fine art photography

Organic Engagement in New York at Alder Manor

Editorial, Love, Portraits

August 22, 2017

Alder Manor serves as an incredible venue and backdrop for any occasion. For this organic, natural engagement editorial from the Gather and Grow workshop, its empty pools, ruins, and greenery create such a romantic spot for this couple celebrating their engagement.

I love greenery, and I was very pleased to find so much natural beauty in this place. An even bigger plus is when I can capture an entire session on film with no need for digital. I love film so much!

“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
Give me autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
Give me a field where the unmow’d grass grows,
Give me an arbor, give me the trellis’d grape,
Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching
content,
Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the
Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can
walk undisturb’d,
Give me for marriage a sweet-breath’d woman of whom I should never tire,
Give me a perfect child, give me away aside from the noise of the
world a rural domestic life,
Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal
sanities!” — Walt Whitman

It’s crazy to me that was written in 1865 about yearning for nature and escaping the urban city life. I can only imagine what good ol’ Walt would think now living in New York City.

Because of how natural everything is, this is a session that is timeless and can be recreated forever and ever.

Contax 645// Fuji 400H // The FIND Lab