Stitches
Posted: January 7, 2013 Filed under: Personal, Sketchbook | Tags: art, dog, drawing, health, illustration, painting, photo, photography, Photos, puppy, stitches, vet 4 Comments
Stitches – painting by Nicole Cleary
Before Thanksgiving and during a rather bad nor’easter, our little dachshund Leo started acting unwell. At first he was walking around a bit less. Then when he did walk, it would look slow and careful. Finally he seemed to just lay down almost all the time. We knew something was wrong, but just weren’t sure what it was.
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Wedding – Our big day near Florence, Italy
Posted: October 19, 2012 Filed under: Personal, Travel | Tags: Bridal, Bride, Groom, Italy, marriage, married, photo, photography, Photos, wedding 15 CommentsI’m back with a new name, Nicole Michele Cleary. I feel an odd sensation when I look at my new name. Letting go of the past and starting a new family is a lot to take in, but I know this change is for the better. Opening up a new chapter of my life with new possibilities.
The wedding day itself felt like a dream, because it went so perfectly. The colorful sunset and gorgeous 70 degree weather in Fiesole, near Florence Italy, made the ceremony magical. Certainly a day I will never forget, not for the beautiful scenery, exquisite decorations, delicious cuisine, and swinging jazz band, but for the romantic, patient, supportive and strong man I married. He is who I was walking down the aisle to, my husband, my person. We could have gotten married in a McDonald’s, but this way had a bit of artistic flair :)
Below are some pictures of our special day by our beloved friends and family:
Shaun Cleary, my husband’s brother and best man, ©SuperClearyPhoto website link
Audrie Lawrence, a family friend. website link
Evan O’Reilly, my husband’s cousin and good friend. website link
Bride Getting ready – Fiesole, Italy – 10-8-2012 – photo by SuperClearyPhoto
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Reminds me what I’m doing this all for
Posted: September 2, 2012 Filed under: Personal | Tags: brooklyn, engagement, new york, nyc, photo, photography, Photos, promenade, wedding Leave a commentBeing engaged is an odd feeling. Everyone tells you “it’s a very big step”, and it is. One piece of advice that I’m glad I took, “take time to be happy about being engaged”. It is really easy to get caught up in the wedding planning, dinner arrangements, ceremony proceedings, creating and sending the invites. Especially when it gets down to the wire a few weeks before the date, it is really easy to lose perspective, and forget why the two of you are doing all this work. After just an hour photo-shoot with an extremely accommodating best man (our photographer), and a beautiful setting on the Brooklyn promenade over-looking the East River at sunset, we ended up with some great photos. More importantly, I couldn’t stop smiling. I was just happy to spend a stress-free hour with my fiance. It reminded me what I’m doing this all for.
Inspirational Artist Feature – Jackie Wu
Posted: July 6, 2012 Filed under: Inspiration | Tags: art, Artist, geckokid, HDR, Jackie Wu, landscape, panoramic, photo, photography, Photos Leave a commentJackie Wu utilizes HDR camera lighting effects and panoramic views to create stunning landscape photography. HDR, or high dynamic range imaging, is a photo process that “compensates for loss of detail by taking multiple pictures at different exposure levels and intelligently stitching them together to produce a picture that is representative in both dark and bright areas” – wikipedia. I have been following Jackie Wu’s extensive portfolio for quite awhile, but my favorite has to be his “Good Morning London” piece below. The amount of color and detail captured in the photo is just astonishing.
Good Morning London photo by Jackie Wu
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Midnight in Paris – My Trip And The Movie
Posted: March 7, 2012 Filed under: Inspiration, Movies and TV shows, Personal, Travel | Tags: Eiffel, Film, France, life, Midnight, Paris, Personal, photo, photography, review, Travel, vacation, Woody Allen 13 Comments
Paris from over the river Seine
- Photo by Brian Cleary.
“Midnight in Paris” is an inspiringly different movie. The first five minutes gives a magnificent ode to the city of Paris. It began with a lowly clarinet, sounding a slow, jazz tune. The scene transitions from street to street, monument to monument, from day to night to rain. Paris is beautiful in the rain. It glistens and shines, as if covered by billions of lit diamonds. It is so beautiful that it brought me to tears several times. And I feel that the director and writer, Woody Allen, mirrored that beauty in the film.
Nicole M. Cleary 