A happy proposal...

I was so unbelievably honored to have been a part of this moment between my friends Kristen & James this past week. I've known Kristen for just over six years now, and she and James are complete relationship goals - I was so excited when James asked me to capture their proposal at Lake Parsippany.

I think the photos below capture both of their personalities perfectly, and I'm so looking forward to the wedding. Congratulations to the adorable couple :)

Photos up on Parsippany Physical Therapy!

I was so happy at the end of last year to shoot some photographs for my friends over at Parsippany Physical Therapy. With their new website just going live, be sure to click on over to their gallery to check them out!

(And if you're looking for a physical therapist, you can't go wrong with Nick and the gang! Be sure to give them a call and tell them Rachel sent you!)

Finally!

Thank god for snow - that's all I can say :D

First things first - rrutledgeonline.tumblr.com is going to be updating the rest of this weekend with some photos and mixtapes after I resuscitated it from the unintentional coma I put it in during 2013. My bad. At least if you had been following miss-printed.tumblr.com, you got the craziness of my everyday mind ;P
Also, I finally fell through the rabbit hole and created a twitter account - check out my about me page to check out the links for not only that, but my instagram and pinterest accounts too :D

Other new things - both the Film Photography and Digital Photography galleries (both of the various year galleries, if you want specifics) have been updated to reflect work from the last year or so. The Music Series gallery, which I've had work ready to upload for ages, but just haven't had the time to (story of my life), also got a bit of a facelift. And finally, like I mentioned yesterday, I updated my links section as well.

Now that all of the basics are done, we're onto the big updates!!!

 Tiny Little Boxes | March 20, 2012, 3:09pm

If you've been following my updates around here at all, I've been talking about a print project I've been working on for just about forever (like here and here and most recently, here). Tiny Little Boxes is what comes from my original love of making art for my mixtapes, and combining it with the time based thought process behind The Book Project and The Calendar Project. I've seriously fallen in love with making these little snap shots of life, and I'm in the process of trying to figure out a way to display them in a way that makes the most sense. For right now, my first print trial has worked out pretty well and I've been giving away the first couple prints to friends and family. We'll see where it goes from there.

The other major update is my newest gallery, which will be displaying all of my blogging, marketing and promotional work that I've written or helped create. For me, everything comes back to a visual representation, and although the gallery is currently small (as in, only one thing so far), the twists and turns of my current employment ensure that, especially in 2014, it'll become a lot more interesting in the new year.

So, that's about it. I'm actually going to try and update this more than once or twice a year, and seeing as I'm currently three posts in to 2014, it's going well so far. Enjoy the winter storm, everyone!

Film Swap

Later this past summer, I was lucky enough to be a part of an online film swap (hosted by the photo blog Filmisgod). My partner was Emma Murrell; she shot through most of July and I shot through most of August and a little bit into September. The shots right now are all posted on my tumblr - be sure to check out the results!

First Freelance Work...

Thanks to editor Natalie Davis from the Parsippany Patch, I was lucky enough to be able to photograph the 2011 Parsippany Hills High School graduation - and I'm looking forward to working with them again!