Besides spending three glorious (though short) hours in the Big Apple, I also spent some time visiting family outside of the city. Mike and Marisa and I hung out with his mom, grandmother and brother for a couple of days, whiling away our hours playing boardgames, wandering through bookstores, eating out, and huddling together for warmth.
Mike’s grandmother is an amazing lady… she’s got character and fire, is very independent and is funny as heck. She also has this amazing house where it seems like time has stood still. Mike can remember playing in the same rooms of the house with the same furniture and same toys. Meanwhile, 35 years later, everything still looks brand new…
Before we left for the arctic tundra of New York, I had been inspired by this photoshoot by Nicole Hill Gerulat. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that her subjects are gorgeous and fun, but Nicole is a fantastic photographer, in and out of the studio. I had never shot in snow before, but decided I was up to the challenge. Armed with my new-found inspiration, and my two semi-reluctant subjects, we ventured out into the frosty outdoors…
Of course we had to have a snowball fight. Except that it was so powdery, I don’t think we could have actually made a snowball if we tried. Obviously that didn’t stop us….
Mike snapped a few shots of me so I could get in on the action too. Man, it was cold!!
After all the fun, we’d had our fill of snow for about a month. Ten minutes after this shot, we were back in the house, ransacking the hot cocoa stash.Â
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