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Hello, and welcome to the KJ Blog! I'm Katelyn James, and my husband Michael and I are a wedding photography team based in Richmond, Virginia. We hope you grab some coffee (or a diet coke, in my case) and enjoy viewing our latest work, browsing resources for photographers, and getting a little peek into our life!  Read more...

Greg + Keri | Engaged

  • Old Town Alexandria Engagement Pictures

I feel like it would be accurate to name this the “blossom” shoot! There were so many opportunities to shoot underneath blooming trees and shrubbery during Greg and Keri’s engagement session! Every year I hope for a chance to shoot in the blossoms and I thought that my opportunity had passed. The peak of the cherry blossoms was over a week ago and so I assumed that all of the blooms were gone. I was very wrong! Old Town Alexandria was still full of flowers and it made for a perfect backdrop for Greg and Keri!

Engaged Open Post

My Must-Have Camera Bag

  • Ask Anything

This is something that every photographer has to have… a camera bag. Everyone has their own individual needs and preferences but sometimes it helps to hear a review from someone else to help in your search for the perfect bag! My search started years ago and I actually found a bag that worked GREAT but I was so hard on it that the fabric wore out and the strap broke after year two.

Ask Anything, Education Open Post
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Matt + Sarah

  • A Whitehall Manor Wedding | Bluemont, Virginia

When you plan a wedding for late April, you expect decently warm temperatures. That’s a natural thing to expect because May is right around the corner! So when we arrived to Whitehall Manor and the temperature read “52”…. I wasn’t prepared. I had a cardigan and that was it! Thankfully, after I started shooting and the adrenaline started pumping, I was totally fine! I realized after we started the day that this weather surprise happened to the most perfect couple because Matt and Sarah, unlike me, were prepared for anything. They had such a deeply rooted understanding that their wedding day was about their love and celebrating their new marriage with their dear friends and family…. no matter what the temperature was!!  

Weddings Open Post
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