Amber and Maksym (other wise known as Max) were married just a few weeks ago at the Divine Redeemer Catholic Church in Hanahan, SC with the reception held at the Mills House Hotel located in downtown Charleston. They both met at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio where Max is a professional ballroom dance instructor. (Just think “Dancing with the Stars” kind of thing here….) Since Max and his side of the family are Ukrainian, I knew that this was going to be a fun reception for sure! They did not disappoint either! Both Max and Amber looked so graceful and beautiful on the dance floor for their very first dance as husband and wife. They even had a special Ukrainian dance couple entertain all of the guests! I just had to include one of those shots into this blog post. It was too funny to see them dancing like that! Congratulations to the both of you!

Be sure to click on their slideshow below. There is also a direct link to all of the online images below the slideshow! 😉

Of course I just had to add in the special Ukrainian dance couple! ha ha!

For a direct link of all images online, just click here.

Happy 4th of July! Well as of this posting, it would be Happy 5th of July! ha!  So last night I took our “little tornado” out for the fireworks display at the North Charleston Riverfront Park. They always have a really nice setup out there for everyone to enjoy. Plenty of food and jump castles and slides for all of the kiddies! I even took Austin down one of the slides just because he was still a little smaller compared to all of the other big kids that were running around him. As far as the pictures go, do you know how hard it is trying to get a 2 year old to look at the camera while huge firework explosions are going on behind him?? Uggh! That was tough. I have plenty of shots of the back of his head though! ha ha!

So the new ISPWP (International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers) Spring 2010 contest results came out yesterday and I made the Top 20 in the “wedding dress” section! Whoa! That was really cool because there are so many amazing photographers who compete in these photography contests from all over the world! Just in the wedding dress category that I entered were folks from Germany, Poland, Brazil, etc. This is really only the second time I have entered into any type of photo contest type of thing and I placed both times, so that’s kinda cool. I’m just honored to be mentioned with such incredible photographers and  images from all over the globe. I do think that ISPWP is a really great organization and not just a typical “run of the mill” type of site. You can’t just sign up with them, (ok, you can fill out a ton of paperwork to prove that you are a professional) or you just need to have a referral from a current member to get in. (thanks to my buddy Ruth Rackley! 😉

Here’s the image that I submitted. Click here to see the category that I entered.