Update: As of 2/7 all 5 of the free shoots have been filled. Thank you to everyone who spread the word! The $50 discount is still available for any kid shoots booked before the end of February.
Before you know it spring will be here (yay!). Last year I gave away 5 free family/kid shoots and they were such a big hit I am doing it again this year.
The first 5 people to contact me will receive a free shoot including one 8×10, two 5×7’s and 8 wallets as a thank you. Shoots will take place in the spring or summer. You must live in the Philly area and not received a free shoot in the past.
All I ask in return is that you help me build my business by word of mouth advertising to everyone you know. You also must sign a release agreeing to let me use the photos for advertising (Facebook, website, blog etc).
For those who miss the first 5 spots you will receive $50 off a family/kid shoot as long as you book it by the end of February. Just mention the code “February50″ when booking.
Also, be sure to sign up for email alerts so you are the first to find out about special deals in the future.
And….go!
For Amie & Dave’s engagement session we headed into downtown Doylestown. We didn’t have any particular locations in mind so we just wandered around town and stopped when we saw something that caught our eye. Our first stop was the Main Street Baptist Church to take some pictures in front of the bright red doors.
Next we headed a little ways down the street and found an empty house for sale which had this cool slate porch on the back.
No engagement session is complete without a stop at the Doylestown Court House…
We made one last stop on the way back to the cars on this set of steps…
Since I am way behind on my blogging Amie & Dave have been married already for a few months now. Check back soon for pictures from their beautiful wedding at The Highlands Mansion in Fort Washington, PA.
Tags: 2009, Amie & Dave, Blue, Brick, Doylestown, Doylestown Court House, Engagement Session, Fort Washington, Garden, July, jumping, Katrina Brown Photography, Main Street, Main Street Baptist Church, PA, Red Door, Steps, The Highlands Mansion, www.kmbphotos.com
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Posted in Wedding
Steph & Bobby got married on the 4th of July at the Stonebridge Inn in Union Dale, PA. Never having been to Stonebridge or Union Dale for that matter I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but the grounds and view were beautiful. I had Krista Patton 2nd shooting with me who went over to the grooms parents house to shoot Bobby and the guys getting ready while I followed around Steph and the girls at Stonebridge.
Bottom right photo of Bobby & next photo of guys shot by Krista
We had to be a bit sneakier trying to get some photos of the girls before the ceremony as the guests were wandering about the property early trying to search out the bride.
The ceremony took place on a hillside overlooking the mountains. The altar, candle, flower petal holders as well as many other items were all hand made by family members for Steph & Bobby! It added a very nice personal touch to the day!
Steph & Bobby did a traditional Celtic Handfasting Ceremony where their hands are tied together with ribbon to symbolize being tied together forever.
After the ceremony we headed down to the road to a big open field on the hillside with a very rundown old barn that made an excellent backdrop for some bride & groom pictures.
Seeing as how it was the 4th of July no wedding would be complete without a HUGE basket of sparklers for the guests!
Image below shot by Krista
Some of their family & friends got together to sing the bride and groom a song.
Mid reception I wanted to head back up the hill to the ceremony site to mess around with the setting sun. It was on this little adventure that I was like an inch away from stepping on a fairly large snake. Thank you to Steph who was paying attention and screamed…which resulted in my screaming at the top of my lungs and high stepped it on outta there like a little girl! Nature is nice but I am a city girl if that wasn’t painfully obvious already!
Stonebridge sort of has a no fireworks policy…as you can see it wasn’t followed very well but it was the 4th of July so who could blame them! Image shot by Krista.
Thank you Steph & Bobby for letting me be a part of your special day!
Tags: 4th of July, barn, Bride, Brown, Celtic, Custom Pint Glasses, Fields, Fireworks, Groom, Handfasting Ceremony, Holiday, Homemade Altar, Khaki Suits, Live Band, Mountains, Nature, Outdoor, PA, Red, Roses, Sparklers, Steph & Bobby, Stonebridge Inn, Summer, Sunset, Union Dale, Wedding
Tami, Jay and I headed down to Valley Forge National Park back in June to do their engagement session. This is one of my favorite locations to shoot at because for starters it is a HUGE park and also because it is a little slice of rural heaven right outside the busy city. Because the park is so big we grabbed a map and drove around from spot to spot in the car. It would take literally hours to do it on foot. The first place we headed to is the big stone arch in the middle of the park. They were so cute. They stood there looking at me and gave me the usual we don’t know what to do line…5 seconds later they started busting out all kinds of poses like they were there for a modeling shoot.
I thought this was cute…they were trying to make a heart with their arms. If you can’t tell by the look on Jay’s face this was Tami’s idea!
On the walk back across the road to the car I spotted this big open field which I thought was nice…
The next place we had on the list was Washington Memorial Chapel on the other end of the park. Thank goodness for the map because it was definitely needed to navigate our way over there.
After the chapel we decided to just wander around and see what else we could find.
This is probably one of my favorite pictures from the shoot…
Tami & Jay are the most adorable couple ever! Both are very laid back and so much fun to be around. I ironically enough just returned from their wedding a few hours ago and am very excited to start editing the photos from it. Check back soon for those.
Slowly but surely I am getting caught up on my blogging. I have always had the theory that if I shoot it, it gets blogged no matter how long they take to go up as is the case with Jorja & Travis’s shoot. This was another of my free shoots that I gave away to build my kids portfolio this past spring. Jorja was the flower girl in her Aunt Liz & Uncle Dan’s wedding that I shot last fall (their photos can be found HERE & HERE). When I was looking for kids to do photo shoots with it just made sense to do one with these two. We headed over to the Kids Castle in Doylestown which is about as kid friendly as you can get. It is a massive 8 story wooden playground with a slide that goes from the top level to the bottom. Yes, I was conned by a small child into going down it incase you were wondering. Don’t worry it was fun, just not made for people over 3 feet tall! Since kids don’t have much of an attention span for sitting still during a photo shoot, and who can blame them with a playground like that next to them, we did the shoot in small bits with lots of play time in between.
The picture on the bottom right is one of my favorites from the whole shoot. We asked Jorja to give her brother a hug and she leaned down and have him a kiss instead. It was so cute!!
How can you tell when the kids are getting bored with doing pictures? See example A below haha…
Portrait sessions don’t always have to be stiff poses with backdrops, some of the best pictures happen when you just let kids be kids.
Watch out CJ I have a feeling you are going to be chasing the boys off with a stick when this girl gets older!
Thank you Jill for letting me borrow your adorable kids for a few hours to get some great pictures! Keep an eye for more of these two as I am doing a large family shoot for them next month.
Tags: Boy, Brother, Doylestown, Family, Girl, Katrina Brown Photography, Kids, Kids Castle, Park, Playground, Quirk, Siblings, Sister, Slide, Swings, www.kmbphotos.com
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