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Meghan & Ross Wedding

Will — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:50:00 +0000

Congratulations Meghan and Ross! You two were great to be around and I really loved photographing your wedding. Both Meghan and Ross are New Yorkers that converged in Ocean City for their place to host their wedding vows as it accommodated more family members. Not to mention Ocean City is a great place to have wedding, where we have the beach with all the sun and fun you could want. The Clarion was their choice of venue and a cool place to have a wedding. I had my second photographer Holly with me on this one, and my buddy Justin Darling was there doing the DJ. And what a time we had, when Justin gets going doing his DJ thing, he really is getting the party going.
Towards the end of the evening, we got all the shots we could get, we all had a fun time dancing and grooving to the hopping tunes Justin was playing.
Ross and Meghan were super cool and photographed real well. There was a person issue going on with the couple that we picked up on, but I like to think Holly and I kept them in good spirits to help their day along and to get great photos.
I can recommend the Clarion as a really nice place to get married, as you have the beach for outdoor shots and lots of indoor spots to grab photos. And without a doubt I wouldn’t have had such a great time if my buddy Justin Darling wasn’t there, he kept the party rolling.

Dan & Shelly Wedding

Will — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:57:00 +0000

Well its Blog make up time for me, I got behind in keeping up with this.
Saturday was crazy for me this time around, as I had to photograph a Air Force Retirement ceremony, a wedding, and a family reunion all on this day. I’m very fortunate to have a good group of support photographers to assist me. My right hand man and business partner, Justin did a stellar job with juggling the wedding and the family reunion. And Holly with a creative eye and drive to do a fantastic job, I couldn’t have made this day happen without either of them.
Dan and Shelly picked out this super gorgeous location called Ransome’s Chesapeake Retreat. Run by Percy and Marie with whom I had the privilege to meet. This spot was by far one of the most beautiful that I’ve had a chance to work in. It offered up so many wonderful backdrops for our photos, we just didn’t have enough time to hit them all. If we weren’t careful their wedding day would turn into Photo shoot day, if we took too many photos. I definitely see myself going back out there again just to take photos of the water and different spots. If you are looking for that one of a kind wedding location this is it. http://www.chesapeakeretreats.com/ or call 1-888-726-7662

I wanted to give a shout out to the DJ’s that were there as well. Jim with http://www.jumpingjukebox.com/ (1-302-629-3079) is a pretty cool guy, keeping me informed of the upcoming events of the evening. When I first got there, he came up to me and introduced himself. What was weird is he knew my name right away, and I’m like “Do I know you?” , he just took the time to find out who all the key players where in this event and that just showed me his level of professionalism. A couple of times I had a hard time holding the camera still as I found I was grooving to the music they were playing. This wedding was by far a lot of fun. And to Dan and Shelly, thank you for a lovely time. Both Holly and Justin said you guys where great to photograph and hang with.

Lucis Art & Ocean Pines Yacht Club Wedding

Will — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:57:00 +0000

This was a great wedding in the month of February. Because I’m new to this whole blog thing, I’m kinda working from now and going backwards, discussing weddings and various other events. At the Ocean Pines Yacht club it had alot of great back drops for photographing. It was not going to happen photographing the wedding party indoors as the space was some what limited. We were lucky this day as it wasn’t too cold.
These photos were run through a Photoshop plug in called Lucis Art and thougth it made for some unique creative images. For those of you that play with photoshop it’s a fun plug in and it can really warp and image or enchance it just enough to be interesting.
The time of day these photos were taken wasn’t the best as the shadows were a bit harsh. But I was limited on time and worked with it. It was a bit chilly and I would have liked to have spent more time outside taking some creative pictures, but I could tell the bride was getting cold.

Shannon & Roger Wedding

Will — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:40:00 +0000

This was a fun wedding to photograph. I liked having a larger bridal party to work with and with the colorful dresses it made for a very cool picture. About the only thing that I would say was a negative, was the groomsmen were difficult to work with. Later I found out that, they were ready to go for pictures at 3pm and the bride and I discussed 4pm with pre wedding photos and somewhere those poor guys got some misinformation and they weren’t in the best of moods.

Shannon looked very beautiful and it was fun working with her veil as I’m finding some brides just choose not to go with them. And Roger was cool to work with, he is one big dude. And the Pastor was so awesome, 90% of the time I’m not allowed to use flash in the church during the ceremony and he was really ok with it. After the ceremony and we were photographing outside the church he himself was working on posing the bride and groom to take a few fun shots. It’s always a treat when everyone gets creative and we make some fun photographs.