Posts tagged summer
taha & sameea - maryland walima photography

shooting another photographer's wedding is always a mix of excitement and pressure. the pressure, clearly, because your client actually knows what you're doing; the excitement, though, because your client tends to know what works and makes it so much easier :) ...

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gagan & vanu - raleigh engagement

when i heard gagan was getting married this year... i felt old!! gagan's oldest sister is my college bff - my sakhi - and he was only 14 when i met him and the rest of their family in the good old days. and here he is now, all grown up and engaged to this glowing, smart young woman. vanu is amazing, and it was a delight to see how happy these two are together…

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kelly & kris: doukenie winery wedding

as i got started on kelly and kris's wedding day, i told kris that i was in "photographer heaven", there at doukenie winery on an absolutely perfect late spring afternoon. that experience carried through all the way until the end of the night - an evening of everything i love most about my "job": to be surrounded by such beauty; love brimming into laughter and happiness overflowing into tears. and of course, killer afternoon sunlight…

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sujatha & michael - new york wedding

sujatha and michael invited me to join them in new york for their beautiful wedding ceremony, held at the hindu temple society of north america in flushing, last august. it was as gorgeous and sunny a day as anyone could hope for, and such a wonderful combination of solemn ritual and loving fun…

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zehra & saad: richmond, va mehndi & shaadi

zehra and saad got married in a lovely, two-day event last summer in richmond. the nikah (wedding ceremony) and mehndi were held at the stonehenge country club and the wedding at the hilton short pump. zehra is one of the sweetest brides i have ever worked with…

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family portraits - brookside gardens

the lovely sana was still expecting her second child when i first met her early in 2012 while photographing her younger sister's wedding (the first wedding i shot after my own second child was born!), so it was both an honor and a pleasure when she contacted me last summer…

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