Handy dandy "To Do" List for my awesome Seniors

I'm sure I don't have to tell my wonderful high school senior crowd that we are now less than a month away from their last hurrah of high school!! Here's a quick list of things that might help you be better prepared for going out with the BANG I know you want to go out with...

(   ) Make your wishlist of colleges and/or entry-level jobs you want to go into and start requesting applications!

(    ) Get your calendars ready by blocking off the dates of all of the things you don't want to miss this year - your LAST homecoming, your LAST prom, your first and LAST day of high school 

(    ) And THIS is the most important of all - Grab two of your BFFs and book your Senior portrait session with me, Andrea Ream Photography!!! Sure you can get your portraits through the service offered by the school but if you do that you won't get the awesome pricing special I have going on this year OR portraits that are so much more uniquely YOURS instead of the same thing that everyone else is getting done probably on the stage of the auditorium in your school. (Seriously? Boooo-oring!)

Here's a rundown of the special pricing I'm running for Senior portraits this year. It's good for the whole school year!

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Chris + Brandy :: Northern Virginia Maternity Photography

Perhaps it's not fair for me to say this but I'm one of those types who is never afraid to "shake things up" a little so I'm just gonna - I wanna take pictures of Chris and Brandy ALL. THE. TIME! I'm absolutely serious.

I met Chris and Brandy by way of electronic networking. I put some feelers out looking for a photographer to take pictures of me with my daughter - a sort of "mommy & me" session - and Chris and Brandy of Gronde Photography  reached out to me to help make it happen. As it so happened they were looking for a photographer as well because they are (as you will see) expecting their first little blessing and joy.

I just love Chris and Brandy for so many reasons. For one? They are photographers/visual artists like me! They "speak" the language I most love to speak. They also are the type of people who are absolutely what and who they say they are without reservations and they love each other unabashedly. I wish I had actually met them sooner than just weeks ago because I would have loved to have been able to have a stab at their engagement and/or wedding photography! I mean just look at the images below. Their adoration for each other is so visceral and palpable and it only makes photographing them that much more incredible for me as an photographic artist.

But enough of my blathering on, right? Here's just a smattering of the portraits we collaborated and turned out together during one of the most beautiful golden hour sessions EVER...

Thank you, Chris and Brandy, for giving me the honor to capture you at this incredibly momentous time of your life together. You have my number for when the baby arrives and you need someone else to hold the camera (again) since I'm sure you will have your hands plenty full with your sweet bundle of love.

Feast your eyes on this! :: Maryland Food Photographer

You'll have to pardon me a moment. I'm on a bit of a sugar high because I'm doing something that I always dreamed I would be able to do "when I was a grown-up." I am eating cupcakes for lunch.

Yes. You read that correctly. I AM EATING CUPCAKES FOR LUNCH TODAY.

*happy sigh*

I'm in the middle of wedding edits but I just had to plug a new business I was able to visit today. It's a new boutique-style gourmet cupcakery located in Elkridge, Maryland called Kupcakes & Co. It is a family owned and operated business by the amazing Kupiec family that is fast finding it's feet and gaining serious following in this region. They've got all of the usual favorites that any good cupcakery should have - the vanillas and chocolates topped with the trusty and delicious buttercreams and red velvets - as well as some truly adventurous, unique, and fun flavors like Cotton Candy and (if I had to pick a new favorite) Pancakes & Bacon. (Yes. That's right! A CUPCAKE WITH BACON!!! *swoon*)

Here is a quick picture of one of the cupcakes I took home with me today. It's a red velvet and it photographed beautifully...

If that's not a portrait of pure deliciousness and absolute YUM then I don't know what is. And I'll have you know I ate it very soon after I took the picture. Jealous?

Anyway, I'm happy to report that this will not be the last you will see of these gorgeous cupcakes... I mean, KUPCAKES. I am teaming up with the cupcakery within the next few weeks to document more of their incredibly delectable culinary confections. LONG LIVE KUPCAKES!!! Pardon me while I eat just one more. *wink*

Wintergreen Avenue for New Focus Realty :: Washington DC Real Estate Photographer

Just finished up another one for New Focus Realty of Crofton. I'm happy to report that they were very pleased and impressed with the previous images I captured for another one of their listings and we're both talking about teaming up like this even more often now.

This listing is located on Wintergreen Avenue in District Heights, Maryland. It's a very charming little rancher-style house with some terrific recent upgrades. Will try and post a link to the MLS listings when they are up and running with the rest of the images I took but in the meanwhile if you want to see more please contact Charlie Hudson at New Focus Realty directly. He and Larry will take excellent care of you! Seriously... I'm talking white-glove type service. ;)