Following a race car driver - Ryan and Luci

The shoot from this past weekend was for another one of Ted’s co-workers (like Doug) - Ryan and his fiance Luci. Ryan is a weekend race car driver - and it was serious business trying to follow this guy ;p

Another interesting twist to this shoot was that Luci had to come face to face with her great fear - worms! Ryan was carrying her here so she could be “safe”

Should I say… Ryan took full advantage of this opportunity?

I love this one..

And this one..

L2 and I had to utilize the precious time in between Luci checking the wall for worms.. I think it worked out pretty well though.

And I’ll leave you with a “DC pride” picture…

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By now, most of you have heard the good FANTASTIC news! The Girls have been featured on Weddingbee.com, one of the most popular wedding portals online today.

We had the good fortune of working with Miss Tiramisu, her fiance, and her schnauzer (aka Emily, Liam, and Duncan) in the beautiful City Dock area of Annapolis and got some great shots capturing the charm of the city in our first assignment “away” from the DC Metro area.

Grace, Claire, and I are so thrilled with the positive raves that we’ve been receiving from the energetic Weddingbee subscribers, as well as the “bees” themselves.

More pictures from Emily and Liam’s session

Exploring Annapolis - Emily and Liam

So where do I start? Back in November when I posted an ad on weddingbee, Emily beat all records in the world and replied within 3 minutes. Being an avid weddingbee reader, it just reconfirmed to me how popular of a blog it was. With that, I introduce to you one of the “bees” - Miss Tiramisu!

We give her mad props for the smiles despite the cold weather and rain

And I introduce to you…Mr. Tiramisu

These jumping pictures turned out fantastic - almost every shot was blog-worthy.

Outside of McGarvey’s - one of Emily and Liam’s favorite restaurants in Annapolis!

I couldn’t get over these cute fire hydrants and got a little carried away ;p There must have been at least 20 pictures with fire hydrants in them. Not your typical engagement picture subject?

This one cracked me up - the background looks so fake and so real at the same time.

Claire and I had a great time in Annapolis - we even stayed after to enjoy some fresh calamari at McGarvey’s..mmMMMMmm!! Thanks Emily and Liam for introducing us to such a cute spot for photography!

Doug and Pam - long overdue!

I can’t believe how much I slacked off posting about this session. I was really nervous about this since they were early advocates of this blog and the big cameras - so we remedied that by taking way too many photos ;p

Doug is Ted’s co-worker and is super hilarious, and Pam has the best laugh ever. I just had to say that - they’re the cutest couple.

Can you believe we found this? I put my new wide-angle lens to work on this one..

This one might look familiar.. ALMOST the same as Claire’s picture here

They changed outfit to show support for the Red Skins ;p

Gwynne and Chris..part II

Tag-ons to L2’s post below..

My favorite picture of the day - edited in iphoto - I’m not sure how Apple came up with such a wonderful low-end photo editing software. It’s so hard for me to move on!

This one is very “popular” according to flickr.. although I know L2 would say it looks like the Washington monument is sticking out of Chris’ neck….

Dogs need attention too

But perhaps too much attention?

I have to say these two were way excited about.. everything. I really like photo sessions with pets - I think it brings so much life and relaxes the people being photographed.

I know you miss the jumping shots..

Okay last 2 I promise..

Love this one..so cute

Here a pup, there a pup…

Gwynne found us through her sister Kiija who had a session with us earlier this winter. She loved our photos so much that she and her fiance Chris drove quite the distance from Pennsylvania to meet us!

Gwynne and Chris brought along special guests Indy and Mignon to join us for some fresh air at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial located near the Tidal Basin. Indy obviously loved all the attention and totally worked it for the camera!

We didn’t let Indy and Mignon steal the *whole* show. After about an hour, we had Gwynne and Chris just to ourselves and took full advantage of the unique architecture that the makes up the memorial. Granite blocks make for great seating areas!

If you’d like to see more of Gwynne, Chris, Indy, and Mignon enjoying the first appearance of Spring, click here for more!

Pam & Doug

It was a beautttiful day when we had our session with Pam and Doug. At first, Gracer and I were having some issues with posing Pam and Doug. It seemed like our “how to pose” brain just disappeared! Despite our “problem” and the Sun glaring at their faces, Pam and Doug were nice enough smile through the whole session. Towards the end, they were like professionals! Thanks, guys!

Here are some pictures from the session:

I put up some more pics on my flickr

I showed my flickr to my mom last night.

Me: What do you think of the pictures?
Mom: They’re okay.
Me:*somewhat disappointed* Just okay?
Mom: Yeah, except for this one, and this one - I like these.

So I’m posting those two that passed the “mom test” - a.k.a brutal honesty.

This one got a seal of approval because of the positioning of Lisa and Rick.

This one because of composition. Although I have to say - it’s time for me to move onto a more professional photo editing software than iphoto.  What the heck is up with this way-too-much black frame around the corners?

Lisa and Rick’s Engagement Session

Due to some schedule conflicts, we had to move Lisa and Rick’s engagement session from Sunday to Saturday. (Good thing we moved it… It was SO COLD today!) Lisa and Rick were one of our lucky winners(?) when we posted an ad on weddingbee for free engagement/portrait sessions. They were very kind to let us experiment with different poses and creative angles. I have to say some of them did not turn out as I had imagined them in my head, but overall, I think it was a very fun/successful session. Despite the cloudy weather, we were able to grab some amazing shots thanks to the awesome location that Lisa had picked. (Grace totally fell in love with the C&O canal. ) 

Here are some photos from yesterday: