The Drunken Parade

Oh St Patrick's Day...the time when everyone has a little Irish ancestry, cravings for green shirts and pints of Guinness, and the Harrisburg Parade. As a member of the Harrisburg Camera Club, we were invited to shoot the parade in exchange for some free publicity and experience! What an experience it was! Thousands of Central PA residents crowded the downtown improvement district decked in their finest green! In my opinion, the crowd was one of the best parts of the parade.. well that and all the pipers and kilts :) Thankfully, I was able to share the day with my fantastic husband who also had been branded as an official parade photographer. Enjoy the shots!

Moving Out

Oh no.. the McClain's aren't moving yet, but Kathleen and Dave are very soon! Kathleen (KP) and Dave, two of our close friends, are celebrating a new abode! Today's photo shoot in Harrisburg was filled with talks of furniture purchases and plans of making their new home together! Today was also an earmark day for the McClain's since Jason had taken on the new role of Asst Photographer by shooting on a Minolta film camera. As much fun as shooting on a film camera can be, he's eagerly anticipating the fullfillment of the Canon 50D fund so he can shoot digitally as well.

www.melissamcclainphotography.com Exists!

Praise the geek gods, a website finally exists! Dave H. aka Guru of HTML, has been extremely helpful in getting MMP.com set up and in decent appearance. There are a few things that still need to be ironed out but the galleries are in place and new images are constantly being loaded!
Thanks for checking out the blog and the site! You're support is appreciated!

Part of the Family

I love my family. Let me preface that we are tight-knit to the point that I'm actually the one who is located the farthest away, which is only an hour. My Aunt and Cousins are more like sisters, so when I called them up last minute to participate in a shoot, they kindly oblidged. This shoot took place on the family farm which provided a lot of really nice ops and textures. Enjoy!

The Birth of the Blog

Welcoming and embracing unknown technologies has been quite the challenge for me over the past few weeks. It's all about the HTML code, linking up sites and pages and galleries.. all fine and well but I'm an artist.. not quite the coding guru that is assisting me with all of my technological endeavors.. so let's talk pictures!

Over the past few weeks while getting everything started with MMP, I was able to shoot two fantastic sessions. My first was with Sindi and her beautiful son, Malik, shot at the possibility place in Harrisburg. Malik was fun to work with but despite his "cheese" he wasn't a big fan of looking at the camera. However with a few creative decisions we pulled it off!

My next session was with Todd and Angelique, a fun father daughter team, shot on the Walnut Street Bridge. Angelique is a natural with having her pictures taken and together they had some great poses to show off.

Hopefully soon, all technology stars will be aligning for MMP and the website will be up and running :)