are we having fun yet?

Yes we are!! 2009 was our first offical year "in business" as franklin photography, and we've been blessed to have had such a diversity of shoots to kick off our first year. Keith and I have had some great fun - and unexpected opportuntities - with

• jazz pianist Bob Baldwin at the Hartford Jazz Festival and with Bob and Marian Meadows at Trumpets in Montclair, NJ, and most recently -our faves - the Average White Band at BB King's in NYC;
• Keith's action photography shoots (the Barclay's FedEx Cup golf tournament in Jersey City, NJ, the US Open in Flushing Meadows, NY, & the Jets at the NJ Meadowlands (thank Carl!), as well as Plainfield HS volleyball & soccer, Cranford HS field hockey and Westfield HS tennis),
• Alberto Urmana, who gave me a glimpse into the hard owrk and efforts required in the world of body building as he competed at the 2009 OCB MidAtlantic Bodybuilding Championships in southern NJ - I saw not a steroid in site, just lots of glistening, PERFECT bodies!!
• Brenda and Tony who had us memorialize Marley Grace's Christening day - what a beautiful, beautiful family she has been blessed with!
• Dancing on Air, hot air ballooning company based in NJ, and a very serendipitous hot air ballooning sequence,
• Harry, Jake & Nola - who helped me prove animals are just very small people with fur coats on (sorry PITA - I don't think they have a choice!)
• and who can forget our Freerunners from "down the Joisey Shore" - keep up the medical insurance guys!

2009 has been a wonderful year for us - both personally and professionally. We are truly blessed, and if you are reading this, we hope you have been doubly blessed in your life as well.

As we move into 2010, we are delighted to be working with the Morristown Recreation Travel Basketball Program, and look forward to capturing some great action shots for the girl's and boys' teams.

Happy Holidays - may your New Year be filled with more love, laughter and joy than you can handle!

D&K

Central Park - Part II

just follow a path and you will find the most amazing things...

lessons in multitasking..

reminders that patience is a virtue....


and one can always dream of beng future Olympians - even if they are financial analysts the rest of the week...

there's always a bench waiting just for you...

and the perfect ending to a perfect day within reach..

a day at Central Park - Part I

We love to spend the day at the Park - you never know what or who you will see; mostly it's our chance to capture from it some of it's of peacefulness to last us as we head into the toss and tumble of the work week ahead - and it seems others share that idea:

whether it's hangin' with old friends...

making new ones...

sitting still to enjoy just sitting

or to enjoy the sounds of others...

can one ever get enough of Paris??

arc d'triomphe from below


just one street away from the hustle and bustle of the Latin Quarter - seems like miles...


the watchdogs of Notre Dame


trinkets along the Seine...


and another quiet side street in the Latin Quarter

Bonjour Paris!

My amazing husband surprised me for my birthday this year by celebratin it with me in Paris! We spent an amazing week never even leaving the City of Lights - too much to see and more walking than we were used to. We enjoyed the camaraderie of Justyna Richards (http://www.justynaphotography.com) from Pictue Paris, who led us through the quiet side streets of the Latin Quarter and Montmartre, shared meals with us at fabulous boulangeries and creperies, overwhelmed us with her staggering knowledge of local history (is there any good reason why everyone famous dies a horrible and tragic death?!) and left us addicted to the history and sights of an amazing city. Below are some of our favorite shots - just a few of 2,300 that we took (gotta love digital!!)

the lovely Justyna!

the Louvre at night - eerie, romantic, awesome!

my little French friend on his way to work at the Louvre - although my French was weak and his English broken, you can clearly see how proud of his bicycle and the trinkets he had collected over time...

and our friends at Pizza Pino - one of the few places that we could understand the menu!!

the devil is in the details...

guests often enjoy the "ambience" of an event without realizing the attention to detail, along with the (sometimes agonizing) effort and time taken by those planning the event to create that "perfect effect" - here are a few of my favorites .....

"thank you" to Mary B!

Mary Basnight(http://www.marybasnight.com/) is a talented photographer based in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We know this because she photographed our wedding several years ago. It is because of our positive experience that Keith and I both picked up our cameras again, and now have the potential for a "second career" - after we retire from our current ones!

Mary was kind enough to include us as 2nd shooters on some of her weddings and engagement shoots, and some of the images I took are included below.

Thanks Mary!

we always see the bride's preparation - here's some of the groom!

...and the flower girls went quickly from "magic wands" to dueling swords! :-)

a photographic buffet...

or another way of saying a little bit of this, a litle bit of that...

sinatra park - hoboken, nj

can you tell we have a thing for parks yet? this is one of our favorites - right across from NYC, and a great place to spend the day people watching....

a day at mindowaskin park...

these pics were taken last october - the first week i had my camera!had no clue what i was doing, and didn't have my glasses to read the manual - what's that you say? beginner's luck?? lol