I won't treat you like your typical.

A few weeks ago, a day after I took the salon pictures from the last entry, Karen and I drove up to the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs, NY. I had been meaning to go check it out for a few years. I knew it was a fancy hotel and I thought a portrait shoot would be fun there. This place isn't as big and grand as the Otesaga in Cooperstown, NY but I was greatly impressed. Karen and I had a fun time exploring the rooms on the first floor. 

I also shot a roll of Portra through my grandpa's old Minolta. Those photos will be up sometime next week.

A Trip to the Salon

A friend from work, Karen, told me about a friend of hers who was entering this hair styling contest. This friend, Jenn, had this awesome hair style she was going to do on Karen. They asked me to shoot the final look. So I packed up all of my equipment and Karen and I went down to Schenectady to the Paul Mitchell School. Jenn dyed Karen's hair a nice copper red with some bright blond streaks. Everything was going amazing until Jenn was half-way through blow drying. She noticed that the dye hadn't gotten to a spot in her hair. She had to add more dye and we postponed the styling until Monday.
I had decided to do some behind the scenes stuff so I could blog about it, so here are my photos from yesterday!

Summer floods.

This is another entry with old photos in it. Until about November, I didn't have the money to get film developed, soooo I did it all at once.

There's this little bridge by my house and at least twice a year there is enough rain to flood the creek and wash out part of the bridge. 

The ironic part is that the town fixed it and, literally, a month and a half later, Hurricane Sandy hit and washed it out again. The town decided to wait till after the spring thaw to fix it this time.

Hurricane Sandy

I live in New York, so I was affected by the hurricane that hit late last year. I drove down to my hometown to check on my parents because I hadn't heard from them in a few days and was terrified. They were okay, though. They just didn't have power. There wasn't much damage done by the storm to the house. Some of the new shingles my dad put on the roof were blown off and 2 sections of the pool fence were in the pool. I wish I could say that was all in town. I didn't have a whole lot of time to go around and take photos but here are the ones I did manage to take.

This power line was near ground level. I could have reached out to touch it if I wanted to.

KITTENS!

The mother cat that lives outside my residence has had another litter of kittens. Jake, his family, and I have had the pleasure of really knowing two of them. There were a total of 4. Two were calicos (one mostly white and one mostly grey), a tuxedo and one all black girl. The only boy was the tuxedo one. My co-worker has adopted him and (ironically) named him Snow after a character from some sci-fi show or something. I caught him and he slept with me for a few days. He liked to pounce on my face and then spoon with me. My future brother-in-law caught the grey calico. My future mother-in-law took a liking to her and named her Aurora.

Aurora was a bit creeped out by my camera. 

All of these photos were edited using curves by the awesome photographer Julia Trotti.

Finally, some new stuff!

A few weeks ago my fiancee, Jake, and I went out to Cooperstown, NY for the day. We started the day by visiting one of my favorite fancy hotels, the Otesaga. I absolutely LOVE this place. It's like $500 a night though. If I had the money, I'd love to stay there.

All of these photos were taken with my Pentax 645 camera and Kodak Portra 400 film.