Stonington Point on a sparkly January morning.

Hemlock tree in morning sunshine.

Thank you, Maria–this is what your forsythia is doing today!

Monday and back to work.

Sneaks at rest.

Our Christmas tree star topper.

Still recovering from the late nights and long hours of the pre-Christmas bustle–it feels DECADENT to read a mystery novel!

Bathtime!

Love notes from Henry to sick Will.

Last peek at the tree–time to come DOWN! Happy New Year, all!

I took my ten on ten today, December 1o, 2011.

I originally planned on doing it via iPhone and kind of instagramming the look but—I wanted my real camera at the tree farm, so I cropped everything square and you have a faux iPhoneography look. All taken on the Mark II 5D with the exception of image #1.

Please follow around our circle! This month, I link to Jenn Duguay of Alberta, Canada, home of always stunning images!

First hard frost of the season. Skim ice on the cove.

Purple kale.

This naughty boy was sitting on the naughty step. I told him I had seen an elf earlier that morning. He’s looking out the window for it.

Hot chocolate at the Christmas tree farm.

Henry practicing his sawing.

Home again, with the perfect tree.

Imperfect focus, perfect eyelashes!

The amazing gingerbread party at our neighbor’s house. Each one baked from scratch at home.

The frosting is made, the guests have arrived, let the decorating begin!

Our final product. Henry wants to eat it now.

]]> http://hankandwillie.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/december-2011-ten-on-ten/feed/ 6 hankandwillie tenonten_dec2011001 tenonten_dec2011002 tenonten_dec2011003 tenonten_dec2011004 tenonten_dec2011006 tenonten_dec2011005 tenonten_dec2011007 tenonten_dec2011008 tenonten_dec2011009 tenonten_dec2011010 http://hankandwillie.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/ten-on-ten-november-2011/ http://hankandwillie.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/ten-on-ten-november-2011/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:07:59 +0000 Anna http://hankandwillie.wordpress.com/?p=3346 ]]> And here we are again! So excited to see what my group of ten has cooked up this month. Follow around the circle with me! I’m linking to Jenn Duguay from the North.

Some of mine might look a little familiar if you’ve stopped at Nicki’s page–we were together the day we took our pictures.

This month I’m linking to a friend from the north: Jenn Duguay. Enjoy her view of the world!

October 10, 2011, Mount Desert Island, Maine (with a side trip to Islesford, Maine)

High temperature: 80 degrees

Morning, and one of my favorite outdoor showers anywhere. Nestled in a pine grove, it was handmade, and is one of my favorite parts of our friends’ house.

Henry foraged for the last few cherry tomatoes before breakfast, and then ate them.

On Somes Sound, on the way to Islesford (Little Cranberry Island).

A perfect day at the beach for Henry includes finding at least one piece of rusty metal. He hit the jackpot at this spot!

Have you ever seen such a sweet little sea star? It was stuck on the dock, like a little craft project.

Yes, the sky was really that color.

Homeward bound.

Somes Sound. Water temperature in August? Probably not above 60 degrees. In October? Brrrr!

Found some slightly warmer water an hour later at Long Pond. Air temp, 80 degrees.

Time for dinner and dessert.

P.S. Don’t hate me—my life isn’t nearly this idyllic! I picked a blissful vacation day with good friends in a beautiful place to document my ten on ten. Maybe next month I will show you the laundry pile after this trip!

The simply gorgeous Mrs. Kriete. For all you photographers out there, I want you to know I did NOTHING to enhance her amazing eyes. She was born with those peepers!

For all the times Steph has been my right-hand and partner-in-crime for a wedding, and I’ve been posting her gorgeous images here on this page, it is extra fun to post my images from HER beautiful wedding to her love, Ben.

Steph, at the Hotel Northampton.

On Saturday, the two of them created a feast for the senses with a glorious wedding filled with beauty and creativity, but on a misty mountaintop in Massachusetts, all of us were reminded that it all comes down to something so simple–two people deeply in love, surrounded by those who know and love them most.

First look on a mountaintop.

A sweet and teary moment.

With rain most of the night before the wedding and all morning, we prepared for weather at its wettest.  But 30 minutes before we arrived,  the rain had stopped, and a beautiful mist unfurled itself across the valley while we stood on the mountaintop.

You may have detected an orange/fall color theme. Banner hand-made by Steph.

A teary bride and a choked up groom exchanged tender, heartfelt vows, and then, all smiles, walked hand in hand down the aisle to bagpipe music–fitting for the misty blue and green valleys rolled out below.

After a record 35 minutes for family, wedding party and couple portraits including four locations (don’t try this at home, folks–unless your clients are both photographers who scouted the locations in advance and know how to pay attention to fading light!), we arrived at the famed Blue Heron Restaurant (home of  Sue Sylvester, a.k.a. Jane Lynch’s, wedding celebration last year), where they danced, they dined, they were toasted and the room seemed to envelop them in a giant hug.

Cupcakes! Homemade by the moms.

My second shooter.

First dance to “Stand By Me.”

Conga line!

Baby due, well, now! Baby decided to go to a wedding instead.

It was a true delight and honor to witness your day, Steph and Ben. I’m so happy to have you as family as well as friends. A few to share here, and more online here!

Enjoy your mini-moon, and happy love to you both!

xoxo,  Anna

Tommy Lee and Meryl Streep in Stonington for the fiming of “Great Hope Springs”

Water Street transformed.

Extras on set.

Great Hope Springs Director Dave Frankel

Water Street, quiet on set!

More photos here!

I have posted plenty on my Hank & Willie tumblr blog–perfect for iPhone photos on the go!

(annasawin.tumblr.com)

I also have  lots of new client images on Facebook at Anna Sawin Photography, and lots more to come when I get through my next editing marathon!

(www.facebook.com/annasawinphotography)

But more importantly, I continue to love this project, ten on ten–a passionate group of ten lovely and amazing photographers from the United States and Canada taking ten images, one hour apart on one day out of the month, documenting life as it happens around them. On the tenth of every month, we post our ten images, and if you follow our links, you’ll make it around the whole circle of ten. Enjoy.

This month I’m linking to my dear friend Melissa–see her ten on ten at melissawoodard.tumblr.com.

These images were taken on Tuesday, September 8, 2011. Our oldest was finally headed back to school–he had been due to start the previous Wednesday, but Hurricane Irene had other plans. The drenching rains on this day were the remains of Tropical Storm Lee, the storm that brought such devastating flooding to the mid-Atlantic area.

School supplies! I love school supplies.

Someone is really excited about getting ready for school! Will, age seven.

The bus stop crew this year, plus Henry who has one more year to go.

The cucumbers just keep coming. No complaints in this house.

What we AREN’T doing today for the first time in days. They have been boogie boarding and skim boarding for hours each day.

School work for Henry on this rainy day. He starts kindergarten tomorrow, but he’s been working on letters while Will does his summer reading.

Rain, rain, that’s okay! Mom and Henry toe to toe–off to the apple and peach orchard we go!

With a stop at Clyde’s Cider Mill on the way home, the traditional first day of school snack!

The big kids are gone for a long day!

Second grade success!

Missing our lovely nursery school, our first year without a child there since 2007. What a happy, magical place it is.

The inspiration for this came from a great group of women photographers. One of them—who takes the most heartstoppingly gorgeous photos of her brood—suggested this project and I am so grateful to her!

So here’s the plan: one day a month, I document life around me by taking ten photos, one roughly every hour.

On the tenth day of the month, each of us posts our ten photos, and you can follow around the circle of eight of us if you like.

Today I’m linking to Carrie of Carrie Hill Photography, and you will absolutely adore the soulful moments she captured.

So, without further buildup, my Ten on Ten for August 2011.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

On the date I chose for my ten on ten, we had the boys’ best girlfriends over for a sleepover the night before.

I came downstairs on a rainy Sunday morning to find the four of them quietly giggling, drawing and reading. We all needed a rainy day to take a break on this beautiful summer!

The dreaded Augmentin. Will showed me his finger one day last week saying, “Mom, I think I sprained my wrist.” A small, swollen cut, oozing with pus at the tip of his finger was enhanced by a faint red line trailing up into his arm.

A quick trip to the pediatrician resulted in powerful and awful-tasting doses of this goop. He’s almost done. (Culture revealed strep group A infection. Thank goodness for modern medicine!)

Sorry the photo is so small, but it features “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” playing on my MacBook. Will, Henry, and their overnight guests Olivia and Gabby are all gaga for Harry. You wouldn’t believe how quiet four children can be when they are listening to Harry Potter audio book reader Jim Dale.

“Mom! Watch! I am blowing air into my ears!”

The rain still falling, this crew took every toy in the house, spread them out on blankets, couches and chairs in the living room, and had a sale.

Books were “20:50″ each, camping gear was $1.50 a piece or $30 for all five pieces and the game of Perfection was $80. Legos and Playmobil had their own price points, and some, of course, were spesl.

Henry has had enough of the rain by now.

Finally! The rain stops. Naturally, my two and their neighbor decide to wash rocks to celebrate.

An hour later I found them over at the neighbor’s house, washing their bikes and singing one stanza from Katy Perry’s “Fireworks” OVER AND OVER.

Hydrangeas in bloom.

Pool time! Made extra special to have a swim with visiting cousin Justin, pictured on right.

After staying up til nearly 10 on the sleepover, these toes and the five-year-old body attached to it were out cold. Good night!

This crowd knew EXACTLY what to do with a photobooth, as you’ll see below.

The photobooth, in one slide show!

Watch out for the BEST photo bomb of all time, by our gorgeous bride, Jackie!

All photobooth images taken by Eden Long of South Carolina.

For the highlights of their day, watch their slide show here.

(And look for part 2, the photobooth slide show, tomorrow!)

Happy love, Jackie and Adam!

xo,

Anna

Venue: Guilford Yacht Club, Guilford, CT

Gown: The White Dress By the Shore, Clinton, CT

Bridal Hair/Makeup: 129 on Main, Cheshire, CT

Catering: Jordan Caterers, Cheshire, CT

Music: DJ Keith Alan, Keith Alan Productions

Photography: Anna Sawin Photography, Stonington, CT

Super extra-special thanks to my all-star photography team of Dallas Galbreath and Eden Long!