Ashley + Jeff's Surprise Hoboken Proposal & Engagement

Iceland & Norway | September 1-9, 2017 Reykjavik, Iceland + Svolvær & Oslo, Norway Below are just some of the photos from our Labor Day vacation trip. 

A little over five years ago, I went on a blind date with a girl I met on Match.com and since then my life hasn’t ever been the same. I say a blind date, but we had spoken on the phone, texted back and forth and seen each other’s photos ahead our first date. We […]

Quick couples photo walk with Sean & Kaleigh around Jersey City. 

It was an overcast day but turned out to be an amazing evening for a surprise marriage proposal in Hoboken, New Jersey by the water front in Sinatra Pier. Dennis had found me through my Instagram (instagram.com/murphystudio) and from there we spent the week planning the perfect timing and location for his surprise engagement proposal. […]

The Mission Continues | Staten Island, NY | March 26, 2016

Although these photos are from 2014, this past week I went through and started editing some of my old photos to breathe some new light and life into them. I do this from time to time to help gain a new perspective on what I previously shot, as well as to find a few gems […]

The Mission Continues  |  Atlanta, GA  |  January 30, 2016 This past weekend I was given the honor to attend The Mission Continues 2016 Alpha Class Orientation weekend. This orientation weekend began the six-month journey of my fellowship with The Four Block Foundation. The Mission Continues empowers veterans to find new missions at home by […]

This is the final week of 2015 and it feels like it’s time to starting looking at wrapping up the year in photos. I want to focus on highlighting some of my BEST work of 2015. I don’t have a system in place to do this for every shoot, but looking forward to 2016 I […]

In November of this year, Martha and I headed to Switzerland to visit her cousins who are living in Basel for work for the year. . We had found a really cheap flight from New York to Basel so we could not pass up the opportunity to go visit them. We left on a Thursday morning […]

It’s that time of year again when many families are looking to get unique portraits done for the holiday season. I was lucky enough to take family photos for the photogenic Longan family on a beautiful fall day at the park. Our session started with some family portraits, continued with the kids running around while […]