Tony Fiorini Photography

Sarah + Cyril

Tony — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:18:24 +0000

Sarah and Cyril are both pastry chefs so I knew this would be a great wedding to be a part of. Cyril is from France and his family came to enjoy the day. They chose the truly fantastic L’escale restaurant. Family and friends we treated to a great meal and as a special treat, Cyril made the wedding cake himself. It was an ice cream cake with sparklers which had to be finished minutes before being brought out. So after dinner Cyril put on his chef jacket, went into the freezer and put the cake together.

Sarah and Cyril, it was such a pleasure to be there for you at your wedding, I hope you enjoy these images!

Michelle + Christopher

Tony — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:43:55 +0000

Michelle and I met in Freeport, Bahamas 6 years ago. We were both about to embark on an amazing trip, Semester at Sea Spring 2004. When she called and asked me to shoot her wedding last year, I jumped at the chance. I don’t spend a lot of time at 7,000 feet elevation and found myself constantly out of breath. Flagstaff is a very pretty city, and Michelle and Christopher got married outside among pine trees in view of the San Francisco Peaks. The way they look at each other, you know they are in for a long happy marriage. Here are some images, hope you enjoy!

Kristin + Bryan

Tony — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:15:15 +0000

Bryan and Kristin have been together since high school and last saturday got married in Ocean City NJ. It was an lovely ceremony at St. Frances Cabrini Church followed by a fun filled reception at the Greate Bay Country Club. There were special personal touches throughout, Kristin made the wedding cake, finishing up very early Saturday morning. Several of Bryan’s friends picked up the guitar and sang songs for Bryan and Kristin. Bryan even edited together a documentary video telling the story of how they met and fell in love. It is clear Bryan and Kristin are meant for each other and wish you many happy years together.

Here are a few photos from the day, enjoy!

Jenny + Mike

Tony — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:56:08 +0000

This past weekend I traveled to Maryland to photograph the wedding of two former co-workers. It was the first day of Spring and turned out to be gorgeous weather. They are both laid-back and easy-going which made things easy for me. Their friends and family couldn’t have been nicer and Running Hare Vineyard in Prince Frederick, Maryland was such a cool venue.

Mike and Jenny, thanks for having me be a part of your wedding, I had an amazing time. Have a wonderful cruise, and a happy marriage!

Here are some images from the day, enjoy!

Merry Christmas 2009

Tony — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:56:55 +0000

I shot very few images this Christmas, maybe a result of all the traveling we did. San Francisco -> New Haven -> Chelmsford, MA -> South Berwick, ME -> Chelmsford -> New Haven -> South Williamsport, PA and back to New Haven. It is good to be home. Hope your 2010 is all you hope for!

Maeve getting excited for Christmas!

I didn’t wear the antlers all night.

Connor.

Connor and Audrey.

Steven and Ryan.

Steven and Ryan again.

Quick trip to San Francisco

Tony — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:44:08 +0000

My wife goes to San Francisco for a week right before Christmas every year for the American Geophysical Union conference. I have never been to San Francisco before, so I went out at the end of the week and we had a nice weekend together. I had to ride a cable car, and see Alcatraz, we also went to Golden Gate Park, and the bridge. Here are a few images form the weekend, my favorites are from the rock.

You have to be there to understand how steep the hills really are.

Glad the brakes were working.

Almost to the top.

Irish Coffee was introduced to the US here. It was really crowded, so we will have to visit again sometime.

Fisherman’s Wharf and Alcatraz.

Prison uniforms await new inmates.

The famous bridge shrouded in fog.

Abandoned in Connecticut – Part 3

Tony — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:36:19 +0000

I drive to and from New Haven from Hamden on Dixwell Ave all the time. The abandoned buildings are everywhere. There was an unseasonably nice day last week and I stopped at a few buildings. There are more to come, just look around these places are everywhere.

Meet Connor Thomas

Tony — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:30:17 +0000

I had the joy of welcoming Connor Thomas Long into this crazy world yesterday. He was just under 12 hours old, a brand new nephew. Danielle did a great job, and the kid is very healthy. Here are a few images of the newest Long:

C.T.L.

Proud Grandma

He was a little guy.

Still sleeping.

Grandma can’t stop looking, neither can daddy.

Aunt Maureen.

Aunt Betsy.

Grandpa arrived as we were leaving.

Well, congratulations Pat and Danielle, he is perfect in every way. See you soon, Connor, your Uncle Tony!

Science in the High Lava Plains

Tony — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:41:15 +0000

Maureen began working on the High Lava Plains (HLP) Geophysical and Geological Project while a post-doc at the Carnegie Institution of Washington back in 2007. She spent three weeks in Eastern Oregon and came back with great stories of cattle, flat tires and barbed wire fences. I was most interested in The Meat Hook, a restaurant featuring local, free-range, grass fed cattle. She went out several more times servicing the 100+ seismic stations and each time upon returning said “you should come out sometime”. Well, my former work schedule made that tough, but I am now footloose and fancy-free. The project ended earlier this month and they needed help in the demobilization of the stations and I was glad to provide some labor.

Here are some images, with detailed captions underneath, hopefully explaining what was going on in the photo.

I also have a full gallery of images , here is the link:
http://tonyfiorini.zenfolio.com/hlp

Along the main road in Jordan Valley OR.

The J-V Club Cafe where a few breakfasts and a dinner were had in Jordan Valley and desert.

The motel in Jordan Valley all the trucks belonged to the HLP crew, notice how clean and shiny, this was the morning of our first day in the field.

Getting geared up and loading supplies.

It was flat and everything was tan. I am not sure what I was expecting, but the lack of trees was the most striking. Sagebrush was everywhere.

More sagebrush and some sort of shack.

Our crew on a lunch break. Maureen brought her class out to work, we had Hobart and Brad on our team.

More Sagebrush.

Here Brad is getting the seismometer out of the vault. The vault is a big blue barrel buried in the ground with concrete at the bottom. After the instrument was out and packed away, we had to get the vault out too. That was usually the hardest part.

View from near the top of Steens Mountain. Very cool to drive up to the top and see this.

Self portrait at the top of Steens.

The only thing alive up there was some lichen on the rocks.

Back in Burns, OR is where all the equipment was being staged for shipping. Here solar panels are lined up waiting to be boxed. Each station had 1 panel, so this is about 60 stations worth.

Here are the actual seismometers that record the ground movement. There are about 100 in this photo.

This is some of the assorted electronics that go along with the seismometers. Each station had a seismometer, GPS system, power system and data logger, among other electronics.

Maureen and her class. I was lucky to have a great group of grad students (and their professor) along for the ride to the HLP.

Sanden + Kate

Tony — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:25:41 +0000

Wednesday, 09-09-09 was the wedding of my sister-in-law Kate and her partner – now wife! – Sanden. It was a lovely ceremony on the Lexington in Boston Harbor. My first wedding on a boat! Family and friends had a great time celebrating with them, and we even got to see a few planes land at Logan!

Congrats Kate and Sanden, so happy for you, and so glad Massachusetts recognizes the love of two people with marriage.

Here is the link to the full gallery:
http://tonyfiorini.zenfolio.com/kateandsanden

Here are just a few images:

Boston skyline.

The wedding party, including 3 cute kids!

The happy couple.