Category: travel

Photos from Margaret and Adrian’s Wedding

Ashley Bischoff1 Comment

Margaret and Adrian After They Just Got Married

My brother, Adrian, and his awesome wife, Margaret, got married in Boston over the summer (in Cambridge, specifically). They got married near the end of August, and the whole thing just couldn’t have been better— the highs were around the mid-70s, and everything went off without a hitch. It was just wonderful.

I would have normally brought my DSLR with me with me to Boston, but in the weeks leading up to the wedding, I realized that pairing a DSLR with a wearing-to-a-wedding dress would have all the grace of a boat anchor around my neck. So I decided to rent a Fuji X100S—it worked a treat, and it couldn’t have been half the size of my DSLR.

The wedding was on the Saturday afternoon at St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge. The church was only a little over a mile from the hotel where we were staying, but with the heels I was wearing, I wasn’t about to walk there. So we just took a bunch of taxis, and that worked out fine.

Margaret and Adrian wrote their own vows and, well, let’s just say that I was glad that I was wearing waterproof mascara. I cried a good bit, especially toward the end of the ceremony, but they were all joyous tears. And their high five at the end of the ceremony was the icing on the cake.

I couldn’t be happier for Margaret and Adrian. Those two are the bees knees, and I wish my brother and my new sister the very best.

Photos from Leah and Josh’s Wedding Celebration

Ashley Bischoff2 Comments

Josh Smiling

I went down to Lafayette, Louisiana, last weekend for my friends Josh and Leah’s wedding celebration. Leah and Josh live in Boston these days, but Josh grew up in Raine (which isn’t too far from Lafayette), and they wanted to have the wedding celebration there.

One of the main events, other than the reception itself, was a crawfish boil the afternoon of the reception. This was my first time going to a crawfish boil (and I hadn't actually eaten unshelled crawfish before either). I love shrimp, so I figured it’d be fine—my only small moment of pause was the mental image of eating food that still had its face on it. But in the end, I followed along with the more seasoned crawfish eaters, and things went just fine.

Lafayette isn't a big town, but it’s pretty charming. For the most part, I just parked my car at the hotel and walked almost everywhere—I walked to restaurants, I walked to the reception, and I ambled around for general photo-walking. A goof on my part was that my feet were frowning a bit from all that walking, but I probably should have know better than to jaunt around Lafayette in those strappy wedge sandals.

I’m so glad I had a chance to join Leah and Josh for their wedding celebration. They’re a fantastic couple, and Lafayette is a delightful little town.

Photos from Winterfamilytime 2012

Ashley BischoffLeave a comment

Dad Laughing

Yeah, I know it’s April. But better late than never, right? Between killer projects at work and a freelance gig that was in crunch mode too, I’ve had a pretty full plate. But things have started to get back to normal, and I thought I’d do some catching up on some photo bits.

I visited my family in Charlotte for Winterfamilytime back in December and I had a jolly time seeing everyone. Gosh, that seems like ages ago. Well, I guess it kinda was.

Photos from Thanksgiving 2012

Ashley Bischoff2 Comments

Mom Enjoying a Cuppa

I visited my parents over Charlotte over Thanksgiving. My brother and his girlfriend, Margaret, came to visit as well. They’ve been together for a bit, but I hadn’t a chance to meet Margaret until this visit—not that I had any doubts, but she was super nice and a fun person to have around.

I tried to take a few shots on Thanksgiving day, but I sort of ended up painting myself into a corner with a lighting setup that was a little too complicated for my own britches. (I had two flashes, one with a LumiQuest Softbox LTp, and one with a regular LumiQuest Softbox. I was using a line-of-sight flash trigger—Canon’s ST-E2—which usually works great, but my flashes were on opposite ends of the kitchen and that didn’t play so well with the line-of-sight part.)

In the following days, though, I pared down my setup to solely a LumiQuest Quik Bounce mounted to an on-camera 580EX II and that worked out much better—I was able to open the baffles on the Quik Bounce and that allowed me to bounce a some of the light off the ceiling, which helped soften the light quite a bit. When next Thankgiving comes around, I’ll probably try to stick with a more simplified setup (like I had on the latter days) rather than overthinking things quite so much.

Photos from SXSW 2011

Ashley BischoffLeave a comment

Next Week Out Skinny

I’ve been going to SXSW—a music, film, and interactive conference—for a long time. But I look forward to it every year and this coming year (2012) with be the 10th Southby for me.

It’s not lost on me that I’m posting my shots from SXSW 2011 when we’re only about three weeks out from SXSW 2012. I don’t have much of an excuse other than to say that I guess I had a lot going on last year. But they’re posted. Of the 303 shots I took over those six days in March, I’ve posted 19 of them.