The great snowstorm of 2010, at least we hope it won't be superceded.

These are a couple of images from Leesburg, Va on our street taken Saturday evening after the snowfall stopped and the sun was setting in a clear blue sky.

Wedding Wire Bride's Choice Awards 2010

Ines and I are excited to announce that The Edge Photography Studio has been chosen to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2010. This award recognizes the top 5 percent of local wedding professionals from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service and professionalism.

The Bride’s Choice Awards™ are determined exclusively by recent newlyweds (brides and grooms) through extensive surveys and reviews, which means our past clients have spoken on our behalf and selected us to receive this honor.

Last year we were selected one of the top 7 photographers in the Washington DC area by Knot Bride's.

I think one of the keys to our success is not only great photography but also our emphasis on Value.

Couples and their parents are watching every dollar they spend and finding ways to have a unique and exciting wedding without overspending. We are part of that solution.

We want to provide great service, great images and the best albums at the very best price without compromise.

We also want people to say WOW! when they look at the images we create for our clients.

Give us a call to find out why bride's are stepping over to the Edge.

View from our cabin outside Smoky Mountain National Park

Ines and I had the chance to escape for a few days to a wonderful log cabin looking out towards the Smoky Mountains. This photo is a vertical panorama (vertical stitching) composed from 5 different images taken with a 400mm f3.5 lens on the Nikon D300s which with the crop factor made an effective focal length of 600mm. ISO was 2000 and exposure was 1/160 second at f4.

The cabins were new and real luxury with a hot tub hanging out over the 20 foot drop to the scree slope below us. Hi-speed internet, large jucuzzi tub and just a great place to watch the weather and fog move in and out of the valleys and mountains to the east. A great place to veg and read a book which in this case was "Priceless" by William Poundstone. A very entertaining book pertient to anyone running a business.

Time now to prepare for the bridal shows and process some images for competitions.

Free Tickets Washington Bridal Showcase January 31st

Free tickets for the Washington Bridal Showcase!
The Washington Bridal Showcase happens at the Dulles Expo Center on January 31st. This is the largest bridal show in the Washington Metro area each year.
We will be there of course in the Hunt Country Celebrations area. Stop by to talk with Don and Ines Harper to find out why The Edge Photography Studio is voted one of the best for your wedding photography. Quality and Value are a couple of words that we hear from brides on a consistent basis.
Give us a call to pickup free tickets for the show. The tickets are available at our studio in Leesburg but you must call first. 703.669.1000
See you soon.

Mr. Quicksilver says Merry Christmas from The Edge

This is a 5 exposure HDR image of our Christmas Tree with Mr. Quicksilver surveying the scene.

Washington DC in August and Arlington National Cemetery

We've been spoiled this summer with mild weather, but now Washington DC is living up to it's reputation as the place to escape during August.
I had the chance to photograph a Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Service today, but it was warm with not a hint of a breeze. As I drove past the Women's Memorial Bldg I noticed the empty fountain and thought wistfully of this image taken earlier this year.

A fun 4th of July Wedding in Washington DC

Here is an image from our wedding on the 4th.

Capital in the background on Pennsylvania Ave.

Flags at gravesites Memorial Day Arlington Cemetery

This is another image from Memorial Day 2009 at Arlington National Cemetery.

Flags are placed at each headstone by the Old Guard troops.

President Obama at Tomb of The Unknown Soldier Memorial Day

We had the opportunity to photograph the President at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday.

Here are a few images from the day.

This was the president's chance to salute the U.S. military and also avoid the controversy about having a wreath also delivered to the confederate memorial in the cemetery.

Our position was on scaffolding next to the staircase leading up to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier which gave us a chance to have the Amphitheater and the guests as a backdrop.

Normally this isn't a perspective you can obtain when photographing at the tomb but our White House Press Pool pass gave us access next to the CNN and CBS cameras.

I have some other ideas for interesting locations at future Arlington services.

Rain or Shine, Arlington Memorial Services

A Rainy Day at Arlington, not everyday is sunshine

There is a beauty to be found in all kinds of weather. This was at Arlington last Monday in pouring rain.

The Knot Best of Weddings 2008/2009 Pick

We don’t advertise our wedding photography and instead rely on referrals, and to tell the truth have never paid much attention to The Knot.
Yesterday, we received an award plaque from The Knot informing us we were voted one of the best photography studios in the DC area. We picked up their magazine “The Knot Best of Weddings 2009” and found that we received their highest rating from our brides and were one of only seven photographers in the DC area to achieve that rating. Not to shabby, and thanks to the Edge brides. Love you ladies!

Here is The Knot’s verbiage to be polically correct.

"We are proud to announce that The Edge Photography Studio has been rated by local brides and voted The Knot Best of Weddings 2008/2009 Pick. Please pick up a copy of The Knot Best of Weddings 2009 magazine and check out our listing."

Arlington National Cemetery Easter Sunrise Service

A few more images from the Sunday service including pre-dawn, moonset, and sunbeams starting to illuminate the soldiers, sailors and marines between the marble columns.

Dove Release concludes Easter Sunrise Service at Arlington National Cemetery

Following a three day Indian wedding and returning home at 12:30 on Sunday morning I got up at 3AM to photograph the Easter Sunrise Service at Arlington National Cemetery.

Here is the dove release that concluded the service.

I owe David Kay a big thanks for giving me the motivation to get up in the middle of the wee hours.

QuickSilver Return Engagement

One Handsome Persian

Results of BPPA Photo Competition Announced

We had a chance to review the results of our entries in the International Photo Competition for the British Professional Photographers Assoc and did fairly well.

Attached are some of the images including:

Quicksilver in the Pet Catagory - Gold Award

Bride and Groom in the Contemporary Wedding - Silver Award

and four bronzes for entries in Children's photography, Press and PR, Events and Bridal Portrait.

Take a look and think about letting us create that special image for you and your family.

A number of these images will appear in the spring edition of Image Maker Magazine, the premier photography magazine in the UK.

First Spring Snow and now flowers blooming at Arlington National Cemetery

Last Monday I was photographing snow scenes at Arlington National Cemetery and today David Kay and I were photographing a carpet of flowers at the cemetery following a memorial service.

Here are a few of the images.

Memories at Arlington

Arlington National Cemetery Spring Snow cont

A few more images from Arlington

Additional Pictures from Arlington National Cemetery

Here are a few favorites from Arlington on Monday after the snow.

Spring Snow at Arlington National Cemetery

We had our first scenic snow of the winter for the Washington DC area on Monday.
These are some photos from my work at Arlington National Cemetery that day including the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Enjoy.

The Washington Post Express and WEPSA

The Washington Post Express and WEPSA

Today, the Washington Post Express printed an article about ethnic weddings, and in particular South Asia wedding events. The Express interviewed a number of members from one on my networking groups “Wedding, Event Professionals South Asia” or WEPSA. WEPSA is a small group of event and wedding professionals focused on creating a tight network of companies focused on providing quality and integrity to the South Asia and Indian community. Common sense basics such as liability insurance, business licenses, tax ID’s are required, but more importantly respect from peers in the event industry. WEPSA members know the vendors that provide quality services with a proven track record and also those that skate by on the lack of knowledge of clients. Brides are making one of the larger investments of their lives when they marry, but have little experience in planning an event of this magnitude and the questions to ask, or how to judge vendors. One of the goals of WEPSA is to educate customers and establish a referral base of quality vendors for those brides.
Don’t think of these vendors as just a resource for South Asian events, they can also deliver outstanding results for any bride or corporate event. After all, once you’ve mastered an elaborate multi-day Indian event, anything else is easy.

Here is a link to the Washington Post Express article dated January 28th:

http://www.expressnightout.com/printedition/ on page 39

Here is a link to the WEPSA website:

http://dcwepsa.com/

The Edge Photography Studio is proud to be a founding member of WEPSA.

Fox News Brit Hume Retirement Party

We had the good fortune to photograph the Brit Hume retirement party last Thursday at Café Milano in old Georgetown. Thanks Stewart Davis.
I’ll see about sharing a few of the images we shot for Fox. Two of my favorites were done with the ambient light, one of Brian Williams and the other of Bo Derek by candlelight.

The hot spot Café Milano was packed tight with politicians, leaders from the George Bush administration, media people from the various networks and even a Hollywood legend.

It was really funny to see my name on the guest list sandwiched between congresswoman Jane Harman and others H's.

Below is a partial list of attendees who toasted Brit as he enters semi-retirement or perhaps simply a restructuring of his career to allow a new balancing of the priorities in life.

Brit and wife Kim Hume
Former Senator Bob Dole and Senator Elizabeth Dole
V.P. Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz
Chief of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Leahy with his personal photographer
Donald Rumsfeld
Paul Wolfowitz
Alan Greenspan and his wife Andrea Mitchell
Bo Derek Actress
NBC News Anchor Brian Williams
Previous Director of Home Land Security Tom Ridge
Former Senator and Law and Order actor Fred Thompson
Senator and presidential candidate Joe Lieberman
Commentator George Will
Bill O”Reilly
Fox News chief Roger Ailes
Fox News anchor in New York Megyn Kelly
Journalist Greta Van Susteren
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell
Labor Secretary Elaine Chao
ABC News Anchor Charles Gibson
Rita Braver with CBS News
CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante
Geraldo Rivera
Fox News Brian Wilson
Carl Cameron Fox News
Jim Angle Fox News
Shepard Smith Fox News
Bill Hemmer Fox News
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd
Wolf Blitzer from CNN

Washington Bridal Showcase Free Tickets February 1st

Washington Bridal Showcase Free Tickets February 1st

We will once again be anchoring the fabulous Hunt Country Celebrations display area at the Washington Bridal Showcase. Come and see why so many other vendors consider The Edge Photography their first choice for referrals. Quality, Personality, Style, Class and Always Happy Brides.
Ines & I have a limited number of free tickets for the Bridal Showcase at the Dulles Expo Center.

Give us a call to arrange a time for pickup at our studio in Leesburg Virginia.
703.669.1000