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!
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!
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
Hold the phone, stop the paper, and look out - the world is coming to an end. I am actually making a blog post. It's only been like what, 3 weeks!? 3 WEEKS! Dear lord, has it really been that long? I can't believe we are only 5 days away from the end of January already. Seriously, where has this month gone? A little recap on what has been going on this month -
Jan. 1st - We hid out in the house, eating lots of pork, sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. We stuffed ourselves full of this PA Dutch tradition.
Jan. 2nd - First illness of the month - Angus went to the vet for the first time. He was in a lot of pain and being mopey - Dr. Corey our awesome vet at
Manheim Pike Veterinary Hospital, thought he overextended his neck. Probably due to spazzing out when he was on the leash multiple times. (we later find out it's something else!)
Jan. 3rd - We photographed a "surprise" wedding, photos to come in the near future.
Jan. 8th - MY BIRTHDAY! and we take all 4 of the cats (yes four) to the vet (again!) for their annual checkup. That afternoon Joel surprises me with the fact
that I can get whatever I want for my birthday. Saving some funds, and because I just ADORE animals - I told him I wanted another dog, so Angus would
have a buddy to play with. We proceeded to look at shelters all afternoon. We ended up at the Berks Animal Rescue League, and found our sweetie, Icarus, the Italian Greyhound. He is about 7 months old, and was part of a group of puppies from a puppy mill. He had never really had much human contact, wasn't housebroken or trained or anything. We had our work cut out for us! We couldn't take Icarus home that afternoon because we had to bring Angus to the shelter to meet him and make sure they got along before we adopted him.
Jan. 9th - After getting the kids to school, we took Angus up to the shelter to meet Icarus. They loved each other from the first moment they met, and home we took Icarus. The adoption process took a long time, we were there until about 11 AM or so. Until we got back to Lancaster, we had to pick up Zane from school. We then stopped at the pet store quickly and grabbed a few things we needed. Icarus arrived home to the Wiebner household around 2 PM. We had only had him 3 hours. The first thing he did? 5 minutes in the door, he jumped off of the couch and broke his leg. Yeah, for real! Broke his leg real good. Off we rushed to get Haydn from school and over to the vet we went yet again. X-Rays were taken and it was definitely broken - a cast was put on, and Icarus comes home to his new house with a brand new shiny broken leg. :(
Over the next 2 weeks, the timeline gets a little fuzzy. Haydn came down with the flu, and Zane had multiple problems with his asthma. I also was sick (thanks to Haydn!) for several days last week. To top everything off, Angus, the poor guy - was rushed to the PETS emergency clinic this past weekend. He had gone lame in both front legs, and was running a high fever. When we had first adopted him, we had found a tick on him, and before leaving the shelter, they removed it and did a blood test. It was of course negative and I found out that it can take a few months to be able to see if he has Lyme's Disease. Well of course, this past weekend they did another test at PETS and that was what he has! The poor guy. We now have him on antibiotics (for a month!) and pain meds.
Needless to say, it's been a pretty wild and crazy month. Between the veterinarian and the pediatrician - I think we have paid their incomes for the month! I am really hoping that things are finally turning around - they say when it rains it pours, but seriously, this is ridiculous. We are hopefully back in the office every day now and will be blogging a lot more in the coming weeks. We still have several portrait sessions to blog from before Christmas, as well as a December and January wedding. We have been doing some engagement sessions this month too, in the midst of the craziness, and will have images from there. And of course, I want to do like a mega post on all of the personal things we have been up to!!
For now, I want to show ya'll this really awesome site I found. Joel and I have been really into learning about and finding Eco-friendly and organic products, so we found this great company on Etsy that makes THE most awesome dog coats, collars and leashes! Go check them out and buy some stuff for your favorite poochie!
This is not the first time Brock and Becca have been on our blog and in front of our cameras. Nor the second or the third, nope this is the fourth time we have photographed this cool duo. We have such a great time shooting Brock and Becca that we can hardly wait until the next time we'll go exploring some cool location. This location is one of our faves. In fact so much a fave that we live here. Yup, we walked around downtown Lancaster and found some cool holiday card type images. You see, they do this cool little Christmas card each year that has a run down of what they did since the last Christmas card. It's a neat idea, and I think one that everyone should do.
So here's what we found. Some of these places may be familiar to the locals, but to the non-locals look at what you are missing. Lancaster is a cool little city with great character and fun little nooks to stick people in for pics.
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Nice mittens Becca! Love the colors, and I think her Mom made them! How cool. If she doesn't already, she should have an Etsy shop :)
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I luve the color on this wall. Really, I wish I could replicate in our house somewhere.
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A couple of squatters on a dock.
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Right this way, no topping or tanding.
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We found a chair, and it was free, and I am glad that I am not the one who had to sit in it :) Free furniture gives me the heebs, but makes for a cool pic.
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See, free :) I like the floral pattern on the butt catcher.
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This is after we put it back where we found it. Mauve, blech :P
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Ho, Ho, Ho-boy... we're a little late with this shot. Christmas is over.
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Rub a dub dub, some shrubs in a tub!
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To think this was lit with a yucky yellow flood light in front of a garage.
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