Featured Wedding {TPC Plantation}

I had a referral from this wonderful country club in raleigh called the TCP Plantation When we lived there Christi and I used to park our car in their parking lot and then take a walk through the neighborhoods that surrounds the country club. Its a great place for a wedding reception and the coordinator there {Jaclyn} is great to work with.

Anyways, I found out their website was using a wedding we did there in november as a feature on their website. check it out!

Basking in Leather Comfort

I'm trying not to be too excited about the new chair my wife bought for me. I have been drooling over it for almost 18 months but never really thought she'd get it for me! You gotta come by and check out this chair, its unbelievable!

{BAbY} Carter

We had a great time hanging out with our friends Amber and Ryan and their new little one, Carter. At just about 1 month old, Carter already has tons of personality and was ready to share it with the world. Ben was especially excited to take a picture with Carter and the guitar! They are a fun and beautiful family and we wish them the very very best!









Carter decided to tell Ben what he really thought of him and his camera!!!

{Formal Portraits} and other miscellaneous galleries

If you've checked my website in the last couple days you'll noticed I've added four new galleries under a new section called "be different" I decided to add these galleries for a couple of reasons. The first is that a customer told me she missed seeing all the "cool" pictures I've taken like the trash the dress sessions and the second is because I want potential customers to get a full view of what we offer. So we have a "favorites" section, a weddings gallery, an engagement gallery and now a selection of specific things we do. One thing we love doing is the TTD, trash the dress. We have a number set up for this year and we can't wait! We also love shooting weddings at the beach so we added a gallery just for that, and I just finished up our last gallery which is a sampling of the "formal" portrait time that we do every wedding.

Most pro photographer sites ignore some of the most important images to brides in their portfolio: the formal portraits. We wanted to give you a glimpse at what you might expect in your collection:)

Below are two pictures that I re-edited from old weddings after looking through last years work. I love the colors!

Christina & Alex {Engaged}

Alex is a pretty cool guy but he definitely DID NOT want to get his picture taken! He acted just like I did when Christi told me about engagement pictures. Back then I didn't even know people did this sort of thing and I couldn't find any rationalization as to why I should put my self through such torture! But like all of guys Alex turned out to be a real pro! It helped that he had such a great fiance to make it easy for him... lol.

We ended up having a wonderful time in Olde Town, the weather turned out to be perfect and we think their engagement pictures did too:)

Congratulations Christina and Alex!

Kristina and Mike {Engaged}

We had a wonderful time getting to know Kristina and Mike at the National Harbor in Washington D.C. We started out in the Gaylord Hotel until we got the boot from "the man" You gotta love Security!

Regardless of the trouble we had a great time, the weather was beautiful and we can't wait for their wedding in a couple months. Thanks Mike, for being so cooperative, your future Bride will love you forever for enduring the photoshoot:)

Be My Friend on {Facebook}

Be My Friend

Facebook is a fun way to waste time on the internet! If you haven't heard of it then you probably just woke up in a time capsule or have just missed the digital age. Its no big deal, you'll start wasting time with the rest of us just as soon as you be my friend!

If you are a client, or future client then add me as your friend. After your shoot I take the pictures and put them in my facebook galleries and then tag your name so all of you friends can see your pictures! Click this link here, or at the bottom of my blog to add me as your friend:)


I had a great time in D.C. and came back with two awesome photo shoots to edit! I'd post them now but I actually have to head to Raleigh for another shoot and a couple meetings!

Tiffany & Joe {engaged}

Christi and I headed to Richmond Yesterday to photograph Tiffany and Joe. We met Tiffany last year because she was a final contestant in our free wedding giveaway. Her wedding is in May and we are really excited to see them again!

Special thanks to Tina, the maid of honor and sister of the bride for taking care of the dog:)



















enjoy,

Ben Waddell