Category Archives: Personal

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Oh, NO! I’ve been blog tagged!!

My friend, Neal Jacob,   tagged my blog!   Now I have to appear to be witty by sharing eight  random  facts  about myself and then tag eight blogs.   Egads!
Well…since I’m kinda random anyhow…here’s 8 random things about me you probably don’t care to know…;>}:
1.   I have lived in Sterling for the 18 [...]

The hands I love…

They don’t look like much to the average person…there are some callouses, a few scars…and they are never manicured.
I’ve seen them do so much — I’ve watched these hands build our house, plant grass, flowers and trees; lift,cook, paint and polish,  fix the car, type a letter  and steady a razor.   They can mow [...]

We have a winner…5th place in the Emotion Category at WPJA!!

I am excited to blog that one of the images from David and Danielle’s wedding took 5th place in the WPJA contest!!!!    And what is even kewler is that they are using my image as the thumbnail for the category!!
WPJA is the Wedding Photojournalist Association and in their words is an “organization composed [...]

Kudos make our world go around…

Thought I would share some kudos we just receive from two of our awesome couples!!!
From Jonathan and Leslie:
They are breathtaking, funny, beautiful, and just perfectly done. We couldn’t be happier. There are alot of photos we are going to buy.  I mean ALOT! …My friend loves your work so much I could almost guarantee [...]

Zack Arias ROCKS the seminar world with one light!

We had the distinct pleasure of making the acquaintance of the most awesome Zack Arias.  Zack is Atlanta’s music photographer, having photographed oodles of up and coming musicians.  His seminar was sharing the wealth as related to improving our lighting skills.  Be sure to check out his blog – it has pictures [...]

Maya Angelou is THE Phenomenal Woman!

One of my favorite poems is Phenomenal Woman — but I never thought I would get to ever see the most awesome Maya Angelou in person.   But the philenthropic Maya has a charter school in D.C.  She hosts a yearly event to raise funds for the school.    Maya Angelou is one [...]

And then there were 45…

The coolest thing happened….I got accepted into WPJA…and the first time I applied!
With over 2,700 photographers in Virginia alone, it’s pretty kewl to be number 45 on the list….
So what’s WPJA?
“The Wedding Photojournalist Association puts the best Virginia wedding photographers at your fingertips, by granting membership only to the most talented professional wedding photographers in [...]

Big win in the 2007 NOVA Juried Photography Student Show

Each year, the NVCC Photography program at  Alexandria sponsors  a juried show of work created in the past year by any student.  The work included in the final exhibit is selected by an outside Juror who is anonymous until the opening reception.  The work entered represents commercial,  fine art and photojournalism aspects of [...]

Our day in Vegas!

Since we were catching the red eye out, we spent our last day in Vegas seeing some of the sites, eating some great food, and just generally having fun.
Joriana took these cool shots while we were doing what else?  Shopping!

We checked out the inside and outside of MGM Grand and found that we loved [...]

Thrilled to meet our heroes!

While we were in Vegas, we were thrilled to meet three of the top 10 photographers in the world! 
Joriana shows Joe Buissink some love –
 
 Jerry Ghionis won Best Wedding  album at WPPI!  Photo taken by Suzette Nesire, who is a real sweetheart and one of the best children’s photographers we have ever seen.

 Yervant won second and third [...]

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