Sunday, May 10, 2009

Congratulations Cristina!!

Today my sister Cristina graduated from the UConn School of Business. It seems like yesterday that my family helped her move into her dorm freshman year. But 4 years later she's finally done and ready for her next chapter. I'm so happy and proud of her.
To quote the great and very tan, Mr. George "Jim" Hamilton:
Welcome to the real world, Cristina, we've been waiting for you."
Congrats Kid!!

It's a bit windy!


Tuesday, May 5, 2009

SWAT GIRL

A few weeks ago my sister Cristina and I had the pleasure of volunteering our photography services to the W. Htfd Police SWAT team. They were contacting a "Night Stalker Shoot" with area SWAT teams. This training was unique because it was held in complete darkness. There were 2 training sites with different types of rifles, one for close range and one with sniper rifles. The officers use a special night vision lens with IR to shoot these guns in the dark. I wasn't allowed to use my flash (oh what is a girl to do??!!) So with the night vision attached to my camera lens I was able to see what the officers could see in the dark and capture the lasers aiming at the targets. We were also lucky enough to give the rifles a test run. Wedding Photographer by day and SWAT Girl by night. I like the sound of that!!


Where is the shutter on this thing??!! I mean trigger!!

Cristina is a natural behind a sniper rifle!!