How to capture fun engagement photos is one of the questions I’m most frequently asked by clients. Using complex algorithms, technologist William Tunstall-Pedoe recently determined that Sunday, April 30, 1954 was the most boring, uneventful, and obscure day in history. No bride-to-be wants her engagement photos to compete with April 30, 1954 on the boredom…

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Happy Thanksgiving from Beaufort Photography Co. There is perhaps no truer barometer of our emotional, mental, and spiritual health than a grateful attitude. I love what G.K. Chesterton wrote, “Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands, and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed…

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A Crystal Coast autumn comes alive. Rainbow colors blanket the trees. Lawns resemble patchwork quilts. It’s as if the trees are wired with electricity and someone suddenly flips the switch. Leaves. Few words conjure as vibrant an image of childhood autumn days as this one. Growing up in southeast Tennessee meant our summers were green…

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Writing about the ABC’s of hiring a wedding photographer is not unlike theoretical physicist Dr. Sheldon Cooper trying to explain string theory using just three words. It’s just not that simple. There are as many factors to consider when hiring someone to photograph your wedding as there are letters in the alphabet, and then some.…

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Do you remember when you were young how you always pictured your future looking a certain way? You imagined yourself in a certain career, with a certain spouse, with certain kids, living in a certain house, in a certain neighborhood, in a certain city, with certain friends, doing certain things. “Once upon a time” always…

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It all begins with a blank sheet of paper. Whether words on a page, photographs in an album, or bedtime stories from a book, they all begin with the figurative blank sheet of paper. I’ve read of writers who miraculously put pen to paper and have words flow like rain water gushing from a gutter…

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Louis L’Amour wrote, “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” I assumed my move to the sleepy little beach town of Beaufort on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast would be temporary, a year or two at most. That was almost three years ago. And now the Crystal…

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