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Natasha & Mike / A Lake Placid Winter Engagement Session

Matt Ramos — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:50:34 +0000

We had a cold yet incredible engagement session with Natasha & Mike this weekend up in beautiful Lake Placid, NY – it was well worth the trip and am really excited to share some of the images from the shoot. Natasha & Mike are getting married this year at Saratoga National, but we did some of our shooting all around the Whiteface Lodge and around town a bit. You couldn’t ask for a nicer couple to work with and they were such troopers (even out on the freezing cold lake). It was an awesome experience all around and am looking forward too working with them on the big day as well. Below are a few of my favs from the day.

A huge thanks to April from A&Co for doing an amazing job on Natasha’s hair & makeup!

wow – seriously, who gets to ride on the dogsled during an engagement session!?

and I leave you with a quick one I pulled over on the ride home for…..

Top Engagement Photos of 2011 / New York Engagements

Matt Ramos — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:30:18 +0000

After recently posting our top wedding images of 2011, I am also excited to share with you some of our top engagement images of 2011! It’s so hard to narrow down photos as I want to post everything, but we had to draw the line somewhere. Again, a few quick things…

1 – I’m sorry for load times, please be patient and hopefully you’ll ind it’s worth the wait! ;)
2 – photos were voted between our team, not necessarily selected by me, so please don’t yell at me if your shot wasn’t selected

I hope you’ll enjoy these images and look forward to working with our future couples next year! This is also my last blog post for a few weeks, so I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays & a very Happy New Year. I look forward to 2012 and the upcoming new wedding season!

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Gloria & Louis / Central Park/ NYC Engagements

Matt Ramos — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:50:27 +0000

Another one of the hot 2012 couples you’ll be hearing about next year is Gloria & Louis. I recently had a chance to catch up with them in NYC for a Central Park engagement session and had a blast hanging out with them and shooting something a little different from the norm. I wanted to share a few quick images from our session together. Looking forward to working with these guys next year on their wedding in Saratoga Springs!

Cayleigh & Tyler / Saratoga Children Portraits

Matt Ramos — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:46:51 +0000

As a relatively still new father of twins, I’ve learned there is nothing more important than documenting the early years and relationship between siblings (especially, twins that share an extra special bond). I was asked by a good friend of mine, who also has twins, to photograph them (Cayleigh & Tyler) having fun and just being themselves and had a great time doing this as well as grabbing a few family shots. Cayleigh & Tyler are seriously two of the cutest and well behaved kids I have ever met and it was so awesome to photograph them just being silly and having fun together. Here’s a few samples I really loved and wanted to share…. you can really see the amazing bond between them.

P.S. I was amazed how well they took directions for different things I wanted them to do…. if only I could get my adult wedding clients to do that well! ;)

Cayleigh loved making funny faces at Tyler’s expense, lol.

“pretend like the fence is a train………”

Sawicki 10 Year Anniversary

Matt Ramos — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:05:03 +0000

I recently had the distinct honor and privilege to shoot the 10 year anniversary photos for my good friends, Jen & Chris Sawicki. Chris (& Jen) have quite a success story, and one of the biggest names in the Capital Region when it comes to creative images (especially his senior portrait, model & wedding work). I have really enjoyed getting to know Chris over the past few years and proud to call him a good friend (I’m also extremely pleased to have Chris on our wedding team). I was both slightly stressed, yet extremely honored when I was asked to photograph their 10 year anniversary images for them last year (it’s not exactly easy when you have to photograph an amazing photographer). We recently had our shoot and couldn’t be more pleased with some of the awesome images we were able to create to document this important milestone in their lives and marriage. Jen is stunningly beautiful, and the two together were amazing to work with.

You can view some of Chris’ amazing work on his website at www.sawickistudios.com – I wanted to share just a few of my favorite images from their shoot. Congrats guys, I can’t wait to do it again in another ten years!

Chris is known for his amazing lighting and dramatic work – I decided to try and give him a taste of his own medicine ;)

Katie & Dave / Sunset Engagement @ Historic Barns of Nipmoose

Matt Ramos — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:38:18 +0000

Katie & Dave are a couple I feel very lucky to have met and worked with. I won’t be photographing their wedding (huge bummer), but had an amazing time with them shooting some incredible engagement photos out at the Historic Barns of Nipmoose. After several attempts to shoot and lots of rescheduled dates, it was due or die on the third attempt, and yet another seemingly doomed/rainy day – we decided to go for it anyway, and there was no turning back, rain or shine to complete the session. Upon arriving and shooting for awhile, the clouds just seemed to move away and the most incredible sunset and light I’ve ever seen came out of the clouds at the very end… truly an amazing experience for a photographer that can spend years trying to find such incredible light when actually working with a couple and need it. I loved hanging out wit Katie & Dave and am so pleased with some of the images were were able to create to celebrate and document such an amazing time in their lives. I wanted to post a few samples of our session together… thank you Katie & Dave for being so easy to work with – all the best to you guys! ;)

Christine & Dave / Saratoga Springs Engagement Session

Matt Ramos — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:43:15 +0000

Allow me to introduce Christine & Dave, another one of our fantastic couples getting married next year. I met up with them in Saratoga last week to hang out for a bit and shoot a few engagement photos using the tail end of the Fall Foliage – another awesome couple and awesome session – here are a few samples I wanted to share from our shoot together……. how ridiculous are these colors!?

Talia & Jason / Upstate NY Fall Foliage Engagement

Matt Ramos — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:24:00 +0000

Talia & Jason are another one of our 2011 wedding clients that I’m really excited to work with. Despite the cold weather and high winds this week, I had a chance to hang out with them a bit to shoot a few photos for their engagement – here’s a few samples!

Sarah & Jason / Fall Engagements in Saratoga Springs

Matt Ramos — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:29:58 +0000

Here’s a few samples from my recent engagement session with Sarah and Jason, who we’re excited to work with next year. There is no place like upstate NY in the fall (ok,well maybe Vermont, but we’ll take 2nd place :)

Latest Work/Upcoming Teasers – NY Wedding Photographer

Matt Ramos — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:08:24 +0000

It’s been a busy couple couple of weeks for me (months actually), and thought I would post a few samples of what I’ve been up to as well as a few sneak peeks of upcoming blog entries I have in store – the wedding season will be slowing down in just a few weeks and look forward to getting caught up on all these blog entries – thanks for bearing with me!

Headshots with Alexandra in the studio – a very talented and future Broadway singer & actress :)

a wedding with Kate & John in Saratoga Springs, NY

A beautiful wedding in the Catskill Mountains with Lis & Luke

a beautiful wedding with Elizabeth & Kal in Staten Island, NY