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The First Wedding

Wow!!! I know there are photographers who have this down to a fine art and are very efficient. That is a work in progress for me. The experience of shooting my first wedding has been wonderful albeit a challenge. I think I even been editing editing photos in my sleep the last week and a half. But I am happy to say they are complete and the album is underway. Here's the first couple of pages and a link to the photos.

I tried to keep them in some order, but a few may be out of place. Please be gracious, I feel like a babe in the big city. My hat's off to the folks who shoot weddings every weekend, they should be sporting some type of cape with an "S" for Super Shooter.

I hope you enjoy.

Wedding Bells

I'm sure Chris and Mark are anxiously awaiting their wedding pictures. While most are edited, I decided to give her a little sneak peak here.

My good friend and fellow photog, Stephanie and I were honored to shoot our first wedding together for Mark and Chris. You may remember their engagement pictures with Chris' beautiful daughter Nicki grabbing a bit of the limelight with those beautiful eyes of hers.

Here's a couple of the girls getting ready.
And Chris and Nicki.

And the cool grooms men.

The ceremony was in the heat of the afternoon, but the good news is the rain stayed away until later. Immediately after the ceremony the bride and groom were all smiles.

Here's a couple of the post wedding girls.

Chris and Mark are great to photograph. They are extremely in love and very affectionate. It was wonderful watching them sing to each other during their first dance.

Here's one of them cutting the cake.

I should have most of the photos up by this coming Thursday. Hopefully the full album. Be sure to check back then.

Chris and Mark your wedding was beautiful and we had a great time. Congratulations!!!!

China Girls

A couple of weeks ago, I had the honor of shooting a reunion of families that adopted daughters from an orphanage in the Guangdong Province of China. These families traveled together on this monumental life experience and decided too have a reunion in St. Louis during the Chinese Festival at the Botanical Gardens. The 5 girls I had the pleasure of photographing are all in the four year old range and what a joy they were. They kept us hopping.

Here is Gracie.

...and Cate,

...and Meg

...and Hannah

...and last but certainly not least beautiful Mia.

Thank you to all the families and girls I met. Your daughters are precious in every way and very fortunate to have such loving families.

click here to see their album.