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A few weeks ago we got to hang out with Jennifer of Warthan Farms Photography for an all-film shootout at the famous Warthan Farms cottage. We were hoping for a bigger turnout, but it ended up being Carina, myself, Jennifer, and our gorgeous model, Kimberly. We ended up having such good fun together! Getting there […]

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When Brittany, an aspiring wedding photographer from the NoVA/DC area, first approached us to do a full on mentoring session, we had second-and-third thoughts about it. Are we ready for this? Are we worth this? We’d done a few smaller mentoring sessions, sure… But Brittany was ready for a full-on, half-day, hands-on mentoring session. And […]

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Brittany Marie is a beautiful girl inside and out, a talented photographer from Northern Virginia and officially part of our 2013 mentoring-session-family! There is so much more to mentoring sessions than talking about technical specs and branding. What it is all about is encouragement and inspiration. Brittany has big dreams and lots of personality, we […]

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Mary Lynn and James had their wedding location all picked out when they met us. Tucked away in Seaford, near Yorktown, Virginia, Bay Tree Manor was the perfect location for this couple who grew up on the waters of Virginia’s coastline. Their dream wedding: simple, with lots of family, and with peacock feathers and a […]

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Hi everyone! Wow, have we been keeping busy! This NEXT week is going to be awesome… taking a little trip to Virginia Beach for one wedding and then to the mountains for another! Recently someone asked us, “So what is a RAW file anyway and what makes it so much better than JPEGs? Do you […]

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Aaron and Allie approached us roughly a month before their wedding… And luckily, that Sunday was still open! Lucky for us anyway… Because this couple was SO much fun getting to know! Aaron is so much more than the tallest guy in the room… he loves dancing. I mean, loves it. Hardly a moment of […]

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Alicia and Josh had been looking forward to a big wedding, and they had booked us for it over a year ago. But sometimes not everything goes as planned… What they originally expected was perhaps more traditional… But what they experienced was something small, beautifully intimate and perfect. This Middle Peninsula couple met us the […]

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Q & A Tuesday Thursday Garrison: What lenses do you normally use and or recommend for people/portrait shooting? We are in LOVE with primes. All of our lenses are prime lenses. A prime lens means that it is a fixed focal length, or “not a zoom.” You can still zoom with them, you just have […]

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