Kasey + Ryan

Kasey emailed me one day telling me that she was planning her wedding in Kansas City and if I'm available to become her photographer. You see, Kasey and Ryan currently live in New York city, which is kinda cool since I seem to have a knack of finding, or actually being found by, Kansas Citians who live in the great state of New York.

Kasey and Ryan are one of the few couple that have this certain coolness about them, something that I don't run across every day.







It always takes a few guys to figure out how to fold it ;)






And of course, Manolo Blahnik


Awesomeness.






























Kasey's dad happily looks on at the newly married couple :)


These two guys know how to rock. Me think they're the future air guitar champion.




Don't you love it when your friends are always on the look out for you? :)




Kasey and Ryan, you're just too awesome!
Love,
David
Bride & Groom Suite: Intercontinental Hotel Kansas City
Wedding location: The Sawyer Room

Katie + Steve

I love everything about Katie and Steve's wedding. And I feel so blessed to be able to witness and to document their wedding. The wedding itself was held at around noon time on a beautiful but slightly breezy day in a quaint Simpson House in Kansas City.

On to my favorite images from their sweet and beautiful wedding.



Katie's best friends look on while she's getting ready in the morning.


But I told Katie that she's the fastest bride ever when it comes to getting ready.




Steve and his dad. I love the mood and the juxtaposition of these images.




Steve's nephew reacting to the fact that he needs to put on his shoes. I love this guy, later on during the reception he challenged me to do the camera duel, him with his disposable camera against me with my big black camera.


Steve's grandma seems a little bit overwhelmed.


Simply beautiful.




Look, Ma...neck-tie.


Him, just before the duel.


Almost time.

















Steve and Katie, thank you for allowing me to be part of your day.

Blesssings,
David

WPJA Contest

I'm so stoked that two more of my images placed in the second quarter of WPJA contest.





-David

Kassie + Sam

We really had a great time shooting Kassie and Sam. I never realized that mortal kombat really influenced a lot of people's lives ;)





I think the girl in green dress just winked at me ;)


I was just walking along minding my own business when suddenly Kassie did this wicked mortal kombat kick...


...and upon impact Sam was thrown back to the stone age.








I love you guys. You guys rock!!!

Blessing,
David

Ayman

Ayman is graduating this year and med school is already waiting for him. One thing that impresses me is that he's not only book smart but Ayman also has a passion in movie making as well. He has them all...artsy and geeky ;)

So one day he called me and asked if I do senior picture, to which I replied that I take cool photograph and it doesn't matter if it's high school senior or senior citizen. ha!

After several attempts involving his getting lost somewhere in the middle of I-435 trying to meet me, we finally met with Ayman and his brother and dad.

On to my favorite images.

We want to do something a bit different, not the normal smiley-pretty pictures.








Ayman is a smiley kind of guy, but just for fun we went for the sinister hitman look.


Thanks for playing along, Ayman. I really wish we had more time working together. You're awesome!

-David

Preview: Amber + Jake

Here's a sneak peek from Amber and Jake's sweet and beautiful wedding from a couple weeks ago at Sheraton.















Congratulations, Amber and Jake!
The complete images will be finished in a few weeks.

Blessings,
David

Jessica

This is Jessica, she is graduating this May as an honor student and will go on to college on full academic scholarship. Not only she's an honor student but she's also a student athlete. Ok now...how do you smart and healthy people do that? I just don't get it :)

On to the images. During the photo shoot we just happened to see the Honor Box parking signs at some corner in downtown Kansas City. It's just too perfect, don't you think?


I didn't make this up...but we, again, happened to see a discarded red couch so we decided to use it. Dragged it to the middle of the street, broken spring and all.




We went for the fashion look. This is too much fun :)




Thanks to Jessica and her whole clans (mom, dad, brothers) for coming along and providing extra help during the photo shoot. You guys are great!

Later,
David