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Allison & Ryan: An Oregon Coast Wedding at Camp Westwind (Part Two)

(Read Part One) For a few minutes before their handfasting ceremony, Allison and Ryan stood alone to take in the view from the high meadow, the seaside cliff perfectly like the one on which Allison had always dreamed of being married. Those of us who had made the steep, mile-long hike with them from Camp...

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Allison & Ryan: An Oregon Coast Wedding at Camp Westwind (Part One)

What better place for two astronomers to wed than under the open sky? Allison met Ryan while in grad school in New Mexico. Equal parts goofy and silly, they were a perfect match. After grad school, the two got engaged in Thailand and were offered jobs at a US-owned observatory in Chile. There, they lived...

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Allison & Ryan | A Sorta Wedding Teaser

My good friend and photojournalist, Susanica Tam, sent me the following picture of yours truly photographing a lovely couple in the forest. The bride and groom are my peeps Allison and Ryan. Allison, who is a fellow Wedding Bee blogger, alias “Bear Cub,” invited Justin and I down to their Oregon Coast nuptials. It was...

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Mel’s Empire Beach Photographs | Michigan Senior Portraits

I did a bit of traveling in the Midwest last month… to Virginia for a wedding, to Michigan to visit family, and to Chicago for a conference. One stop was in Traverse City, at Michigan’s northeast tip, where my mother’s family has roots. While I was there, Steve & Kathi asked me to take senior...

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