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MOST COMMENTED POSTS
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Do you like to have fun? We do, especially with our photos. We wanted something a little different than the average blog out there, so along with our super talented Blog designer we came up with a Favorites section - or "Wiebner Faves" as we like to call it. What is it you ask? more »
Well, under each photo, you will see a "Vote for Favorite" box. If you really like that image, if it tickles your fancy, or makes you laugh, or just plain old makes you smile - go ahead - check it. We know you want to. Each time that box is clicked on a photo, it adds to the running tally for that image. The top 14 favorite images on the entire blog will be shown as thumbnails in this section. Just so you can see the most popular images of all time on the blog. A little something out of the ordinary - it never hurts to be different!
Also, blog posts can be favorites. Now that we have comments available, you will see a little bar meter at the bottom left of each post. Once the meter hits a certain number of comments, its automatically promoted to a "Wiebner Fave Post". :) Something else just for fun!
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Are you ready to advance your business? Education in our industry is important to us. The more photographers that are aware in the industry the better it is for everyone. Won't you join us in making our goals a reality? We participate in various workshops, seminars and speaking engagements. Listed below are various engagements - some are our own workshops, others we will be hosting or speaking at. If you wish to participate, please drop us a line or click the link to find out more info!
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I find it incredibly difficult to write about us when put on "The Spot". "I need a 500 word bio about you and Joel, now!" Who can do that? How do you make your own personality shine in a few words, let alone that of two people? Well, I am going to give it my best shot. If you really want to know about US - who we really are - read the blog below. We really try to keep it updated as often as possible, and hope that our fun, casual personalities shine through in the words you read and the images we capture for our clients. The blog below is our way of communicating our lives - both personal and professional - with clients, friends, family and colleagues. We believe strongly in using words and images together to communicate our passion.
I am going to keep this short and sweet - Joel and I were meant to be together - to live, love and be happy making photographs. We were both photographers before we met over 9 years ago - we met behind a camera, and continue to feed off of that energy. We are a rock solid husband and wife team and we wouldn't want it any other way - we work together 24/7 and never tire of each other. We have had our business since November 2000, and have thrived on photographing weddings as our main photography genre since 2002. We love what we do. We like to think we look at the world in our own way - not photojournalistically, not traditionally, not artistically. Just as a Wiebner. If you like what we see, then you will like us too. Oh and don't forget to comment in the blog on our two little darlings - Haydn and Zane - they are pretty darn cute little Wiebners. Enjoy! - Rita
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Gone Again - July 3rd-6th
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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| Yes, we just got back and we are gone again! This time it is competely work related! The office will be closed until next Monday (the 7th) we have 3 weddings over this 4th of July weekend. See you when we get back - and we will have more images to post! |
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Wiebners Wisit Walt...Disney that is
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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hehehe....wascaly wabbit. Ok, so Elmer Fudd isn't Disney, but I couldn't resist. Part of the reason we were gone so much in June was because we took a family vacation to the Disneyworld complex in Orlando, FL. This was the first time for the kids and Joel - I had been there several times as a child, so I was way excited to introduce them all to so much of the fun. Joel grumbled and complained leading all of the way up to this vacation - he isn't real big on big crowded, amusement type vacations - he would much rather going camping in the woods somewhere. But, as much as he complains and groans, I know he still had a good time. :)
We booked one of the vacation packages through the Disney web site - and it included all of our transportation, airfare, hotel, and meals. We did the Deluxe Dining plan, which was a bit overkill - but it included 3 meals a day (which you could each get an appetizer, main course AND desert for all of the meals!) - and 2 snacks per day. Let's just say we were stuffed the entire vacation. We got to eat at a lot of cool places throughout the different parks and hotels - the dining plan was good at over 100 different locations. A few weeks before our vacation I called and made reservations at a bunch of the different places we wanted to eat at - and let me tell you that is the best way to maximize your meal plan. They basically have quick service restaurants, which are more cafeteria style - or full sit down service restaurants. Because I made reservations, we were able to enjoy a lot of sit down meals, and not have to fight crowds for food - we did enough of that just to get on rides.
So what can I say about Disneyworld? Long days, line waiting, sweaty kids (and us) - and I loved every minute of it! I am a total kid at heart, and just love all of the rides, watching the people and spending time with the boys. Our favorite parks were Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios (which used to be MGM Studios, I am not sure how recently they changed that) - and we went to both of these parks a couple of different times. We visited Epcot mostly to ride the Spaceship Earth, and eat at a cool restaurant - I figured the kids were too young to really appreciate most of the different countries, so we didn't do Epcot extensively. We went to Animal Kingdom on our last day, which I would have liked to have spent more time at, but we were all getting pretty tired and cranky - so we just hit the big stuff and went back to the hotel to chill.
It was a really great trip overall, not too many bumps to report, and we took a zillion photos. I am blogging some of our favorites -I will probably put the rest up on my Facebook account - so if you want to see them just let me know or add me as a friend on there. I think I have over 400 that I am going to get printed and put in an album for the kids - so much fun! But here are some of the highlights...
Have to start out with a great view of Cinderella's Castle at the Magic Kingdom! |
| Yes, see that blob of a head there in the front? That is me, as we are starting out our ride on Space Mountain! |
| Cutesy little portrait of the Zipster as we were waiting for our table at a restaurant. |
| And one of Haydie Bug too. They are getting too big, and I soon can't call them by their cute little nicknames anymore! |
| Yep, that's me, and we ate at Tony's and YES, I have a shirt on. I had a tube top on that day, but you can't tell by this picture! |
| Joel couldn't get drinks in him fast enough, it was THAT hot. For real though, it was like in the high 80s to low 90s the whole time we were there. It was stinkin' hot. |
| One of my favorite things about Disney, is the attention to detail with EVERYTHING. These are Mickey Mouse sprinkles on Zane's ice cream sundae. |
| On the Buzz Lightyear Astro blaster rigde - Zane and Haydn were in the car in front of us - the colors in there were totally trippy! |
| Trying to get away from the evil Zurg... |
| Haydn was way cool, sportin his shades and cruisin on the race track... |
| There's the big guy and gal! We had to wait in a huge line to meet Minnie and Mickey - man the things you do for your kids - and when we got there, Zane refused to have his photo taken with them so I did it with Haydn instead. Zane has this phobia of people dressed up in costumes - he would hardly go near the characters unless we bribed him into it. |
| Ah yes, the absolute favorite ride of the Wiebner family. I think we rode this a dozen times - the kids love the Haunted Mansion - our header up top is the guys from in the ride - and they were also in the Disney movie, The Haunted Mansion. |
| There it is - it's a little creepy looking, right? |
| Big Thunder Mountain Railroad from a distance - look at that awesome sky! |
| And it's hard to believe but these Great Egrets - there were like 2 or 3 of them - are tame. They were camped out in Frontierland near a turkey leg stand, and people were feeding them pieces of their turkey! Joel had the 35mm on for this shot, so you can see how tame they are! He was right next to it! |
| And one of my favorite attractions - the Country Bear Jamboree - Joel did this pan shot during their finale. |
| At nighttime the colored lights on the castle would change every couple of minutes. Joel got a bunch of shots, but I liked this one the best. |
| The Crystal Palace looks awesome all lit up at night - we had a character dinner here with Pooh and his friends. |
| Zane fell asleep though - he was zonked from the day! |
| And this is Linda - she was our waitress at The Crystal Palace - she has worked at Disney for almost 38 years - since it first opened in 1971. She had some great stories to tell! We were one of the last tables for the evening, so she was yakkin' it up with us. |
| We walked out just in time to see the fireworks over the castle. |
| Yes, studmuffin Haydn - sportin his shades, swim shirt and shorts - and his autograph book. He's ready for some serious business. We were off to another character breakfast before we went to Blizzard Beach, one of the waterparks, for the day. |
| After breakfast we had to wait for the ferry, so we had some fun on the boardwalk. |
| Nailed this at the perfect time, just as the monorail was passing in front of Spaceship Earth at Epcot. |
| We went to the Spirit of Aloha luau at the Polynesian Resort one night for dinner. It was a great dinner show - and they ended the show with this very talented peformer dancing with fire! |
| Yes, I ended up with the whole families, leis. |
| Conked out. We managed to sleep in a day or two while we were there. |
| Hollywood Studios had Star Wars weekends during the month of June, so we were lucky the weekend we were there - the actors that played Darth Vader and Chewbacca were there. Of course the lines to get their autographs were like 2 hours long, the kids were happier getting photos taken with different Star Wars characters. This cutout was set up at the entrance - Joel looks good as a stormtrooper, no? More Star Wars pix coming up later - our first trip there we did some of the fun rides - we came back later that weekend to do more Star Wars stuff. |
| I love this shot of Haydn - such a character. |
| We had a total of 3 character meals - this one was at Hollywood Studios, with characters from the Little Einsteins and JoJo's Circus, two Playhouse Disney TV shows. Zane was pretty busy eating his breakfast and looks a little upset that June is bothering him. :) |
| The Tower of Terror! Yeah, first mistake - we went on this right after breakfast - warning to all who are going on this ride - do NOT go right after you eat! We didn't have any problems, but going up and down in an elevator shaft - ok, let me rephrase - dropping down, then going up, the dropping down, etc. etc. - not the best thing to do after you eat. We were all a little queasy afterwards. |
Zane hangin with his lightsaber in a car outside the Sci Fi Diner which was an awesome place - photo of that in a little bit. If you look at Haydn you can see him yelling at Zane - he wanted to play with the lightsaber. Zane is completely unphased. :)
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| An Indiana Jones stunt spectacular - this was a cool 30 minute show. It showed some of the tricks behind the stunts for movies such as this. |
| Joel was actually picked to be an extra! If you see all of those waving and cheering people off to the right - they were the extras - and are supposed to be townspeople in a Middle Eastern market place. Joel is the tallest one of course, with his hands up in the air. |
| Mickey's Fantasmic! An awesome show at night that uses water, fire, and fireworks effects. |
| At Epcot, we played with this wall of mirrors outside Spaceship Earth. |
| We even got to sit all of the way up front on one of our Monorail rides! The kids received Co-Pilot licenses - they thought it was pretty awesome. |
| Haydn and I didn't plan to match that day, but it happened somehow. He is getting to be such a handsome kid! |
| Haydn is sooo like me when I was a kid. He took over the map and was asking what everything was and deciding where to go and what to do. Yeah, he's only 6. When I was at Disney as a kid I was 10. Here he is showing Zane where we are going next. |
| And our saddest experience of the trip (Except for Zane, who likes to be the opposite of whatever we are doing) - the Pirates of the Caribbean ride was closed for a few weeks for maintenance. It re-opened 2 days after we left. What a bummer - this is our 2nd favorite ride at Disney (the kids were on it last summer at Disneyland in California, so at least they got to experience it then!) |
| Back at the hotel, Joel carries to completely zonked out boys - I grabbed this shot of us in the big ceiling mirror next to the elevators. |
| Back at Hollywood Studios - here are some more Star Wars shots. |
| And the stunt car show - this was pretty awesome! |
| Here's the Sci Fi Dine In theatre. Joel did this pan - the entire inside of the restaurant is set up like a drive in movie theatre. The cars were all tables! The kids sat in the front seat and us in the back of our car. It was probably the coolest restaurant that we ate at. |
| And for Father's Day, we took Joel to the movie theatre at Disney's Pleasure Island - and saw - what else? The Incredible Hulk! Hulk Smash! |
| Our last day at Animal Kingdom - here is the Tree of Life. |
| In the Dinoland area, they had a dinosaur carnival set up. This was one of the fun house mirrors, we were playing around with. |
| Back at the hotel it was time to relax and have some pool time. This was a big computer keyboard that was set up as a mat to run across. I had the boys stand net to their ages so they could remember how old they were when they were there. I know, I am a super corndog. |
| Our resort was pretty awesome, it was the Pop Century resort and had all of this great life size and larger props all over the place. |
| And the last shot of who else, but the mouse who started the house - Mickey! |
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100 Degrees + An Ice Cream Truck = Amy & Kyle's Wedding!
Friday, June 27, 2008
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Amy and Kyle, Kyle and Amy...what can I say about these two? First I have to say, Amy's attention to detail is absolutely magnificent. I could have blogged 60 photos from this wedding, but we had to cut it down, so some of the details were left out over some better shots with awesome expressions and that helped to tell the story of the day.
We first had fun with these two last summer, when we went to Cape May, for their Engagement Session. We all got along fabulously, and were super excited when we met with them for their final meeting before the wedding. Amy kept on pouring out detail after detail of all of this cool stuff she was going to have at the wedding. We couldn't wait!!!
What none of us counted on, was the unbearable heat that took over on June 7th, their wedding day. It had to be the hottest day of the year for Central PA, I think with temperatures near 100 degrees or just over. Definitely one of our hottest weddings ever. But Amy, looking ever so elegant, charged the heat with a smile, and although we were all super hot, her, Kyle and their wedding party braved the heat for some totally rockin' portraits after the ceremony. We had a lot of time to shoot, and for nearly an hour, we walked around down near Riverfront and the surrounding streets - in some of the same spots we had been the night before for Maria and Rob's session. Not liking to do the same thing twice, we found completely different spots from the night before. That's what I love about what we do - it's one of our favorite things. Creative challenges. Taking something you have seen many times and reinventing it again and again. No two weddings or shoots are ever the same, and neither are the locations! We love it!
Amy and Kyle were having so much fun - that the time just flew by and they didn't even mind the heat. Once finished with our fun downtown, we went to the uber-sweet, Milestone Inn, where Amy was at that morning for preparations - for the reception. I love that place. The interior is amazing and I could shoot there all day - every little nook and cranny is rocktacular. I love old stone buildings, and this one is it!
The reception was just simply...unforgettable. It started off with the whole wedding party walking in to a huge bubble shower, (as in bubble machines!) and after dinner, in normal north-central PA tradition, the dollar dance was one like we have never witnessed before. Half of the guests were up singing to Amy and Kyle for the entire dance, they were circling and dancing around them, it was so cool. I know some people think the dollar dance is cheesy or corny, but from where we come from, it's expected. AND...we always get awesome shots from it! So don't knock the dollar dance people! It makes great shots...
As if the great dollar dance wasn't enough, Amy had arranged for an ice cream truck to come during the reception and give everyone ice cream. Totally a first for us! It couldn't have been arranged for a better day either. With the heat, everyone was in need of it!
We ended the night with some fun shots at the ice cream truck - and were sad to go. We had such an amazing day with these two, we didn't want it to end! Thank you both for being such wonderful genuine people. It was truly a joy to be part of your day. Much love!
Now are you ready for photos, finally? I think I am done rambling. Here is a shot as we started our day at the Milestone... |
| Amy's colors were pink and green and she used them everywhere, totally perfectly! |
| Her maid of honor looking over her toast while Amy was getting her hair done and the other girls were giggling in the background. |
| One of my favorite moments captured ever. Amy was just totally stunning in her dress. |
| I think they are a little excited, don't you? |
| Utilizing another suite at the Milestone, I loved this window and this shot. |
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