The Hamptons | Rentals, Beaches, and Fabulousness

We’re buried under a lot of snow up here in Park City, and many of my shoots over the holidays involved single digit temperatures, bundling up like crazy, and hauling cumbersome gear around while wearing knee high Sorels.  I’m eager for a little greenery & beach-y-ness!

Hence, this seemingly random post about our visit to the Hamptons a few months ago.  Last night, I just felt like enjoying the remnants of a wonderful trip to pull my head out of the New Year blues (I always get sad when the holidays come to an end), so I whipped out these pics and decided to edit them for a blog post.

Back in October, we had a really fabulously cool shoot in Brooklyn on the docket (as well as the baby shower of a dear, dear friend & ol’ college roommate), so a trip to New York was on the horizon.  We’ve stayed in some pretty cool places in the city (like, when we covered this party in the Mandarin-Oriental’s penthouse?  Yeah: amazing), but this time… I was feeling me some Hamptons.  Even though driving all the way out to Long Island was nowhere near anything on our agenda, the Hamptons were happening.

I was absolutely in love with our VRBO cottage in Sag Harbor — like, I NEVER wanted to leave — and morning outings to classic NY bagel spots like Goldberg’s was unspeakably awesome (for our first trip, we bought the bagels, went to the car, and ate half the bag while still sitting in the parking lot).  Because it was off-season, we had entire stretches of road, full beaches, and crab shacks completely to ourselves… and I loved every second of that, too.

On top of all the specific wonders of our trip, I was filled with an enthusiasm about being somewhere so glamorous.  I may or may not have first learned about the Hamptons via Sex & the City in the 90s (I don’t want to believe that… but it could be the case) but I do know that I’ve long wanted to check it out.  The enormous homes, the variety of architecture, the quaint villages, the restaurants, the beaches — all of it.  And it didn’t disappoint.  I reveled in every fantasy-come-to-life moment and, in the end, this trip made the top 3 of our 2014 (along with Leiper’s Fork, TN, and Cambria, CA).