http://www.anendlesspursuit.com Professional Photography for Weddings, Engagements, Maternity, Families, Kids/Babies, and Bands Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:14:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.anendlesspursuit.com/2012/02/13/the-workshop-that-changed-everything/ http://www.anendlesspursuit.com/2012/02/13/the-workshop-that-changed-everything/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:14:17 +0000 Steve http://www.anendlesspursuit.com/?p=1949
The blog we found belonged to Ashley and Jeremy Parsons.  They were a married couple photography duo from my mother’s home town of Kansas City.   They made fantastic images and qualified for our elite RSS Feed rotation.  They were as cool as anybody else making fantastic images as far as we were concerned, but then one day they made something that we had never seen before.  They made THIS slideshow, and it redefined what Bernadette and I thought could be possible with what we were doing with An Endless Pursuit.  Shortly after we read this post by them, and decided that these were people we HAD to meet.  Please stop reading until you click on the previous two links, and then we will continue…

I sent an email to Ashley and Jeremy right after Thanksgiving that I wanted to surprise Bernadette for Christmas by taking her to the Don’t Give Up Project, which is a workshop they put on in Colorado every summer for photographers.  It seemed like an amazing plan until Bernadette told me about another amazing plan that she was pregnant with our second child!  I emailed Ashley and Jeremy back to tell them I was bummed that we wouldn’t be able to go, and they wrote back that they were thinking of doing a smaller workshop just for married couples at their home in February.  I didn’t know the details, the workshop hadn’t been announced, and I sent them a deposit an hour later.  We were in!

Thank you to our amazing new friends, Ashley and Jeremy, Jen and Brad, Heidi and Kevin, and Kelly and Ray.  We had a blast getting to know each of you and we cannot wait until we meet again.

What happened last week was nothing short of unbelievable from playing Dance Central 2, to eating amazing meals, to incredible talks, to drinking gallons of tasty coffee, to staying up until three in the morning dissecting our business. We made eight new friends.  We were rekindled with a new appreciation for the role of our business within our marriage.  We were inspired as artists.

We flew back to DC on Wednesday night in love with life.  We have so much left to share; so many stories to tell.













































































































































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July 29th, 2012…

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We’re very honored to have been published several times in recent weeks on a handful of wedding blogs and magazines with a lot more publications coming soon. Here are a few links to some of the recent publications of our work:

Brian and Darcy engagement session featured on The Washingtonian’s Bridal Party Blog
Gian and Casey’s wedding featured on Wedding Wire
Bryan and Theresee engagement session featured on The Lovely Find
Luis and Jeannette engagement session featured on Capitol Romance

Just before Christmas we got to meet Kevin Mitchell, the beautiful new son of our good friends, Scott and Lisa. These are some of the images from his newborn session at their home.













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We’re so pleased to introduce the world to Henry Burtin! We photographed his older brother, Benjamin, in 2010, and it was great to go back and see this awesome growing family one year later. Mandy spent the last few months of the pregnancy with Henry in the hospital, but thankfully everything went very smoothly and Mandy and Henry both came home from the hospital healthy and safely. It’s so amazing to see how the joy of new life overshadows everything else. Spending a few hours in the Bertin home showed no signs of those recent difficult months in the hospital. I think it’s safe to say that everything pales in comparison to loving a new baby. Where there is joy there is no room for anything less.










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This year was an amazing opportunity for me to realize this in my own life. On September 13 I was laid off (what a stupid polite term for fired) from my job, along with six other co-workers from a company that I really enjoyed working for. I discovered that in my 28 years of life that coming home to tell my wife I no longer had a job was one of the worst things I had ever felt, nicely bundled with a heaping pile of shame, fear, and uncertainty. I’m more than humbled to say that the following days I have never felt as much love in my life as I did from Bernadette during that time. It was both healing and encouraging, and somehow by the grace of God, despite this awful economy, I landed a better job for a great little company just ten days later.

I’m so thankful for God taking care of my family this year. I’m thankful for my amazing best friend, wife, and photography business partner. I’m thankful for my sick little Rosemary Mae and her mind controlling cuteness that will always make smile. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

















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This first one is one of my absolute favorites of the entire year!


















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]]> http://www.anendlesspursuit.com/2011/11/17/the-franklin-family/feed/ 2 http://www.anendlesspursuit.com/2011/11/07/brian-and-darcy-are-engaged/ http://www.anendlesspursuit.com/2011/11/07/brian-and-darcy-are-engaged/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:33:12 +0000 Steve http://www.anendlesspursuit.com/?p=1687 Merry-Go-Round Farm in Potomac, Maryland, where Darcy keeps her horse. It was great getting to know the two of them and hiking around the farm!












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