602-05:00_P8Y0203, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.Well Halloween has come and gone and we have done our best to scare the pants off the boys and girls in the neighborhood. In some cases they came in and said "yeah right".....In others they either wouldn't enter the yard (always a good sign) or even better they ran screaming all the way down the driveway after making it past the graveyard and thehttp://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2008/11/grave-consequences.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-4728236248169259152Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:23:00 +00002008-10-16T16:32:59.984-04:00Sturbridge Bridge, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.This fall foliage season has been so far one of the best I've seen in years in the northeast.. I have many of these up on my blog a Yankee Magazine and in November I will have them up in my personal website so people can order cards or sets to give as gifts.This shot is from Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge MA. The village is a recreationhttp://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2008/10/sturbridge-covered-bridge-fall-foliage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665110812377311539.post-4024063386593154736Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:55:00 +00002008-10-10T22:58:25.139-04:00pond reflection, originally uploaded by Vistaphotography.I'm on the road up to Vermont to check on color for all you leaf peepers. I will hopefully find some nice shots and get those posted while I'm on the road.I hope you enjoy! I know I do... I mean who can complain, I get paid to blog about my favorite subject, Fall Foliage.Nothing could be finer than that...Also check my current blog topics http://vistaphotography.blogspot.com/2008/10/pond-reflection.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vistaphotography)2