http://ayeshaahmadphotography.com/blog ayesha ahmad, wedding and portrait photographer in maryland, DC, virginia - anywhere... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:58:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en so i have a couple of exciting bits of news to share with you all... the first is a little old; i've been sitting on it for the blog, although i did tweet about it a while back! but, in january i received an award from one of the national ... http://ayeshaahmadphotography.com/blog/2010/03/exciting-announcements/ may the laughs keep coming :) and may Allah bless you with countless more years of joy, strength, and blessed prosperity! http://ayeshaahmadphotography.com/blog/2010/02/happy-anniversary-saad-and-mahroo/ nafeez and jessica are getting married!! in october this year. in gettysburg!! so, in honor of that, we had been planning to shoot some pretty historic-type pictures - more to come on that later - but since that didn't work out, we settled on a historic location - the beautiful ... http://ayeshaahmadphotography.com/blog/2010/02/engagement-shoot-nafeez-jessica/ i had an unexpected chance to meet these three lovely sisters today in gaithersburg, in the kentlands area, and take their pictures on the one day of gorgeous sunlight, just-above-freezing weather, and just-barely-passable road conditions that could have made a portrait session possible. yesterday, no roads, tomorrow, more snow - ... http://ayeshaahmadphotography.com/blog/2010/02/wintry-portraits/ just had to share a few shots from trying to deal with the craziest snowstorm in about a century this weekend! i took some shots early saturday morning (feb. 6), then once we (all three of us!) went out to shovel the driveway, which was... for me at least... a ... http://ayeshaahmadphotography.com/blog/2010/02/snow/ this is what you get when an utterly non-car person takes pictures at a car show... the only thing i could really get out of it was the smile on my son's face, which of course made every minute worth it! anyway, this was, obviously, just a personal visit with ... http://ayeshaahmadphotography.com/blog/2010/02/dc-auto-show/ 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 ... http://ayeshaahmadphotography.com/blog/2010/01/wintergreen-va/ 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, ... http://ayeshaahmadphotography.com/blog/2010/01/tilt-shift-musa/ 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 ... http://ayeshaahmadphotography.com/blog/2010/01/a-little-bit-more/ 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 ... http://ayeshaahmadphotography.com/blog/2010/01/sam-sanjana-ii/