I’m so thankful that Vandana, Tiru, and I were able to get together for this session. In a few weeks, I’m looking forward to photographing their traditional Indian ceremony in Spartanburg, and I think that this session really helped us click so that the wedding day will be that much better. Enjoy!
For our 5 year anniversary last August, Mell and I went to Knobles Amusement park in Pennsylvania (a way cool vintage park that Mell went to as a kid). Mike and Rachel Mizzell were extraordinarily generous enough to fly up to take our pictures (from which we have an AMAZING collection of anniversary images!).
At the end of the evening, Mell’s old friends, Daphney and Nate came to have their engagement pictures for their wedding the next day, and Mike, Rachel, Mell and I had a field day. Here’s one image that Mell and I got on the twirling swing ride. Mell is on one swing, and I’m shooting from another, to take pictures of the couple behind us (whew!). The Mizzells snapped some shots of us pulling off this maneuver (2nd image).
I was dragging the shutter, and using 580EXII Speedlites rear-curtain sync and radiopoppers to stop the motion after the blur.
Here's the shot from the ground (courtesy of Mike and Rachel Mizzell of Tillman Branch Photography). There's me in the middle, Daphney on the upper right, and Mell right underneath her, holding the speedlite.
Laura and Joey really wanted to have their engagement session up in their hometown of Lexington, so they flew me up for the day (Halloween, incidentally) for a day of shooting. We started out in downtown, and then moved to what is redoubtably the most beautiful ranch I’ve ever been, where prize-winning race horses are bred, raised, and trained. One of my favorite shoots of the year. Click the box in the lower right to see the full screen version.
In August, Mell and I had the opportunity to travel to Washington DC to meet some of our clients for a shoot in their home neighborhood — The National Mall and the Capitol! We walked around for a couple hours, but here’s a few highlights 🙂
As promised in the {sneak peak blog entry} here are the rest of Emily & Eric’s engagement pictures!
Their super fabulous engagement book design is hot off the press!
CLICK HERE (it will open in a new window)
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I’m always so excited when I post new book designs! Here I am on a rainy Monday afternoon, and I can’t think of much I’d rather do than enjoy being all warm & cozy indoors playing with photoshop and our other design programs. (Yes, I realize how geeky that makes me and I’m cool with it, haha!)
I might say this a lot, but I truly had such a fun time on Gil & Nicole’s engagement shoot! I couldn’t be more thrilled to share more of their photos with you! (And can you blame me…my camera loves them!)
Check it out:
http://charlestonwedding.com/#/smirlisengage/
I also posted a few of these for Gil & Nicole’s Facebook-sharing in our 2008 Engagements album!
Earlier today, I (Valerie) had the sheer joy of doing an afternoon engagement session with Emily and Eric.
I had SO much fun that I had to put up a “sneak peak” for you all to see….and yes, a sneak peak is just a teaser…so hold your horses, people….you will see more in a later blog post! (I promise!)
Being a former newswriter, I could attempt to describe to you in words just how sickeningly cute and head-over-heels-in-LOVE this couple is….
…or I could just show you a picture or three…
They were also game for all my fun and creative, artsy ideas….
And for every serious moment, there were LOTS of fun and silly ones!
(This couple could teach the class on “how to have fun on a photo shoot” – haha!)
Hey now…..calm down, there are LOTS more to share!
So stay tuned! 🙂
I (Valerie) had a really fun engagement photo session downtown with Leah and Justin! Their wedding isn’t until July 18th, but since neither of them live in Charleston, we were lucky to squeeze in their session!
We met up in Waterfront Park, but the majority of our session was spent walking around downtown! We walked over to the train tracks, then to the steps of the Customs House, up East Bay Street a bit (where we shot in one of my favorite alleyways!) and ended back in Waterfront Park. 🙂
Here are a few favorites from their session:
One Sunday evening back in April, I (Valerie) had the pleasure of meeting Julie and her husband Blake downtown for a fun lifestyle portrait shoot! They’ve been married for a few years now, and decided it was time to have new pictures made.
Per special request, I am reaching back into our archives (8 months of shoots ago is a “long time” for us, haha!!!) – and posting a few. Here ya go, Julie!
A few of my favorites from their shoot:
Talk about a cute couple! 🙂 Leah and Rob are getting married this coming April on a family plantation in a little town outside of Greenwood, SC. It’s going to be so neat and unique!
We had a great engagement portrait session! We started in Waterfront Park, and wandered around the Customs House, and a few alleyways on East Bay St.
Here are a few of my favorites:
