Lewis Ginter Gardens: {A Video}

enjoy!

-Ben

I'm really not a hater, but I hate the HRBT!

Ok, so I'm really not a negative guy, but this evening I was at ODU finishing up a paper for Grad School which was due at midnight, I left the library at 9:20, they shut everything down super early because people always get robbed there at night, called Christi, grabbed a sweat tea from McDonalds and started my 35 minute drive home. I made it all the way until the bridge to the HRBT (Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel) without any major problems and then my night got really really terrible. I went to call Christi and tell her that I was stuck but my phone died so when I finally walked in three hours later I saw my wife in tears because she thought something horrible had happened to me.

If you have ever driven the HRBT then you don't need to read any more. You already know. Its terrible, always terrible. When you think it will be fine its worse than ever. If traffic is great, then some bozo will overheat his car in the bottom of it and then traffic will stop for the rest of the day. As soon as rush hour traffic is over, which usually takes 3-4 hours to clear up, the insane VDOT people will shut down the tunnel for routine maintenance, which is nothing more than union guys walking around down there pretending to work.

Now, I understand they need to work, but not at 9 at night. Do it at 3 in the morning when no one's driving.

Anyways, I get all the way to the bridge and then I sit there, literally sit there for 2 and a half hours, and a 30 minute, 20 mile drive turns into a three hour night. My paper, which was due at midnight, is now an hour late.


I didn't take any of these pictures, i stole them, from google.






So, the moral of the story is, if the government can't keep a road open at any given point during the day, for any decent amount of the time, then I'm sure not going to trust them with my health care!

Sunset before the Storm

A few days ago I was sitting at my computer editing some pictures when I noticed a particularly beautiful sunset out the window. I grabbed my camera to get a picture. Within a matter of seconds a storm front had come out of nowhere and quickly overtook the sunset. I kept taking pictures until it started raining.





I don't get too sentimental about things, but I couldn't help think about how when life seems to be giving me a beautiful sunset there always seems to be a storm on the horizon to worry about. I often let the storm occupy my thoughts even though I'm still looking at the sunset. I think I've decided to forget about the storms for awhile:)

Uhhmazing Olympus Ep-1

It's going to be very very difficult to restrain myself from picking up this camera!

Serious {Bouquet Toss}

Seriously.

Brittany and Dan: {a Wedding}

When I found out Brittany Haynes was getting married I didn't believe it at first. She is the little sister of my childhood best friend, the girl we used to play all sorts of horrible pranks on, the one that you never realized grew up, and then one day you get this call to take pictures at her wedding and that suddenly makes you feel really really old!

Even though I had to go 38 hours without sleep to shoot your wedding Brittany, I am so glad I did. Dan seems like a really great guy even though he goes to Cedarville... the best of luck to both of you!

Jessica and Ben: {a Wedding}

Last Weekend was an absolute whirlwind! It started with this beautiful wedding in Raleigh and then we made an overnight trip to another awesome wedding in Indianapolis, followed by a long trip back to virginia beach on Monday and another trip to Raleigh and back on tuesday. All in all we put 2,000 miles on the explorer and I went over 38 hours without sleep! Sunday night after our second wedding I actually had to write a paper for Grad School. I turned it in but can honestly say I have no idea what I wrote down:)

Saturday was a beautiful wedding. We were excited to work with the Wakefield Plantation and we made friends with Jessica's awesome coordinators! Please make sure and check out Cara and the girls at Southern Soiree if you are interested in working with a coordinator!

Congratulations again Jessica and Ben. Thanks for letting us spend the day with you:)