http://www.kpophoto.com Storytellers With a Camera Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:18:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This past fall we had three weddings in a row with receptions in the beautiful and versatile President's Ballroom at The Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club in Durham, North Carolina. You will not believe how different one ballroom could look! This blog post is testament to the fact that ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2010/02/three-weddings-and-a-ballroom/ http://www.kpophoto.com/2010/02/shining-star/ This past Sunday I spent the day at the Carolina Inn catching up with some of my favorite wedding professionals and meeting with a lot of folks with wedding fever. The Carolina Inn Bridal Fair is the only show we do each year because it is truly a site to ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2010/02/kpo-photo-at-the-carolina-inn-bridal-fair/ Katy Geil and Garrett Smyth met by chance ten years ago at a Thanksgiving dinner. Katy was in her early 20's, just beginning her working life and Garrett was working as a golf pro. They didn't hit it off in a romantic way at the time. Looking back, Katy can ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2010/01/ten-years/ Last Friday despite the non-existent snow event, I ventured out of the house to photograph Fr. Dan McLellan at Immaculate Conception Church in Durham, NC. Cyndy Falgout is one of Father Dan's parishioners and she happened to go onto the church's Web site recently and saw a photo of him ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2010/01/father-dan/ As I write this it is snowing outside! A perfect start to the holiday break! I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to all of you who chose KPO Photo this year. Your stories are absolutely amazing and I am so honored to be a part of your ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/12/happy-holidays-from-kpo-photo/ We had a wonderful last wedding of the year on Halloween. Fearrington Village was in full Halloween mode, the weather was warm and even the moon was in rare form to celebrate the wedding of Margo Ginsberg to Sam Straus. Some people refer to this couple as high school sweethearts, ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/11/our-last-wedding-of-2009/ Can you believe Thanksgiving is just a couple of weeks away? We are busy getting products ready for the holidays for KPO clients. One big item on the agenda- holiday cards! We have carefully selected our 2009 Holiday Cards with our client's discerning taste in mind. We also wanted cards ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/11/the-holidays-are-coming/ Lauren Murphy and Eric Dixon had each been at Duke for more than 3 years before they were introduced. Perhaps Eric had stood behind her in line at Chick-fil-A, maybe Lauren had sat across from him on the East-West bus, but who can know if such coincidental encounters ever ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/11/the-devil-is-in-the-details/ This was a really busy week as I had the KPO Fall Special, Halloween activites, time doing mom stuff and our last wedding of the year out at Fearrington. Here is a little run down of some of the highlights. My good friend, Nice Polido just opened a new business ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/11/halloween-is-in-the-air/ I am loving this fall weather! Last week I had a bunch of fun events. I was out at night four nights in a row which is a really different schedule for me. The first night I had dinner at Panzanella with the Sato Family- Jeannine, Mas and Hana. The ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/10/out-and-about-in-the-hill/ The wedding of Elissa Flynn to Sean McClure had sooo many extraordinary things about it. Their wedding day, September 19, 2009, was a beautiful, sunny day. They had scheduled a bagpiper to usher in the guests to The Duke Chapel. But, through some sort of miscommunication, two showed up and ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/10/two-bagpipers-and-a-chapel/ Jenny and Jimmy met through mutual friends in New York and knew each other for a while as friends. About three and a half years ago, they started seeing each other after a spending a day watching Carolina basketball at a sports bar in New York. I love ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/10/jenny-and-jimmy/ Christi King and Michael Mason were wed on September 12, 2009 at Duke Chapel. On the morning of the wedding, as family and friends entered the regal church, there was a crescent moon still showing above the tower. This must be a good omen! But superstitions aside, this couple is ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/10/love-at-duke-chapel/ I am soooooo excited to announce that we will be sending out a quarterly newsletter. I took this opportunity to go through the files from the last ten years and came up with a huge email list. It is going to be so fun to reconnect with past clients! To ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/09/the-first-kpo-photo-email-newsletter/ Jenny Page is marrying Jimmy West on September 26, 2009. She came down from Manhattan for a visit to her family home in Raleigh, NC so we could do a bridal portrait. I am always so glad when we can do a portrait in a location that holds memories and ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/09/bridal-portrait-on-the-front-porch/ Hajo Engelke is an entrepreneur started a great company called of Custom Choice Cereal. Customers can create their individual cereal from a variety of entirely gluten-free ingredients. I had the good fortune of photographing him today on behalf of the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative. The Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI) is all ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/09/entrepreneurial-cereal/ Surrounded by close family and friends, Anne Lacy and Matt Gialanella were married on September 5, 2009 in an intimate ceremony at The Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club. After the ceremony, more guests came to celebrate their union and dance well into the night. Anne and Matt met at ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/09/sunset-at-the-washington-duke/ After a late summer break, we got back to weddings with a really memorable one. Katie LaFiura and Stephen Misuraca were married on August 29th, 2009 at The Duke Chapel. This wedding celebrated the union of Katie and Stephen, but also their love of Duke and the many things ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/09/cameron-crazies/ As I am sure any photographer will tell you, one of the very best parts of this job is to get the opportunity to meet the chidren of your past wedding clients. Back in October of 2005 Stacy and Matt married at Sister's Garden in Raleigh, NC. I got to ... http://www.kpophoto.com/2009/08/welcome-zoe-danielle/