Today I’ve been out covering various things in Westchester County for Newsday Westchester, one of which was the horrendous thunderstorms! My photo of a flash flooded area under an underpass made the home page of the site! The link on the screenshot above goes to a gallery with more weather photos from today.
What’s everyone doing Saturday, May 11 (tomorrow!)??
Come on out to the Highland Spring Fest and stop by the CC Photo & Media table to see/buy art and book sessions! You could win an AWESOME prize if you stop by!
More info about the event is available on its Facebook page.
This past weekend I had the opportunity to cover the colorful and tasty Cupcake Festival, hosted by K104.7 Radio. At the event several finalists from a several week long competition, Cupcake Wars, duked it out for the title of “Best Cupcake in the Hudson Valley”!
Take a look at the photos on Newsday Westchester.
Today was awesome! Had a lot of fun covering two events for Newsday Westchester: the annual Beacon Barks Dog Parade and Street Festival, and the annual Pine Bush UFO Parade and Festival. It was a beautiful day for these events! Take a look at the photos at the links below. If the site asks for a login and you don’t have one, hit escape on your keyboard.
Great news! CC Photo & Media is now offering product and jewelry photography services. For information or a quotation, please contact Caylena. To see more photos, click the image to the right.
Boy, Monday was an interesting day. First, I spent most of the day doing various activities on the computer, PR, design and web work etc. … Then, around 4pm a sudden breaking news call came in about photographing a potential hostage situation in Kingston… I headed there to find police barricading the street corners, journalists and locals crowding around and SWAT officers staking out the house.
The article was the first top story yesterday on the home page of the Record’s website, and a photo, as shown above (sorry for the cell phone image), made the front cover of the paper. Exciting!
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Great news! CC Photo & Media wil now accept your favorite credit cards! Buy art, pay for your service, etc all with the swipe of the card or by typing your details into the computer! It couldn’t be easier. Just let me know you would like to pay by card, and it will happen!
On Sunday I had the pleasure of meeting several people and documenting their experience of learning to make glass beads at Hudson Beach Glass in Beacon, NY. In addition to the glass beads, I watched as an experienced glass blower created an ornament.
One thing I love in photography is taking photos of people doing something they are enthralled by. It always creates a unique image and is great storytelling. The expressions are authentic and there is no posing. It’s real.
And, ever since I visited Venice for the first time while in college, after having taken my first photojournalism course, I was very inspired to document the process of glass blowing – because I find it to be a very intriguing art and I’m passionate about capturing and sharing things that we are not used to thinking about or seeing. So, when my editor asked if I wanted to cover the glass workshops this past weekend as part of a series they are doing on “places to learn new things in 2013″, I was super excited to have the opportunity and access.
Walking into Hudson Beach Glass, on Main St in Beacon, a small-ish, artsy, comeback “city” in the Mid-Hudson Valley, you are surrounded by beautiful and delicate artistic pieces and all the colors in the visible spectrum. It’s truly gorgeous. Everything from large glass bowls to tiny animals and jewelry.
The bead making workshop, which is a weekend intensive and offered three times before June, shows how to make all kids of decorative beads with glass sticks and a torch – as well as other accessories that can create a layered and variegated effect in the beads.
Hudson Beach Glass also offers one-on-one glass-blowing lessons, were you can start by learning to make a paper-weight and eventually create very fragile glass ornaments.
See the photos by clicking on the image below and scrolling through, or on Newsday at this link, and read the article here.
As usual, all photos are © Caylena Cahill/CC Photo & Media, all rights reserved. If you wish to obtain a copy of any of the images, please contact me for further information.
My photo from the Fourth of July fireworks over the Hudson River made it into the top Hudson Valley images of 2012 on Newsday Westchester. Click here to see the photo – and the rest of the gallery – on Newsday.
If you would like to purchase a fine-art print of the image or purchase limited rights to the image for commercial uses, please contact me for more information.
