jimmy and shannon-diamond cross ranch

congratulations to the beautiful couple. saturday i shot my first contracted wedding and during the reception i thought to myself, i have never had a better time at a wedding. i absolutely loved capturing the day for shannon and jimmy. and with that said, it was truly a beautiful wedding and celebration with awesome family and friends of the commitment between these two people. i want to say thank you to them for the opportunity to help tell the story of their day, and to tim, the head photographer for letting me work with him and to neill for lending his eye and his skills.

crazy thing

if you can imagine this...just hanging out at the lake this weekend we hear that some friends of ours have picked up this little fawn from the middle of the lake. the story goes that they saw this little guy fall from a cliff into the water and confused, start swimming away from shore. by the time they got to it, he was exhausted and wouldn't have made it much farther. he was completely docile and quiet as he laid in this beautiful woman's lap (no wonder the dear was comfortable...she's the mother of two, she knows a bit about comforting little ones). i don't know the end of the story, but hopefully the game and fish showed up to take care of it seeing as it no longer has a mother. 

wedding pics

well, i second shot this wedding for kat, my sis-in-law. sean, the groom, has been a friend of my brother's for a LONG time so it was fun to be involved. it was a fun jackson wedding totally laid back and of course great people and scenery. it's been almost a year, but i can still wish the happy couple, sean and stina, best wishes!

all of these are STOC, i've decided not to mess with them

   

back in the us of a

well, hello. i am back from ireland on my "home" turf...dc that is. i decided to throw up some pictures of the trip. they're a bit random, but a few of the ones that stuck out to me. the first two are of the girls and i at killiney beach which is south of dublin. we took a little drive to get out before our long flight back home. it was a nice little adventure.

there is a park called st. stephen's green that is very beautiful. there is a huge pond and a lot of different walkways that take you through green grass and trees and fountains. here are two resident swans that were trying to sleep in the midst of hundreds of people on out on a sunny day (a rare sunny day i might add...we were blessed with great weather).

this is just a random shot as i was walking from our hotel to the main strip, grafton street, where i did a little shopping and picture taking. 

cape st. claire

this is also a long over due post that i have a little time to catch up on while i am spending some down time in my hotel in ireland. after helping our friends ryan and shannon out with their back yard (ok...alfred helped while i got myself lost on a walk through their neighborhood) we jumped on the boat for the first time this year to enjoy the water before the sun went down. we caught the moon coming up right as we were leaving 

the irish sea

so this is my first time truly experiencing the irish sea. it's very beautiful. the clouds rolled in and just hung over the water only about 100 yards high. when they aren't there you can see land across the bay, or at least i think it's the bay. either way i am hoping to get out and get some more...these were just taking from the hotel room while i was watching the little munchkins. more from ireland later

                                        

 

   

a moment in time

before i headed off to ireland alfred and i met up with some friends, jesse and sarah, and headed down to a dock in northern virginia that looks across the river to our nations capital. we had a little fun taking some night time pictures...