BASED IN IRWIN, PA
serving the Pittsburgh, PA area
WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY
ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY
If you want to be technical, Joe and Steffani met while they were in college at St. Vincent College.Steffani was going to school for Chemistry and Education and Joe was going for Finance.They had mutual friend groups and they knew of each other, but that was about it. And then 2020 rolled around.Remember that season...
Six years ago, Rachel was a clerk at the Carnegie Library in Squirrel Hill.She did all the normal library “things”, like returning books to their proper places on shelves, helping people find books, checking out books for people, and yes, making library cards for new library patrons. And that’s when a tall, slightly quirky, hilarious...
I chat with a lot of couples about their wedding photography and one of my favorites parts of those conversations is finding out how a couple met. Some stories are intricate roller coaster rides, some stories are goose-bump inducing, and some are simply simple. There is no right or wrong “how we met” story.The origin...
[PART 1] So, I have photographed many different types of “engagement sessions”. I’ve done the traditional ones where I photograph the newly engaged couple – celebrating the short window of time that they are each other’s fiance’s.But, I’ve also done other “strains”: I did an engagement session once that took place after the wedding (the...
It’s not every day I get to photograph an engagement session for two nurses in the middle of a pandemic. Once upon a time, Jeff was working at Westmoreland Hospital. He was precepting for new medical students there – and one of those students was Cassey. Now, before your mind runs away with making up...
Hi! I'm Kara!
Welcome to my blog!
I am a full time engagement & wedding photographer based in Irwin, PA & I love to write!
I blog about 3 main topics:
•the beautiful love stories that I capture with my camera
•our adventures visiting different amusement parks for my husband's YouTube channel
•and the every day, crazy life as a family of 4.
I'm so thankful you've found your way here!
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