Friday, January 12, 2007

All Grown Up


This was from a cotillion last Tuesday night for middle school kids. It was an awesome assignment but it was hard to shoot. Every kid was up on the dance floor at the same time and it wasn't even big enough for them. Imagine trying to take photos of them dancing while at the same time making sure you're not getting run over by over two hundred dancers. It was worth it though.



Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Gettin' Hitched


Jaime Clampitt (left), of Potomac Falls, celebrates after marrying Corp. David Robert Boast (right), of Fairfax, outside of the Courthouse in Leesburg Tuesday morning. There's a chance David will be deployed to Iraq in 2007, so the couple wanted a quick wedding.

For this photo, I just couldn't get in the right spot for the kiss. In the end, though, I really didn't want that photo. What I got was a more unique moment from a courthouse wedding. It really shows the times that a couple who was only engaged for a short time - less than six weeks - would feel rushed to get the ceremony over with before the groom is sent off to war. After the short ceremony, the couple was getting their picture taken by family. I wanted the bride's maiden name to put in the cutline, so I asked the groom's sister who at the moment was the only one not posing for or taking pictures. She said she didn't know and that she barely knew the bride.