Connecticut Wedding Photographer Bruce Plotkin

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Welcome To Our New Blog!

I'm truly excited to welcome you to our new bigger, better, brighter, bolder, did I say better, BLOG. Long in the planning, finally it's here. And what better timing, than with the recent announcement by the Knot that we've been once again included in their Best of Weddings issue, selected by our very own brides and grooms as one of the Northeast's top wedding professionals. What an honor for us, but truly a testament to the many wonderful couples that we've had the good fortune to meet, who've allowed us into their lives on their most special of days, and with whom we've truly developed life-long friendships. Thanks to all of them, and thanks for taking a peak at our new site. I hope you'll continue to follow the action (which will of course encourages us to post the newest and the latest on a regular basis) and I hope that you'll let us know what you think of what we're doing. Peace and best wishes, Bruce

A Brief History

You might say that it all began with a certain very distinctive fragrance creeping up the stairs from the basement. You see my dad-the infamous and beloved and talented Sid Plotkin-was a wedding and portrait photographer for more than forty years in Worcester, Massachusetts, my home town. In addition to having his studio over the garage, his office and darkroom were in the basement. And while it was far from an everyday occurrence, every time he'd mix that sepia toner to make those beautiful brown-toned prints, the smell was not unlike rotten eggs. And while this may sound like a rather inauspicious manner of being drawn into the family business, something about knowing that at those key moments "magic" was happening downstairs clearly made a lasting impression. Miles travelled and years later, having spent considerable time as a magazine and advertising photographer in New York, having shot covers for the likes of Time and Us News and World Reports, the wheels have come full circle. For the last decade I've had the unique privilege of photographing hundreds of wedding celebrations, sharing in the lives and stories of countless brides and grooms at the start of their extraordinary journeys. The magic happens every weekend and my thrill is being there to record the moments when it does. As famed director Mike Nichols told Vanity Fair Magazine in talking about the making of "The Graduate", "There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love".

Jordana and Brad’s engagement session

Monday, April 5, 2010 Posted in engagement sessions, Weddings

With the amazing weather we’ve had for the past week, it’s almost hard to remember the endless, cold, storm-filled days of this winter past. But it was in the midst of that dark and dreary February, in fact just a day before Valentine’s day, that Jordana and Brad payed me a visit for their engagement session. And troopers that they are it didn’t take much convincing to get them to go outside for a few, but very quick moments in the snow, some of which are pictured here. With their wedding now less than two weeks away I thought it was just the time to give you a glimpse of our short session together as well as to tell you the charming story of the wonderfully fun and very much in love Jordana and Brad, in her own words (all “smileys” attributed to the author):

“We both grew up in Trumbull but never went to school together because we were five years apart. I was living in Atlanta after college and he moved there for a job. We were each on “JDAte” and saw that we were both from Connecticut, so we got in touch and realized we were actually from the same town and figured we should meet up. I thought he was nice but too shy, so I didn’t pursue it again, and he took the hint, but a few months later we started “IM’ing” and met up for drinks-where I talked AT him for a couple hours and decided he is a great listener, I should date him. So we started dating at the same time that he got a transfer to the NYC office, and about 8 months after he moved I followed him back home.

I had already had my mom get the “dirt” on him before we went on our first date, so I spent the whole dinner pretending to randomly ask if he knew certain people from Trumbull, knowing fully well that he did, and then watching his surprised reaction as he discovered how many people we know in common”