...and the wedding!

Wow! There is so much to say about Hana & Mark's wedding! I truly enjoyed shooting this wedding. Hana and Mark, as well as their families, really welcomed me as a part of their special day. This was my first time ever shooting a Muslim wedding...and man, they now how to celebrate!
The celebration started Saturday night when Hana's huge family came into town. Everyone spent the evening at Hana's parents house eating AMAZING food and dancing the night away!!! I really enjoyed getting to know the family and shooting pictures of everyone hanging out!
The wedding day was just as fun! At that point...I felt like part of the family! Once again everyone met up at Hana's parents house and then it was off to the Indiana Roof Ballroom, which is a beautiful place to hold a ceremony and reception! Thanks Mark, Hana, and ALL the family for a GREAT time! Hana and Mark actually have a second wedding planned for this year in Barbados (where Mark is from). I'm sure it will be just a beautiful!

Mark & Hana

I shot Hana & Mark's engagement pictures a few days before their wedding so their wedding pictures will probably post in the next week!
I had a great time shooting their engagement pictures. We did them in West Lafayette at Purdue. I have never taken pictures there so it was fun to shoot in a new location. Plus...I had Mark there to basically give me a personal tour of the whole campus! It was a lot of fun! My favorite image is of Mark brushing Hana's hair. She has the most GORGEOUS long hair...and you can see how much he loves it! Mark & Hana are a GREAT couple and the fun just continued on through the weekend at their wedding! Thanks for putting up with me for that many days in a row!

blake @ 3.5 weeks

Here are two pictures I took (out of a hundred!) of my nephew Blake at 3.5 weeks!
He's just the cutest little guy ever! It's amazing how much he's already changed! Last week I got to babysit him for the first time! It was only for about 25 minutes while Eric and Becky went to the pool, but I loved every minute of it!!! Look how precious he is!!

one light

So I had totally become an available light photographer, which is fine because available light is AMAZING...that is...when you have it. So yesterday I was shooting Mark & Hana's wedding...which was INCREDIBLE and there will be more pictures to follow, but I was in a situation where I had almost absolutely NO available light...my camera could barely focus it was so dark. I was about to grab my flash and pop it on my camera when I thought back to the One Light Workshop with Zack Arias that I recently attended. I knew this was the perfect situation to apply what I had learned...here are a few of the pics...I still have so much to learn, but I was EXTREMELY excited when I saw the results! Any photographers out there who haven't attended this workshop should totally do it if you ever have the chance!