Baby Barnes! October 30, 2008

Between weddings, engagement shoots, and trips to Charlotte, Hilton Head and Pawley’s Island, this month has been CRAZY ( in a good way ). I’ve got so much to post, but I think I’ll start with my new pal Barnes. You might remember Emily and Jay – their engagement and wedding photos are all over our site. Well, they welcomed a brand new, cute as can be, has Jay’s eyes – baby boy- about a month ago. 

One note about newborn sessions in general: If possible, get the shots done within the first two weeks. They change so much and so fast. Also, I think it’s always desirable to have good photos of how they first looked. Plus, you can use them for birth announcements!

 

A few favs below. To see the slideshow click HERE. 

A new Brinkley family photo! I think this one is my favorite…

Beautiful baby, beautiful momma…

This one is really funny…. We had him naked and knew it was really only a matter of time before he had to…you know, ‘go’. Well here he is laying on Emily’s tummy, ‘going’. Lol!

Ashley and Justin’s Wedding… October 17, 2008

has come and gone . Kinda sad it’s over…

You must watch the slideshow!! I’ll be so upset if anyone just looks at these few pics and not the whole slideshow….so click HERE!!

It was a beautiful wedding at The Maple Grove Inn – one of my favorite places. We had the MOST BEAUTIFUL weather! Ashley called earlier that week and I was asking her what she knew about the weather (brides are always the best informed on the weather – they usually begin researching the weather for the wedding day at least one year in advance, looking at charts, graphs, history – and then finally waiting ’til 10 days out when you can see weather.com’s 10 day outlook……in my opinion the best place to look). Well, Ashley said, “it actually says 0% chance of rain.”  - And it never says 0% ?!?! – they always give it at least a 10% chance! And, they were right, so we were all thrilled. 

Ashley and Justin’s families and the wedding party were so sweet and so much fun. The reception was rockin. Justin is in a band called The Dirty Guv’nahs – they had another awesome band at their wedding but they did play three or four songs and of course the crowd went wild.

Some of my favs…

This is a present Ash’s mom gave her before the ceremony. She’s reading the card..

And wearing the present.. Her mom said the number of stones indicates the number of grandchildren she wants – she was kidding…well, not really

This bridesmaid on the end cracked me up the whole day ….

This is fun.

Cupcakes=cute! Yumm! Just looking at these cupcakes makes me soo hungry! We always try to get the little details for the bride – small, but important things like the arrangement of cupcakes she planned so carefully, but may have not had a chance to really see during the wedding. 

One of my favs for the day – so fun, so beautiful, so relaxed.

This one is my favorite and I can always count on Dan to take the very best pic of the day. When we see pictures we like we ‘call it’. “I took that” “No, I did” and then we check the credit (a little friendly competition is always good, right?). Dan won this one.

But I won this one

Justin with the lead singer of The Dirty Guv’nahs – they were great!

and everyone loved them!

In my book, this is a pretty tough shot to nail. You have pitch black sky + bright sparklers + bride and groom running and you have less than a second to get them in the right spot cause their either too close or two far away + all the while you’ve got partying people w/ sparklers in hand, nearly catching your hair on fire. 

Just playing with fire….

That spells LOVE (well, it supposed to anyways : )

Megan and Roan’s Engagement October 7, 2008

Next on the blog que is Megan and Roan’s engagement session! You might remember Megan’s sister, Amanda, from a post about her wedding a few weeks ago. Well, Megan is getting married too! Here are some of our favs from their session. To see more, check out their slideshow.

 

Recap October 2, 2008

I would love to post a bunch of the photos we did for West Nottingham Academy and Boys’ Latin but since they are intended for publication I want the schools to have first dibs on releasing them – so, I’m scrapping that post. Both schools are AMAZING and we had such a blast visiting and photographing the students at each school.

Here are some photos from Dan’s show at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts and also the little write up about it in the Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. Dan Watson, a Michigander who lives in Knoxville, Tenn., and travels a lot, is the latest winner of a DCCA solo exhibit in a continuing series seeking proposals for exhibits from artists nationwide.

Watson’s archival digital inkjet photos, “In a Different Light,” portray mundane industrial and commercial building sites outside major cities in America, and he pictures them in color at night.

Watson offers the viewer a direct confrontation with the corrosive and threatening nature of industrial might. Works such as “Earthrise” and “Factory” are almost sinister in character. At the same time, their sensuous colors and night-lit, no-nonsense construction make some of them conventionally beautiful.

Dan’s brother, who is also an artist said, ” ‘the corrosive and threatening nature of industrial might!’ That’s a great review!”

A round of applause after his artist talk..

West Nottingham brought two bus loads of students to the show and Dan had a great time talking to some of his former students about his work.

Like a proud momma I had to take a pic of his name on the sign

As far as the rest of the trip, basically I got to spend one day in NYC with my BFFE Lindsay Oaks. Dan chauffeured us around all day and we had soo much fun! This one iPhone pic at Central Park is all we have to remember it by   (It’s small because I think I look bad.)