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Video: Lisa & Myron

damion — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:49:17 +0000

It’s been a good minute since I’ve posted a video but I finally finished my editing backlog so I figured that I would have at it. Feel free to check out the complete online gallery on my proofing site at http://proofs.ddunlapphotography.com/Weddings/Lisa-Myron if you are so inclined.

Wedding: Lisa & Myron

damion — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:24:57 +0000

I was so ecstatic to be shooting my very first Panama City wedding and it just put me over the top to be there to celebrate alongside a good friend from Tallahassee. Honestly, it was a bit much having back-to-back wedding weekends with a Ph.D. dissertation sandwiched between but it was all worth it. Lisa and Myron as well as their families are just overall cool people and it was a pleasure just to be in the building. If I recall correctly, these two love birds go back to high school and I don’t know if I’ve seen a groom so happy to be married as Myron was on that beautiful Saturday morning. Ok I’ll have to stop myself here and get to the images because I can go on and on. Enjoy!

Wedding: Sam & Staci

damion — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 07:55:48 +0000

Sam and Staci are a beautiful couple and it was an absolute joy to be their along with their great friends and family to celebrate the beginning of the next phase of their relationship. Ok, I don’t want to be a slacker but I’m between back-to-back weddings with a Ph.D. dissertation defense in the middle so I’m just going to get to the images.

Portraits: LaKia Morrison

damion — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:57:36 +0000

I’ve had the privilege of knowing some pretty cool people in my days and LaKia definitely makes the list. I’ve known LaKia from church at Truth Gatherers for a while now and I knew she could definitely preach the Word but had no idea that she was also an author and poet. She has most recently authored her first book entitled “Can You Handle My Pears?.” The book addresses the concept of discerning the purpose of relationship from a spiritual perspective. From looking through the table of contents, it’s definitely looking like a good read. Check out more about LaKia and her many endeavors at www.lakiamorrison.com.

Portfolio: Kids

damion — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:27:14 +0000

Being a father of three myself, I love the little people. Being able to capture those special stages in a child’s life, is what prompted me to get my first “real” camera. As I look back through the images of my own little people, I realize how quickly they can change. It seems like just yesterday my baby girl was being born and now she’s walking around, grabbing food off the table, and trying to climb everything within reach. It is truly a joy to be able to photograph children in their element and see how something inside them lights up when the feel like they can let down their hair and just be themselves.

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Portfolio: Portraits / Headshots

damion — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:32:56 +0000

Honestly, I really love shooting weddings but I got my start doing portrait work. It’s so funny, I think my lighting gear arrived at my house the day before my first shoot. I had ~~a vague~~ absolutely no idea what I was doing at that point but the images came out pretty cool and I’ve tried to keep learning from there. It’s nice to set up all the nifty studio equipment and try to create something special for someone. I’ve had the opportunity to shoot everyone from aspiring actors and models, to media personalities, authors, engineers, poets, pastors, and even an elected official or two (my dad isn’t fond of the term politician for some reason). I even threw in an image of my puppy (it’s a shot of his head so that counts) and your truly.

Portfolio: Weddings

damion — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:52:40 +0000

Wedding: Faye & William

damion — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:22:10 +0000

A few weeks ago, I had the interesting experience of photographing the wedding of one of my family members, my aunt in fact. Everything went pretty smooth but I had absolutely no idea how difficult it was going to be for me to put my photographer’s hat on and attempt to wrangle my massive family for those formal portraits. When it was time to grab the shot of the bride along with the 11 of her 12 sisters (13 total), you would have never guessed that my mother would be the one we had to track down. In the back of my mind I was thinking what I might have done in my childhood to cause her to secretly attempt to sabotage me. Well she finally showed and a good time was had by all. I’m pretty pleased with the end result and thankfully made it through the whole evening without anyone bring up how they used to change my diapers.

My proud mother and her granddaughter.

I have no idea who this lady is but she was definitely getting it.

News: Change is Here!

damion — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:40:39 +0000

Of course if you made it here, you’ve probably already noticed that there have been a few changes while you were away. Much to the chagrin of my oh so lovely wife, I went on one of my late night web design sprees this weekend. At first I was really fond of the whole blog-site thing but after a while I started to feel like I was missing something. So hence the separate home page. So for my frequent visitors, go ahead and point your links to http://www.ddunlapphotography.com/blog for all the latest and greatest. There’s no need for me to spell out all the changes but please hit me up in the comments and let me know what you think. I’m not done yet so keep an eye out for some updated portfolios and some facebook page fanciness in the next few weeks.

Personal: Quiet Time Is Over!

damion — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:40:56 +0000

Ok, It’s been a little quiet around here lately. For those those who don’t know, I relocated from Tallahassee to Panama City Beach about a year ago now. Tallahassee’s just a two hour drive away so my family and I have been making the trip a couple times a month, primarily for church but also to catch some photo shoots. It’s been challenging for me to be away from my home of almost 12 years. My photography life started in Tallahassee and I worked hard to establish myself as a wedding and portrait photographer. Now I’m a wedding photographer at one of the world’s most beautiful beaches and I don’t have a single beach wedding in my portfolio. It’s like starting all over again. So hence, the quite time. Honestly though, I have no excuses. At the very least, I have a lovely wife, three beautiful children, a pretty handsome dog, all often unwilling participants to my photographic experimentation. Looking forward, I will definitely have to make it a point to keep things fresh around here, even if it means setting up the gear in the living room every once in a while.

What brought me to this point is something that I haven’t spoken much about. On one of my recent trips back from a Tallahassee weekend, my family and I were in a pretty bad car accident. It’s kind of a long story but suffice it to say that we were very blessed throughout the entire situation. There were so many things that could have been worse and we are so grateful that God spared us the way that He did. Fortunately, no other vehicles were involved and everyone had really minor injuries with the exception of my 3 year old son. For the last few weeks, we’ve been going back in forth to Pensacola for doctor appointments and even did some fun surgery last week. You wouldn’t know it to look at him. It’s absolutely amazing how God created children. To have a kid who had a fractured hip running around the soccer field barely two weeks after the accident is just remarkable.

I’ve taken so long to mention anything about the ordeal because I didn’t want to exploit my family’s situation for web traffic but I figured that it was time to fill you guys in on what’s going on with things here. Check back in a few days though for some real work that I’ve been getting ready these last few weeks.

Portraits: Happy Birthday J.B.

damion — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:45:07 +0000

Family: Dunlap Holiday Portraits 2010

damion — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:01:59 +0000

Ok, we did better this year. We had the cards printed and ready to roll when it was still too early to even mail them out. The hard part was not posting them until we had a chance to mail or hand deliver the cards to all the friends and family. So of course, I left town for Christmas without my files but better late than never. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Dunlap family.