Help! Kids are in my wedding party! I will never forget the first wedding I photographed that included young children in the wedding party. It brought new meaning to the phrase, “Never a dull moment!” Fortunately, I had children of my own so I knew what to expect. Well, sort of. Several children were recently…

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A lot of us spent our childhoods reading comic books and playing superheroes – Superman, the Avengers, Captain America, Spiderman, Batgirl, Thor, the Fantastic Four. Maybe you still occasionally don a cape and mask but probably best to keep that your little secret. A peanut butter sandwich, some Tang, and a stack of comic books…

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Washington DC in February is about as dismal as it gets. Though it’s a rainy, messy February morning on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast, I’ll take this over the US capital any day of the week. Below are a few photos to remind me just how wonderful we have it here on the Crystal Coast. If…

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Everyone needs a lens mug, especially this time of the year. You see, it’s that season of life that every kid-at-heart knows will arrive one day in the hopefully far distant future but dreads, nevertheless, every time December 25 rolls around. It’s that season of life when Christmas presents have become few and far in…

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Only thing missing is YOU! The beach this week was simply gorgeous. As we biked through Atlantic Beach, Salter Path, and Pine Knoll Shores, we found ourselves riding down every boardwalk and pier we could find just to get another glimpse of the sea. While swinging down the beach from the Oceanana Fishing Pier, it…

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There is nothing quite like a view from the sea. It’s about this time each year that we start to get a little overwhelmed. You know the feeling. Short days give way to shorter nights. You survived Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and all of those relatives who “dropped in,” but now you’re staring straight into Christmas…

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