Tyler & Lauren – St. Mary’s Chapel Charlotte

Lauren & Tyler has a wonderfully mild January night for their intimate wedding evening in uptown Charlotte.  Congratulations and thanks so much for having me (I’ll let the pictures do the talking).

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A photo walk in Maryland

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A little photo walk in Sparks Maryland before going back to work with Amy – doing some design and consulting.

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Kyle and Rachele’s Engagement Slideshow…Ooo la la!

Kyle and Rachele's Engagement Slideshow

So I experienced my funniest engagement shoot moment by far with these two goofballs. For those of you who haven’t experienced one of my “enthusiastic sessions”, I usually make my couples repeat the same two actions over and over: 1. kissing and 2. fake laughing. The laughing is there to lighten the mood and it always brings even more giggles.

Well it was getting towards the end of the session and Kyle and Rachele were sitting close with their faces almost touching. I stepped back to compose my shot and said “On the count of 3 you know what to do!” 1…..2….3…..! Rachele leaned in for a saucy romantic kiss just as Kyle blurted out the loudest fake laugh I had ever heard. This of course scared the poo out of Rachele and caused her to jump back in fright, and I almost dropped my camera because I was laughing so hard at this hysterical moment.

Did I catch a photo of this event? Heck no! I was laughing too hard….but I know who to call when I need someone to back up my jokes at a party!

Location: Degolyer Estate, Letchworth State Park

Music: Everything by Michele Buble

Jack Johnson’s song “Better Together” illustrated

Charlie’s christmas gift project this year was simpler than last time….

Jack Johnson song "Better Together" wedding photo illustrated

This time Charlie contacted me about somehow merging the message of he and Courtney’s wedding song into a print for her office desk.  So the constraint was an 8×10″ image – and the challenge was to personalize it.  To emphasize the personal touch, I suggested Charlie write out the lyrics in his own handwriting – and I only used a little font in the design of the overall image.  The song lyrics are very fitting for ‘making love real’ and how art can participate in marking a relationship:

[Verse 1:]
There’s no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard,
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart,
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things,
Like a shoebox of photographs,
With sepiatone loving,
Love is the answer

At least for most of the questions in my heart ,
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it’s so hard?
It’s not always easy,
And sometimes life can be deceiving,
I’ll tell you one thing, its always better when we’re together

[Chorus:]
MMM, it’s always better when we’re together
Yeah, we’ll look at the stars when we’re together
Well, it’s always better when we’re together
Yeah, it’s always better when we’re together

[Verse 2:]
And all of these moments
Just might find their way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they’ll be gone,
When the morning light sings
And brings new things,
But tomorrow night you see
That they’ll be gone too,
Too many things I have to do,
But if all of these dreams might find their way
Into my day to day scene
I’ll be under the impression,
I was somewhere in-between
With only two,
Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do,
Or places we got to be
We’ll sit beneath the mango tree now

Yeah, it’s always better when we’re together
MMM, We’re somewhere in-between together
Well, it’s always better when we’re together
Yeah, it’s always better when we’re together

Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm
I believe in memories
They look so, so pretty when I sleep

Hey now, and when, and when I wake up,
You look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time,
And there is no, no song I could sing
And there is no combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing,
We’re better together

Contact us to have us design a multimedia art piece to help mark the love in your life!
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RockTographers.com features our ring shots!

We are now proud members of the Modern Photographers.com website

And photos of our rings have been featured on their ring shot photo blog – RockTographers

Read on to get the full gallery of ring shots including the ‘universal groom’ ring pose and the snotty nose ring shot

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