i love editing wedding photos. i love editing all photos… seeing them on an LCD screen while you’re shooting  is not the same as seeing them on your wide angle beast of a computer screen in proper color. once you bring your camera home it is so exciting to look at the photographs and see what you’ve got. the day goes by in a blur and you often forget ones you took just an hour or two ago. also, as a photographer you should grow with each new wedding as each event poses a new and different challenge. so as i go through the photographs i try to critique things and think of how to improve for next time. or, if i really love the shot, i think about how i achieved it and what to continue to do for the next wedding.

here are some more of nichole and kevin, the lovely couple from this past weekend. i’ll be updating my blog with a few photographs each day from the wedding as i go through these. one thing i loved about this wedding is how excited nichole and kevin were to marry each other – you can really see the happiness in their faces throughout the day. it’s adorable!!

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spot the photographer!

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nichole’s adorable little bro. he avoided getting his picture taken at all costs and i had pretty much had to sneak attack him all day.

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putting a tux on a teething baby is hard work, but somebody’s got to do it.

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with the happy mother-in-law and mom.

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nichole looked simply wonderful!

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until tomorrow, kids!

i photographed nichole and kevin randall’s wedding this weekend and it was beautiful! they were married at st. michael the archangel catholic church in cary, nc on september 12th. it was an intimate ceremony and reception. i already had the pleasure of photographing family portraits for them last month so it was easy to work with them again and photograph their baby connor in the cutest baby tux ever! i was honored to be a part of their wedding day. nichole’s wedding dress was gorgeous – she sewed the beadwork herself and a member of her family made her veil. here’s a sneak peek of the first edits:

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more to come this week…

pittsburgh visit.

this past weekend and week has been a total whirlwind for us. we went home knowing we’d already be busy enough with my mom’s birthday and visiting my grandma in the hospital, but with added engagement news on top of that we got really exhausted really quick. lots of talking, lots of planning, lots of discussion. we didn’t get back to raleigh until late sunday night and have been rushing to catch up on all the business we missed while we were gone while simultataneously trying to recover. geoff has a cold and i’m exhausted, but we’re slowly catching up. i’ve been editing from last week’s shoots and preparing for the wedding i’m photographing this weekend in cary.

i uploaded some of the photos we took in pittsburgh this past week – all of which were taken at PNC park. we took my mom there for her birthday as neither of my parents had ever been to the new stadium. the pirates lost, of course, but going to that stadium is always so much fun – and it was fireworks night! plus the pittsburgh skyline never gets old.

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magic hour in the ‘burgh.

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the sister and me…cheesing it up at the game.

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seriously – who mows those lines so straight?

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there was a giant red moon that night that, when photographed properly, reminds me of a bad 80s music video.

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“even fireworks at pirates games dwarf most cities’ fourth of july.” – laura

p.s. go steelers!