It’s been a great Fall. The leaves are just about done, but we’ve been able to capture some lovely families! Planning to do more before the Thanksgiving rush. 
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New Photography Website
Well, I finally have my new website up and running. Very excited. It took me awhile, but I’m happy with the results. Hoping my current clients and new clients enjoy it as well. I just think it’s got a great vibe to it and I love the music. Having fun keeping it updated. Love working with bludomain.com. Also I’ve been able to add some of my latest Niagara Falls photos including a Double Rainbow… Too bad there wasn’t anyone taping and screaming at it at the same time. 
Where is the color?
Getting ready for Fall portraits and where is the color? Thanks to the dry weather, the leaves are not turning their normally vibrant yellows and swashes of red… I hope the rain in the past few days will brighten them up a bit. Taking Fall foliage portraits with green trees or worse yet, leafless trees, just doesn’t cut it. Well, let’s hope Mother Nature does some of her last minute magic and we’re able to get a lovely show. But in the meantime, here are some reminders of the great color from last year!
City bench in Philly
Fall Fields
Some photos for your viewing
Just thought I’d highlight some of my photos for your viewing pleasure… That’s it. No more words. 
Fall Photos
The fall foliage color is beginning to heighten here in SE PA. Love this time of year. The frost yesterday morning was spectacular. I’ll be updating my blog with some of my pix around the town. Busy with family shoots the next few weeks, which I love. Hoping the rain will be my friend and not show up!
Sports anyone?
Just happened to be getting further into sports photography lately. This brings me back to my roots in High School a few decades ago, when I was the photography editor. Anyway, I’ve been attending a few events lately and have a couple of pix up here. Looking forward to doing some hockey in the winter season as well. I just love the athletes’ determination. It’s inspiring.
Senior Portrait
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I’ve been doing some senior portraits lately. Very fun. Teenagers nowadays enjoy posing much more then when I was that age. What’s even better is that parents want to see their kids in a different light rather then the staged poses the schools make them do. It’s good for the families and for the photographers. It also really allows the student to be portrayed in their environment and express their personality. 
What’s the cost of Celiac Disease to you?
Just wanted to share a very interesting and insightful article that appeared in last week’s NY Times. (My thanks to my brother in law who sent it to me). I found the article to be quite timely right now considering the health care debate and the fact that the pharmaceutical industry along with the insurance companies seem to be running our health care system rather then the American people—the patients.
The topic of the article mentions how celiac sufferers pay up to 4 times the amount for food since this is the only treatment for the disease. There are no drugs to help sufferers, so the pharmaceutical companies have totally ignored the problem. And by ignoring it they also don’t push the necessary information to doctors in order that patients can get tested for the disease, which btw is being found to be the root cause of many other anti-immune diseases as well as some cancers… These are the diseases that require drugs which equal profit for the drug companies.
The article also discusses European funding for patients, since it is diagnosed more frequently overseas and is treated as the disease which we need to discover. Friends of ours in England have found more and more gluten free foods over there and the fact that it is so widespread in the country accounts for it.
I have spoken to many people in the year since my daughter was diagnosed who have had troubles with IBS, acid reflux and some other possible offshoots of CD. Some have gotten tested and results have been negative, fortunately. Others are planning to be tested. What’s interesting is that those who have visited GI doctors in the past have never even been told about this possible cause. Maybe because the doctors have nothing to gain since the Pharmaceutical companies have nothing to gain. Interesting conundrum.
According to this article at least 1 in 100 Americans are suffering from CD. That’s a tremendous amount of people. And as more are diagnosed and more need to be put on this diet, it will fall to the food companies to come to bat for this growing and lucrative market. Already Betty Crocker has jumped on the wagon with the creation of several gluten free mixes.
I normally don’t get on my soapbox about this, but with the health care debate raging and this autoimmune disease not being diagnosed, we need to really take control of our own health care and begin to speak up against the special interest groups and the bottom line. Money doesn’t out rule health care.
Been too long
It’s been too long since I wrote on my blog. Time to get with it again. The summer has been very busy both with activities and with photo work, which is great. Thanks to all those who have allowed me to photograph their lives the past few months. It’s been a pleasure. We’ve had some maternity shots, which are great and upbeat. A senior portrait, a wedding (but I really don’t do weddings), two adorable twins… and it goes on. So it’s been diverse and fun. Also had some time to travel with one vacation and another in the future.
Had a very nice time in Burlington, VT and visited inlaws in NH and MA. It was a busy New England week. I’ve attached 
