I had the honor and pleasure to do the wedding photography for Tami and Matt at the Colonial Heritage Club in Williamsburg, Virginia on April 14th, 2012. Colonial Heritage Club is just drop dead gorgeous! Great place for a wedding!

I did Tami’s brother’s wedding in 2009, and it’s always great to have the family just cross off worrying about finding a wedding photographer for “future” weddings. Tami and Matt were awesome to work with, two of the nicest people I’ve had the pleasure of being around. (I LOVE laid back people!)

Enjoy the slide show!

I was fortunate to do the wedding photography of Susan and Sean at the Towne Pointe Club in downtown Norfolk, Virginia on March 31st, 2012. Beautiful couple at the great venue with a group of crazy family and friends to make a GREAT celebration! Enjoy the slideshow!

Jennifer and Chris were married on a rainy March 24th, 2012. The ceremony was held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Virginia Beach. The reception was held at Yacht Club at Marina Shores in Virginia Beach.

I really tried to keep the couple from getting wet that day, but I’m glad they were game to do some short sequences out in the rain at Marina Shores. During the reception the party moved outside to the deck at Yacht Club at Marina Shores where the rain kept a steady rhythm in between the music the DJ was playing and a cool breeze kept the dancers from melting. (because they were going for it by then).

Enjoy the slideshow!

Kristen and Blake were married at the Anderson Wright Gardens in Old Town Portsmouth on March 12th, 2012. They had planned to simply elope, but both of their families urged them to allow everyone to be there to witness the event. So, decided to get married on a Monday and to keep the theme as close to an elopement as possible. (it was pretty cool!).

I shot Kristen’s sister’s wedding as well a few years ago, and it’s really nice when I’m booked by siblings, relatives, and friends from past weddings. (it happens quite a bit).

Enjoy the photos!

Kat and Jon were married Feb 12th, 2012 at the Old Cavalier Hotel (on the hill) in Virginia Beach, VA. This great couple were married in a “Catholish” ceremony presided over by both a Rabbi and a Priest who played off each other during the ceremony like they’d been doing this extremely engaging and interesting rite all of their clergy careers (together). They were great!

Kat and Jon opted to do a “first look” and to do all of their photos before the actual ceremony so they could spend more time at the reception with their families and friends. I’m always game for anything! Turned out great, just the way they wanted it.

Enjoy the photos!

I’ve been WAY too busy to blog my shoots this season right from the start and I’ll catch up as time permits. I shot two weddings (the 27th, and 28th of April) then just got home from shooting an engagement session at the Hermitage Foundation Museum tonight. I’m around 20 events behind on the blog already! Fun!

I’ve just completed redoing my wedding photography portfolio galleries! It’s always difficult to decide what I want to show in this format because I lean toward a “more is better” approach to the images that I choose.

I like to show images from MANY different weddings. This enables you to see lots of different couples, flowers, venues, lighting conditions, cakes, transportation, dresses, tuxes, times of day and night, decor, and many other things you might be trying to decide on as you also look for a wedding photographer, rather than just a few shots from categories I chose to show you.

I think this also gives you a better feel for what you’d see in wedding coverage if I were to shoot YOUR wedding.

Here are the updates in the wedding photography categories I like to separate things in below. Enjoy! :

Wedding Preparations Portfolio Album 2012

Ceremony Portfolio Album 2012

Newlywed Portraits - 2012 Portfolio

Wedding Party Portfolio Album 2012

Wedding Details Portfolio Album 2012

Wedding Reception Portfolio Album 2012

You can also just use the menu above to navigate to all the categories if you’d like the read the write ups I’ve written for each category. From this page, all you’ll see is the photos without my commentary.

Bill Murray and Trish - OnOn Digitography / Valentine Photo Booth

It was a GREAT YEAR for me and I want to just publicly write a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to EVERYONE who hired me to photograph some aspect of their life! Be it wedding, portrait, family, maternity, baby, commercial, architectural, fine art, glamor, pet, or engagement photography!

What I did below is a slide show of some of the events and people I had the pleasure of working with in 2011. Some of the engagement photos will be wedding photos in the 2012 year in review.

It’s been crazy busy this past year, and I’ve got a pretty full calendar of weddings already for 2012. I’m really looking forward to it.

I’m just going to keep keep working by the credo of one of my favorite quotes “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” -Cecil Beaton

And with that? Please enjoy the slide show below

Kelly and Josh were married at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA on November 19th, 2011! It’s always such a pleasure when you can “feel the love” between a couple even when they’re not in the same room with each other. That’s the vibe you get (if you have a radar like mine) when you’re around either of these two. Doing their wedding photography was a blast! Couple that with enthusiastic families and friends, an amazing venue like the Chrysler Museum, some slick up lighting, great music and decor, an AMAZINGLY fun Valentine Photo Booth , and all the ingredients are there for a barn burner of a wedding! (and that’s exactly what this one was!)

Kelly and Josh hired me after seeing my work for friends of theirs at another wedding I shot back in April (for Melanie and Kyle). I get A LOT of my bookings this way.

I hope you enjoyed the slide show of Kelly and Josh’s wedding photography shot at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk!

We also had our Valentine Photo Booth at this wedding! EVERYONE got in the booth at some point during the wedding.

]]> http://www.onon.com/wedding-photography/chrysler-museum-of-art-wedding-photography-of-kelly-josh-norfolk-virginia-wedding-photographer/feed/ 0 http://www.onon.com/wedding-photography/renaissance-hotel-portsmouth-virginia-wedding-photography-of-sierra-coby-12-17-2011/ http://www.onon.com/wedding-photography/renaissance-hotel-portsmouth-virginia-wedding-photography-of-sierra-coby-12-17-2011/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:35:15 +0000 admin http://www.onon.com/?p=2504 Sierra and Coby were MARRIED on December 23rd, 2004! BUT, they decided to renew their vows with a FULL SCALE wedding and reception at the Renaissance Hotel Portsmouth on December 17th, 2011! What a fantastic testimonial to their love and commitment! Originally, they were married with a simple ceremony because Coby was going to deploy rather quickly overseas in support of our war(s) in the middle east and he didn’t want anyone moving in on his chosen lady! (CUTE!!). So, after THREE tours “over there”, they celebrated their marriage IN STYLE!

Here’s a slideshow of some of their wedding photography, enjoy!!

I had a great time with all my “friends in the biz” at this wedding. Coordinator was Weddings By Michelle : Michelle Kilgore , Makeup by Faces by Rebecca Wood , flowers by Daevid’s of Norfolk , Music by Rodney Charles – Arch Entertainment and up lighting by Blue Steel Lighting. Nice job everyone!

I had the pleasure of shooting all of the Gymstrada Gymnastic team and individual photos recently here in Virginia Beach! What a great group of gymnasts! My assistant Georgeanna and I had to wrangle 101 EXTREMELY energetic and athletic young ladies and gentlemen for around 6 hours to get all of the required shoots done. I brought my portable studio setup right to Gymstrada and my pretty darn cool system of keeping track of everyone. (it’s quick, logical, and painless!).

I shot a TON of photos, but I put a slideshow together of each gymnast from the day in the collage memory mates that I used as a theme.

This slideshow is available for purchase by any of the parents of the children. Just send me a message via the contact form on this website and inquire for details. ]]> http://www.onon.com/sports-photography/gymstrada-gymnastics-photos-virginia-beach/feed/ 0