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Next on the blog que is Megan and Roan's engagement session! You might remember Megan's sister, Amanda, from a post about her wedding a few weeks ago. Well, Megan is getting married too! Here are some of our favs from their session.

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10.02.08

I would love to post a bunch of the photos we did for West Nottingham Academy and Boys' Latin but since they are intended for publication I want the schools to have first dibs on releasing them - so, I'm scrapping that post. Both schools are AMAZING and we had such a blast visiting and photographing the students at each school.

Here are some photos from Dan's show at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts and also the little write up about it in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. Dan Watson, a Michigander who lives in Knoxville, Tenn., and travels a lot, is the latest winner of a DCCA solo exhibit in a continuing series seeking proposals for exhibits from artists nationwide.

Watson's archival digital inkjet photos, "In a Different Light," portray mundane industrial and commercial building sites outside major cities in America, and he pictures them in color at night.

Watson offers the viewer a direct confrontation with the corrosive and threatening nature of industrial might. Works such as "Earthrise" and "Factory" are almost sinister in character. At the same time, their sensuous colors and night-lit, no-nonsense construction make some of them conventionally beautiful.

Dan's brother, who is also an artist said, " 'the corrosive and threatening nature of industrial might!' That's a great review!"

A round of applause after his artist talk..

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West Nottingham brought two bus loads of students to the show and Dan had a great time talking to some of his former students.

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Like a proud momma I took a picture of his name on the sign.

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As far as the rest of the trip, basically I got to spend one day in NYC with my BFFE Lindsay Oaks. Dan chauffeured us around all day and we had soo much fun! This one iPhone pic at Central Park is all we have to remember it by :(   (It's small because I think I look bad.)

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I'd like to re-cap some of our two week adverture to NC, NYC, Delaware, & Maryland.

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The first stop was Amanda and Todd's wedding in Linville, NC, near Banner Elk.  Amanda and I have known each other for years.  When I was a newspaper gal right after college, part of my job was taking sports pictures at the local high school.  Amanda was a high school athlete and that is how we met.

Here is a pic I took of Miss Amanda a billion years ago when I worked at the paper and she was in high school.  She was on the track team and hurdles were her thing... (little footnote: when I took this picture I thought it was like one of the best I'd ever taken - that's why I still have it after all these years! Ha!)

So, enter Amanda, this super-cute, super sassy red head.  I loved her immediately and we became instant friends.  One day we were out jogging and ran by the cutest little chapel at Eseeola Lodge.  It was a little stone chapel with five little pews and it had a rope swing hanging from a tree outside.  We stopped and looked at it and talked about how cute of a place it would be for a little wedding...  Ah, some day

Anyway, Amanda and I hadn't seen each other in years until one day Amanda found our site ont the web and her sister asked us to do her wedding.  And, to make a long story short, just after Megan called us, Amanda called and said that she and her fiance Todd, who is in the Navy, were getting married - and ASAP because Todd was about to be deployed to Iraq. The wedding was so sweet, so intimate - just family.  It was really perfect!  The little chapel from our run soo many years ago was just the right place.  Todd let a couple of days ago for Iraq : (  so here's a few photos to cheer them up!  Todd - we hope you are well - we loved meeting you and our prayers are with you while you are away!!!

Now, all grown up and so in love... Amanda
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and what a handsome soldier Todd makes!
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These are the sassiest girls! Seriously, even the little ones are sassy.  Amanda and Todd, plus her three sisters and mom.  We're doing Megan and Roan's engagement pics this weekend - Yay, I'm so excited!!
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I just wanted to show a shot of the little chapel - the cutest place ever!
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This is a little peek at the ceremony.  The chapel was so tiny it would have been too much for Dan and I both to be in there.  Dan was inside during the ceremony and I stayed outside the doors.  I like this through the doors perspective....
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I always imagined this picture, but with the bride in the swing.  Unfortunately, Amanda's dress wasn't right for swinging, but Todd was sweet enough to grant me this one request - such a good sport!
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And here is everyone!
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After the ceremony, we headed down the road for some pictures of just the two of them. You already saw the few in the beginning of the post, but here are a few more : )
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