Alan & Marsha Kamau | Lancaster, PA Wedding Photographer

Marsha and Alan had a fun and beautiful wedding at the Mulberry Art Studios in Lancaster, PA. They are such a fun couple and it showed throughout their wedding. I absolutely loved the location!

Here is a selection of my favorite images from their wedding.

Marsha, Alan & Family (Lancaster, PA)

While in Pennsylvania on a mini vacation I did a session with this great family. They are a sweet couple with great kids. We started in Downtown at the Lancaster Central Market, the country's oldest farmers' market. The market was closed but we had fun outside and at the fountain around the corner.









Then we headed out of town to a park that Marsh and Alan spent a lot of time at when they first stared dating. We were able to get some good shots before the rain started dumping on us. That's when we decided it was a good tome to get ice cream and sit on the covered porch.





Thanks for looking, if you are interested in setting up a session for your family please don't hesitate to email me.

Mini-Vacation Photos (8/11)

We took a little vacation to PA & Nova, it was a much needed getaway! We left late Friday to head to Lancaster, PA. Normally we skirt around DC, but this time we decided to cut through. It was around 12:30am Saturday when we hit DC. We went up Independence and then made out way back to the expressway. Jess was driving so I was able to take pictures, I just had fun with it.

Here, we stopped as we cut across the National Mall, it was really beautiful with the Capitol on my side and the Washington Monument on the other side of the car.





As we continued through the district we passed the Chinese gate, my first time seeing it. The bars & clubs were busy and there were a lot of people bar hopping. Here are some more pictures from the drive.







On our way form PA to Nova, we decided to take some side roads and crossed the Susquehanna River at the Conowingo Dam, my first time seeing a hydro electric dam that I can remember. There were a lot of people at the base fishing, you can see one of them who waded out into the river in this picture.



While staying in Reston, we took an afternoon and went to Great Falls National Park. The falls are beautiful. We checked out the main overlooks and then hit the trail. The trails at Great Falls are very well maintained and I recommend the river trail, there are a lot of places to stop and look out at the river. This picture is from the first overlook.



It went by to quick, but we were able to spend some time with friends and family that we don't see to often.

Annabelle Lyttle

I had the opportunity to shoot this amazing model in January. She is a friend of Susan (MUA I love working with and my wife's cousin) that had just moved back from LA. It was a bitter cold day with intermittent blizzard like snow coming down. Most of the shoot was in Susan's apartment in Downtown Lancaster, PA. This was my first time working with a pro and it was absolutely incredible. I learned a lot from watching her, I feel I can give less experienced models more direction. Susan did an amazing job with the makeup.

We started with Annabelle barefaced in the clothes she arrived in and built from there.







These are from her third outfit. Susan had this old suitcase that we jsut had to have some fun with.





These shots from the graveyard were the first ones I edited. She was a trooper out there, and it shows in the images. We had a nice warm car close for when she needed to warm up.







Here are some from our last set where Susan went wild with some awesome makeup.








There are a lot more that I still have to go through so keep checking back to see what has been added or follow my page on Facebook for all of my updates.

A Special thanks to everyone who helped out.
Annabelle Lyttle - Model
Susan Bourassa - MUA
Jessica Hartman - 1st Assistant
Justin Ray 2nd Assistant

Here are some behind the scenes shots from the shoot.

PA Photo Shoot

A couple weeks ago we went up to Lancaster, PA to do a couple photo shoots with my wife's cousin Susan is a hair stylist/MUA. We are both building our portfolio's and gaining experience, and had a great time doing it. It was a whirlwind trip, we left Norfolk Thursday around 7:30pm after work and made it in to Susan's at about 1:00am. Friday afternoon Susan did Jessica's hair and makeup, the weather was nasty so we went to the Lancaster Arts Hotel and shot in their lobby. It is a great place and worked out well for us. Here are the pictures of Jessica from Friday.








Afterward we went to Susan's regular bar and had a couple drinks. It seemed like a long day but it was nothing compared to what was in store for us Saturday.

Susan lined up Kelsey for us Saturday morning. We had her come over around 9:00am and we had her until 2:00pm. She is a drama student and brought over some great outfits. Susan did her hair and makeup then we were off. It was another rainy day so we went to The Brickyard, a converted old brick building that is now shops and apartments in Lancaster. We used the entrance to the apartments which provided varying backgrounds for us to utilize. Here are the pictures from Saturday.















I still have some images to edit from when we came back to Susan's place and used her basement and some of their friends swords.

Susan had lined up a couple more girls for Saturday afternoon, but neither showed up which was fine with us, we were all beat. It was a great time and having Susan to do hair and makeup as well as her friend Becky as our "prop assistant" who helped with the setups leaving me to mostly worry about the framing was great, thank you so much. The models we had were great, my lovely wife Jessica and Susan's friend Kelsey were both troopers doing whatever we asked, thank you.

If you want to see more images from this shoot you can check out my flickr set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/matt_hartman/sets/72157623599098867/

Thank you for looking, if you have any questions or projects don't hesitate to get in touch.
Matt Hartman
757.971.0237
matt@matthartman.com

You can contact the MUA, Susan Bourassa at starskeepmarching@hotmail.com