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 :) ...
Read Morewhen a client plans their wedding with the kind of photos they want in mind, and those kind of photos happen to be the kind i love to shoot... that's sort of a dream come true for me. and that was nadia's lovely two-day wedding, both days set at locations and times to give us the ingredients for gorgeous images...
Read Morewhen hareem first contacted me about her wedding, we soon realized we had already met each other... at sunday school, where she was my son's new teacher for the year :) and the lucky young man she was engaged to happened to be a friend of my husband's who also volunteers at the same mosque…
Read Morea week ahead of the cherry blossoms, and on a rainy day in a city clogged with traffic, it seemed like it would be hard to get the photos we wanted on the day of nadiaa and nasir's nikah (islamic wedding vows). nadiaa was so incredibly patient working with me to schedule this session months ahead, knowing my schedule was tight on a school day. but honestly...
Read Moreit was my pleasure to be a part of rabia and azim's two-day wedding in virginia in the early fall last year. azim's brother is actually a good friend of my husband's and an old college acquaintance of mine, so it was very nice to meet the whole family and truly an honor to be the one to photograph the wedding…
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