TRENT BAILEY PHOTOGRAPHY | NYC WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER & FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER WHO BRINGS A VINTAGE EDITORIAL STYLE TO NEW YORK WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY » Trent Bailey Photography is a NYC Wedding & Family photographer who brings a timeless vintage & modern editorial style to New York Wedding Photography. He is frequently commissioned as a Manhattan Wedding Photographer and Manhattan Family Photographer but is available to photograph weddings and families throughout NYC.

Last year I was a new New Yorker and really passionate about pursuing photography as more than just a hobby.  One of the first photographers I met here was Spencer Lum. I attended a free workshop he was offering at his studio, which not only inspired me but helped me grow as a photographer.  Fast forward a little over a year:  here I am, still challenged everyday and growing as a photographer.  I’m excited to tell you guys that I am working with Spencer at his studio 5 West Studios & Stale Bread Photography.   I’ll fill you in on more details later, but today I wanted to share this engagement session that Spencer invited me on to shoot along with him.

Kelly & Eric are one fabulous couple.  They will be getting married this September at the American Museum of Natural History and I can’t wait to share their beautiful wedding with you guys!

Happy Monday!  I hope you all have one great week!

When I got the email from Terry & Michael that they wanted me to photograph their family at their new home in Philadelphia, I was so excited!  Dara & I were able to visit Philly in January for our one year anniversary and we really loved the city.  So this time around, we made a mini vacation out of our visit, stayed at our favorite spot The Hotel Palomar, and even brought our four legged child LOLA.  Dara came along with me for this fun family session (lola decided to sleep in at the hotel) and I cannot tell you how much she helped.  She is so great with interacting with the children and giving direction (we don’t pose people very often).  She also photographed with me, and a few of these are her shots.  I am so blessed to have her work along side me!

We started out the session with this little guy.  John was so easy, super happy, and ready for his closeup.  I think he’s a natural in front of the camera.

Michael really loves Thomas the Train and wanted his favorite train book to be a part of the shoot.  I absolutely love it when people include some personal items that help tell the story of who they are.  It could be a favorite toy or book for kids, or for an engagement session maybe incorporating the picnic basket used during your park proposal.

Like John, Rory was also thrilled to be in front of the camera and was such a great model.  Dara got her to do a few spins in her pretty dress, and she totally worked it!

Then we had a fun family picnic in the backyard.

Last week I shared Part One of Natalie’s Senior Portraits.  Today I’m going to share the second part.  I had so much fun shooting these night shots!

Me and Derek go way back….like all the way to 2007.  I used to work at the greatest suglass boutique ever Solstice Sunglass Boutique, and Derek was the assistant manager.  It was so much fun working there, probably because it never really felt like “work” and because of that crazy discount.  It’s probably safe to assume that over half of my pay went to investing in quality eye wear.   I say “investing” and “eye wear” because it sounds much more responsible than saying I blew all my money on designer sunglasses for dara and I, but that’s another story blog post.  I will say that we still have boxes of “quality eye wear” including gucci, marc jacobs, ray ban, mosley tribes, dita, and oliver peoples; one can never have too many sunglasses.

After my time (and discount) at solstice ended, I still kept up with the crew, and heard the great news from Derek that he had started dating Jason.  Dara and I met Jason and immediately loved him.  He and Derek are perfect together and really compliment each other.  We were so blessed to have them as guests to celebrate our wedding day in New Orleans and spent a few great nights at the wine loft together.  When I was in Louisiana in March I had the pleasure of shooting these two.  They were so easy to shoot and were super comfortable in front of the camera.  And you can tell they were up for anything like running in a fountain together.

I had so much fun shooting Jason & Derek. Dara came along on the shoot to “help” which mainly consisted of making us all laugh. We had a great time in downtown Baton Rouge.  Derek & Jason we miss you guys!

Can’t wait to show you more from these three sessions!

i’ve got ideas.  so many of them. rushing around in my head.

and sometimes it’s hard to turn it off and just be.

in the mean time, I want to share one more image with you guys of the oh so fun shoot with Bonnie and Brooks. A full post will be coming soon!

Today I celebrate the last day of being in my early twenties…..tomorrow morning, I’ll be waking up as a 24 year old and officially be in my mid twenties.  Think about it:  20-23 is your early twenties, 24-26 is mid twenties; and 27-29 is late twenties.  I know everyone must be on the edges of their seats wondering what I’m doing to celebrate this momentous last day of my early twenties.  Well my friends, I’m working, sipping on lemon water, and maybe reading two magazines that came in the mail for me yesterday.

I’m also patiently waiting on my wonderful parents to arrive in the city.  They are flying in from Houston for the weekend, and I couldn’t be happier.  I haven’t seen them since Christmas (which seems like FOREVER ago).  I’m a huge momma’s boy so I can’t wait to see her and cannot wait to see my dad on his first trip to NYC.

Happy weekend to everyone

I wanted to post this sneak peek from Natalie’s senior session here in NYC.  We had a great time and hit up a few fantastic locations.

I can’t wait to show you more…but for now, this teaser will have to do.

Last week I showed you part one of the senior sessions I took a few weeks back.  Today, I’m bringing you part two with Jacy.  We shot all over Baton Rouge, and had so much fun during the shoot.  Sure, it got a little cloudy which then dropped the temperature pretty quickly, but Jacy was great and was brave enough to run through the FREEZING fountain.

Part three with KT & Melissa is coming soon!

I’m in love with this session.  The location was beautiful, the golden sunlight, open fields, old barns, wow.  I love it when I ask a client if they have a location in mind and they pick a KILLER location. I met with Melissa a couple of hours before this session to scout out the location.   After we met, I went back to the home where I was staying for the week to take a nap (which I never do, but I had an early morning engagement session in New Orleans that morning).  I couldn’t sleep.  I was too excited about the shoot and could NOT stop visualizing shots in my head.  I had a blast at the shoot and even more fun going through all the images.  It was so tough to narrow it down for the blog, but here are some of my favorites:

Funny story behind these poses….these girls are so much fun!

Landon LOVES his dogs…this was one of the last images I shot of the day.  When I get my studio space, this will be hanging on a big canvas on my wall!