Our getaway to West Virginia

Harpers Ferry - West Virginia - Camping

Something I have learned with weddings, is that things often go wrong, and it's just a matter of how everyone reacts to it.  I believe you always have to just roll with things and enjoy the moment for what it is.  Having photographed 50+ weddings, I've seen a lot of different mishaps from the groom's parents being two hours late, to the bride's undergarments and shoes being left an hour a way at … [Read more...]

Things I love: camping

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About a year ago I started a things I love series, which I have neglected lately. So I thought a personal post was overdue. Camping.  Since having my daughter, over four years ago, we have only gone camping once.  I used to camp in primitive campsites, or on rare occasion, backpack overnight.  Having a baby just changes everything, but as she is getting older I really want to share some … [Read more...]

Photographers Portraits

Portraits of me by Joanne R at Algonkian Park

The lovely Joanne  Rojcewicz and I got together last weekend to photograph each other.  Joanne, like me, is a family and wedding photographer in Northern Virginia.  We met at Algonkian Park in Leesburg.  As I was driving in, I saw this field and knew we had to use it as a setting.  Little did I know it was filled with bugs, so many that my eyes were tearing from them swarming in front of my … [Read more...]

A new year

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My friend, photographer Emily Hall, wrote a blog post that inspired me.  All of us do our best of the year posts, which I'm guilty of as well.  Emily did something different, she wrote about all her goals of 2011 and how she accomplished them, or failed.  I was reading it on New Years Eve, mesmerized, and all I could think was "wow what guts this takes", to publicly announce all this. So … [Read more...]

Things I love

winter

I love Christmas.  These last few weeks have been filled with Christmas shopping, tree decorating, and gift wrapping.  On Saturday my daughter got to stay out a little later than usually to go see all the holiday lights at the Reston Town Center.  She was so excited about the tree and the horses! Last year at this time I was packing up my house, and planning our move to Virginia.  Yesterday … [Read more...]