Central Park Portraits | Christian and Tommy

I did a mini-session in Central Park on the 4th of July with my cousin Christian, his husband Tommy, and their puppy Asta!

Dan and I were planning to visit with Christian and Tommy in New York in April of 2020, which obviously didn’t happen. It’s all good because we got a puppy that week and we love her soooooo much. Over the next couple of years, we traveled a good bit for weddings, and a lot of things in New York took a long time to reopen, so we didn’t make it up there for 3 more years. I told Christian and Tommy we could do photos somewhere and they suggested Central Park, which made me so happy.

If you’ve never been to Central Park, it’s a lot of purposeful green space in the middle of the concrete jungle. In some of these photos, you’d never even know they were taken in New York City! I hadn’t been to Central Park since I was 15, before I started photography, so I didn’t have a lot of places in mind. I told them I’d seen photos of a pretty staircase and found out the name was Bethesda Terrace, which was even prettier in person! It was the morning of the 4th of July, so even though I expected a lot of people to be there, people in New York tend to not be out and about until later in the morning. I only had to do edit a few people out of the background.

Christian and Tommy adopted a puppy a few months ago and named him Asta, after the dog in the old film, The Thin Man. Asta had never been to Central Park before, so he was super excited. Luckily, Dan was with me and could make noises and hold treats to get Asta to look at the camera. We only did a short session so Asta wouldn’t get too overwhelmed, but we covered a lot of ground in that time. For more tips on taking photos with your dog, click here.

Enjoy these photos of Christian, Tommy, and Asta in Central Park!

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