Browsing Category: portraits

things to come… Posted in: engagements, photo of the week, portraits, weddings
Tags: , , ,  […]
 2 15 JUL

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , [ × ]

It has been a busy season so far! I’ve traveled from Wilmington to the great state of Washington, back to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, up to Richmond, and the beautiful mountains of Virginia! I’m back in Virginia this weekend, then off to Milwaukee and Chicagoland next!

All this travel has taken its toll on my poor blog. I have had the worst time trying to find an hour here, two hours there just to get some new entries out for you. I’m still in a time crunch, heading out for another very long distance wedding this weekend and trying to get caught up on the few that are in the queue for editing, but I thought I would take a quick breather and show two images from each wedding and engagement that I’ve shot over the last 6 weeks…

I’ll be posting full-length blog entries on each of these sessions and events … in August. Yeah. I think August will be a little calmer! :)

Click to continue reading “things to come…”

chloe Posted in: portraits
Tags: , , ,  […]
 0 18 MAY

Tags: , , , , , [ × ]

Fort Fisher, North Carolina – April 2009

carnival | morgan + tom Posted in: portraits
Tags: , , ,  […]
 3 05 NOV

Tags: , , , , , [ × ]

Do you know Tom Rhodes? If not, you should. His music is *awesome*, you totally need to buy his CDs, add his dates to your calendar, and be a groupie.

Morgan is a *fabulous* graphic artist – she’s currently working on my new logo for me, and I really could NOT be happier about it – she’s so talented, and intuitive, and everything you want in an artist.

I could not imagine a more perfect couple. I’m not just saying that for free tickets to his shows, either.

We met up tonight at the Cape Fear Fair & Expo here in Wilmington, and just goofed off for a couple hours. Can I just tell you – it is NOT EASY to hold on to a camera, focus, expose AND shoot while going practically vertical on a carnival ride!

Anyway… I had tons of fun with you guys! I’ll see you next week!

(putting on lipstick to take the “what kind of kisser are you?” test at the Mary Kay booth. Tom is a Divine Diva, and Morgan is an Expressionista. I didn’t take the test.)

engaged: Lesley + Jon Posted in: engagements, portraits
Tags: , ,
2 23 OCT

Tags: , , [ × ]

This was one of the best engagement sessions ever. Lesley and Jon are laid back, funny, and completely irreverent – my kinda people!!! Michael and I had such a great time working with them! We can’t wait for your wedding!

Topsail Beach Family Session Posted in: portraits
Tags: , , ,  […]
 2 23 OCT

Tags: , , , , [ × ]

What a delightfully nutty group this was! We spent about two hours together, photographing every combination of groups and kids we could come up with.

Some of the younger kids weren’t 100% into the session, so I let them get behind the lens to see what I could see. I think they got some of the best shots of the day!

danielle got married! Posted in: portraits, weddings
Tags: ,
1 21 OCT

Tags: , [ × ]

I can finally share Danielle’s bridal session!!!

This was one of those lucky sessions, where we set out for one thing (the bridge in the opening sequence of One Tree Hill), and ended up finding something way better (some random industrial area with trucks and warehouses and weeds and stuff). It was awesome, and Danielle is about as fun as a bride can be… she didn’t really care about her dress getting dirty, or her hair getting blown around in the *ridiculous* wind we had that day. She just had fun.

Oh, and you might remember Danielle from the engagement session we did a few weeks before her bridal. Same deal – just lots of fun and no worries.

So, Danielle and Trey got married on October 18th at St Mary’s Catholic Church in downtown Wilmington, and even though it was like 8 degrees and pouring (or probably more like 50 degrees with a steady slow rain, but what difference does it make?), they both had a blast. Stay tuned for a quick sneak peek of their awesome wedding in the next few days!

For now, here are some more of my favorites from Danielle’s bridal!

Alice Ann’s Bridal Posted in: portraits, weddings
Tags: , , ,  […]
 0 30 AUG

Tags: , , , , [ × ]

Alice Ann’s bridal portrait session was the first time that I had my close friend and associate Michael shooting with me on a commissioned gig. He had been learning about exposure and lighting from me for months leading up to the session, but we hadn’t put his knowledge to the test until that day.

We all rocked.

Alice Ann chose the *perfect* gown for her – it fit her like a glove, and accentuated her willowy, beautiful frame. And she was just as sweet and charming as could be, and willing to do whatever we asked. It was a fantastic bridal session, and I’m so glad that I can post the pictures now that she’s a married woman! :)

Alice Ann and Henry were married August 2nd in Blowing Rock, NC. Their wedding photos will be online next week!

Emerald Isle Family Session with my favorite clients EVER Posted in: portraits
Tags: , , ,  […]
 0 25 AUG

Tags: , , , , , [ × ]

Leigh and Cliff. Oh my gosh. Back when I shot their wedding, I didn’t know what a blog was. But I do have their album design online, so you can see how absolutely wonderful their wedding was. Truly one of my most memorable of ALL time, and that’s really saying a lot. Leigh and Cliff have been awesome clients through the years. I’ve gotten so many great referrals from them, always incredible couples with wonderful weddings. Anyway, yeah, these guys are so great.

They had a baby boy, Grier, and I’d been dying to shoot a family session with them (but they live on the other side of the state, so getting together when all our schedules meshed wasn’t easy). We finally had a shot at it when Cliff’s family rented a beach house at Emerald Isle this summer. I got to see everyone again, and we spent a couple hours together on the beach trying to get Grier happy :) . The trick was water balloons, so they feature in a few of the pictures.

Hopefully I’ll get to see these folks every year, and watch Grier (and his cousin who should be arriving in the next few months!) grow up. Grier is only going to get cuter and more devilish, and I can’t wait to see what the upcoming arrival is like! :) Anyway, if it isn’t already clear: great family, great memories. The best part of my job is this.

Meg’s Bridal Session Posted in: portraits, weddings
Tags: , , ,  […]
 1 20 AUG

Tags: , , , , , , , [ × ]

Locations:
Old Brunswick Town
Orton Plantation Gardens
Southport Waterfront

Isn’t she adorable?  Meg and Tallon were married on June 28, 2008 in Darlington, SC.  Their wedding photos will be posted soon!

Deborah + Jason | the engagement Posted in: engagements, portraits, weddings 1 05 OCT

Deborah and Jason are getting married on November 11th this year in Cary, NC! We had a lot of fun at their engagement session earlier this month at Wrightsville Beach, and I had a blast designing their signature album for their reception!

And a few more from their engagement session:

Becca + Wyatt | the engagement session Posted in: engagements, portraits 1 21 SEP

I’m not gonna lie to you. Wyatt doesn’t like being photographed. I know that EveryGroom hates being in pictures, but this goes deeper than that. When I first met him I thought, “oh gosh…. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get *anything* from this session!” And it sincerely worried me, because they had already worked with my dear friend Jonathan Canlas for Becca’s Bridals and their Engagement Party, and of course Jon rocked it like he always does. So I was nervous going in…. Jon is one of my idols, he shoots 100% film (dreamy), and he is a local kid from Hawaii just like me! So, yeah… I didn’t want to mess it up.

I’m really, really pleased with the images that we got at the engagement session, and I hope that Becca and Wyatt love them as much as I do! Guys, more are coming, this is just the sneak peek! :)

Tomorrow Becca and Wyatt get married on Bald Head Island! I’ll be back with some highlights from their wedding right after I blog highlights from the last wedding I shot. Ohhhh, I’m so behind!

Karen and Joey: the engagement Posted in: engagements, portraits 0 29 AUG

feet

Karen and Joey are a really sweet couple. I met Karen at Claudia and Lauras’ wedding on July 7th, and it was because of their engagement signature book that Karen and Joey decided to do an engagement session of their own! I’m so happy they did, because we had a great time working together, and I think we ended up with some really sweet images of the two of them in downtown Wilmington:

the bestest beach session ever Posted in: portraits 4 15 AUG

Remember Sarah and Greg? They’re back, and they brought the family! Sarah emailed me a few weeks ago asking if I could shoot their family portrait while they vacationed at the beach this August. Oh hell yeah I can! I love these people!!!

So it was Sarah and Greg, Sarah’s mom, and Sarah’s brother (also Greg) and his family. Sarah’s dad couldn’t make it for the portrait session – he spent the week telling corny jokes to nurses at the hospital. :( Everyone was totally lighthearted about it, but I thought it completely sucked that Dad couldn’t be there for the session. It wasn’t anything TOO serious, but I felt like it was a little incomplete without him there. Maybe next year, right?

So… I don’t think i can put into words how perfect this session was. First of all, I’d already worked with these folks before, so they know how I work, we’re comfortable together, and we have the same sense of humor (somewhat sick, very sarcastic, awfully dry). But the energy from all of them was perfect. I came home and said out loud “that was the best – best – BESTEST session ever.” No, really, I really said that. I never said I was cool or terribly bright.

So here are a few more from that evening!

lilly kate and her family Posted in: portraits 0 01 AUG

I had the most fun working with this family! They were up for anything I could throw at them, and we all had a great time. I hope they keep coming back to the beach every July… I would love to photograph the little ones every year and watch them grow up!

Here are a few more highlights from the portrait session!

Claudia + Lauras: the engagement session Posted in: portraits, weddings 2 08 JUL

If you’re looking at these people thinking “sheesh, are they models?” you’re not alone. Claudia and Lauras are as tall as they look in pictures. If not taller. They both possess unfairly perfect bodies, smiles, skin, hair…. and yet, neither one of them seems to realize how lovely/gorgeous/model-like they really are. It’s enough to make you sick, except these are some of the nicest people on earth. If they weren’t, I’d totally never talk about how pretty they are. Not in public anyway.

So for their engagement session we wandered around downtown Wilmington for an hour or so. We had fun, even though it was about 172 degrees in the shade that day. Let me tell you how much they trust me: even in that heat, I made them order HOT coffee to “re-create” their first date at a sidewalk cafe on Front Street. THEN I made them stand next to a putrid dumpster in an alley because I liked the way the street looked. No matter how unpleasant the experience was, they were always laughing, joking, and having fun. That’s just the kinda people they are.

Oh, one more fun fact: Lauras is from Lithuania. 1) That’s hot. 2) The accent is beyond charming.

Claudia and Lauras had me design a guest book for their reception, and it turned out *amazing*. Check it out!

And, finally, here are some more images from the engagement session:

  • Page 1 of 2
  • 1
  • 2

Search