Category archives: religious ceremony
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- What does one girl need in a portrait session? Her family to join in the fun!
I love when siblings join in a portrait session for so many reasons, especially when it comes to First Communion portraits.
This milestone event is a very special day, and having your brother or your sister with you to join in the [...]
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- During these holidays, I would like to talk with you about the word love.
We use it often to describe things, people, and our affection for both. I am totally that person who often exclaims, "I LOVE THAT!"
And when we hear that word love, how many of us think in terms of romantic love? What if we reminde[...]
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This Victorian rhyme is a time-honored tradition that is believed to bring the bride good luck.
Wearing “something old” expresses the newlywed couple’s desire to retain connections with their family once they enter into married life. One tradition suggests that the bride’s “something old” be an old garter gi[...]
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Mr. Nussbaum, a 6th grade teacher in the Fairfax County Public Schools, shares this image and explains the idiom of how “time flies” means that time goes by very quickly, and I couldn’t think of a better way to sum up this past month. May seems to have flown right by me, and when I look back through my calendar, I[...]
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- Having worked with children for years now – initially as an first grade teacher and then as a portrait and event photographer – I know one thing for sure. I know that all the children I have ever met have a song in their hearts.
Every child.
Sometimes it’s a quiet melody
and other times it’s a bri[...]
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- If you follow me on Instagram, you may have already seen the image of the stunning couple I photographed on Saturday evening at the vow reaffirmation ceremony that they put on to celebrate their 20th anniversary.
Held at the newly constructed Noah’s Event Venue in Morrisville, North Carolina, they couldn’t have [...]
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- In March I like to celebrate “Pets and their Peeps,” but before you think we’ve gone to the dogs, consider this: the health benefits of owning a pet (or spending time with someone else’s pet) have been widely documented and are pretty tough to dispute.
For example, did you know that a study published by the Journal [...]
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Does it feel like 2016 flew by? It does, doesn’t it? But then I take a pause and look back over these past 12 months, and realize how full 2016 really was...
JANUARY
Thank you to this family who invited me into their home to photograph the three of them. These three have a joy that was the undercurrent of our [...]
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- Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of photographing my 11th First Communion ceremony at St. Charles Church in San Carlos, California. Capturing this milestone event at our local church is my great pleasure. I see the candid expressions, and I am thrilled to create an image of the pure joy of friends and families [...]
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- If you follow Barbara Bell Photography on Facebook you've already seen some of the photographs from the 2016 Confirmation Ceremony at St. Charles Church in San Carlos, California, and if you follow along on Instagram, you know I've decreed it Year of the Bow Tie!
I mean, how fab do these guys look?? Am I right?!
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