For what it’s worth….DC Metro area wedding & on-location portrait photographer, including studio shoots for maternity and babies
Hi! Thanks for checking out my blog. I am Julia -- mother to 2 boys, wife to a fabulous guy I have known since I was 15, daugther to a gorgeous 75 year old mom who grew up during WWII in the Philippines, and connoisseur of all things photography. I am both a wedding and portrait photographer based out of Northern VA; my hometown. I love both so I can't just give up one. I also spend a fair amount of my time coordinating and volunteering for the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep foundation -- a charity that provides infant bereavement photography to families who unexpectedly lose a baby. This blog is a compiliation of all that I shoot both professionally and personally so feel free to check back often, subscribe and/or leave comments so I know I'm not blogging in vain! Also, feel free to look up my work by category using the Nav Bar above (click on Galleries) -- if you are looking for baby photographer, families or weddings, etc. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy what you see!
This is a session where I just appreciate the warm, summer evenings all that much more. Great light, great temps, and it certainly helped to have a happy, sitting up baby! Funny enough, this family found me thru the internet but lives in my old community!
August 5, 2010 - 9:20 am - Awesome shoot!
August 5, 2010 - 1:31 pm - He is adorable...nice pics! My fav is the one of them kissing and him looking on with that beautiful smile.
Just wanted to share some fun pix from our last outing on the Bay yesterday. We have been boat club members for 5 years and decided not to renew since we just moved. It’s been such fun to cozy-up for quality family time on the water when we did go out. No TV, no computer….just swimming and hot, summer air hitting our skin.
About 2 hours before we got in, we noticed a huge storm brewing west of us on our GPS — and my iphone weatherbug map. We tracked it for a while from Hart-Miller island where we were anchored and decided to cut our day on the water short by getting back to the other side of the Bay where our marina was. We are so glad we did as this storm was fierce! We hung around the marina swimming and relaxing until the last minute constantly watching the weathermap. As we were near the dock, our dockmaster called on our cell and told us about the storm — duh! A little late! He should have called an hour before. Thank goodness we made it….we docked, jumped in the car and within 5 min this storm hit. Many boats were still out and I don’t know how they did it. Sadly, I heard on the news a jet skier actually lost his life on the Bay not far from where we were b/c he was unable to make it back before the storm hit. It was that bad and moved in that fast. this was shot around 3pm. LOOK HOW DARK!
Joe and Kuei-I came to me in April looking for a wedding photographer for their June 5 wedding! There has only been one other wedding where I was booked with that short of a timeframe. But they are just a super busy couple and waited until last minute to find a photographer – no other reason than that! I am so happy I was available because they were just so easy and laid back. Here’s a lot of why I say that….
A couple days before their wedding their DJ bailed on them b/c his mother died so they had to scramble to find another DJ (which they did). Moreover, when I was chatting with them the day before about the logistics of their day, I could hear in Joe’s voice a bit of congestion and he informed me BOTH of them had been sick, in bed, with fevers that week. Anything else? Can you imagine? All these people waiting to celebrate your most important day and you’re exhuasted with a fever and trying to call DJs around town to find someone to emcee the event? GEEEEEZ.
So I arrive on Saturday and as always, get to the hotel a bit early. When Kuei-I arrives a few minutes late, we start going into the hotel room and the key doesn’t work. So one of her bridesmaids goes to the front desk to get help and they send up a very S L O W moving building engineer who then tries with his master key — and nothing. So believe it or not he proceeds to say, “I need to go downstiars and work on this — go grab a cup of coffee and come back in about 15 minutes” to which I say ‘ Um….we don’t have 15 minutes — can’t you see she’s getting married and we are already running behind!!!” No joke, he saunters down the hallwall to do whatever he needs to do — we wait…and then I run to the front desk to LIGHT A FIRE UNDER their YOU KNOW WHAT’s…..Long story short, 15 min does pass, Mr. Engineer comes back up and opens that darn door. She is as calm as a clam. Love that. So while we did rush a bit to get her dressed, I at least, has some time to get some getting ready pix in the room. The rest of the day was perfect and aside from the DC summer heat, no storms presented themselves so we were able to get portraits done at Glenview Mansion where they DID NOT get married. We snuck on the grounds and snapped away! PERFECT!
and Keui-I changed into a fabulous red dress towards the end of the reception…
July 22, 2010 - 12:33 am - Gorgeous!! So happy all ended well and they had a beautiful wedding captured so well by you!
(Video recorded on my iphone by Master Harry MacInnis (age 7))
Both my boys just finished up their first round of summer camps. Harry did a 2 week 9-4pm, Tennis & Sports camp (yes, my non sports kids wanted to do this) and Jackson finished up a full week of Dayjams, otherwise known as Rock Music Camp for his 2nd year in a row. He LOVES it and I’ve never seen him happier. Jackson came home beaming each day. Harry won the hearts of his counselors (they called him “Butters” but I never found out why!) and spent more time with them than the kids from what I understand. He was the youngest in the 7-14 year old group. And I was quite worried the first week as DC was experiencing record heat with some days at 100 or more with the humidity.
Enjoy some quick, unedited snapshots…
Harry is wearing the tie-dye shirts they made this week and he’s posing with his counselor who asked me to babysit Harry! How funny!
This was an EASY family to photograph — great day in terms of weather, everyone was in a great moods, such a pleasant family to be around! Look at these children…..precious….and their eyes sparkle!
July 13, 2010 - 8:37 pm - awesome family session, julia! you're right, those eyes sparkle!
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