Tara & Dustin | National Mall engagement

Posted on January 24, 2012

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.

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super cute couple laughing on the national mall

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Congratulations, guys!  Rock on in Ohio!




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Italy: Florence back to Rome

Posted on January 26, 2012

It took me a bit longer than expected, but here I am with your second of two Italy updates!  (You can see the first half of our trip here.)  We left off with the tiny town of Castellina with a super-creepy entire skeleton “relic.”  And though I put Siena in the title of the post, there were no photos of Siena.  Well, so it goes.  I didn’t take many and we were only there one afternoon.  So we move on to dah-dah-DAH-dah Florence!  Florence was really really great.

Oh that?  That’s just the original Birth of Venus by Botticelli. It’s in the Uffizi.  I realized about halfway through the museum that you’re not supposed to take pictures.  Oops.  Below here we have the Duomo – an enormous crazy-looking cathedral in the middle of Florence.  We paid to go up in the dome and it was one of the coolest things we did.




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Random black and whites

Posted on January 23, 2012

I unloaded some photos on my now infrequently-used “cheapie” camera.  (It’s kind of neat that my “cheapie” camera cost me $800 a couple years ago – we photographer people have to think about gear in the thousands at this point.)  There were two keepers and they have remarkably similar compositions, so I figured I’d throw them on the internets.  These were taken about a month apart.

lines and shapes near farragut west

dc metro photograph

I have so much coming up for you in the near future – two engagement sessions, a second Italy post, a handful of weddings and engagements from way back when I haven’t gotten around to blogging yet and a couple of funky images from a workshop last week.  In the meantime, I hope you’re rocking out 2012.




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