pixelpants http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog by melissa kelly photography Tue, 01 May 2012 18:15:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 May calendar & a sneek peek http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/05/01/may-calendar-a-sneek-peek/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=may-calendar-a-sneek-peek http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/05/01/may-calendar-a-sneek-peek/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 18:15:07 +0000 melissak http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/?p=360

This sunset didn’t look much at the time, but it came out nice in post-processing, and so, it is your May desktop calendar!

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Brian’s going to be a big time music producer some day. I hope he remembers us little guys then!

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]]> http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/04/17/penns-landing-portrait-photos/feed/ 0 Evan & Liza: Wissahickon Trail Engagement Photos http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/04/07/evan-liza-wissahickon-trail-engagement-photos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evan-liza-wissahickon-trail-engagement-photos http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/04/07/evan-liza-wissahickon-trail-engagement-photos/#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:43:54 +0000 melissak http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/?p=331 I met up with Evan and Liza on a springy afternoon down at the Valley Green Inn, where they’ll be getting hitched this summer. These two have such wonderful, fun chemistry and are completely natural and playful in front of the camera–it hardly felt like work!

They’re taking swing dancing lessons for the big day, so I had them show me a few moves. Believe me, these two can cut a rug.

Congrats to you both, I can’t wait to shoot your wedding in June!

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]]> http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/04/07/evan-liza-wissahickon-trail-engagement-photos/feed/ 1 Eggs! Cousins! Dogs! http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/04/03/eggs-cousins-dogs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eggs-cousins-dogs http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/04/03/eggs-cousins-dogs/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:21:24 +0000 melissak http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/?p=249 Over the weekend we dyed Easter eggs with some of my youngest cousins in prep for the coming hunt. (As a side note, these are 2 of my 39 cousins and cousins once removed, not to mention their spouses or my husband’s 24 cousins and others.)

Sophia ran the egg dying like a pro.

Oliver was enamored of the dogs.

The dogs, in turn, were enamored of him and his crumb-filled face.

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Hi friends! Today I have a guest blog about the most important questions to ask your wedding photographer up over at Klover Events. Check me ouuuuut.

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]]> http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/04/03/guest-blogging/feed/ 0 April http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/04/02/april/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=april http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/04/02/april/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:25:11 +0000 melissak http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/?p=230 I was really hoping to have a few posts before re-posting the same image from last time, but the weekend weather has not been kind to me or my portrait clients, and I’ve had the same two shoots rained out TWICE in two weeks. Fingers crossed for this Thursday and Friday, if you please!

Without further ado, your (familiar) April calendar:

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]]> http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/04/02/april/feed/ 0 I guess spring = new beginnings http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/03/21/i-guess-spring-new-beginnings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-guess-spring-new-beginnings http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/03/21/i-guess-spring-new-beginnings/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:55:18 +0000 melissak http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/03/21/i-guess-spring-new-beginnings/ Well friends, the Internet gods have smote me and I lost my whole blog. All seven years of it. So we are starting anew! Please bear with me, it is going to be slow going.

Happy spring!

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]]> http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/03/21/i-guess-spring-new-beginnings/feed/ 0 March! http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/03/01/march/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=march http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/03/01/march/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:29:45 +0000 melissak http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/?p=152 Your March calendar, you lucky folks.

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]]> http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/03/01/march/feed/ 0 Dags! [a personal post] http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/02/10/dags-a-personal-post/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dags-a-personal-post http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/02/10/dags-a-personal-post/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:54:49 +0000 melissak http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/?p=184 One of my New Year’s Resolutions this year was to include a bit more personal blogging on this site. I’m finally getting around to that (and finally have something interesting to share, the winter doldrums have hit me hard!).

A little less than 5 years ago, my parents bought a getaway property in the Endless Mountains and we’ve been trekking up there as often as possible ever since for campfires, summers swimming in the pond, ATV riding, tree felling, wine tasting, and on and on and on. In the last few years the property has been rented out to incoming gas drilling employees and their families (I will spare you my personal soapbox rant about gas drilling), so this past weekend was a precious bye week between renters.

So we packed up the dogs (FIVE!) and rolled around the mountainside all weekend for a much needed getaway.

 

Born free!

 

This is my boy George. We adopted George from a boxer rescue at Thanksgiving, so this was his first trip to the farm, and I don’t think he could have been more pleased. It turns out that George has quite a nose on him, and was very successful at finding bones and other gross dead things.

Macy is my sister’s dog, a true-blue Labrador who can most likely be found swimming in the ponds.

See?

Gracie is my sister’s friend’s rescue pup. Also a first timer at the farm, but very pleased to be there.

If you’ve never had a mountain pie before, get thee to a campfire!

In case you hadn’t noticed, I am firmly on Team Boxer. The two on the outside are mine — George and Rian (who has been around the block here in the mountains, our Original Farm Dog). In the middle is Ernie, my cousin’s boxer.

King George.

After a morning of running up and down the mountainside, everybody pretty much passed out. This happens frequently.

Jeep full’a boxers. Love.

My dad, The Badger, loves his tractor.

Fin.

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]]> http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/02/10/dags-a-personal-post/feed/ 0 Febtober http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/02/01/febtober/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=febtober http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/2012/02/01/febtober/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:05:03 +0000 melissak http://www.melissakelly.net/photoblog/?p=122 February 1 and it feels like spring. I can get used to this.

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