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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles and Welcome to the November photo contest.
I’m Christon Gibson and joining us today is Meagan Zarba and guest photographer Vessi VLasseva.
Say that 3 times while your dancing. It’s go a good disco beat to it.
Today we’re gonna find out who the winner is of the monthly photo contest
How do you enter the monthly photo contest?
You have to hashtag #NLandL
Which stands for Newport Living and Lifestyles!
Fantastic! so Vessi did a great job of picking only five photos.
I don’t know how you did it.
It was difficult.
How many were there?
There’s a lot
A lot! I only looked for the month of November. I didn’t look past the month of November.
There is probably at least 100, I would say
Wow!
Yeah, people are doing a great job of hashtagging.
Every winner, every month, gets a gift certificate and a bottle of bubbly
Today our host is Meagan Zarba
Would you like to tell us something about what the winners will receive and what you do.
Absolutely, I’m a licensed massage therapist and health coach and I
work with people. I specialize in helping people have less pain in their
body, chronic pain, acute pain, I work with people who are in rehab programs, people
who just want to feel better in their body and I’m
offering $100 giftcard to come work with me in any capacity.
I practice deep tissue, myofascial release, just simple relaxation, Swedish massage,
I also incorporate marma point therapy, which comes from Ayurveda
if you’ve heard of it, if not, if you’re curious, come talk to me.
I could probably talk for hours about everything that I do.
I do have two locations.
On Monday and Tuesday I’m located here at Stella Mare in Newport it’s 91 Long Wharf and then
my other location is Wednesday and Thursday in Middletown, inside Wyatt Square, its 575 East Main Road.
You can see me at either of those locations and
I’m really excited to work with you and meet whoever the winner is
They can book appointments for you straight through Facebook and Instagram.
Facebook @massagewithmeag Instagram @meaganzarba
Also, by my phone number, which I’m not sure if we are putting that out there….
Let’s do it!
Go for it!
Yeah! Call me! 978-870-8161
or you can reach me at my email
which is Maegan@everydayohm.com
my website is EverydayOhm.com
Your Instagram and Facebook?
My Instagram is @MeaganZarba and
You can find me on LinkedIn by the same name @meaganzarba
I’m the only one that has that name.
Well I love your name and this is a beautiful space to work in with a piano and gongs, really gorgeous space.
It’s a really special space. Stella Mare is also used as a rental space for micro weddings, corporate parties, private
parties and any of that jazz. It is a gorgeous place to hold events.
Yes, I teach yoga here. The owner of this
space is super passionate about holistic health and wellness and she invites any
of that to be part of the space when it’s not being rented out for events so
We are actually home to Newport Kundalini , which is a type of yoga.
It’s a really big community here.
Every Tuesday night there’s a class at 6:00PM Kundalini Yoga and
on Tuesday mornings I teach a regular Hatha alignment based flow and
I also do private yoga, small group yoga and just teaching people how to move their bodies in general.
My whole background is in exercise science and psychology originally.
I used to be a personal trainer so I’ve been studying the body
and the workings of the mind and the body for probably 15 years.
How did you guys meet?
Through my husband and her boyfriend.
I was dying one day. I was having horrible, horrible back pains and her boyfriend who works with my husband,
said you have to go see Meagan, she is life changing and she fixed me.
I’m honored to be a part of anybody’s healing process and thank you very much.
Vessi tell us about your photography, your history, how you got started, your passions.
I am new to Newport. I moved here from Colorado in May.
I started photographing when I was 14 years old in high school.
I did it as a second major in college and then once I graduated college.
I decided that photography was going to be my side hustle.
About 3 – 3 1/2 years ago it turned into my full-time job.
I’ve been doing it ever since.
I’ve had a lot of clients in Colorado that I’ve worked with.
I primarily work with interior designers on interior design photography.
I do a lot of lifestyle shoots with people and products.
That is what my main focus is, however I’m open to new ventures in photography,
which is really really cool.
Then I also do some graphic design work as well, because my other major,
because I couldn’t just be an art major, according to my parents, was advertising.
I do all of that stuff as well.
Some clients use me as kind of a little more of a full-service, small boutique-y agency,
others just come to me for a la cart services
It just depends on what people need.
A women of many facets. How can they find you?
You can find me at VessiVlasseva.com
and my photography, design work and all of my contact information can be found there.
Fantastic, thanks ladies, are we ready to check out some of these photos?
I picked 5 photos off of the #NLandL hashtag for November.
Should we start with this one? This one is by @MermaidMasterpieces
She’s got fantastic work.
It’s so so pretty. It’s just the sky and the ocean.
It’s just absolutely beautiful.
I love of the colors and the reflections.
I love that it all blends together.
It looks like a painting.
I want to hang it over my bed.
That would be a great canvas.
You get lost in it.
Yes! it’s beautiful!
And it looks very mermaid-ish.
How many likes does she have, 22 others liked it,
so go check out @mermaidmasterpieces
She has really fantastic work and she DESERVES the props!!!
She has a lot of beautiful work on her page, I kind of stalked everybody a little.
She has a Christmas cards! check out her Christmas cards!
CUTE! That’s awesome!
The second photo I chose is by @l_Double
and the reason I liked this photo is because it looks a little urban for Newport
It gives the city a little more of a city, like a big bigger city vibe.
I really like it and also girls who skateboard are cool!
yeah!
That one was personally my favorite.
And this one got 136 likes.
Nice work Lee Abney!
He’s one of the favorites around town by the way
I have not met him.
Each of his photos really exude a lot of mood, you can completely tell that they are his work.
You guys definitely check it out @l_double
You know everybody!
Well doing this, you meet more and more people for sure.
The next photo I chose is by @TimNewportRI
It got a 179 likes. I don’t know if Tim’s a professional photographer or if this is something he does on the side.
He works at Discover Newport and by the way,
He is a bartender at the Black Pearl, so go check him out there as well.
He’ is always out and about highlighting Newport for Discover Newport
Cool! I saw a bunch of photos.
It’s just really, just such a pretty composition.
Calming.
Even the 3 that you picked so far really show so many different sides of Newport so look forward to seeing more.
Yeah, I tried to do that.
I thought that was beautiful.
It’s very calming and relaxing and this is actually a snapshot of the video that he had.
You can just hear the birds chirping and it’s really beautiful.
We couldn’t print that.
Our next contestant is @emdiggity_
She got 124 likes on her image. It’s a picture of her and her dog, I think at the beach.
So cute! I love it !The dog is on point !
Yes! You don’t know how many pictures I have tried to get
of my dog hanging out the window and I cannot do it!
They are not paying attention.
She really captured this so perfectly.
Even as a photographer, I can never nail anything like this, ever.
So good job, way to go, this is perfect,
you should frame it, I hope it’s on your wall, I love it.
I actually want to get a picture of him, which I’ve been trying to do for so long, with the caption that reads
“and I always think they’re waving at me, like a baby in a carriage”
cause they are always waving at the dog like they are so cute!
Good job
Last photo is by @K__Elizabeth.
She got, oh gosh, 968 likes!
She’s pretty popular! I have not met her yet but we should definitely make that happen!
I just loved this photo at the beach, it’s so pretty.
The lighting.
She actually has verbiage here reads,
“Stormy night” so it must have been a stormy night.
It’s just a very pretty, peaceful beach image which just makes me think of Newport.
I love how she captured so many different colors on the beach and the sky it’s really popping with that blue.
What do you like about it?
I love that you can see the storms starting to roll in but it looks so the calm and peaceful.
There’s really a lot going on to it.
I feel like it brings in a lot of different moods rather than being cohesively one.
That’s @K__Elizabeth so check out her stuff.
Vessi being our professional guest photographer,
What is the winner of November!
It is so hard to choose and I love them all and I wish everyone could win but
I am going to go with @MermaidMasterpieces
Just because I would hang this on my wall if it was printed on a canvas. I think it’s beautiful!
Congratulations! Great ! Fantastic ! so we can invite @mermaidmasterpieces here together with us and
take a group photo and we can post that as well!
We look forward to seeing you !
Excited to meet you!
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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles.
I’m Christon and today is the August photo contest of the month.
Anybody who hashtags #NLandL enters to win.
You can also tag @NewportLivingAndLifestyles if you wish.
You will all be seen and one winner will be chosen today!
Joining us is guest photographer Cory Silken.
Cory Siken Photography, right on Thames Street and
Kevin Hegerty from 12 Meter Charters
who’s offering $100 gift certificate and a bottle of bubbly
That’s one ride, right?
One sail on one of the 12 meters in Newport.
Tell us a little bit about 12 Meters,
Where you’re located and your boats.
We’re down on Bowens Wharf. 12 Bowens Wharf
and we have a couple of America’s Cup boats. Colombia and Heritage.
whoever wins this will enjoy a fun sail on hopefully Columbia with me.
Have you ever been on one of the charters?
Yeah I have, actually that’s where I met Kevin years ago .
Certainly one of the best charters in Newport
when you want to get out for an afternoon or an evening.
Have you taken photos of the boats or with the boats?
Yeah they are also some of the most beautiful boats in the harbor for sure.
Certainly these old boats have the graceful lines that new boats just can’t quite match.
Yes, for sure, definitely had some of the most beautiful photos of Columbia.
I am looking around his gallery right now.
So if you want to see some pretty pictures of Columbia come in the gallery.
Do you have any crazy fun stories about your charters that you can actually say out loud?
We meet all types of people. We are on the water every day, we meet people from all walks of life.
When they get on the water it’s a great experience for them.
I have to say he’s been really super busy so it was really hard to put him down.
so we’re really happy to have 12 meters a part of our show today.
Thank you for having us.
Where can people find you on the website? Do they need to buy tickets in advance?
The website is 12MeterCharters.com
or you can come down, we have a little kiosk downtown.
You can buy a ticket there for a fun sail.
We do a lot of corporate events and team-building. We don’t just race on the boat.
We actually just won the 12 Meter World Championships.
Hurray! Congratulations!
Thank you!
That’s so exciting!
yeah I was a pretty extraordinary event.
How many 12 meters were there?
The biggest gathering of 12 meters ever in the US, there were 22
12 meters from all over the world.
Yeah and this was a really busy summer for all of sailing in Newport.
You can see one of the s-class photos behind us here.
We also had the s-class 100th anniversary here in Newport this summer,
which is actually what my new book is about, which my father wrote and I did the photography for.
The S-class was the Herreshoff S class was designed and built up in Bristol RI, Just near by here.
The boats were originally designed in 1919, there were
about a hundred boats built and roughly half of them still exist. We had
21 boats on the bay racing here. There were a few others that are in racing
condition but weren’t able to make it, but still it was extraordinary having so
many of these old boats still racing so competitively, you know, we talked about
racing, well certainly, you can see in the picture behind us that they are tight and still very competitive.
You really have amazing photos, how did you get started in the photography world.
I started in photography back in school.
I was always into out-door adventures and
wanted to be able to show the gorgeous scenery with all my friends and family, when I would come back.
I grew up sailing, so certainly I blame my parents for that aspect of it.
It’s nice to blame your parents for everything, you know, even our personal shortcomings.
Yeah and I’ve just taken it from there.
yeah that’s great
I just saw recently on Facebook that you’re with some really
extraordinary people including Annie Leibovitz.
It was quite an extraordinary event, Greta Thunberg, who is an environmental activist from Sweden was
coming across the Atlantic with Team Milizia which is IMOCA 60 ocean racing team.
They brought her and they sailed her across the Atlantic because
she didn’t want to have the environmental impact of flying in an airplane.
You know, of course, that is also a great media for sailing and promotion of sailing
having her come on this boat. Quantum Sails also sponsored this team and they just
arrived. With the wind of course, you never know when the transatlantic
crossing boat sail boat is going to arrive and they came in late Tuesday
into New York and it was pretty extraordinary to see her and all the
fanfare in New York Harbor, even even despite that lousy weather and then
Annie Leibovitz was out there making a portrait of her as well, so we
got to hang out with her in the morning and it was it was quite a special day.
Where can people find your artwork?
My website CorySilken.com
You can also look for @silkenphotography on Facebook and at @silkenphoto on Istagram.
It’s really fantastic, so you mostly focus in the sailing community?
Mostly yachts, although I do shoot some portraits and some interiors as well.
My work with a number of regatta sponsors and shipyards and private yacht owners and
do some book projects and of course fine art as well around yachting and local scenery.
Cory’s chosen five photos or eight photos? How many photos did you choose today?
We have 8 photos from the Newport Living and Lifestyles photo contest.
We’re gonna take a look at them and hopefully
you’ve chosen the winner so stay tuned to the end and find out who the big winner is!
This first one is a neat shot from @Kara_Ann322
It’s a photograph of the reflection of the bridge at sunset or sunrise and some sunglasses on the beach.
The bridge is very popular, yeah wow, I love the colors in this, almost opalescent, iridescent, fairyland like.
What do you like about it?
I just like the picture.
I just like it.
I like it a lot.
And that’s how you should view photography,
if it’s something that you like, there’s there’s no more rationale needed.
If you like it, you like it, and that’s good enough, that is certainly a lot of my
customers here in the gallery. Something that when you connect with it , that’s that’s all you need to know.
She had 131 likes on this, so that’s great, good job.
Yeah and the next one is from @AnnM816 which is a photograph of bird.
It’s a hummingbird.
A hummingbird, yes.
Gorgeous colors.
Wow, that’s beautiful.
wow it’s so just clear.
Yeah it’s a very crisp image and very very nice with the
pink against the green background. There must have been some other trees
or bushes behind it. Yeah it’s very pretty.
and it’s hard to choose and narrow it down to 10, We have some really great local photographers and
just people with even with their iPhones, so this is, this is not an easy feat,
that’s why I bring in the judge photographers.
Yes and the next one that we have here is from @TimNewportRI and
it’s photograph of Newport Harbor with
some of the rocks in the foreground and it’s a really pretty shot.
Yeah gorgeous the reflection I just love the way the ocean here really picks up on pinks and
The pastels in the clouds and just the curve of the cloud
in the sky really brings your eye into the image very nicely.
I like it.
He likes it, “Mikey Likes It”
The next one is from @JMich78photography which is a
photograph of some poppies in a field with some cloudy sky in the background.
It’s really nice. I think the color of the sky, the kind of blue gray, as it goes
against the bright yellow of the flowers, sunflowers.
It’s a really nice contrast and I’ve seen a lot of these ominous clouds here a lot lately.
Do you like it?
Of course I like it.
Sunflowers are so cool
It’s going to b the ongoing theme of every picture now.
It is.
Alright and and the next one is from @SailOnHopeSan and of course it wouldn’t be very
good if we didn’t have any pictures of boats in here. This is a great
picture of a boat in the fog, with I’m assuming, that’s the sun trying to break
through the background, which is a scene we’ve seen all too often this summer in Newport.
Right Fog.
and you know they won laughs last month too!
Oh did they? okay
Oh yeah! Patrick and Monica, they charter “Hope San”, their sailboat.
They always get really great photos out on the water.
Here we have one from @l_Double
I really like his work a lot.
Reaching into the sun of the road.
Lee Abney has really fantastic stuff you can always, always know when it’s his picture. It’s really unique.
Yeah, you’ll have to check some of his stuff out. Nice work Lee.
230 Likes, that is a lot! Good job
The next one is from @DMN-images
It’s kind of a neat shot at the beach with
some glow sticks I guess.
Do we have rave parties here that I’m not aware of?
Right?
Are you guys going to the rave parties?
Ya know, at 4AM you never know what’s gonna happen.
That’s true.
I don’t think that one was quite a 4AM
A neat shot nonetheless,
Nice creativity in this bunch of images.
DMN_Images, 107 likes, 3 days ago. Good work.
Then this next one which is which is my favorite.
Oh could this possibly be the winner? this is it?
This is the winner! drum roll….
@Anastasia_M_Arnold
Anastasia!
It’s a shot at the beach, with the lifeguard tower and a surfboard and a
group of presumably either surfers or lifeguards more likey.
It’s framed really nicely. It’s got a nice mood to it and just nice muted
color for the scene which works really well with it.
Makes it pop.
A little bit misty on the water.
I love what she says here. What does she say
Stand 5 is my hangout place. I’ve
never enjoyed the beach as much this summer as before, so peaceful.
Congratulations Anastasia Arnold.
Congratulations, great photo.
You can come on down to Cory Silken
store located at 518 Thames Street.
518 Thames Street and collect your bottle of bubbly and you’re sailing tour.
We’ll get a really fun photo with you, right guys?
Yeah absolutely, can’t wait to meet you.
Congratulations to everybody who enters.
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