Another incredibly lucky weather day for me and my couple! Jamie and Rich were married at Herrington Harbor in Chesapeake Beach Maryland.  Jamie and the girls got ready at the Chesapeake Beach Spa and Resort then met Rich and his guys at Herrington before the ceremony.  

Originally Jamie and Rich had planned to see each other for the first time at the ceremony site, but Rich was so nervous that I didn’t want to make him walk that far.  I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea, Rich was very excited to be getting married, probably too excited! Seeing each other for the first time was great for both of them, but then Mother Nature swept in and rushed everyone inside for a downpour.  

Fourty-Five minutes prior to the ceremony and we weren’t sure where it would be held.Gladly the storm cleared out with enough time to get everything together and get the ceremony site set up.  The Herrington staff was awesome and got the site set up in no time!  Jamie and Rich held their reception inside the building at Herrington Harbor in the upstairs portion.  

To see a few images from their wedding, click on the slideshow below.  I hope you guys had an awesome honeymoon, thanks for having me at your big day! 

Well it’s the second year I’ve gone to see the Dundalk Fireworks and the second year it has absolutely poured on us.  I tell you, if you’ve never been, it’s like no other fireworks display I’ve been to before.  I swear I’m in the Wild West when I go.  Not only is there the big main display put on by the Dundalk Firefighters, but there field where the fireworks are set off are surrounded by houses and everyone in the surrounding neighborhood has their own display going on, so throughout the evening, leading up to the main fireworks wherever you look fireworks are being set off from the houses, bottle rockets are being set off by other people at the field waiting for the official fireworks - it’s crazy! 

The 4th of July is Kristy’s absolute favorite holiday so we arrived early in order to sit right up against the caution tape where you couldn’t get any closer to the fireworks.  When you sit that close you have to look straight up to see the fireworks and it feels like they’re falling down on top of you.  We arrived at 7:00pm, a full two hours and fifteen minutes before the official fireworks display was set to begin. The next two hours was filled with fireworks being set off all around the field, and two kids right next to us with little cap explosives that the little girl was kind enough to share with Kristy and me.   We had a great time even with the rain and I can’t wait for next year’s fireworks!

Check out the images below, and I hope to see you at the tape line in Dundalk next year!

Kristy and I arrived early with hats on!  

Here’s one of the ‘neighborhood’ displays before the official ones began.  The private displays were awesome on their own, the official ones were just the icing on the cake! 

 Fireworks under the umbrellas!

Here’s a collage of the fireworks from the grand finale, click on the image above to see a larger version. 

My friend and personal hair stylist Rudy is opening a new salon in Perry Hall, MD called Chrome.  He is an amazing hair stylist, and I spoke about him in my post about the Virginia shoot.  He recently asked me to work with him in creating images that would be displayed throughout his salon as well as on his website, showcasing his work.  I was thrilled to collaborate with him, and Nicole came along to do make up for all the models.  We had a great time the first day, and then decided to do some more creative work that we could use for our personal portfolios.  Below are some images from the first day.  I’ll be making a separate post for our second day of images.