Mike is a book writer and Kimmy is a dolphin trainer. Yes, that dolphin, the mammal that swims in the ocean. 
Kimmy works at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
I was surprised when Kimmy recognized the dolphin in the profile picture I used on my Facebook. It’s actually a picture of my son looking at a dolphin behind the glass. Kimmy told me the dolphin’s name was Maya. Wow, I’m really impressed! They all looked the same to me. Haha! 
Well, apparently not. She told me that each dolphin have their own characteristics. Until today, I am still impressed that Kimmy recognized the dolphin on that small picture.
Anyway, let’s go back to Mike and Kimmy’s story.
Kimmy and Mike met at Washington College. It was love at first sight for Mike when he saw Kimmy for the first time. It left a lasting impression for Mike. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case for Kimmy.
One day, Mike’s friend told him that Kimmy was in this play and he was still looking for few more students for the cast. Mike was interested. It would be a chance for him to get close to Kimmy.
Mike’s persistence finally paid off. On New Year’s Eve of Kimmy’s junior year, which was about two years from the first meeting, they officially began their relationship.
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I met Jessica and Chad through Junelyn and Brad. If you’re curious who Junelyn and Brad are, check out their engagement session at Kent Island and their wedding at 2941 Restaurant at Falls Church, VA. You can see that Chad was one of the groomsmen at Junelyn and Brad’s wedding. Chad and Brad are buddies because they are both in the same music band.
In fact, Chad met Jessica through this very same band, Silent Film, because her brother was the vocalist. Chad actually joined the band later when they were looking for a new guitarist. When Jessica showed up to evaluate this new guy, Chad instantly became attracted to her. Chad thought that she’s hot! After Chad showed his talent, Jessica thought that the guy got skills and that he’s hot! So it was a mutual love at first sight for both!
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Elaine and Mike started their relationship back in college. They were just friends before, and weren’t really together until 6 years later when they dated the first time. After two years, Elaine and Mike finally decided to take their relationship to the next level. They finally became engaged in 2010.
Elaine and Mike have to travel a lot for their work. They had booked me about a year ago from overseas. It was just recently that they returned to Washington DC and had a chance to do the engagement photo session.
They choose the National Zoo to do their pre-wedding pictures because the love going to the zoo! In fact, for their first anniversary of their first date, they went to the best zoo in the country, which was the New Orleans Zoo. If they’re in the country, they went to zoo in other cites whenever they got a chance. Elaine particularly loved pandas, and Mike’s favorite animal would be the elephants.
Of course they have their own animal that lived with them, their pet dog, Digby.
Here are some more of my favorite images from the engagement session.
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Patty and Bruce united their love with an intimate wedding celebration at Mariott Aspen Wye River Conference Center. The wedding party was also small, just one maid of honor, which was just Patty’s daughter, Sarah.
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After Mariely and Tim’s engagement photo session at Ellicott City, I finally got the honor to photograph their wedding day.
Their wedding event was held at Overhills Mansion, at Catonsville Maryland, Baltimore County. The ceremony started in the evening, after sunset. Even the getting ready coverage started in the evening as well.
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I sure had fun photographing the family. They love each other as you can see here. They were all so nice and so helpful, always offering what they could do to help me. I felt like I had so many assistants that day.
What a lovely family.
The family photography session was supposed to be done in August, but due to bad weather, the session had to be rescheduled twice! It sure was worth the wait though. We had gorgeous weather because it was not hot.
Later in the day, we saw that a storm cloud was coming our way. However, for some reason it just passed away without trickling a single drop of water. Then later on after the photo session, we realized that it had rained elsewhere even in other parts of Edgewater, Maryland, but not where we were. I heard that it rained so hard that people at the Annapolis Mall movie theater could hear the pouring rain hitting the roof! We felt so blessed!
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