corolla, north carolina

ck out this section of the beach just north of our house in corolla, it's just at the beginning of the 4 wheel drive beach, a little past the fence that's pictured below. The image above was stitched together in my iphone from 3 separate photos........cool beans, huh

and for the uninformed, the fence goes from the ocean to sound, and is there to help protect the wild horses of corolla from the public as much as possible..........more info on corolla's wild horses here

Outer Banks Photographer

from bumps to the beach, two of my favorite places

missed posting yesterday, I thought that 7-8-09 would be a cool date to start up the blog again,
but with things crazy busy here at the beach, it didn't happen.

lot's of awesome clients and way cool images again this summer, I'll try and get a few up every day or so the beach and the dunes in Corolla rock..........and remember folks, it's never too early to start thinking about Christmas.........
portraits make perfect gifts, especially for people who "have everything"
these guys definitely have the Christmas card thing together this year!and a oh yeah, the running streak is still goin' strong, today it hit
922 days!

got in a nice 6 miler this a.m. to these tunz

Beyond Here Lies Nothin' Bob Dylan
Life in Technicolor ii Coldplay
Mykonos Fleet Foxes
No You Girls Franz Ferdinand
Franklin's Tower Grateful Dead Buffalo 5-9-77 T
Perfectly Good Guitar John Hiatt Live
The Future Leonard Cohen
Scare Easy Mudcrutch
Light a Candle Neil Young
Wagon Wheel Old Crow Medicine Show
Magic Bus The Who..... Live At Leeds

uh oh

Bumps!

New Jersey Pet Photographers

I really love doing pet portraits.......have two coming up next week.
I just found this portrait of this beautiful cat that was done in my Franklin Lakes studio last year and had to post it. hope that you like it

new jersey pet photographers portraits morris county, bergen county

Ahhhhhhh. Black Velvet

1/2 Guiness and 1/2 champagne

The Chef

Cookin' the feast

Yikes!

Gotta leave the mtn now and get down to some serious St Paddys day
stuff....buy some corned beef, cabbage, more Guinness and get down to
cookin it all up

Some more St Paddy skiiers

The lift ticket checker

Sportin' some St. Paddys day spirit

ck out Skips special cookies!

Sweet!

Happy St. Patricks day!

All's I need now is my Guinness

:-)

Corolla family beach portrait.....

this family beach portrait was taken just after sunrise in Corolla, it's amazing how happy the kids are looking that early!

I love the mornings in the Outer Banks, hardly people on the beach, not too hot,
just a beautiful paradise....

Speaking of beautiful, how beautiful is this little lady......

aren't newborn babies just so amazing......
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and speaking of amazing.......check out the
amazing Skippy on the slopes


skiphone w/skip @ Mountain Creek from Bruce Lorenz on Vimeo.

the video was done entirely on an iPhone, pretty amazing in it's own right

Outer Banks Photographer

newborn photographer

I've had the pleasure of photographing some newborns lately, Peyton was only twelve days old when she was before my camera, and she was a perfect little model.........

and Candy was only ten weeks old when she posed.......another perfect model

I love Daylight Savings Time
Like so many others yesterday, I spent a good part of the day looking for my lost hour.......but unlike so many others, I found mine.....it was right there on my living room sofa, disguised so cleverly as a nap. I snapped it up and now all is good :-)


On Saturday Chris and I stopped by Rutt's Hut in Clifton, NJ for some of the best fried ( yeah, that's right..FRIED, rippers as they are known by the regulars ) hot dogs I've ever had.
Chris has been there a ton, but it was my first time......and I highly recommend it

I might even stop by on my way into the city later!

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Holy Time Warp Batman........

it's March 4th already!!!!!

and it ( March ) sure did come in like a lion, at least here in NJ ( I wonder what in was like in Corolla and Duck? ) We had a nice storm starting on Sunday and continuing well into Monday. Here's a sweet image that was taken from my front door, in fact I like it so much I used it in my Picture A Day Project.

Since we had the snow I decided to head up to Mountain Creek yesterday..............had an awesome time w/my snowboard and the G10
ck out the video below

a ski day from Bruce Lorenz on Vimeo.

and here's an image that was taken a few weeks ago in Lavalette, NJ, but the wall reminds me of a location in Mendam, NJ that I work at all the time.

The Outer Banks

Here are a couple of images from the other day in the Corolla

hope that you like them!

corolla photographer

picture a day

the first six weeks
check it out


the picture a day project is still going strong, although the rules have changed a bit.......pictures are still taken each day, but they no longer have to be posted that same day........sometimes that just doesn't work, ya know, like if I get home at midnight, that not always the best time to work...lol

and the project is having it's desired effect, which is basically making me see more.........shapes, line, light, you know, all that cool stuff......as Jimmy Buffet says " I travel on the song lines that only dreamers see".
and speaking of Jimmy Buffet, of whom I am a huge fan,
ck this out



"Madoff made off with all the money"....lol
and
"Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan......we've got a lot to drink about"

lol!



Kathy C sent me this, about this dude who's running streak hits 7k days tomorrow, how freakin awesome is that? My streak hit 790 days today, I've got a loooooooong way to go to 7K, don't even know if it's possible....I'm afraid to do the math.......

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Skip, Spike, Toph and I went to see Will Ferrell do W the other day and he was really great!

The show runs thru mid March and we highly recommend it.........and like the tourists we truly are, we hung outside the stage door to see WF come out....he seems like a nice guy, and spent a bunch of time chatting and signing autographs with all the fans who had waited.

duck nc beach portrait

here's one from this past summer of two sisters on the beach in Duck, North Carolina

hope that you like it :-)

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and on another note you do realize that it's Fat Tuesday don't ya

HAPPY MARDI GRAS

wish I could be there

( maybe it will make it to the bucket list lol )

check out this link for some cool Mardi Gras news

corolla and duck outer banks beach portraits

duck nc beach portrait, originally uploaded by b lorenz.

8 days on the Amalfi Coast in 3 minutes and 33 seconds

check it out!

ahhhhhh......it seems like only yesterday

January Twenty Seventh

is Kim's birthday and this year she is 27, and the words of James McMurty "it's a damn short movie, how'd we ever get here?" seem very appropriate here. Kim is with Aaron in Louisiana, so Skip, Chris and I decided to sing happy birthday and send it to her....and since Laura is in NYC and wasn't available for this production, we included her the best we could...lol.......check it out

Happy Birthday Kim from Bruce Lorenz on Vimeo.

Happy Birthday Kim
we love you!

just workin'

got in a chilly 3 miler this morning that brings the running streak to 757 days!

you may have noticed the Greener Photography logo on the sidebar, it's a group I'm just starting to get involved with and it's pretty cool, be sure to click on the logo and check it out
( but they need to send me this years logo...lol )

some cool images
was working on Jonathon's Bar Mitzvah album today and really liked this image

and I found this one from Italy on my iPhone

and this one was photographed the other day at Chris's track meet at the armory in Jersey City

and even though it's in the 20's here in NJ, I'm still checkin out the surf report at
Corolla Surf Shop on a daily basis.......I can't wait for summer!

family beach portraits and wedding photography in Corolla and Duck
in the Outer Banks of North Carolina OBX

good morning

got this image this morning on my iPhone while driving Chris to school, I dig the motion blur.....it's really got that early morning feel...ya know, that not quite yet focused feeling cause the coffee hasn't fully kicked in......lol

it's my picture of the day for today, check them all out here
I didn't © it, so please don't steal it, cause if you do, I'll come after you :-)

had dinner the other evening with my buds from The Image Maker. Rob, Wendy, Darlene and I all used to work together in Mendham and Berkeley Heights doing portrait photography of families and children. I'm stoked that we still get together now and then, check us out in front of the old studio in Bekeley Heights after leaving Delicious Heights.

Man, it's freezing here in Hackettstown today, so I'll probably wuss out and go for my run on the old dreadmill and watch sports center or old episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

This little cutie's baby portrait was part of a family that I photographed on the beach this past December in Corolla, North Carolina on a day when it was still nice and warm.Here she is with the rest of her family on the awesome Outer Banks beach.

and here's a family from Basking Ridge, N.J., that was photographed in Beach Haven on Long Beach Island in New Jersey about 18 months ago. It was on my desktop because they just reordeded some prints......which is something that any of my clients can do anytime, since I store all client files in a safe archival manner forever.

won't be long till the weathers warm up though, after all, it's only
22 days till pitchers & catchers!
I can hardly wait......

want some inspiration?
I found these two sites this morning, be sure and check em both out, they really rock....

http://www.wisdombook.org/
http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/

Outside my window this afternoon

Outside my window this afternoon, originally uploaded by b lorenz.

these guys came by as I was hanging/working online in my living room.

good stuff

okay so today I started a new exercise...a picture a day stream at Flickr....I'm going to photograph something new each day, and post it here.....I'm hoping that it will encourage me to see more light, and more of everything every day......and the rules for this mission are very, the image can be of anything and anywhere that I want and must be made and posted that day, and that means my day, anytime from when I wake up till when I go to bed, clock time doesn't matter, and from any camera I want, even from my iPhone, uploaded any way I want, with any post production that I want or don't want (hey...It's my deal, so I make the rules). Like the running streak ( 749 days! ) I have no idea how long this will last, but be sure to check it out every now and then. If you want to see the inaugural (good word these days huh) image click here
enjoy!

good to be back

after a relaxing, but all too fast week at the beach in Corolla it feels really good to be home in Hackettstown, i guess it's the old New Years thing and focusing on all the positives and all the stuff I want to accomplish this year.

Later today we're headed to NYC to pick up Spike ( laura ) and then headed uptown to check out Chis at a track meet at the 168th St Armory. I'm kinda pysched as it looks like a really cool place.

Now's it's time to get out for my daily run ( gotta get rid rid of some of that holiday weight gain!).

family beach portrait photographer Corolla Duck North Carolina

01-01-09

this is the first thing that I saw this year

it's the view from me and Skips bed in Corolla....sweet

( i know, i know , the screen needs to be fixed...lol)

I love New Years Day, there's always this feeling of ahhh...newness, at least for me anyway, and you seem to see things a bit differently

here's a couple of images from this morning

Gracie was having a good new years day today too....the beach and a frisbee...

it doesn't get much better

and a, oh yeah, today the running streak hit 733 days, pretty cool, but nothing compared to this dude, 40 years without missing a day, check it out.

Happy New Year Everyone!