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A few weeks later with the wedding plans well underway, I asked my father if he would conduct a photo session with us as we were thinking of preparing of cards to be mailed for our “Save The Date” announcement to friends and family out of the area. If you are not familiar with my background in photography as outlined on my website (see My Blogroll above for link) my Dad was the first to introduce me to cameras. He now is my second camera for weddings and helps me with the technology and back-office.

I was at my parents home in Camillus, New York for the weekend recently and we went to Nine Mile Creek nearby for the photo session. We even caught a break in the winter weather. For those of you who don’t know Nine Mile Creek, it is known for its great fly fishing. There you can catch in season both wild brown and wild brook trout. See the link in my Blogroll above for Nine Mile Fly Fishing.  It includes maps and great information about the creek itself.   You will see two other links in my Blogroll about the area one for the nearby Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct and the other for the Martisco Train Station Museum. You will see several photos from this area during this photo session including one of my sister thinking she is like Taylor Swift with the guitar from my first blog last year archived below in March of 2011.

Our wedding will be later this summer on August 4th at Naumburg church  near to Croghan with a reception to follow at the Tug Hill Vineyard. Our pastor Bryan Catlin from Salem Christian Fellowship Church will be performing the service.

I hope you enjoy the photos.

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Welcome to my blog. I am excited about sharing with you my journey in digital photography. With my blog I hope to introduce some new ideas for you to consider in your future photo sessions through recent photo shoots that I will be posting. I will also be sharing with you fun experiences hopefully to brighten your day, honor those in our community and pass on some information of interest along the way. Along the way you will get to know a little about me. I look forward to adding content here that will make your loving memories through digital photography that much more pleasing to you, your family and friends.

This particular photo shoot is very special to me. This is my sister Cassie. She is just learning to play the guitar teaching herself a few cords and is actually beginning to  use Garageband on Apple’s IPAD as part of her home education.  I think the setting here is quite beautiful. I took these pictures at the Martisco Train Station Museum near Camillus, New York where I grew up with my parents and two sisters. My family is special to me and I hope to feature them from time to time. We are close and God has blessed me with a wonderful family.  I have added a link above in my Blogroll to the museum website. The station still sees some activity today although on a much reduced basis.The creek flowing  in the photographs is Nine Mile Creek which runs north from Otisco Lake (one of the five Finger Lakes) through Marcellus, Camillus and emptying into Onondaga Lake with outlets north into Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence Seaway.

One other interesting fact about Nine Mile Creek is that it has the only restored navigable (working) aqueduct in New York State. The aqueduct is actually in the Camillus Erie Canal Park. I have attached another link above in my Blogroll for you to refresh yourself on the aqueduct.

Kaitlyn