** A Short note:
A friend recently asked me whether I was going to keep this blog strictly business oriented, or if I was going to share any personal images to share with the world. After thinking it through for a few days, I decided that I should share any image I find worthy to showcase to my audiences and prospective clients. I LOVE photography… and I feel that you, the reader, should join me on my journey, and see what I love to capture as well. Therefore, from now on, I will continue to have posts related to weddings, portraits, and events… but will also post other images just to keep things fresh and and give a new perspective.  Oh, and don’t worry… I promise I won’t just post random shots of my cat 😛

Onward to the post….

Ever get bored? Ever get so bored, that you just want to do something… anything? Well, often times, I find myself in that very same situation. To cure this “boredom”, some of my friends devised the perfect plan: Random Road Trip. A few of my close buddies, my brother, and I decided that it would be fun to do something we all loved doing… playing soccer on the beach. However, we decided this at 1 am. Just to be spontaneous, (and since we had nothing better to do) we headed to the beach in the middle of the night… 3 hours away. Figuring I could get some pictures out of it, I took my camera and a few lenses, and we headed off. We arrived there just in time for the sunrise, played soccer for a few hours, had breakfast, soaked up the sun and admired the view, and headed back home before supper time. Ahhhh… the joy of being young and spontaneous.

This post was NOT endorsed by Snapple… unless they would like for it to be (hint hint) 🙂

Birthday parties are always fun, especially when you turn 1. This was my first birthday session, and it was for a young boy named Amir. Amir is the nephew of Hannah, who’s engagement party will be posted in a few weeks. I love meeting new families and capturing all the interactions and special moments between them. Amir’s birthday party was no exception. He’s a very active child, and keeping up with him was challenging, but fun at the same time. I gave the family a nice mini-portrait session, and captured the rest of the birthday party.

It’s always nice to photograph birthday cakes, and eat it too 🙂

I’ve met both Sid and Deepti while I was in school at ECU and NC State.  Both of them are totally awesome, have great personalities, and just plain fun to hang around.  I’m not just saying all this to be nice, they really are very chill to be around.  When I found out they were dating, it just somehow made perfect sense to me.  Their personalities and coolness makes them perfectly compatible, almost like peanut butter and jelly 🙂  I just had to take advantage of the opportunity, and get them a photo session.  I told them that we want to demonstrate pure love, and closeness between the two.  Whenever we would setup for a shot though, they would either bust out laughing, or just get side tracked.  Either way, it was great fun, and we got some pretty cool images.

* I apologize ahead of time for all the black & white / sepia images.  This was during my “minimal color” phase, and I was experimenting with different b&w conversion techniques.