I got to spend the afternoon at a winery with The Leffins a couple of weeks ago. DJ works at the winery so they thought it was only perfect that we did their family portraits at that beautiful location. I was thrilled to be able to do that. Their little girl Alaithia just turned one. She is absolutely adorable and has recently learned to walk on her own – it was a lot of fun sharing a brief moment of this precious time in her life and help document it. Here are some of my favorites from that session.

DJ+Leighera – thank you for letting me photograph your family. I had a great time!

A few weeks ago I was scheduled for a photo session with a family at the Brookside Gardens in Silver Spring, Maryland. However one of the family members ended getting sick right before the session so we had to cancel. Well since I was already at the location with my camera I thought why not take this wonderful opportunity to capture some of the beautiful Fall foliage as well as Chrysanthemum exhibit they had on display. It was such a nice afternoon and the beautiful flowers and foliage that surounded me just made me ever so thankful that I am able to enjoy God’s beauty.

Here are some of my favorite photos from that day. I hope you like them too.

As I was preparing these images I thought they would make really beautiful wall art. So if you are interested in any of these as a printed piece please let me know and i can let you know the options that I have. Some options that I can do with these photographs are: canvas wrap, matted photograph or framed photograph. Let’s get these photographs on your wall!

Have you heard of Joshua Radin? If not you should check him out, singer-songwriter, he is known for his acoustic style of singing, usually with just a guitar. I don’t watch Greys Anatomy but i hear his music is featured on their sound track. Definitely mellow, very tasteful and romantic.

Today my friends and I went to see him concert. It was held at a synagogue (6th and I Synagogue in DC) it was interesting but definitely perfect for his style of music.

My first time seeing him play – i was very impressed. Great musician and performer, he would tell a little story before each song and that always added so much more flavor to his music. I loved that.

If you’re listening to him for the first time I would recommend checking out  these song by him, I’d Rather Be With You, Closer and Sky (a song he did with Ingrid Michaelson, another good singer i’d recommend)

If you’ve been following my blog you would know i’ve been on the South Beach diet.
I got really tired of the crustless quiches for breakfast so i decided to try something different.

I know i love egg salad so i put this together, it turned out really delicious.

Curried Egg Salad and Baby Arugula Leaves

Ingredients:

• a few dashes of curry powder
• 4 eggs (1 yolk and 4 whites for lower cholesterol option)
• handful of baby arugula leaves
• 1/2 TB honey djion mustard
• 1 TB vegenaise
• white pepper

Method:

• boil eggs, when cooked, shell the eggs and remove yolks from 3 of the eggs
• mesh eggs with all ingredients except arugula leaves while egg is still warm
• mix everything with the leaves and you’re done.

Paige and I have been friends for a while now. We met in DC in 2001 when she lived here but she has since moved out to California where she met her knight in shining armor, Chris Rogowski, they’ve now been married for about a year.

Paige and Chris were recently in town for a friend’s wedding and thought this would also be a great opportunity to do a photo session with me so we set up a him & her session and did the shoot in Old Town Alexandria.

Here are some of my favorites from that session. Enjoy!

Remember that couple photo sessions don’t always and only have to be engagement sessions. Stillpool Photography’s him & her sessions are specially for couples who want to capture a special time in their lives together. You can be dating, married for 50 years or 5 days and still set up a him & her session with us. We’ll help you capture a moment in your lives that you’ll always remember.