As Skip said in his entry, I am not really sure how we officially met, Facebook perhaps, but Skip has graciously featured SOTA on his Blog this morning.  In case you have been living under a rock and don't know who Skip is, I will fill you in, and I quote from PDN:

"Skip Cohen is president of Marketing Essentials International, a marketing consulting firm specializing in projects dedicated to photography, and founder of Skip's Summer School workshop program.  He served for the past 7 years as President of Rangefinder Publishing, which included Rangefinder, AfterCapture magazines, the WPPI association and WPPI’s premiere convention and trade show for wedding and portrait photographers and recently joined as editor of PDN's annual Wedding, Portrait and Event guide."

So I guess you can see why I feel very blessed to have the opportunity to talk about what I feel passionate about on his Blog.  Skip is someone in our industry that pushes for wedding photographers to share their voice and vision outside of the wedding field.

Please see the full Blog post here at Marketing Essentials International

I love couples who play together!  Will and Dawn are first of all, really easy on the eyes, so it was not hard to get a good shot.  However, great photos come from great chemistry, both between the couple and the photographer, but also when the two being photographed are enjoying each other and the process.  It is wonderful to watch a relationship from behind the lens and Dawn and Will have such an amazing love.

With every shoot we do, we try and bring a little bit of sexy and a little bit of fun to it.  Potomac Point Winery was a perfect spot for both.  Their barrell room is probably one of the coolest I have seen, with rich colors and attention to detail.  Of course, being that there is a mountain of snow outside, we had to take advantage of that as well.

Stay tuned for Dawn and Will's Mr. and Mrs. Session coming up in a few months, if we can pull it off, this will be one for the books!!!

So I know I just posted our snowstorm couple and said that it was one of the coldest days we have ever photographed, I lied!  January 2nd was definitely the coldest day yet, since the wind was blowing about 50 mph that day on the water.

Our couple, Alyson and John, did not even hesitate, even though to be honest, I did!  We found this spot a month before, knew it would be amazing, but had no idea it would turn out like this!  We wrapped Alyson in a fur blanket, powered up our Q-Flash's, put on our gloves, hand warmers in place, feet planted in the ground and VOILA!

Probably one of my favorite images to date, now I really need to book a wedding in Iceland..Anyone??