Leigh Ann & Patrick

During the month of Sept, due to the heavy wedding season, I may have to begin posting one photo sneak previews...

I heart beach weddings!!! It was a Friday evening wedding- a little humid outside- but the sun stayed out for us to be able to take a few sunset photos at Water's Edge. Here is just a sneak preview to their event-- more photos to be posted! (I've selected about 20.. LOL!!) I have a few pictures of their son (so adorable) too :-)

Want to try something different?

I had my friend Keri and her sister Dori over my house on Friday, just to chat about some photo stuff. I gave them a quick 411 on their cameras. One of the last things I talked to them about was composition (one of my favorite things!).

If I have the time for some fun photos-- I like to try different ways of shooting. I recommended this technique to them (and this is without looking through the viewfinder too!):
-Shoot up (umm.. please don't take that the wrong way!-- This just means to get lower than your subject and shoot up! You may have to back up from your subject so you can get the shot.)
-Shoot down (This angle is a nice place to shoot from if you have your subjects looking up to you slightly-- hint, hint.. makes you look younger! This is an adorable angle for children too- it tends to make children look more innocent.)
-Shoot from the hip (that's right, place your camera on your hip and shoot!)

Here are some funny photos I shot a while back, just by placing the camera on the table and tilting it upwards.
This was just a different way to capture the moment my sons were eating (insert a child's voice here saying): CAKE!!!


PS. And yes, I thought even some of the "bad" ones were funny too ;-)

Robyn & Matthew

LilyLake Inn is such a great place for a ceremony and reception--- Robyn and Matthew had a gorgeous day-- a perfect day (in fact) for an outdoor wedding. They got married right under the Oak Tree, overlooking the water, with crisp white chairs and flower petals leading them down the aisle.

Here is a sneak preview of their day... enjoy the Photobooth Photos (finally posting some), that some of their guests enjoyed as well :-) Special thanks to Christa for another faboo wedding!

Robyn was taking a quick break outside with the ladies.. and I happened to follow them. Inside the hotel I saw this gorgeous window... another one of my favorite things to do!

Amazing what post processing can do to a photo. Which one do you prefer?

Yeah! We did it! (They are such a fun couple!)

2 hours daddy... 2 HOURS!

We decided to take a last-minute family (overnight) trip.
Our destination: Misquamicut Beach in Rhode Island.

I admit.. this was our very first family overnight trip with the boys-- being at such a young age and traveling... well, if it takes me 1.5 hours to do grocery shopping with the boys, imagine what it was going to be like taking them to the beach, the amusement park, the museums..never mind trying to get them to go to sleep in a strange place at night....

I knew we could do it, but I wasn't sure how the boys would react to the hotel, the change of scenery.. and well, the beach! (As you can tell from the pics below... we were a little hesitant at first and we (sorta) got used to it.)

The reason for the title of my post is because technically our trip was suppose to take 1 hour and 15 minutes without traffic. Yes, we did bump into a little traffic.. but for some reason my husband decided to take his own route.. and changed his course a few times. At the end I realized it took us 2 hours to get there.. and well, my son reminded my husband! ;-)

2 hours daddy!!

I used my macro the whole trip- yeah!
Our view from the room- it really was blue!

Our next door neighbor ;-)


Hmm.. Alex didn't take to the sand very well at first. OUCH! Mommy's feet...
But he eventually got used to it (notice he's still on the towel though!)
Aiden had no trouble exploring in the sand.Alex loved watching the waves crashing.

If you know me, I am all about the silhouettes!

A couple of friendly teenagers gave us a sparkler.. the boys were all over it!

On our way home...