Karen and John- Engaged Boat House Row/Waterworks Philadelphia

Last weekend Austin and I went over to the Boat House Row/ Waterworks area of Philadelphia for Karen and John's engagement shoot. The weather was a perfect fall day and the light was beautiful. This was the first time that we have shot at this location, and there were so many great little spots. I wanted these photos to really have a fall day feel to them. Apparently, I was into sunflare that day as well, but with the low fall sunset we were able to get some really pretty sunflare shots. We cant wait for Karen and John's wedding this coming summer!












I love this laughing shot... Karen looks so pretty


lensflare...ahhhh

















Hey look.... more lensflare...


How gorgeous does she look in this one?





I tried to capture the sun heading down for the day...


My lensbaby shot.... I think this may be my favorite lensbaby shot ever... I love the fall colors!

Sneak Preview- Coming soon to this blog

I have some weddings that I will be blogging over the next few weeks, but I wanted to give you a sneak preview of whats to come..

Jenna and Joe


Tracy and Gregg


Kelly and David


Patricia and Glenn

2 Days off for Vacation = Enjoying the Fall Season

Austin and I live what others have called an "all work and no play" lifestyle, and it's rare that we take a day off. Since we didn't take any vacation time this summer, we realized that we needed a couple days to ourselves. Of course with all the work that we still have lined up we decided to take a mini-vaca of 2 days off. Well, after we decided that we had 2 days to ourselves we needed something fun to do. We knew that we didnt want to venture far from home. Since we feel like we missed out on Summer, we decided that we were going to enjoy a couple days of the Fall Season.

So, We came up with a great day off plan that we were going to go pick our own apples, and make specialty caramel apples for our family as a surprise to them... I will tell the rest of the story with the photos.....



The only thing I could have asked for was that we got a little more time to pick our apples, because I felt a little rushed, but thats because we were still picking and everyone on our hayride was already back on and ready for the next stop





The hayride also made a stop at the pumpkin patch, so Austin picked a few pumpkins for us as well...



I was more interested in the sunflowers in the pumkin patch







We spent the rest of the day running from store to store to get all the ingredients we needed for our apples. The list of stores is as follows..

1. The Little Candy Store
2. The Candy Shoppe
3. Cannons Bakery Supplies
4. Shoprite
5. AC MOORE
6. Kmart









And now onto the fun part:


Decorating was my job


A peek inside the refrigerator as they were cooling


The end Product:


We put 4 apples each in Halloween bowls that we bought and surprised our family members with them. After making these I understand why they cost so much in the store because they are so much work. We were only gone from the house delivering the apples for about 2 hours when we returned home to this disaster...



Lola was very interested in all the ingredients that were in the trash from the caramel apples, so she ripped it apart while we were gone. Go figure.... still, it was a fun day...

Crystal and Jeff-Married

On Sunday, Austin and I spent the day at the Valleybrook Golf Club in Blackwood, NJ. This is the first time that I got to shoot at Valleybrook, and it is literally blocks from where we live. I started the day at Crystal and Jeff's house with the girls and Austin spent some time with the guys getting ready at Jeff's parent's house.

Crystal and Jeff had the most beautiful day for an outdoor ceremony. The sun was shining and the sky was as blue as ever. Crystal looked beautiful, and the look on Jeff's face as she headed down the isle said it all.

Crystal and Jeff had great families that made us feel so welcome, and we were even pulled onto the dancefloor for the last song of the night by Jeff's parents. I hope Crystal and Jeff are having a great time on their honeymoon in Riviera Maya Mexico.

i loved her bouquet
















What a perfect day


My favorite lensbaby shot of the day