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Josie was my mom’s surprise birthday present. Well actually she’s a “family” dog because we all wanted one. Josie is an 8 week corgi/cattle dog mix that we adopted from Molly’s Place in Mechanicsburg. She has THE MOST AWESOME personality and we are so blessed that she has joined our crazy family. Here are just a couple of images from her first day with us. I’m sure you’ll be seeing more of her. 
Today is my Mom’s 50th Birthday. We celebrated with a party this weekend and surprised her with a very special gift (see post above).
What a great way to end a vacation at the lake.
We’re back in the office tomorrow, wading through all of the emails and voicemails we’ve received. And we have lots of new stuff for the blog so stay tuned for that.
Lindsey and I recently took the day off to shoot for ourselves. Since the office is closed this week, I thought that I would share some of our images with you.
Here are 3 of Lindsey’s favorites from her travels around Philly.
I didn’t have a lot of time at MARS to shoot for myself but when I did, I got some great stuff.
I ran into a woman, Barb, when we were out walking around one day. Her hands were amazing so I asked her if I could photograph them.
I loved this “Bed and Breakfast” sign.
The beach at sunset.
My friend Katie during our sunset shoot.
I’ll share some more images next week.
So last week, I literally went to MARS. OK. MARS in this case is actually the Mid-Atlantic Regional School for Professional Photography held in beautiful Cape May, one of my favorite places on earth. I chose to attend the weeklong conference for 2 reasons: 1. It was in Cape May 
and 2. I wanted to immerse myself in shooting just for me for one entire week and not worry about the business of the business. My week was to be spent in the class room of Carl Caylor who would be teaching us about using natural light to it’s greatest potential. It was an intense and amazing week and it felt SO GOOD to not touch my flash for 7 days! One of the coolest thing about the school is that they provided us with models and we literally had the opportunity to shoot every day. Below are some of the images that I created during the week with the models.
I also wanted to say what an amazing group were in my class. There were only about 16 of us and we became so close in such a short amount of time. And I special shout out to Kim, Katie, Carrie, Gina and Andrea who made the week so much fun!
I apologize for being a little slow with the blog posts but there are LOTS coming. It’s been a very busy time for us and we have a ton to share with you so keep your eyes on this blog.
First up is the wedding of Lauren and Shaun later today…..
It’s t-ball time. Our first scrimmage was at opening day on Saturday. The kids did great.
If you are a loyal blog reader, you might remember me mentioning that we had a friend who was starting his own business and he had done some work for us in the meeting space. His name is Eric White (he has a nickname but we won’t go there) and his business is called Nazareth Woodworking. He recently launched the website for his business and I invite you to take a look at his fantastic work. We are so happy with the work that he has done for us that I’m sure he’ll be doing more for us in the future.
Email him at: nazarethwoodworking@gmail.com
So, while we were away this weekend, I decided to assign myself with a little photography project. I love to shoot for myself and think it’s really important for photographers to do so. I wanted to focus my attention so I decided to give myself an assignment, kind of like I was back in school. My focus for the weekend was pattern. It’s amazing when you stop and look around, how many patterns you see. While I did complete my assignment, I strayed a little bit into some architectural photography but I could still find the pattern in them so I thought that was OK.
