2nd annual The W Girls NYC "LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT" Bachelor/ette Auction

I'm happy to say that I will be doing the photography for the:

2nd annual WGirls NYC "LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT"

Bachelor/ette Auction
Benefitting ChildSight and the victims of the Myanmar and China disasters through Save The Children

June 5th 7-10pm

CAIN Night Club in New York City.

Website: The W Girls NYC

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If you're interested in tickets to the event click HERE.

What you get: A great network of young NYC professionals, an hour of sponsored bar open bar featuring several top name liquor sponsors, drink specials until 10pm, a terrific GRAND prize raffle, all night access to Cain --one of NYC's hottest spots to party, and a chance to bid on one of NYC’s hottest Bachelor/ettes.

I've never done an event like this before so I'm excited to try something different. My friend Jo Ann is coming along with me to help and I thin it will be a great time!

Weekly Photo Tips and Tricks - Digital Photography Education - Dave Hill Look

If you're looking to try to emulate the "Dave Hill Look" that he achieves through his wonderful lighting techniques try the tutorial on the Weekly Photo Tips and Tricks - Digital Photography Education Blog:

Weekly Photo Tips and Tricks - Digital Photography Education - Dave Hill Look

The Most Magical Time of the Day!

Today I was asked to shoot some photos of my company's VP, a Senior Director at a competitor company, the Mayor of the town I work in as well as the Township Administrator.

The Women's Leadership Group at my company is holding a 5K run/walk to raise money for a new ambulance for the township where our office resides and these company leaders will be participating in the run/walk.

This photo will be in the local newspaper soon (I'm not sure of the exact date of publication). Once it's published I will scan a copy and post it here in my blog.

This is one I liked most from the shoot today:



While driving home this was the scene over my favorite stretch of farm land to catch great clouds or a sunset. The warm orange glow feels so "fall" to me!

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A little "fall reflection"

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I have more to add so check this post tomomorrow...I'm just so tired I can't add the rest from today! :)

Here the ones I promised I would add that are favs from the day:

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Overall this was a top day for me for some beautiful sunset shots. I will be sure to stop here at this time of the day again!

Today's Festivites

I added my friend's baby shower today (8/18/07) and I appointed myself party photographer! I got some wonderful shots of the day of all of the party attendees as well as some that I felt "photojournalistically" captured the day:





On the way home from the party I spotted an amazing sky that I just had to capture so I found a place to pull over and got some wonderful shots:





To view more of Nicole Roedl's baby shower click HERE.

On the Way Home...

Stopped at the park on the way home from work today to try to capture some butterflies ad flowers.

I was successful in capturing both butterflies and flowers but I was upset that I wasn't able to get there sooner. I had limited time before the sun started to go down behind the trees.

A few from today before it got too dark:

B&H and Port Elizabeth

Today my sister and I left early in the morning to head into New York City to our favorite camera superstore B&H Photo on 9th Ave. Best place around - I could spend hours there! I stopped to visit our favorite Nikon rep Gerry to get some advice on Macro lenses and tripods. The lens I was interested in was out of stock so I concentrated on the tripod purchase and a new "small" backpack to lug my gear around on our photo journeys.

On our way home from New York City we stopped somewhere we normally wouldn't....a really industrial area in Elizabeth, NJ. My sister had a customer in that area so she knew of a good place to take a few shots of the Goethals Bridge. Click HERE to learn more on the Goethals Bridge.



After we shot the bridge stopped at a park on the water where we could see the loading area for a huge container barge. I don't normally see things like this so it made for interesting photography and it was what I considered a "great cloud day."



I never thought that tanks like this could be beautiful but maybe it's just that sky that can turn any scene beautiful to me!

Color & BW version below





And I just turned the shot into a FAUX IR (infrared) shot and I LOVE the results!!!



To view more of my photography of bridges click here: http://www.jenweaverphotography.com/gallery/2907807

I made my 1st photo sale!

Thanks to my friend Gordon, who I work with, I made my first official photo sale of the photo below:

The photo was taken the day after the N'oreaster we had in New Jersey back on April 15th. 2007. I stopped to capture this scene while I was driving around to check out the aftermath of the flooding in my area.

I pass this farm everyday on my way home from work but the road is so tight that there is no way to pull over to take the photo unless I wanted to pull right into the farmer's driveway and I wasn't going to do that!! LOL!

So, because the road in front of the farmer's house was flooded (and I couldn't drive any further) it was the perfect opportunity to shoot the flood but then turn around and take a photo of his farm and his barn, which is another shot I also love (below).

While I was driving that day I also stumbled upon the scene below. The person got out okay but I can't say the same for their car!

Anyway, back to the original subject.....so, I sold the farm scene photograph at 18 inches wide adhered to a black backing board. It's a "large format" print so the printing and application to the special backing board was done at my sister's graphics shop. She uses the same large machine that prints the graphics for vehicles/signs, etc that prints on huge rolls of vinyl. So people can get their photos as large as a bus (no kidding!!) or as small as an 8x10. We're going to try to get more business based on large format printing (besides me trying to sell regular prints). (her website http://www.cranburycustom.com/).

I guess you can say this is my 3rd "sale" (but I'm using "sale" very losely)...My mom was the first person (besides myself) to have one of my photos blown up into a large format print and my grandfather had the same photo blown up (but not as bis as moms). This is how mom's photo of the Manhattan Bridge & the Brooklyn Bridge (where she's from) looks in her office:

My sister will be at the National Night Out in Hightstown, New Jersey tomorrow selling graphics/decals, etc so if you're in the area - stop on by and pick something up!! She'll be featuring the sale of large format photography printing featuring our photographs.

Maybe I'll make another sale somehow!

Below is the flyer she'll be sharing at the event. If you know anyonw who is interested in Large format digital prints of their own photos or any photos featured on my website http://www.jenweaverphotography/ call Cranbury Custom Vehicle Lettering & Graphics at 609-587-6444:

Welcome to my new blog!

My name is Jennifer, I'm from New Jersey, and my passion is photography. I decided to start a blog so that I can showcase some of my favorite works (although all of my work can be seen on my website: http://www.jenweaverphotography.com/ ).


This is me and my camera nicknamed "The Gun" - we go everywhere together:










Today my sister and decided to drive around our area and see what we might find to photograph. We had no were in particular to go so we drove around aimlessly. When we saw something that looked interesting we'd stop the car, get out, take a few shots and move on. It was a beautiful day weather-wise so it was nice to get out of the house.


After I dropped my sister off at her car I headed home. On my way home I noticed a local farm market that sells flower, etc. I pulled over and shot some photos in their field of flowers. This is my favorite shot of the day: