America's Greenest School

Hayward Photography is very proud of our school partners, the South Shore Charter Public School in Norwell. They were awarded the “America's Greenest School” award on April 27th, 2010 live on FOX25 news. They won a hybrid school bus from IC Bus, as well as a green audit and approximately $20,000 to use for green improvements. The students themselves will also share a $3,000 scholarship.

Here are a few of the great green things they are doing at their school to earn such an honor!

They have a Veggie Van that run on recycled vegetable oil that is donated by local restaurants. Gutters have been installed on their shed and all rain water is collected and use to nurture their vegetable and flower garden. All food scraps are put in a compost system and the compost is used in their gardens. Students are on plastic patrol, they take home plastic utensils, wash them in their dishwashers and return them to school to reuse. Motion sensing lighting has been installed in the bathrooms so the lights power off when the bathroom is empty. Beyond recycling their own paper products, they also use paper donated from local companies and actively encourage each other to use of both sides of the paper.

America's Greenest School winner announced!

FOX25 Morning News

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/morning/americas-greenest-school-winner-announced-20100427

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Milton Floods

MILTON FLOODING

March 15, 2010

After 4 days and nights of Rain, many parts of Milton flooded. Cunningham Park under water.

You can only see the top bleacher!

Walter Baker Dam

Neponset River Swells

Baker Dam

Pine Tree Brook, Turner's Pond on Right

Glover School in Background

Brook view from School St. and Herrick Dr.

Unquity Brook, Central Ave Business District

No matter how hard the sump works, the raging brook wins!

Labels: Cunningham Park Floods, Milton Floods, Neponset River Flooding, Waler Baker Dam

Stephanie and Mike August 8, 2009 Wychmere Harbor wedding

Wychmere Harbor Club; A wedding to remember

Mike and Stephanie just got married August 8, 2009 at the Wychmere Harbor Club, Harwichport. It was a perfect day for a great couple. Mike is patiently waiting for his new bride arrival and first look.

Every bride should be as relaxed and carefree as Stephanie was.

The first look; Mike realizes that 'marriage is the best thing' that ever happened to me.

Here the guys were very busy writing a special note to the Bride and Groom. They were closely guarded secrets....

Steph couldn't get enough hugs!

The First dance

The gang is all here.

She kept getting in more hugs, Mike didn't mind.

This is one happy bride!

Check out their wedding video on Hayward Photography Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1209036272812&ref=mf

Wychmere Harbor Wedding, Cape Cod

Labels: Cape Cod, Wychmere Harbor wedding

Wedding Advice; Choosing the Right Photographer for your wedding

This is Part One of an ongoing series. Professional Wedding Advice

Picking the right photographer today can be a daunting task for most brides. There are more wedding photographers today than ever before. Choosing the right one can be difficult at best. Your wedding photos will be with you the rest of your life, so make the right choice, don't be drawn the least expensive photographer.

Here are some questions to ask the photographer....

1. How many weddings have they done? Where? Make sure they have years of experience and have shot many weddings in or at the location or venue you have chosen. There are some very good studio portrait photographers, but may be out of their element on the beaches of Cape Cod.

2. Quality; First, look at the bride's dress; are the highlights blown out, or can you see the fine detail, the lace, beads, etc. Are the facial tones correct, or do they look off color, or uneven? These may be indicators of an "inexperienced" digital photographer. If outside, was the bride photographed in open shade? If indoors, is the lighting soft or harsh, are the backgrounds dark with no detail?

3. Formals; How are people posed? Do they look staged, or all the same? Is there creativity?

4. Are they flexible with their "packages"; are they pre-made, or customized, do they provide a variety of options so you can get exactly what you want.

5. Are they members in Professional organizations such as PPA? Do they shoot full-time, or are they just a "week-end" photographer? Can they provide you with referral lists?

6. Do they shoot digital or film? There are advantages to both, but generally digital is better than film if it is shot correctly. We love making brides cry after they've come down the aisle; we can show them their pictures on the day of the wedding, we could never do that with film. It doesn't get any better than that!!

7. Photo-journalism: overused word in weddings. The problem here is that most photographers say they "do it" but some do not do it well. It means a lot of things; story-telling, being unobtrusive, capturing events as they happen, etc. See the photographers' work, look at several "proof books" that show all the wedding photos, not just albums that show the 10 best from several weddings. For example, are the photographs "posed", or do look natural and candid?

8. Do they design their own albums, or does some other company do it? Or do they just give you a CD with all the images on it?

9. Make sure they have a good wedding contract that is fair and specific.

10. Is the photographer more concerned about you and your day, your plans, or about their photography?

Labels: Planning Your Wedding

ORLEANS Inn Wedding

The Orleans Inn

Spectacular Water View below from the dining room

Kelly and James ; A Cape Cod Wedding.

We left our Chatham studio to search a beach for the wedding shoot and meet James at the Orleans Inn. We had a beach all to ourselves, on Labor Day weekend; it doesn't get any better than that.