Amy & Alan | National Mall rad weird photo action

Amy and Alan are really hip people.  She's a graphic designer and he writes movie reviews for Brightest Young Things, a DC hipster blog.  I teased them relentlessly about the hipster things.  It didn't seem to bother them too much. hipsters on the national mall Also, the National Mall is really cool.  I've done a couple photo shoots around there recently and have another one coming up on Thursday.  There are so many little nooks and crannies, weird sculptures, grassy knolls (yes, really - see below) and funky little spots.  It's a great place to play. amish hipsters couply photos with geometric sculpture Super-weird awesome reflection thingie in the Hirschorn Sculpture Garden. portraits in hirschorn sculpture garden national mall portrait photography cute couple with vines sweet couple with cherry blossoms geometric portrait photography weird sculpture portrait photography Every "just because" or engagement session I have, I always take a couple headshots for each person - a new "Facebook profile pic" I tell them.  I think these are my favorites, ever.  I hope they don't fill this sculpture thing in (it's really a fountain) before my session on Thursday - I'm definitely going back. best facebook profile photos ever Finally, Amy and Alan even let me play around in my parking garage.  I've noticed for years how awesome the light is.  Here's proof. portrait photography in parking garage Rock on, kids.

Emilie & Zack | DC courthouse wedding

[Self-promotional note since Google loves this wedding: I would be thrilled to photograph your courthouse wedding!  You can check out my pricing and FAQ and things right here.  Please don't hesitate to write if you have any questions! Now, onto this most awesome courthouse wedding...] I think I might have freaked Emilie out a little bit by how excited I was when she wrote me about her courthouse wedding followed by Segway photo session.  Not gonna lie, this was one of the best wedding days ever.  Emilie and Zack took care of the getting-married bit at the DC courthouse and then we hopped on some segs and rode around the cherry blossoms.  I even got them to hop inside the National Gallery of Art modern wing - I think those might be my favorite images from the day. geometric wedding photography This was my first wedding at the DC courthouse.  It's a nice enough place, even if the ceremony room was pretty cheesy. bride and groom walking to dc courthouse bride and groom exchange rings Emilie and Zack were trying to play it cool like "oh can we just get our paperwork and go" thing.  Didn't work at all. wedding ceremony at dc courthouse Then it was time for Segways! segway wedding! bride riding a segway wedding portait at jefferson memorial washington dc wedding photography wedding portraits in washington, dc cherry blossom wedding pictures Yowza. gorgeous bride in black and white cherry blossom wedding photographywalking along the potomac on hains point national gallery of art wedding photos wedding photographer Amber Wilkie wedding photos in the national gallery of art silhouette with modern art and bride and groom dramatic wedding photography Okay and yeah I'm going to post these, too.  My job is cooler than your job, neener-neener. dorky photographer on a segway nerdy photographer girl on a segway Congratulations, Emilie & Zack!  Thanks for having me along - it was a blast!

Tara & Dustin | National Mall engagement

Tara and Dustin go with the flow, and I love them for it. See I planned a lovely indoor, heated greenhouse session with just a tad of happy-couple-in-front-of-the-Capitol images. But when we showed up at the Botanical Gardens, it was absolutely packed to the gills with tourists... and so we had to improvise. Lucky for me, Tara and Dustin are extremely chill people, game for anything, so we just hung around the Mall and I showed them all my little secret spots and anything else we found along the way. The National Mall is a really cool place. cute couple on the national mall engagement photography at the u.s. botanic gardens These two are outrageously cute. capitol hill engagement photography super cute couple laughing on the national mall national mall engagement photography engagement photographer Amber Wilkie engagement session on the national mall

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Congratulations, guys! Rock on in Ohio!