Child & Family, Lifestyle, Engagement & Wedding Photography In Northern Virginia
As I spent the better part of five hours shoveling roughly half a foot of ice beneath a foot of snow from my driveway, my dog, Jake, was entertaining himself in various ways, mostly involving eating and playing with the bits of snow and ice coming from my shovel. He was about to call it quits and go back inside to warm up when another dog ( or possibly a small Polar Bear ) came by for a visit. I managed to take a couple photos. Enjoy
I recently had a chance to accompany Terra Dawn for a quick photo walk around Manassas. We initially decided to check out the Manassas Battlefield Park, finding the visitor center completely plowed, but unfortunately closed. It was then that Terra discovered that the area right next to the Stone House was entirely covered with kids ( and adults! ) of all ages using sleds, skis, snowboards and anything else suitable to slide down the hill. After managing to make it halfway up the hill in waist deep snow and realizing we could instead use the well trampled path, we walked around and took pictures for a bit, doing our best to avoid being rammed into. After about 20 minutes, we headed to Airlie, a very interesting Farm in Gainesville. This place supposedly had a beautiful garden maze. I say supposedly since it and everything else was buried under roughly 3 feet of snow. I did manage to only fall face first into the snow once, which I was quite proud of. And now, on to the photos
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There were two significant events that happened last week, with one impacting pretty much everyone within a 50 mile radius of Washington, D.C., and one that concerned a small group of like minded artists from Manassas. Let me back track a bit, before I got started with wedding and child photography, I primarily photographed landscapes and had been doing so for the previous several years. Recently, I joined the Manassas Art Guild, where I was able to meet and network with several very talented local artists. About two months ago, I got an opportunity to join with the guild and set up a small art exhibit at the Virginia Wine Showcase to be held in the first week of February. There were six of us there, which gave all of us ample room to display our art, even including my gigantic 20×40 photograph of two grazing horses during sunset.
Coming back to that other event I mentioned earlier, or as it came to be known. “Snowmaggeddon 2010″ ( a.k.a “The Snowpocalypse” ), which happened to coincide with our little event and blanket all of the Northern Virginia are with roughly 2-3 feet of snow, reducing our anticipated crowd down to somewhere between 30 and 60 people instead of the anticipated 8-10 thousand. Ordinarily, I’d label this a complete and utter failure, but this was my first exhibit or show of any kind, so even though Phil the groundhog was cranky after his nap and brought this upon us didn’t bother me too much, after all, good or bad, it was still an experience.
Of course, I did manage to take some pictures. Enjoy
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Several months ago, I had an opportunity to shoot some headshots for a friend’s father. Since he’s a realtor, I wanted each photo to have elements of both strength and confidence, as well as affability. I was lucky to have the perfect weather for an outdoor shoot – there were a couple wispy clouds in the sky with abundant sunshine and we had some fantastic shade in the patio surrounding his office. For some reason, I never got around to uploading them before, so here are three of my favorites.
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