Archive (Page 2) • Andrew Hager's Newsletter • Buttondown

Feeling Good + Inconvenient Graves

November 30, 2022

Thanksgiving came and went and I feel great. I usually get really depressed during holidays and I have no idea why. I think it helped that this year the four...

Found Some Snow

November 23, 2022

Well, it's not summer any more. It's finally consistently cold and this past week I shot a small wedding at Maine's premiere (but still pretty humble) ski...

November 16, 2022

I had a week off and it was awesome. Chilled hard. Lilly went out of town for a wedding and I partied with the kids (went to Target a lot). During that time...

Backyard Dithering and Mini-Film Dump

November 9, 2022

I shot a wedding on Saturday and now I have a week and a half off without any shoots. Is this a vacation? Give me just a little bit of downtime and my brain...

The Body Rebels

November 2, 2022

Man, I try so hard to add substance to this newsletter beyond "Damn, I'm busy" but damn, I'm busy. October is my busiest month of the year, and this year I...

October 26, 2022

I had another wild week. Lots of shoots. Lots of trips to Cape Elizabeth. Four consecutive days shooting in C.E., at the lighthouse, the beach, and the fancy...

October 19, 2022

View from Fort Foster in Kittery, Maine I had a bunch of shoots this week and I've had to be on constant weather-watch because we have been experiencing...

Lonesome Sundown

October 12, 2022

This week's newsletter title comes from this song, presented here as a cover since one of the original performers was cancelled! The grind continues. Busy...

Outtakess, Big Surf, Wind, Emotional Country Club Weddings, Artificial Grass, and a Guy Playing Taps at a Light House

October 5, 2022

I knew that this week would be anther laundry list of my assignments-style newsletter so I thought it would be funny to just write it all in the title,...

Rainy Weddings and Mountain Hangouts

September 28, 2022

My decoy set up on Cathedral Ledge It will be a brief update this week. I have been quite busy lately. I will continue to be busy for the next couple of...

Searching For Meteorites and Helping Senior Citzens Find Love

September 21, 2022

On August 7th, 1823 an achondrite meteorite fell to earth and landed in Nobleboro, Maine. Locals thought it was a musket being fired. This was the first...

It Finally Happened

September 14, 2022

Yes, it finally happened. After two and a half years and over 70 weddings photographed during the pandemic I finally caught Covid. The timing was of course...

Niftty Fifty / Return to the Water

August 31, 2022

I'm trying to pay a little more attention to this sort of thing - I did a quick tally last week and found that I was very close to doing my 50th photo shoot...

A Day Late and a Concept Short

August 25, 2022

I am loving (and deeply troubled by) the new Nathan Fielder show The Rehearsal. When I was watching episode 1 I felt a twinge of stress when he looked at...

August 17, 2022

Joel, Painted Hills, Oregon, 2008 Last week I shared some sort-of recent film work from 2019-2020 and it made me a little bit nostalgic for the years when I...

Trendy Film Dump

August 10, 2022

Did you hear?? Film is back! JK, it's just extremely trendy and popular again. Starting when I was a teenager I LOVED the ritual of filling up multiple rolls...

I had a fun challenge on Saturday - a guy hired me to photograph his proposal to his girlfriend at sunrise, and I already had a maternity shoot booked that...

When I was in Cape Cod a few weeks ago I found a dusty old copy of the somewhat rare photo book Summer Nights by Robert Adams. I consider Robert Adams to be...

Great Pond, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Previously on this newsletter I had spent a wild weekend shooting at a waterfall, slipping and busting my tailbone,...

Phew, I'm on vacation and I'm exhausted. This newsletter will be short on words, heavy on images. On Thursday I drove out to Jagolinzer Preserve in...

Next week I'll be in Cape Cod for a workshop/retreat/racation run by the very talented Cole Barash, so this week I have been trying to keep things easy. I...

I have to admit, I've been in the zone for the past month. Every week I've had fun and challenging assignments thrown at me and I feel like I have met them...

Perverse Umbrella Covers and Charitable Bunny Butts; or A Journey to Peaks Island

Peaks is a little island in Maine. It is accessible by ferry from Portland's Old Port. I shot a really fun wedding there last year, which would have been...

Scotland Bridge Test Shot This past Saturday I shot a wedding in York, Maine. I knew it was going to be a casual, backyard wedding and I didn't know much...

I love what I do but it would also be cool if I could make a living as an influencer reviewing camera gear. JK, that probably wouldn't be fun and I would...

I had the great pleasure of trying out the Hasselblad 907x this weekend, what I've previously called the cutest camera ever made (full review in next week's...

Work Hard / Play Hard

Waiting around during a wedding at The Colony Hotel, Kennebunkport, Maine I spent last week at home sick with the flu or tending to sick kids. This week has...

Newsletter #2 Get Your Flu Shot!

Holographic pinwheel in the bushes, Wells, Maine All of my grand plans for newsletter #2 were derailed when I caught Influenza A from my daughter. She was...

First Newsletter! Nostalgia, and Waterfalls

Some Guy Who Thinks He's Hot Shit, Bridal Veil Falls, Oregon, 2019 In general I hope for this newsletter to be a place to share my work in a place free of...