Happy Holidays!

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! This time of year is filled with cold weather, hot chocolate, warm fires and sharing the season with your loved ones. Take time to truly enjoy the season and the true meaning of it and take the time to tell those you love how much they mean to you! Below is our family Christmas card that I designed for this year. It is my husband and I with our two dogs in the Blizzard of 2010 from February of this year. We got more than 20 inches of snow and the dogs just loved jumping around and playing in it. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and have love and laughter in your life because I know I do. To my husband, I love you more than words can say and thank you for loving me so much! Blessings to all, Lizzie

Mike & Lori Get Marrie (Part 2 of 2)

For my second posting, I wanted to focus on just portraits that I took during the wedding day for Mike and Lori. I thought they turned out great. There were so many wonderful spots up at Kings Gap to take all the different portraits during the day. Individual photos of each, photos of the couple together, the different people in the wedding and family portraits. I think you will agree with me that their venue could not have been more beautiful on that glorious fall afternoon! Now on to the pictures...

their flower girl

Friends of the couple, Mike and Phillip, 

provided the beautiful music.

A large family portrait with the bride and groom

I did a little something different for this photo and 

added texture to give it an antique feel.

To Mike and Lori, I wish you all the happiness in the world and 

thank you for letting me be a part of your most special day!

Mike & Lori Get Marrie (Part 1 of 2)

On October 30th, I had the privilege of photographing Mike and Lori's wedding. You can see the love they have for each other in the way that they look at each other or the gentle way they are around each other. They decided to get married at the beautiful mansion up on the mountain at King's Gap Environmental Education Center  that overlooks the valley of Central Pennsylvania. It was a gorgeous fall afternoon and the day couldn't have been more perfect for this wonderful couple.

This was the view I had driving up to the top 
of the mountain. Just breathtaking!

Lori's beautiful wedding gown hanging in 
the grand stairway in the mansion.

The corsages for the mothers

Lori's shoes and faux fur muff and flowers

The rings placed on a small pumpkin that was 

a part of the centerpieces at their reception.

 Lori getting into gown with a little help 

from her future sister-in-law.

The flower girl undoing the bride's gown's bustling.

Mike's mom putting on his boutonniere.

Lori and Mike opted to have a "First Look" session 

which is becoming more popular these days. What that 

means is that the bride and groom see each other 

before the wedding ceremony so they can get most of 

the wedding photography out of the way and that way 

after the ceremony they don't take all their pictures 

and miss out on part of the reception. Rather they are 

already finished with all the pictures and get to go straight 

to the reception to be with their guests and get to enjoy 

more of the events of the day! I can't recommend this 

enough! These photos are of them just before they

saw each other for the first time on the grand 

staircase in the mansion.

 Then these two photos are of each of them 

seeing each other for the first time.

 Detail shot of the bride and groom

Another shot of the rings

Detail shot of the groom and his boutonniere 

Lori & Mike, with the pastor, during the 

ceremony out on the terrace of the mansion.

The bride during the ceremony

The groom during the ceremony

After the ceremony and following receiving line in the 

mansion, Mike took Lori out onto the terrace to have 

their first dance. It was just the two of them as their 

ceremony musicians (who were friends of the couple), 

Mike and Phillip sang and played their acoustic 

guitars for the happy couple. I just love this photo 

and how Mike is looking at his new wife with 

such love and the beauty of the mountains and 

valley in the background!

Detail shot of Mike (with his new wedding band) 

holding Lori during their first dance as husband and wife.

They opted for a popular cupcakes display. 

Check back tomorrow for the more photos from Lori and Mike's beautiful fall wedding!

Portfolio

I recently came across my portfolio of work that I used to get my current job back in the spring of 2007. They are pictures I took while working for publications from 2001 until 2006 in the states of Alabama, New York and Pennsylvania. I thought I would share them so you could see my older photojournalism work.

Cody Locke, a Freshman biology major, was recently

named one of U.S.A. Today's Top Scholars.

Not just famed for its ice skating rink, Rockefeller Plaza

serves up some of the best cheesecake in New York City.

The Aaron's 499 NASCAR race at Talladega

Speedway gets underway in Talladega, Alabama.

Pete Townshend of the British band, The Who, plays

during a concert at Hershey, Pennsylvania's Giant Center.

The debut show for designer Irene Munger's line, "Blackpool"

was during New York's Olympus Fashion Week.

A couple takes advantage of the nice weather and studies

on the Quad at the University of Alabama.

Buzz Owens joins fellow bikers from around the area every

Tuesday night for "Biker Night" at Rhythm and Brews located

 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

The Marine Corps band was on hand to participate

in the second Presidential Inaugural Parade for 
George W. Bush in Washington, D.C

Studio shot of Nine West shoes.

The state of Hawaii was represented in the Inaugural Parade

for George W. Bush with an Aloha float with traditional

Hawaiian dancers.

India.arie performs during the Homecoming

festivities at the University of Alabama.

Dancers perform from the Alabama Repertory Dance Theater

at the Moody Music Concert Hall at the University of Alabama.

Byron Quann, former president and CEO of Whitaker Center

for Science and the Arts, stands among children performing as a

part of the Russian American Kids Circus at the

Sunoco Theater in Harrisburg, PA.

Both love and spring are in bloom at Big Spring Park

in Huntsville, Alabama.

A little girl at St. Stephen's Episcopal School in

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Sophomore forward, Kennedy Winston, goes up for points in

the Crimson Tide's 70-67 loss to Vanderbilt.

The Gates, a modern art work, by Cristo and Jeanne-Claude

was installed in New York's Central Park for sixteen days.

The Pennsylvania state capitol building in Harrisburg,

Pennsylvania covered in snow.

The circus came to town in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The day

before the opening night, the elephants are seen here

getting a bath from their trainer.

Dennis McKibbem, of Williamsport, portrays a Stockbridge

Indian during a historical reenactment.

These sisters, ages four and six, were featured on the

November 2006 cover of Central Penn Parent for

 the article "Kids in the Kitchen."

Note: These next four photos are from the same event.

More than a million protesters came to New York City during 

the Republican National Convention in 2004 as part of the

United for Peace and Justice protest march.

The New York Police Department was out in full force to

ensure the safety of the public as well as the rights of the 

protestors.

Just two, of more than one million people, that came

 out to protest the policies of President Bush.

United for Peace and Justice workers lead the protest

along 34th Street past the Empire State Building.