On August 7th, fellow photographer, Jen Fariello, and I offered our second Art of Photography workshop. I was busy teaching our participants so I didn’t have much time to actually take photographs. Here are a few I was able to catch. Our models were wonderful and we all had a great day together.
What I loved about this wedding was its simplicity. It was all about family and an intimate ceremony. There were not tons of details to be photographed…just people and the emotions of the evening. Paige and Bill were a lot of fun and it was truly an honor to be able to photograph their wedding. Other than the photos of the couple, I have to say my favorite photos are of the wedding crasher, a squirrel who helped himself to a cracker off the table.
My family has belonged to Fry’s Spring Beach Club for several years and it is one of our favorite places to be come summertime. It has an amazingly relaxed atmosphere, a great staff and is very charming in a vintage pool club kind of way. This summer, as a way to raise a little extra revenue for the club I’m offering a Jump for FSBC portrait event. I just finished up the June sessions and will be looking forward to photographing more, excited jump enthusiasts in July (17th and 18th). Here are a few of my favorites from the June sessions!
For the last two years I’ve taken a portrait of my daughter Willa around the time of her birthday. Usually I take her to the gardens at UVA, but this year I wanted to do something a little different. My wife and I wanted to truly capture the essence of Willa. What do we want to remember about her as an almost 3 year old and what makes her tick. The answer was easy. She loves books and she always has. She could sit all day and be read to or sit quietly by herself and look through books (or stories as she calls them). Everyone who knows Willa knows she is book obsessed.
So we decided to set her in a chair with some books in Mrs. Heyward’s beautiful garden at Foxhaven Farm. We borrowed the chair from a friend, but the dress was my wife’s from the 70’s, as was the book, Petunia, one of Willa’s favorites.
Of course, Willa had other plans for getting her portrait taken and wanted very much to be Tinkerbell. After many treats and promises of a wardrobe change, Willa pranced around the garden like a real fairy, checking out the last of the peony blooms and finding little garden nooks that fascinate children.
