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Couple during a proposal at San Remo Viewpoint overlooking The Lake in Central Park There is a spot on the Ramble side of Central Park where the trees open and the San Remo fills the view across The Lake. Two towers, still water, and a stone shoreline that is easy to walk past. If you […]

Rain was falling on Governors Island the day I photographed Larry’s surprise proposal, and I think it made the afternoon better. The Three Peaks Lodge proposal took place inside the restaurant at Collective Retreats, with warm light overhead and soft grey weather outside. After more than 30 years behind a camera, I can tell you […]

Most people who ask me about proposal ideas with family are worried about the same thing. They want their parents there. They also want the moment to belong to just the two of them. Those two wishes feel like they cancel each other out. They do not. After thirty-plus years photographing proposals across Northern New […]

When Sydney and Zach told me they wanted their West Village engagement session to feel less like a photo shoot and more like an evening they would have planned anyway, I knew we were going to end up with something honest. So we started with dinner. No checklist, no posing, no standing around waiting for […]