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Amie & Dave – Engagement Session – Doylestown, PA – 7.5.09

Katrina Brown Photography — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:43:56 +0000

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.

Jorja & Travis – Doylestown Kids Castle – 6.28.09

Katrina Brown Photography — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:36:23 +0000

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.

Tracey & Drew Engagement Session – Fonthill Museum – 5.23.09

Katrina Brown Photography — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:22:33 +0000

Tracey & Drew live almost across the street from the Fonthill Museum and The Moravian Pottery & Tile Works built by Henry Mercer in Doylestown so it was a perfect place to go do their engagement session. I have driven through the area before but this was my first time on the Fonthill section of the property.

If you are unfamiliar with Henry Mercer, he was a historian and archeologist who was alive in the mid 1800’s to early 1900’s. He collected and preserved items that were used in daily life prior to the industrial revolution that became extinct with the new machines and technologies. He collected almost 30,000 items for which he built a 6 story castle to store them in now known as the Mercer Museum. If you live in the area it is an awesome museum and well worth checking out.

Fonthill, Mercer’s home, is a very unique building unlike anything you see today. It is covered in oddly shaped windows and unusual arches making it a very artistic backdrop for a photo shoot.

First we headed down to a small area in the lawn where there was a concrete pond and some trails leading into the woods.

After that we headed back up to the building to do some exploring.

Next we decided to venture down the trails to see what we could find. There was another house way back in the woods that had some beautiful tiles and sayings on it that appeared to have been a guest house. Unfortunately it has been destroyed by kids with spray paint and is full of broken windows. Normally something like this would make a cool back drop but we decided to keep walking due to the massive amount of broken glass on the ground. Flip flips + Dirty Broken Glass = Bad idea! Back into the trails it was to head towards the Tile Works.

Here you can see a very small sampling of the tiles that can be found in the buildings all over the property.

Last but not least we stopped by the Tile Works to do some photos in the archways that surround the courtyard of the building.

I had a great time with Tracey & Drew and can’t wait for their wedding next May at the Holly Hedge Estate.

Jon & Anna's Wedding 9.27.08 Peddlers Village

Katrina Brown Photography — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:35:00 +0000

Two Saturday’s ago Jon and Anna became husband and wife at the Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Doylestown. While the weather started out a bit rainy that day it cleared up just in time to head across the street to the church’s prayer garden for some family photos. After the prayer garden the bridal party along with myself and my assistant hopped onto the trolley car to take a ride through downtown Doylestown and past their photography gallery Main Street Gallery on our way to Peddlers Village for the reception which was held at the Cock n’ Bull Restaurant. As I learned during our photo session before the reception Peddler’s Village is a very special place for Jon and Anna as that is where they met while Anna was working in the book store there. They were a wonderful and fun couple to work with who obviously have a lot of love for each other. Keep scrolling for some of the photos from their day.