New England Patriot's Superbowl 51 Victory Parade ~ Boston, MA

Superbowl LI was already hyped up to be an amazing game between the best scoring offense and best scoring defense in the NFL, but no one expected what actually happened.  The New England Patriots came back from trailing by 25 points by the middle of the third quarter to not only be one of the best [if not the best] comebacks in NFL history, but no team had ever come back in a Superbowl from more than a 10 point trail.  They broke records for the comeback, for being the first Superbowl game to go to overtime, for being the team with the most Superbowl championships and Tom Brady and Bill Belichick officially became the best coach and quarterback in the history of the NFL.

My favorite shot of the day!

All that being said, they had every reason for having an amazing parade with an estimated 1 million fans showing up to downtown Boston to celebrate with the New England Patriots!  For the full series of photos, click here.

 

The weather was a New England cliché, it would change every 15 minutes!  From light snow, to heavy snow, hail, rain to finally a light drizzle when the Pats finally came on by.  I was in the crowd waiting for about 2.5 hours but I had a great view from about 5 people back from the barriers.

My Sony a77 camera body is weather-sealed so I didn't have to worry about the water hitting the camera but my lenses are not, so I had my camera in my smaller bag, the LowePro Slingshot 202 AW and I hide the lens in my jacket when I would take it out and was not actively shooting.  Almost all entry level to mid-level DSLRs or compact cameras are not weather-sealed, but you can get rain sleeves for a few bucks for your camera like this one here.

My bag on the left that has an All Weather Sleeve that goes around it and stores at the bottom in a hidden pouch.  A rain sleeve on the right and below shows how you can use the camera like normal while it is around your set up.

The weather couldn't stop the excitement in this crowd!  These guys were cheering and chanting with the crowd the whole time we waited.

Jonathan Kraft 

Tom Brady!

The crowd was chanting his name all day!  The GOAT [Greatest Of All Time]!

Gronk!

Pumping up the crowd!

Julian Edelman

5 Superbowls baby!

Look at those rings!  I was hand holding my 70-200mm lens @200mm while the parade was moving, but still got a great close up of that 4 Superbowl ring!

The masses heading home [or to lunch] after the long hours of waiting.

Go Pats!

Senior Pictures

   While we were home for a week in Massachusetts this past August, we had the chance to take Senior Pictures for a friend of mine's daughter.  It was a fun shoot and below are our favorites from the day.

 

Things to come in the next couple of weeks...

So we just did an amazing engagement shoot in Boston and Gloucester, Massachusetts.  The couple was awesome and so great to work with and the views and locations were just perfect!  They are saving some picutres from this shoot for their invitation and save the date cards so I may not be posting those immediately but I will have some different ones up in a couple of weeks (I want them to see them first).  We also have a senior pictures shoot lined up later today (its 1am right now) and hope that goes well for us and those will be up soon as well.  Probably the first ones I will have up are going to be from the photoshoot that I just did yesterday (a few hours ago) for my family.  Cute ones of my nieces and my cousin's daughter as well.  I will edit those in the coming week once we fly back to Jackson, WY and then post them once they are ready.

 

I will also be working on my wedding page portfolio here using pictures from the latest wedding that we did.

 

We are so happy that we got a chance to come back home to Boston and look forward to quite possibly moving back here in about a year.....we will see.   For now we will enjoy our last 2 days here and then head back to our whitewater rafting job and Katrina will go back to school for her last 2 semesters! 

 

Good bye Boston and to the West - here we come!

Fun week and things to come!

These last two weeks have been crazy and fun.  Had a fun 4th of July with the Jenny Lake hike into Cascade Canyon in the Grand Teton National Park, got a new camera which I am LOVING and tonight we are going to a dance party!  New pictures coming really soon as I am spending some time editing tomorrow - pictures of buffalo, moose, marmots and some kayaking action shots!

Also, we have a wedding shoot coming up on the 19th so some pictures to come from that too. Lastly, we bought our flights to go home to Massachusetts for a week in August and I have some photo shoots scheduled already.

All in all, a good week and lots of fun things to come on here...so stay tuned.

Truscott Wedding

My good friends Anna and Stuart Truscott were married on 7/28/2011.  They asked me to take pictures for them and here are some of my favorites...