{"id":12153,"date":"2013-06-28T12:47:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T17:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/?p=12153"},"modified":"2013-06-28T14:11:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T19:11:01","slug":"jaymie-brad-engagement-portraits-at-coney-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/jaymie-brad-engagement-portraits-at-coney-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaymie &#038; Brad&#8217;s engagement portraits at Coney Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaymie &amp; Brad are getting married in October at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshmeadow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Meadow Country Club<\/a> on Long Island and when we discussed possible locations for their engagement session Jaymie explained she&#8217;d had a longstanding desire to have a fun photoshoot down at Coney Island&#8211; what a great idea!\u00a0 I hadn&#8217;t shot there in several years actually and was curious to see what may have changed since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/11\/03\/hurricane-sandy-coney-island_n_2069243.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane Sandy hit the area hard <\/a>last fall.\u00a0 Well it turns out that Coney Island is open for business and in full effect&#8211; the beach was full of bathers, the parks are full of rides and everything was up and running at full blast.\u00a0 We met at the corner of Surf and Stillwell right there by the train station and our shoot was scheduled for the day *after* the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coneyisland.com\/programs\/mermaid-parade\" target=\"_blank\">Mermaid Parade<\/a>&#8212; I was worried the place would be trashed but it seemed normal enough&#8230;\u00a0 in our whirlwind tour we hit some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonderwheel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wonder Wheel,<\/a> bumper cars, one of those crazy spinning rides, Jaymie won a stuffed animal in a shooting game on her first try (and promptly gave it to the little boy playing next to her), and explored the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunaparknyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Luna Park&#8221;<\/a> area as well.\u00a0 Of course we also hit the beach, and ate at the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathansfamous.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan&#8217;s!<\/a>\u00a0 Though it was a sunny June day at the end of a hot week the strong breezes coming off the ocean kept us comfortable and I enjoyed this shoot immensely.\u00a0 At the conclusion of the session we all enjoyed some melt-in-your-mouth fresh cotton candy.\u00a0 You gotta love Coney Island&#8211; definitely worth a visit if you&#8217;ve never been!\u00a0 Check out my favorites from their shoot below!<br \/>\n<img class=\"pp-lightbox-placeholder pp-gallery-placeholder lightbox-1372441198 mceItem\" id=\"pp-lightbox-1372441198\" style=\"display: none;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/p4\/placeholders\/lightbox-placeholder-1372441198.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/69330245?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaymie &amp; Brad are getting married in October at Fresh Meadow Country Club on Long Island and when we discussed possible locations for their engagement session Jaymie explained she&#8217;d had a longstanding desire to have a fun photoshoot down at Coney Island&#8211; what a great idea!\u00a0 I hadn&#8217;t shot there in several years actually and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[28,18],"tags":[785,148,783,125,54,784],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12153"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12267,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions\/12267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}