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Oooh. La. La. (Part 1)

By Anna Sawin

Love and a fair amount of wine and chocolate was in the air Saturday night at Chamard Vineyard in Clinton, CT.  The site of a brilliantly executed event by Sarah True of True Event, it was the perfect way to spend a chilly winter night with a friend or your main squeeze. We have SO…

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So Graceful

By Anna Sawin

Sweet baby Grace, who we met on her first day of life, is now one month old and more than ten pounds! How quickly the time does go. But she is still a sweet and delicious newborn, inclined to snooze the day away just as the activity around her reaches a fever pitch. And I…

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And so 2010 begins

By Anna Sawin

I’m so excited to share all the shooting opportunities I’ve had already in 2010, from a fantastic lighting workshop with one of my favorite and inspiring photographers, Carla Teneyck (preview on her blog here), a wedding, a gorgeous newborn, another wedding next week…and it is still January. Today I’ve got a preview of one of…

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What the world needs now

By Anna Sawin

More half-birthday celebrations. Because six months is much too long to wait for more cake and candles.

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Bride’s Connecticut, a custom wine label and a complete detour to Scrabble

By Anna Sawin

This fun little feature  and accompanying image is in the spring/summer 2010 issue of Bride’s Connecticut, and was the result of a creative summer collaboration with Lucinda Wesson at Chocolate Creative Design, Sarah True at True Event and me. The wine at Chamard Vineyard is delicious and inspiring, as is the location—a gorgeous vineyard venue…

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How to Charm Me

By Anna Sawin

Henry, age 3 1/2. Tell me, “Mom, you’re the cutest thing in the whole wide world!” Okay, Henry. If you say so! What a nut!

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Hot Mama

By Anna Sawin

Last week I got to spend a chilly day in NYC photographing this smoking hot mama-to-be, and what a fantastic day it was—the session was a 30th birthday gift from her best friend who joined us, and it was a great girls day of champagne, celebrating baby and beautiful bodies and an engagement the night…

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Happy New Year!

By Anna Sawin

This year finally seemed to slow down around December 30, and we’ve been enjoying lots of (rare!) snow, hot cocoa, fires, home projects (also rare this year!), more fires, visitors and, of course, good food. Our New Year’s Eve was all the brighter with my college roommate in town, a culinary professional who brought with…

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Haley Farm Family Session

By Anna Sawin

Loved these sweet cousins and their parents earlier this winter, and loved this local state park in Noank, my first time doing a portrait session here–but definitely not my last! The light was amazing, and made these fair blondies positively glow in the early winter light.

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Four hours old

By Anna Sawin

Grace Born December 30, 2009 at 8:12 a.m. Photographed at 12:15 p.m. 7 pounds, 13.8 ounces 19 inches Dear Grace, After all these months, what a joy it was to meet you today! You are as beautiful as I suspected you would be, and so advanced, too. I can hardly believe the gorgeous eyelashes you…

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