new learning experience

one of the most exciting items that has been bestowed on my life plate recently has been the opportunity to shadow and learn from the wedding photographer who blessed our own wedding day, adam barnes. i am extremely excited and humbled by this chance to learn more - and from photographers who produce stunning art work. i have already been able to follow adam and kristen salvia on two wedding excursions and will be heading on a third this coming weekend.

before the last wedding, chris and i took the jump and purchased our first digital SLR camera: a wonderful canon 5d - the actual camera that adam used to photograph our wedding! i am busy reading the manual and have had many opportunities in the last few weeks to begin the hands-on learning process. i will be posting pictures as i have the time and ability. in the meantime, please enjoy some of our wedding photos that adam took back in october - the man does great work so if you are looking for a fine art photographer for your wedding, you should check out his website.







grace and peace friends

way too long...

well it has again been way too long since i posted... and i have actually had quite a lot that is post-worthy!!

let's see... first update:i have been blessed with the opportunity to put my photography on display and it has been extremely exciting. my first 'gallery' of sorts consisted of 6 photos that i have taken over the past year (or year at that point which was in september)... the consistent thread was that the pictures were of people in my life captured candidly just 'doing their thing'...

so i matted and framed them all uniformly and sent them down to lynchburg after our wedding to be displayed in the Muse coffee company (formerly the a&c daily grind where chris and i were both employed in 2007) in wyndhurst. when we returned from our honeymoon, i spoke with the owner and he said that since the photos had provoked interest, we should put a price tag on all of them. once i figured out my costs, we set the price at $40.00 and just a week or so later, i got a call informing me that i had sold two of my photos! chris says that means that i am a 'real' photographer now haha.... anyway - thought you might enjoy a look at the display!

and a blurry picture of the labels chris and i typed up on a friend's old typewriter...

more updating at a later time... grace and peace.

give thanks

this is the first year i haven't had my camera out for the thanksgiving festivities so here is one of my favorites from 2006... 

i hope that gratitude is a state we find ourselves in this week and always 

grace and peace, 

whitney

jeff and christina

about 3 days after we returned to new hampshire from our honeymoon, we were honored to be able to see jeff and christina pre and post engagement!! chris and i are so honored to have been able to spend time with you both when you were so newly engaged... and we are even more honored to have been able to take some engagement photos for y'all! we had such a wonderful day with jeff and christina... what a wonderful and beautiful couple! they were great sports through all of our ideas and i think the pictures were well worth the wait...











grace and peace to you both!!

heavy hearted

it is pitiful how long it has been since i last posted... i'm afraid that this weekend has warranted some melancholy creative energy... please keep miss analiese marvel and her parents as well as the Ott, Adcock, MacIntyre, and Baldwin families in your prayers

a verse that came up in a prayer time with a friend last night - i have been mulling it over today... John 16:33 “I have said these things to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

here is a happy moment to enjoy during this bittersweet time - isn't she adorable??




- grace and peace -

sweet home

lately i have found myself missing home... kind of an all-encompassing term at the moment for me so i suppose i should narrow it down... after all, chris is my home... i have a house that i live in... my parents welcome me home after my time away... but the home i've been missing is my home in alabama - sweet home alabama you might say... i managed to take a few minutes during our busy trip home this summer to take in photographically a few of my favorite things about my grandmother's house in hartselle, alabama - the home that i lovingly refer to... and though these are all precious it truly is the relationships that are home to me












i'm savoring the taste and smell of my grandmother's spaghetti - another of my favorites!

wkb

time for more

time flies when you are having fun!! life has been a bit crazy with the transition back to life in lynchburg and trying to get life in order... a couple of weeks ago we went to rob and lindsay grove's wedding in ocean city, maryland - what an honor to be part of such a wonderful occasion! lindsay is one of my best and most wonderful friends and i was delighted to not only be one of her bridesmaids but i also got to take engagement photos AND i also took a few during the wedding festivities!! here is a peek at a select few...









a little bit of fun with photo editing...



great picture by chris marvel





so happy for the newlyweds!! more to come on this end -

wkb