Wayne E. Chinnock Photography

Saturday June 26, 2010

I had the great opportunity to photograph the 65 mile ride from beginning to end while cycling in the event as well. Melodie and I made our fundraising goal thanks to some great donors.

It was a cooker of a day with the temperature reaching the upper 80’s with some pretty awful humidity, but myself and all the other riders made it. This year was the biggest turn out for riders in all categories: the 65, 25 and 15 mile rides. If you don’t know anything about BNB check out their website.

As always the Green Roots Festival was held from noon to 5:30 at the Stony Brook Station (orange line T) on the Southwest Corridor Park. There was some great food, great sponsor booths, and some great drum bands.

To see the full set of images, go to my WECPhotosSmugMug page and click on the BNB gallery.

50% of all print sales will be donated to BikesNotBombs.

Enjoy and let me know what you think!!

Team Awesome Shark

The start

First rest stop

Melodie at about 47 miles in

Drum band at the Green Roots Festival

Steel drums

The crowd gets into the drum band beats

Tuesday June 15, 2010

I was invited by a teacher friend of mine, Richard, to present some photography and work  ideas to a few of his students at Mount Prospect Academy in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Mt. Prospect Academy specializes in difficult to treat and hard to place adolescents who have had difficulties finding success in alternative environments.

It was a challenging yet really rewarding day presenting to these young men and getting to play a little Frisbee with them as well. I only hope that a few of them saw yet another career or interest alternative that may give them insight into the plethora of possibilities life can present to us. We did make a few portraits of the classes; however, due to these young men being minors, I have not presented any images of the students with faces in view. I have created a password safe portfolio of the Mt. Prospect Academy photos for the boys and the staff their. I hope the students enjoy them.

That being said Richard showed me a fantastic old Barn nearby in Alexandria, NH that I had the chance to create some beautiful images of. Hope you enjoy!!

Students watching my slideshow presentation

Old Gas stop at intersection in Alexandria, NH

Old gas pump detail

Richard, decaying VW bus and and an aging barn

Monday June 7, 2010

Evan & Maria Marley, owners of Pi Pizzeria on Nantucket, asked me to come in and photograph pretty much everything about their restaurant. This meant the food, staff, the bar, dining rooms, ambiance, their great take-out patio, drinks and even a perfectly created cappuccino that I gulped down afterwards to help me through the rest of the shoot. We organized two different shoots: one later in the evening for a little bar and dining room ambience and the second shoot early afternoon to create some superb food, interior and drink photographs.

The two of them were looking for images that would better represent not just their food and style but better display the feeling and experience that their guests walk away with when dining at their great restaurant. As always, I seem to have created and delivered more images than was probably necessary, but I believe we ended up with some fantastic images to use in the end for their future website and advertising.

To see the full slew of images, check out my PiSmugMug portfolio or simply visit my WECPhotosSmugMug site. I will be posting a few images on both my professional Facebook page and my Flickr site.

Enjoy!! Feel free to give feedback.

11 West Creek address at Dusk

Getting a couple pizzas ready for the wood oven

Sausage and Broccoli Rabe

Wood fired pizza

Main dining room

Fresh Pizza heading to a table

Evan delivering food to a table

Bartender Chris Perone with one of his specialty drinks

Enjoying the atmosphere at the bar

Properly chilled Martini

Beautiful Manilla clams in one of Evan's dishes

The amazing capuccino that tided me over and through the 2nd shoot

Fresh muddling of a strawberry/basil specialty drink