group photos

Now that the Kripalu grounds are alive, I've been taking group photos for the staff. Here's a couple.

surprise bouquet

This weekend I was lucky enough to find a simple and lovely bouquet at my doorstep. It's so small that I used a double tall shot glass as its vase.

It was tied together with blades of grass!

leisurely Sunday hike

This weekend my good friend Jess and I took a leisurely uphill stroll at Bartholomew's Cobble in Sheffield, MA. It's a beautiful spot with lots of simple trails and a grassy overlook. I'd highly recommend it for any Sunday afternoon.

Check out the Trustees of Reservation to learn more and visit yourself.

Jess took this photo of me jumping for joy.

Yoga in the Schools

This week an article came out in Puranum, Kripalu's development magazine, about Yoga in the Schools. This is a program where Kripalu teachers visit a public school for four or six weeks to teach yoga in classrooms. It's an incredible program; kids love the movement and playfulness of it, and the teachers report that kids are more focused, better behaved, and more expressive after practicing yoga. Here are a handful of photos I took for the article.

passport photos can be fun

My beautiful friend Gabe needed an ID photo for her grad school and the specs were as strict as for government passports (I wonder what clearances these social work grad students get over at Smith)! So I took her photo with a natural expression, her face forward (less than 10 degrees in each direction) and with her face sized to 1 3/8" in the 2" square photo.

Then, we had some fun...

This is for the cover of her hip hop album titled "The Communicator."

New York City dog walk

This weekend I visited my friends in Brooklyn and one of my favorite parts was walking their dog in the city. Here's some pictures from a park just below the Brooklyn Bridge.

Shakin' off.

portraits of drumming group

It's been a slow week, photographically speaking. But today I had a chat with my friend and audio engineer Shaun Laframboise, which started me thinking about the great drum group he leads, KDZ - The Kripalu Drummers. I shot the group and individual portraits for their recent album release, so I thought I'd post these photos which I took back in the fall.

You can listen to KDZ on their myspace profile, or their website.

this week at Kripalu