wintergreen, va
January 21, 2010 | Filed Under family photos, friends, travel | 1 Comment
our family took a trip this past weekend with a group of other young families to one of our favorite spots – wintergreen, a ski resort located in the virginia mountains about three hours’ drive from the DC area. i’ve been there twice before – once with my husband, before we had musa, and once last summer, to shoot this wedding. we had a wonderful time – most of all, watching our children enjoy themselves, but also enjoying some winter sports, good company, good food and lasting memories. naturally i took my camera along… though here i am sharing just a few images of my own family (like musa on the bungee-trampoline!), and mostly some of the breathtaking scenery at wintergreen – utterly magical in the snow and fog, and exhilarating in the winter sunlight under a blue sky.
tilt-shift musa
January 15, 2010 | Filed Under family photos, practice shoots | 1 Comment
played around with my tilt-shift lens the morning i had to return it. i still have a lot to learn with this lens, but it sure is fun….
(this first shot is actually with the 35L, not the tilt-shift…)
now, the tilt-shift pictures…
i don’t normally include two versions of the same shot, but i couldn’t decide which one i liked better…
and this one is musa’s favorite picture:
a little bit more…
January 14, 2010 | Filed Under wedding posts | Leave a Comment
i’ve been finishing up the processing for sam and sanjana’s two events and just wanted to share a random selection of a few more favorites from both events!
one of these images – the horizontal of the chandelier, was taken by my assistant-for-the-day, fasiha khan – loved the image, thought i would share it here too! thanks so much, fasiha, for all your help :)
sam & sanjana II
January 10, 2010 | Filed Under wedding posts | 11 Comments
samjana’s walima (reception given by the groom’s side) was held on a blustery, bright yet bitterly cold day at the gorgeous westfields marriott in chantilly, virginia at the start of the new year, a week after the rukhsathi, or bride’s-side reception, held in sanjana’s hometown of knoxville, tennessee.
i’ll say again how excited i was to be able to photograph both of sam and sanjana’s events; it was so much fun to see so many familiar faces at the walima, and to realize how many connections we had in common! but the most memorable aspect of the day, for me, was the diversity and the unity altogether of the guests, and how much that clearly meant to both the bride and groom. watching and listening to those of varying religious traditions who have all known and loved sam on his spiritual journey was beautifully moving – to know that the witnessing guests were comprised of muslims, christians, jews, hindus and more, all unified in their embrace of this passionately muslim boy and his bride. i truly hope some of that comes through in the pictures, because it certainly is part of what i tried to capture!
sam and sanjana, thank you once again for allowing me to take and share these images, and thanks so much for your patience with my portrait experiments :) i’m publishing this on jan. 10 which is the date you are supposed to be leaving – so i hope you guys do get to see this soon, inshallah! all my prayers and best wishes for a safe journey and a fruitful, blessed experience… ameen :)
