The rumor is that a major storm is heading our way and threatening to drop up to 18″ of snow. The best thing about snow in the DC area is the absolute panic it causes. Grocery stores are mobbed by folks storing up water and firewood. Gas stations develop lines because there won’t possibly be...
My cousin Keith and his beautiful bride Jackie tied the knot this past weekend at the Tower Club in Tysons Corner, VA.
After many years I finally had the chance to go back home to Melrose, MA and visit some friends I hadn’t seen in a long time. We all have kids around the same age (see below) and it was awesome to finally meet them. I had an amazing time catching up with everyone and I’m...
My friend Fozia asked me to take some portraits of her young daughter and her three close friends. The girls would be going to different schools next year and the mothers all thought it would be a good idea to have a nice keepsake. As you can imagine keeping four 5 year olds...
Bethesda Storm, originally uploaded by eliturner. Big, creepy clouds swept over suburban Maryland last week. There was a threat of hail but ended up being just a lot of thunder.
Our good friend Siobhan Davenport won the Mrs. Maryland America Pageant 2008 and I was honored when she asked me to take some headshots for her in her crown. Even though it drizzled on the day we scheduled to shoot the overcast skies provided us with some amazingly beautiful light. Instead of trying to recreate...
Ever since I’ve started shooting with the Nikon D2x and more recently the D3 I’ve kind of avoided ever really learning or fully embracing the speedlight control system Nikon calls the CLS(Creative Lighting System.) Basically it uses a series of pulses of light from the on-camera speedlight to control one or several off-camera speedlights. I’ve...
Continuing the birthday theme for this month, we celebrated my good friend Mark’s 40th at the Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard this past weekend. The winery put on a tasting in his honor and I was shocked pleasantly surprised at how good the wine was. As always it was a blast seeing old friends, making new ones...
We had a little party today to celebrate our daughters 1st birthday and I still can’t believe a year has past this fast. Every piece of advice I got on being a father always included “…enjoy it now because it flies by.” I certainly don’t always slow down enough to put it into practice, but...
The row house in Logan Circle where my father-in-law grew up is finally close to being completely renovated. I got to go in with realtor Matt Zanolli and take some promo pics for his website and brochures. It is really amazing what Lynn was able to do with this space. This thing was totally gutted...
