First Dance Light

George was helping me test some light this evening (very reluctantly, but helping nonetheless) and I caught him being a rock star.  Rock on, husband. shooting into the strobe PS: Yes, it's Saturday night.  I could give some excuse, but the fact of the matter is, I've had a lot more exciting Saturday nights since I started photographing weddings.  If I don't have one, I'm probably at home reading with the beau.  (Read: Watching Star Trek, playing with my strobes and surfing the 'net while George studies.)  Hope y'all are partying it up and such!

Dinosaur Land! | White Post, VA

If you know me, you'll know that I am quite literally thrilled by campy tourist stuff.  So imagine my joy when our little group of friends organized a trip to Dinosaur Land in White Post, VA.  And let me say right up front here, that if you chose to do your engagement session at Dinosaur Land, I would be not only incredibly impressed with you but would also totally not charge you travel fees and pretty much worship the ground you walk on.  Hire me for a portrait session here!  It will be so awesome! (I feel compelled to tell you that Barbara is preggers but not that big - that would be lens distortion because I was shooting with the 24.) barbara on king kong My very best friend in the whole world (except for George, of course) just moved here last week.  So pumped to hang with him basically whenever possible. sai in a shark's mouth at dinosaur land I'm not sure where the punching-the-dinosaur thing comes from.  It's a boy thing? punching at dinosaur The boys tried to ride the dinosaurs (definitely not allowed) and Sai fell off. It was hilarious. The crazy-ass gift shop had all kinds of really offensive Confederate stuff. david in a hat confederate stuff at dinosaurland After Dinosaur Land, we hit up some vineyards, including one where I'll be shooting a wedding later this month.  It was cool to be able to check it out early.  Definitely going to be beautiful! Thanks for the good times, lads and ladies.  Don't forget to contact me if you want to do an engagement session at Dinosaur Land!  So serious!

Wilmington Hotel Self-Portrait

It was a bit of a nutty trip to Philly, but I still managed to sneak in a hotel self-portrait.  Frequent visitors might remember some of my more recent hotel escapades and long-time readers may even be familiar with my Flickr set (where I keep all my final project entries), dating all the way back to 2008.  I'm starting to think that Artomatic, the intended final destination for this project, is never going to happen again.  If so, I'll just have an ongoing project forever, I suppose. wilmington, delaware hotel self-portrait To make this image, I put the desk chair on the bed and propped it up with my lens cap.  Lens caps make for great tripods, really.  Desk chairs are just so-so.