Giulianna+Rob at Normandy Farms

I recently had the pleasure of returning to Normandy Farms to photograph the beautiful wedding of Giulianna and Rob. Their modified Quaker ceremony was presided over by Rob's mother and featured a Tibetan Bell ceremony. It was absolutely beautiful and just a perfect setting for this union. 

Congratulations you two! 

Vendor Details:

Venue: Normandy Farms Blue Bell, PA.

Giulianna's gown - Val Stefani Couture from Unveiled 

Giulianna's shoes - Caparros

Bridal Party's Hair - Jody Iacovelli 

Bridal Party Makeup - Sherri Palmer 

Guy's tuxedos - Vera Wang Black Collection 

Mother of the bride's gown - Alyce Black Label from Jay West

DJ - Mike Petretti from D. J.'s Available, Moorestown, NJ

Family fun day: Family portraits at Longwood Gardens.

This was a real special day for everyone. Brian's folks live real long way away. The kind of far that being in California for a wedding warranted flying to Philadelphia because they were this close... so while here he reached out to me to do some nice but not too formal portraits of the three of them at Longwood Gardens. Because of their short timeframe the day to shoot fell on what has gone down as the hottest day of the summer and these three trekked all over in suits and such! They were awesome! Well enough of my chit chat, check out the pics! 

Flowers, butterflies, and my Olyumpus OM-D E5.

Ahhh, symbolism...

As my wife will attest, I can't stop gushing over my new Olympus camera. I've been shooting heavy/cumbersome DSLRs with their giant lenses for a long long time now and often feel the joy of shooting casually has been killed by the logistics of hauling gear to and fro. Since the moment I pulled the OM-D E5 out of the box it's never been more than a few feet from me. I have a renewed joy for the artistic expression of photography, and that my friends makes my heart swell! Don't get me wrong, I wake up every day feeling like the luckiest guy in the world getting to make a living with what I do, but more and more I just wasn't wanting to haul around 10lbs+ of camera and lens when spending the day kicking around and that's when most of my favorite images are found...   

 Anyway, in addition to being the only camera I brought with me to Canada I've also been gradually incorporating it into my professional work shooting in concert with my Canon on several portrait assignments, a wedding, some product shots, and most recently exclusively on a two page expose on The Golden Nugget for Bucks Life-MainLine magazines. I'll post more on that when it's published. In the mean time know that I am totally impressed with it's performance and fully intend to make the switch to mirrorless completely in the coming months.... anyone want some secondhand Canon gear? ;) 

About these images: Shot with the Olympus OM-D E5 with the 17mm 1.8 lens. Note the detail in seeing the butterfly's hair in a number of these images... all handheld.