I have a story for every newborn, toddler, child and couple I have met this year; many moments I will never forget and I am grateful for all of the individuals who have crossed my path this year.

I’m not a “picture perfect” photographer! What I mean by that is my goal is to capture “moments” as they unfold; to capture “personalities” of individuals¬†that depict “who” they “truly” are and to provide individuals and families with those moments that they can cherish forever.

I put together a slide-show that I feel depicts “personalities” if you will, of 2009!¬† After delivering 9,877 images this year and photographing a walloping 94 sessions, I went nuts cutting down on my initial image selection!¬† I had to toss out some really great images and choose “personality” over “picture perfect images!”

I would like to thank Robert Norman & Steve DePino for their never ending support, advice, feedback and constructive criticism they have given me this year.¬† It is so greatly appreciated and has been undeniably beneficial to me personally and professionally.¬† Thank you guys…

Hope everyone enjoys the 2 minutes of 2009!

-Rick O

I felt all criminal and the like – as she is a FFU Alumni, but it was parents weekend, and the office told her, absolutely no – you can not be on the grounds this weekend. I was so afraid the FFU police were going to come and throw my a** in jail, luckily no one was really around.

Here she is running back to the car before anyone catches us!

Sitting on the steps just soaking up the possibility of being thrown in college prison!

Before we headed to Fairfield University we stopped at a little park near the church she was married at – I just loved this look on her.

Same park – I really liked her look in this shot – almost as if she were just wed – taking a moment to take it all in.

I’m not sure what is in this little barn, perhaps its a cross-gendered facility – not sure – didn’t ask – but the texture was awesome. She was just posing it up like a professional super-model!

I’m not sure what was going on here exactly – I just loved her happy expression when she threw her hands up in the air and she was just waving them around like she just didn’t care – it was so darn cute…

Let’s try the arm thing again in front of the barn!

This barn was just so vast and she was just caught up in the moment as if she were reliving her whole wedding day all over again, it was awesome.

I really love this next barn shot, her look, the expression, the window, the red, everything just came so perfectly well together! Bam!

Here is Mrs. Garfield just hanging out at Old Mine Park – people are around us everywhere – looking at us like we’re a bunch of nuts – remember the wind is like a gazillion miles per hour and a storm is brewing.

We eventually ended up at Anchor Beach – you can certainly tell that the wind was picking up – I actually had never seen the water so violent…

Her hair was all over creation – she was just laughin hysterically – probably thinking in her own mind – I got my hair all done up for this!

Wind is picking up – I’m surprised she actually stayed on the ground – she can’t be more than 110lbs!

I really liked this next shot – it was actually one of the first shots at the beach – and the wind was blowing ever so violently – the water was raging up against the rocks – it was just an awesome scene.

Before the FBI arrives we thought we would take our chances and take a couple more pics at the University – people were snooping around – I was getting very very nervous – didn’t want any trouble with the law!

Finally one more – she snuck back behind the wall because people were walking thru!

It was a close one Alicia – thought my heart was gonna jump out of my chest – just as we were leaving – the maintenance men were driving up – whew – close call.

-Rick O