Happy Holidays!

We wish you all a wonderful holiday with family and loved ones.

We will be operating on reduced hours this week as we enjoy time with our precious children. Please leave us a message and we'll return calls and e-mails as able.

A Dog's Life

So here are the slobbery details... This is Bucky, a lovable and friendly dog that has warmed the hearts of his owner's mother. So the family asked us to do a portrait session as a gift for the mom for Christmas. Neville took on the challenge and loved it, we hope to meet more dogs like Bucky in the future!

Tiffany and Doug get married!

Tiffany and Doug are married and what a wonderful wedding it was! The venue was beautiful, the dress was stunning, and the couple was just fabulous. Again and again, we feel so blessed by the people we have had the privilege and joy of meeting through this life's work.

The festivities were held at the amazing Cairnwood, a photographers dream with all its hidden little treasures. This being Lori's first time there, I was smiling from ear to ear the minute we walked in the doors and saw where we would be working for the day. Tiffany did her getting ready preparations in the lovely bridal room while her wedding attendants helped prepare flowers and finalize decorations - how nice to see the attendants take over and make sure that Tiffany did not have a thing to worry about.

Doug arrived while Tiffany was kept out of sight to get ready in the Groom's room with the guys and then it was time to do some quick imagery of the girls and then the guys before heading over to Hatboro Baptist Church. Lori rode in the comforts of the limo bus with the girls, while Neville and Doug, along with 3 of the groomsmen hopped into a car. Apparently, Tiffany and Lori are very fortunate that our respective husbands survived the trip as there were some brake issues that occurred!

The service was done by candlelight with the warmth of Christmas decorations and was a wonderful service, performed by Doug's uncle who traveled from overseas to officiate. They exited by sparklers (which had to be the longest lasting sparklers in existence, and allowed Doug and Tiffany to run through them a couple times to the cheers of their guests). We then all piled onto to the limo bus and back to Cairnwood for family and wedding party shots and then some alone time with Doug and Tiffany.

The reception was filled with fun and energy, ending at midnight. The perfect ending for their fairytale wedding. Thank you, thank you, thank you Tiffany and Doug, for inviting us to be a part of such a special day and inviting us into your lives. We hope you have a wonderful honeymoon and an absolutely beautiful marriage!

For more juicy details, check out Tiffany & Doug's blog.






Please visit the Recent Wedding Momenets gallery on our website to see more images from their day.

Time for a little change

Hi everyone! Thought we'd have a little fun today because I need it right now. We've been helping our eldest recuperate from having her tonsils and adenoids out last week and it has been harder than we anticipated. She's a trooper and is getting better. So I needed a little change today and decided to play around with our website a little bit. Just checking in to see how observant you are! E-mail us with what change you notice and if you like it better this way or the old way. Looking forward to hearing from you all.

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Being Us

We had a wonderful time photographing this fun family. Once again, we got to do our thing and play. I love capturing the true essence of people and the way they interact with others - pure joy for us!

Blue Eyes

Lori did a quick session with these adorable big blue eyed girls. Too cute!

Office Closed - gobble gobble!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! The office will be closed through November 25th while we enjoy time with our family and dear friends of ours who are visiting from Canada. Lori will be back in the office Monday morning. Enjoy your friends and family during this holiday.

Full of Smiles

Today we had the absolute pleasure of going downtown to photograph this adorable 6 month little boy. He was so full of smiles, as long as we were silly enough for him! I just adore this age, not quite mobile, but trying really hard. Thank you for inviting us over to play, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! If we didn't have our own children to get home to, we would have stayed all day!

Beth and Kris get married!

This past weekend we had the pleasure to work with Beth and Kris and celebrate their marriage with them. They were a perfectly matched couple for each other….. even their pastor confirmed this through their marriage preparation classes!! It was truly a November fall day, weather wise, but that didn’t deter us from getting some outdoor shots of the girls and guys before the service.

We started at Beth’s parent’s house having fun with the girls as they all got ready. Dad was even called upon to pull out his pair of pliers – all dressed in his tuxedo – to help repair one of the girl’s shoes!!

We then headed over to Advent Lutheran Church in West Chester for a beautiful service and then family formals. The reception was held at the Sheraton Great Valley Hotel in Frazer. When we arrived, we were able to spend some time with Beth and Kris alone to capture some great moments. Then it was off to the party where some great dancing moves were displayed by Beth’s brother and many others!!

It was great to celebrate with Beth and Kris – we hope they have a wonderful honeymoon and beautiful marriage.

Please visit the Recent Wedding Moements gallery on our website to see more photos.

Singing in the Rain take Two

You may recall when we posted about this little cutie pie back in June. We'll she just became a big sister so we were invited to come and play again and meet the newest addition of this lovely little family. We always enjoy our time with this family so much, thank you for always being full of sunshine!


I love this next image, not because the baby is crying, but because big sister is there trying to comfort her, you know these two are going to be good friends by this image!

Trash the Dress Stringer Style

There has been a lot of talk lately about trashing the dress. We just love this concept and there are some fabulous artists out there capturing wonderful images. So what does trash the dress mean to us? To us it is an extension of the wedding day images, a time after the wedding to get back in your gown and continue enjoying the process of photography without worrying about what may happen with the dress. For this session, it meant that traipsing through a horse field, riding a horse, sitting on a barn floor, laying in hay, is all ok and is done for the pure enjoyment of the moment and the excitement of capturing images that are a little more unique. We had a blast and love the artistic freedom of this type of session.

Sarah and Johnny were our willing participants and we went to the barn that Sarah has worked at for years. (Sarah & Johnny was a couple of ours who got married on September 1st of this year). While she was a natural around the horses, some of us took some time to warm up to them.... see next posting for the continued story! But first, a big thank you to Sarah and Johnny for letting us do our thing again!

When horses are curious...

Ok, so as I was describing in the post above, we did a "trash the dress" session or "post wedding" session with Sarah and Johnny at Sarah's farm (Turnabout Farm in West Fallowfield). We've been talking about this concept for months and we were so excited when we could work out a time to do this. With all my excitement, I forgot one thing.... I'm nervous around animals, don't ask me why, I just am. So it never dawned on me that this would be an issue for me taking images near a horse. First of all, I had in my mind one horse and Sarah would be holding on to it. What I didn't realize is that we would be going out in to an open field with free ranging horses. Another thing I didn't know, is that horses are (as Sarah and Jen, the owner of the barn informed me later) are very CURIOUS! Translation: every horse in that field needed to come over and find out why Sarah was dressed up, why Bonnie (the main horse) was getting all the attention, what did a veil taste like and what does camera equipment taste like. Needless to say, I was completely out of my element and very happy when we moved into the shelter of the barn to play up in the rafters!

The Other Stringers

Yes there are other Stringer families out there, this one just happens to be Neville's brother and his family. Yes, it's true, if you saw these two brothers on the street, you wouldn't know they were related, but they really are! Anyhow, it was such a joy to have them travel all the way from western Canada to spend the weekend with us.

They really wanted a different and non-traditional family portrait with an urban spin and we jumped at the opportunity. It is so freeing for us to be given full creative freedom to do our thing - thanks gang! We headed to the streets of Coatesville and hit some favorite spots to capture them. The first one is my absolute favorite from the session.





Graham loves photoshop and he has taught me a few tricks or two. We worked on this one together in post production. Once again, I learned something new with him - thanks Graham!


I love it when kids are kids and act as kids should act, totally unprompted...

The Other Stringers continued. . .

Hey they're family, so I can post two entries about them!





I live for this stuff: when you get to capture the fun interactions parents have with their children. These are the images that children will cherish when they are adults, having record of how much fun they had with their dad. . .

Pennsylvania Wild Life Discovered

OK, I couldn't resist because this just cracked me up as it was happening. It really did feel like Neville was stalking his prey, waiting for the right moment. I think we actually heard lions roaring.