Dan + Christine | Brooklyn Arts Center Wedding | Wilmington, NC Photographer

11 Aug 2017•Wedding

Brooklyn Arts Center WeddingNo better way to follow Christine’s bridal session than her wedding photos! Brooklyn Arts Center is one of my favorite venues in Wilmington to shoot. The director Rich is super accommodating to everyone and makes sure everything runs super smoothly throughout the day. Charyl from Social Butterfly and Design Perfection literally knocked this one out of the park. I’ve shot here a lot and its always interesting to see how the bride’s vision can be translated into the space, lets just say Christine’s vision is on point! In a tradition of good luck, Christine’s mom handcrafted 1000 gold origami cranes to hang elegantly behind their cake table and it was absolutely stunning. It was such a happy and emotional day, its hard to look at the photos and not have all those happy feels come rushing back! This wedding was also featured on Borrowed & Blue!!

Fort Fisher, NC

16 Nov 2010•Landscapes

Taking a break from editing some photos to post these. Had a family session Saturday down at Fort Fisher and there was some really cool light just before sunset. Here’s a couple snaps. The photos from the session will be up by tomorrow.

Here’s a sneak peek from the Family Session with Tony, Beth, Haley & Cheyane. More from the session will be up tomorrow.

Linville Gorge Backpacking – November 6th & 7th 2010

10 Nov 2010•Landscapes, Travel

Took another trip out to the Linville Gorge this past weekend. We (John Zachary, Allie King, Drew Hayes, Justin Wilson and Myself) headed up there without a decided itinerary and we weren’t sure whether there was going to be any fall color left. But we lucked out and scored some great weather. There was still some great color at lower elevations. The weather channel was calling for snow, but we only came across a few flurries and a few spots where some snow had stuck the previous night. After arriving mid-day saturday, we ended up parking at the Table Rock picnic area. We then hiked the mile up to the summit of Table Rock for some great panoramic views before heading back down to the Mountain-to-Sea Trail and Spence Ridge Trail to reach the Linville river. After crossing the river and hiking down a ways we found a great spot to camp up on a ridge above the river. I’m not sure the mileage, but we probably hiked a total of about 10 or so miles. It was cold but we came well prepared, had a good fire raging for a good amount of the night and brought a heavy supply of hot tea. On the hike back we took a different route, which involved hiking a very strenuous up-mountain route to the summit of Little Table Rock which offered an amazing view of the gorge and the surrounding mountains. A great way to commence the hike. Here are some of the photos I made during our trip.

Evie Celeste Zachary

10 Oct 2010•Newborn

My beautiful daughter, Evie, was born on October 02, 2010 at 4:37PM! She weighed 4lbs 15oz and was 17.75” long! Of course, I had my camera in hand documenting every step of the way. Here are a few I’ve shot so far in the first few days of her life. Soon to be the most photographed girl EVER!

10/02/10 4:47PM Her first look at her daddy.

10/02/10 4:49PM Her first look at her mommy.

10/02/10 4:56PM On her way to the nursery.

10/02/10 5:15PM Getting her footprints.

10/02/10 7:12PM She’s not too happy about her first bath.

10/03/10 9:55AM Napping in the hospital room.

10/04/10 10:19AM Posing for daddy to take her picture before being discharged.

10/07/10 12:44PM Being cute napping on mommy lap.

And Lastly, Here is a photo of her nursery!

Shanice | Senior Portraits | Fort Fisher, NC Photographer

29 Sep 2010•Senior Portraits

Had a fun Senior Session with Shanice the other day down at Fort Fisher. Here’s what we came up with.

Hurricane Earl Swell – Masonboro Island, NC

2 Sep 2010•Sports

Went over to Masonboro Island on Wednesday night, August 01, 2010 to catch the first signs of swell from Hurricane Earl. The wind wasn’t cooperating as much as we had hoped, but there were definitely some bombs coming through. I stayed out shooting photos well past sunset, so you will notice a loss of quality towards the end of the gallery. Click on the post title above to view the whole batch.

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Puerto Rico Photo Book…

19 May 2010•Travel

The Puerto Rico book I put together is here. It turned out really nice. It is 40 pages and features 160 photos from my trip in late March. Here are a few photos I snapped of it.