10 posts tagged “dc”
I'm on DC Craigslist a lot and just last week I started checking out Baltimore CL, I'm finally seeing LOCAL things in the listings! If it's okay with the city of Crofton, I'd still like to associate myself with DC if it's okay. Nothing against Baltimore, it's just not home. But we do enjoy your harbor area, Charm City Cakes and Port Discovery.
Details Coming Soon!
(Happening - Early June)
On Tuesday, Myke, Dalal, Her Sister and I got in a limo and headed down to the cherry blossoms and many other DC sites. It turned out to be the PERFECT shoot. Dalal and Myke both looked great. We were able to stay away from the crowds just enough to get all the backgrounds we were crossing our fingers for!
I love doing the bridal portraits a few days before the wedding. It takes so much stress off of the actual wedding day, the bride and groom get to enjoy more of their day. Dalal and Myke's reason? They don't want to miss a minute of the cocktail hour! :o)
I'm so excited to share these images with you guys and even more excited to shoot their wedding in two weeks!
during peak cherry blossom spring
We went downtown to the Cherry Blossoms today. We weren't with the kids, which means I was able to take pictures instead! Below are some images including pictures of Laura-not-my-wife and Dave... Laura(-is-my-wife) is wearing a scarf in the falling water portrait. also known around here as the beautiful, wonderful, awesome wife ::ahem:: :o)
I was searching around the videos at "how stuff works" and saw that they had a bunch of city guides... naturally i look for my DC, as it's very often over looked. "Washington City" was on there with a picture of the white house... so i check out "Washington City" and the guy points out some nice spots but he mispronounces the Potomac river (paw-ti-mic vs po-to-mic)... I wouldn't normally be so picky, but it's a big river, if you're a travel guide you should be able to pronounce it. That's okay... I should have known it wouldn't be all that great by them calling it "Washington City" anyway...
check out the non-resource here: http://videos.howstuffworks.com/cityguide-washington-dc-video.htm
Perhaps I'm a delusioned Washingtonian... but shouldn't DC be in the top 25 popular travel destinations in the United States? Why is Baltimore #15 and DC isn't even on there? DC, home to the Smithsonian can be one of the cheapest and most educational vacations with all the museums and zoo (animal and political) open to the public for free (well...upfront anyway). Apparently, it's a decent site... I guess I'll get over the OBVIOUS error and check it out now. :)
I worked last night so that today could be field trip day... We printed out some facts about a few monuments, drove around a while until we found a parking space and then hit the monuments that we usually only point to while driving past. Below is our day through images while being a Tourist in Our Own Town:
It was fun taking pictures just to take pictures... Eva is finally getting to the age where I can start to carry my big camera and not regret bringing it. I'd never noticed the DC WWI memorial before, it's off the beaten path, small and needs cleaned. How quickly we forget. Read this for more info after reading that I want to go there again and check it out closer... I didn't get any closer than what you see.
Be a tourist in YOUR town... i'd love to see the images!
After being here almost a week we finally made it out the suburb we've been staying in (Tomball, TX) and went into Houston. We went to the "Downtown Aquarium", it was cheaper and SO much nicer than the Baltimore Aquarium. It was smaller but half the price and INCREDIBLY welll taken care of. They were open last night until 10p and we got there at around 8pm. The combination of Houston not being very touristy right now and it being a school night we were the ONLY people in the aquarium... Eva was able to get out the stroller and do her thing, it was great for her. Had i realized how freakin' cool the aquarium was i would have brought my real camera... but the point-n-shoot did pull off this one great image of the city skyline with the ferris wheel spinning.
I will still miss SONIC most of all... I'm sure i'd get sick of it very fast, it's probably best for us to have a long distance relationship. I promise we'll KIT! (umm.. ask an eighth grade girl... if you don't remember what KIT is.. although asking an eighth grade girl ANYthing might be seen as rather creepy).
The food here is amazing... Being so close to the border, mexican and tex-mex is a whole other world... Laura and I will usually go to the chain tex-mex restaurant when we actually get a date night back home... After eating here and tasting actually authentic tex-mex and mexican... it's going to be hard to go back to the imitation east coast stuff!
I can't wait to get into this wedding and edit and design their album... This might be the album i mass produce into sample "give-away" albums... we'll see how it turns out, but the images are incredible and in many different locations... I'm going to also be shooting Arianne and Jimmy at an abandoned Hospital when we get back home. It apparently was abandoned in the fifties when all the staff and patients got TB and died... The beds are still there along with many other creepy "ghost town" things... complete with paint peeling off the wall and broken windows. I can't wait to shoot there, hopefully we don;t get kicked out!
In about six hours we'll be on a plane home to the nation's capital... Eva, Laura and Myself are all sick... probably due to the huge change in climate.
WOW!!! We are so blown away by how great it looks. What an amazing job you did! Thank you so much for creating such a special keepsake for us!
We were so excited about the photos you sent us before you finished the album, that we've been showing them to everyone and passing out your business cards!
How AWESOME!
What kind words! Want to see what the excitement is all about? Click here to view Tenille & Josh's whole family portrait album! When can we set up YOUR family portrait session? Email me for more information Sean [at] ryeli.com
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