Congratulations Amanda and Dale on bringing your beautiful new baby girl Cheryl into the world! I swung by the house after Amanda left the hospital so I could take a couple photos during that priceless first week. There’s nothing like a newborn baby, there’s something magical about those first few days.
Cheryl was a champ during the whole shoot considering I showed up around dinner time and she was hungry! Even though I woke her up she gave me some encouraging smiles. It’s always amazing how much character a newborn baby can have and Cheryl was no exception. She grabbed right onto fingers, gave little squeals and made us all swoon with those baby blues. She’s turning heads and she’s only 3 days old… Dad’s comment? “I’m going to have my hands full when she turns fifteen”

I have to pace you, because if I gave you all the adorableness at one time you who knows what would happen.

This is the second part of the shoot I did with Kate over Thanksgiving break. These are pictures were taken first and I snapped them off in the 30 or so minutes of light that we had left by the time we got downtown. They are a nice compliment to the “Gothic” pictures and certainly more traditional, though to be honest I think the Gothic pictures out shine these. Thanks again to Kate for being a more than willing model! She was very patient with a little four year old girl who just couldn’t understand why we would be taking pictures and demanded to know when Kate was getting married. 

Little girl: Are you getting married?
Kate: No
Little girl: Why are you dressed like that?
Kate: to take pictures
Little girl: are you getting married?
Kate: (smiles) Someday
Little girl: soon?
Kate: Maybe…
Little girl: When? tomorrow?
Kate: No, not tomorrow
Little girl: When?

Kate took it all in stride (as any real model would) and the pictures came out fabulous!

This is what I have fondly come to refer to as “The Gothic Shots”. Kate and I arrived in DC at the National Cathedral a little later than we thought and we only had about 40 minutes of sunset/daylight left. Thankfully this was a blessing in disguise! We had originally planned to shoot in the gardens all afternoon and even do some inside shots but with the waning light we had very little time to shoot anything at all! The light completely disappeared and on our way back to the car to download the pictures I noticed that there were lots of areas around the cathedral that were pretty well lit, so me and Kate set off with a plan. We would get some night time shots, not really “traditional” wedding pictures, but certainly fabulous. Enjoy  

 

 

It is always so hard for me to pick a teaser picture. I can never decide if I should put up one of the best photos (and risk people being disappointed by the rest) or post one of the pictures that isn’t really my favorite and risk people not really being teased at all. I’ve compromised here because I love this shot of Kate, but it doesn’t give away too much of the grand architecture we shot at and it doesn’t have dramatic lighting. There might just be two posts from this shoot, a ying and yang type thing, so stay tuned for another (drastically different) teaser coming soon.