kevin & tori: wedding preface

there are many words... and even more pictures... to share from this weekend
while i get some semblance of order, here is a taste

kevin & tori: engagement

i cannot say enough about kevin and tori... perhaps it is because i have known tori for almost six years and treasure our friendship, i am totally and unashamedly biased. i am not going to go any futher because i fully intend on gushing in the wedding photo post (get your tissues ready!).

chris and i feel very blessed by the opportunity to photograph their wedding this coming saturday. we took their engagement photos less than a month ago in lexington, virginia. tori and kevin were both fun to photograph and extremely photogenic - i just kept saying "y'all are so attractive!" and i mean it! i am looking forward to working on my adobe editing skills and seeing what i can do with some of these photos... in the meantime, here is a sampling... or you can view the full gallery.







i am looking forward to saturday! God's most bountiful blessings on your marriage.

grace and peace to you my dear friends,

whitney

new toys!

a couple of days ago we got a package in the mail... my first b&h photo order!


i am pretty excited about my new flash and camera bag! now my camera bag can no longer be referred to as my "little camera bag" (although it still is not big by any means!) and i can take photographs in dark rooms that do not make people look orange (well in theory anyway)!

pretty exciting!

g&p
wm

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!!