Every so often I meet someone who I feel I’ve always known. We introduce ourselves and then begin where we finished. Thishappened when I met Kendall Brown of Eclatante Design at a beach wedding last summer. And so I did what I do. I went to her mother’s home to photograph love.
“Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire
humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.” ~ Sam Abell
I am co-teaching with the fabulous Anna Kuperberg in San Francisco on March 30-31. The two day Anna + Amy Workshop has two spots remaining. Our workshop is available to professional photographers based on portfolio review.
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I am feeling particularly nostalgic this evening…
Maybe it’s the snow and the soft cloudy days nestling me…
Maybe it’s my delayed reaction to a new year, a chance to trace my time and reorient my compass…
Maybe I’m savoring a sense of completion…
Maybe and most likely, I’m simply grateful.
I hear my husband and my son bantering in the next room, snippets of laughter and ever~so~earnest questions waft like the chocolate chip cookies I baked. Homework is done. Folded laundry rests. Neat white reminder bundles stack on the stairs. And the slideshow below…it rests, at home on this journal, complete.
Shadow and Grace chronicles 22 years of my photography. It starts with the first worth~a~darn photograph I made as a student in Kentucky. It ends exactly this time last year after my husband received his new kidney. What you might want to know before viewing this lengthy piece it this…some find the content challenging. I offer a very personal no~holds~barred collection of photographs. I trace time by revisiting my years at newspapers, my challenges of coping with my now 14-year-old son’s Cowden Syndrome, my husband’s Polycystic Kidney Disease and running a small business. Some folks have asked how I photographed my family, particularly my son’s early years. My answer? I knew then and know now, one day these images would be needed for him to trace his time.
What I see now, a year later, are beautiful laundry piles on the same steps lulled by the gentle snores of my family.
love ~ amy
{ music: courtesy of Triple Scoop Music }
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{ location } 1840′s Ballroom, Baltimore, Maryland
{ wedding coordination } Michele Damon Events
{ floral design } Wicked Willow
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Evan Reitmeyer of My Dee Jay, interviewed regional wedding photographers to create a tips list for engaged couples. We were delighted to contribute. We hope you find Evan’s article informative.
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New York sweeties, Lara and Michael, were married in Annapolis this weekend. Inspired by this their ineffable charm and delightful style, we set up a studio at their Chesapeake Bay Beach Club reception. Equally charming and delightful families and guests received prints. Carefully cutting prints with an array of groovy scissors, the guests created an on-site book for Lara and Michael.
We send a huge huge thank you to planner Leslie Maloney of Wedding Savvy and the reception staff for their support in making this portable on-site studio a reality.
To Lara and Michael, your wedding your style, your charm , your love, oh…I could go on and on…waxing eloquently about your yummy wedding…just this friends…I am inspired all over again. Stay tuned for more of Lara and Michael’s pictures. If you are one of the delightful guests you may order pictures here.
love, Amy and Dave
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just this moment. and this one and this one too…photographs by Amy Deputy and David Bick
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Neon cotton candy coated little lips. Hundreds of smiles and the latest dance moves decorated the gym. For 10 years members of the Baltimore National Association of Catering Executives (NACE) have brought ketchup and snowballs, bubbles and brownies to the St. Vincent’s Center in Timonium, MD. This year was no different as 45 NACE volunteers hosted 70 children and 30 staff for the summer picnic. St. Vincent’s Center offers residential treatment services for neglected and abused children as well as local and national child abuse prevention services.
Faces were transformed with paint. Fingernails were buffed and polished. “It is one afternoon where they can just be kids having fun in the summertime, no pressure, no lessons. It is amazing to watch them all dancing as if they did not have a care in the world,” said Dulany Noble, event organizer and Baltimore NACE Community Service Chair.
And the volunteers…they danced too. For information about service opportunities at St. Vincent’s Center contact Ellen Torres at 410-252-4000 x1629.
Volunteers from left to right: Team Snowball, employees of Gala Cloths, Bow Tie Bob, Alicia Karoll, president of Baltimore NACE and rental coordinator at AVAM, Daniel and Buster Raffell of A La Carte Maryland, Arthur Remanjon of Arthur Remanjon Photographers with Jerry Edwards of Chef’s Expresions and Team Kitchen, Ellene Pomerantz of Write Style, Leo Herbert of DePalo & Sons, Alicia Karoll of AVAM, Michelle Hall of American Furniture Rental, a representative of Carroll Manor, Julie Brown-Edwards of Tremont Suite Hotels, Loren Lippman of Party Rental Ltd. and Casey Riley of Marriott Waterfront Hotel.
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