These are a couple of images from Saturday afternoon on our street here in Leesburg, Va. The snow had stopped and the sun was setting in a clear blue sky. Hopefully this is the one and only great blizzard for the winter.
We are excited to announce that The Edge Photography Studio has been chosen to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2010. This award recognizes the top 5 percent of local wedding professionals from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service and professionalism.
The Bride’s Choice Awards™ are determined exclusively by recent newlyweds (brides and grooms) through extensive surveys and reviews, which means our past clients have spoken on our behalf and selected us to receive this honor.
Ines and I finally had some time to escape for a few days and after much debate made a run down to Great Smoky Mtn. National Park in Tennesse.
We rented a wonderful log cabin located on the side of a ridge facing the mountains in the Park.
It had all the comforts of home and Hi-speed internet access which was great for checking emails.
More important was the hot tub on a deck suspended 20 feet above the steep moutainside below us. It made for great views as we watched the weather and fog move in and out of the valleys between us and the Smokies.
Attached are two images, one of the view of our cabins looking from the mountains back towards where we stayed and the other is a complex composition created from 5 photographs merged together to create a vertical panorama. This image was photographed with the Nikkor 400mm f3.5 lens on a tripod on a Nikon D300s camera giving an effective 600mm f3.5 lens with the digital crop factor. Pretty impressive glass. The ISO is 2000 at f4 and a shutter speed of 1/160 second.
We also visited the Ripley's aquarium in Gatlinburg one rainy afternoon, and as promised by our associate David Kay found it to be a great place with wonderful displays. Well worth the visit, unlike many of the other local attractions. I will post some photos from the aquarium later.
Now back to album edits for our clients, populating the images from 2009 for a new website and preparation for bridal shows.
I typically process 2000-4000 images each week so you think I would leave the camera at home, for a break, but I just can't stop taking pictures.
Free tickets:
The Washington Bridal Showcase is coming up on January 31st at the Dulles Expo Center. Of course we will be there to meet with brides. The Edge will once again be in the Hunt Country Celebrations area. Meet us at our studio in Leesburg for free tickets to the show. Just give us a call and we will fit you into the schedule.
And visit Don and Ines Harper at the Bridal Expo. Find out why we've been voted one of the top photography studios in the Washington Metro area. Value and Quality have real meaning.
A weekend of snow and a beautiful Christmas tree with Mr. Quicksilver posing.
See Image below.
Here are a collection of some of our images that won bronze level awards in London earlier this month. Catagories are: Family, Children, Digital Art, Wedding Traditional, Wedding Contemp. We have some others as well.
This is a photo I took at Arlington National Cemetery that brought us a Silver Award in the Photojournalist Press catagory at BPPA in London.
The Old Guard Army Casket team is carrying the casket from the caisson to the gravesite. This winter I'm getting frequent questions about photos for funerals during the winter with bad weather. I'll post some images that show how exciting the imagery is during rain and with snow on the ground. This fall in particular I've had lots of rainy events and the images are some of my favorites. I've also got some snow images from last winter at Arlington that I will post as time permits
