The Whole World Is Watching - Occupy Wall Street

Hello everyone!

It's been a couple of weeks since I've posted, but as many of you know this is a very busy time of year. Yesterday I just got back from a 5 day trip to New York City. Having never been to New York before the city was absolutely amazing, however, we planned our trip right at the point that the OWS movement decided to move into Times Square. This all happened on a bit of a whim, my friends and I were walking around the city and decided to head over to times square durring the daylight to check it out. When we arrived at the square there was a large number of people, which at first glimpse didn't mean anything, after all it's New York. As we wandered further into the crowd we started to notice cardboard signs, police barricades, and an excessive number of mounted police officers. At the point we realized what was actually going on we were stuck in the crowd and, quite frankly, amazed that we literally walked into the initial Occupy Times Square portion of OWS. As we stood there the crowd began yelling, "The whole world is watching!" You may have heard this on the news, well that chant started from the people standing directly behind us. The picture attached is of those people who were standing on the statue in Times Square. I tried to google this same photograph but thus far I've found that no news source has been able to capture this photograph from the head on perspective that was literally right in front of me. This is, to my knowledge, the best photograph you will see of, "The whole world is watching!" Enjoy!

Mr. & Mrs. Hansen's Wedding Preview!

Hello everyone happy Wednesday!

I would just like to take a moment to share with you one of my favorite portraits from Rachel & Matt's wedding. I had the pleasure of photographing their wedding at the lovely Front Porch Farms a couple of weekends ago. As I said this is one of my early favorites, but please check back for more soon as there are many beautiful photographs from their wedding! ENJOY!!

Downtown Franklin, Tennessee

Over the weekend I decided to get out and about and explore historic Downtown Franklin, TN. I've driven through before but never actually gotten out of the car and walked around, WOW, what a cool place! The city's slogan is "15 miles and 100 years down the road from Nashville," which is so true. Where else can you go that you are surrounded by gigantic mansions and farms with rolling lines of fences, see a shopkeeper sweeping the sidewalk with a broom, or enjoy a drink while sitting at a bistro table on the sidewalk of this busy but sleepy town? All in all if you havent been to Downtown Franklin before.. GO! It's well worth it!

Be sure to check out their website: HERE!

And here's one souvenir I brought back from my visit, enjoy!

Fall is around the corner!!

It's hard to believe but fall is here again. Being that I'm a summer person and I will miss the warm weather, but I'll look on the bright side and take advantage of all of that fall color. The photograph that I'm sharing with you today is of Radnor Lake in Nashville, TN and was taken last fall; November to be exact. Hope you enjoy the photograph!

Rachel and Matt's Engagement!

Here are just a few portraits from Rachel and Matt's engagement portrait session. We took these pictures at the lovely Front Porch Farms, west of Nashville, TN. We had a blast making the portraits and look forward to their wedding!

New Black and Whites - Chattanooga

Hello everyone! Here are a few new black and white landscapes I did while recently in Chattanooga. The square photographs were actually taken in McDonald, TN and the rest were taken in Downtown Chattanooga! Enjoy!

Robin Bucci - Songwriter

Here is just a couple shots from a sitting this weekend at Radnor Lake. Check out our Facebook page to see the rest of them! www.facebook.com/stanrichstudio