Gather Around The Table

I have photographed Gather around the table before, but it has been a few years thanks to Covid.This years event was held at The Shorehaven Golf Club, which I am also very familiar with. It is a great concept. Get designers to design a table, have a luncheon to display the tables and then raffle them off to the over 250 guests who paid money to attend the luncheon. This raises a lot of money for homes with hope.

Homes with Hope is a Westport-based organization dedicated to ending homelessness in Fairfield County. They provide safe emergency shelter, food, and supportive services as tools to help their clients achieve independent lives.

Designers used their expertise to make the tables look elegant.

Each table setting with flowers were raffled off.

Cocktail hour with a luncheon, make plans to attend next year.

I photographed wide angle and got really close too.

All very unique offerings.

For more info on Gather Around The Table, click here.

First Selectwoman and Andrea Moore

Homes With Hope Board Members

I had time to take a selfie!

Fairfield University Graduates

My second year photographing Fairfield University Graduates was another success. I used my Godox 200 flash units for fill and shot with a canon 5d mark4. I would have used my Octobox but couldn’t use it because of 25 mph winds.

Godox 200 set up

With the flash fill.

I took the ladies out far enough so I could get a lot of the building in. This makes it more recognizable to them seeing where they actually are. With a long lens, we were pretty far away.

But the results are pretty good. I like this rather than a close up of a door in the background.

Flash stands are tough to keep steady on undulating ground.

My 85mm 1.8 canon lens has such gorgeous bokeh.