After the wedding we had a blast at the reception which was held at the Rittenhouse Hotel. I took a few pictures but I tried mostly to enjoy myself and not be the fourth wedding photographer they had.

Here is my beautiful lady who was one of the bridesmaids for this great wedding. I did some post production work on this picture using one of the Photoshop actions I got from Michelle Black, a great photographer with a lot of style. The action is called soft glaze it gives the subject a soft look no bright colors, I also used an action for softening skin and akin tone.

Another picture by this nice fountain inside the atrium of this hotel, I really love the Photoshop actions I got from Michelle Black. This is the action is called High Key B & W I really like what it does, I also softened the skin on this one.

Here is a nice look at the back of a beautiful wedding dress, she looked wonderful in her dress.

Nice ladies in black, it’s always nice to get a picture of people enjoying themselves.

The first dance.

A nice group shot of everyone cheering.

My lovely model with the bride with some guys talking some serious business in the background.

And yes I was there too.

I took some time to walk around Center City Philadelphia where I got to appreciate the architecture and the beauty that is in Philadelphia.

Here are some very interesting posters that I saw through out the area.

One of the big hotels around the Rittenhouse Square nicely named The Rittenhouse, where the wedding reception took place.

A look at the large buildings above and the people in the streets below.

Buildings up above and art show down below.

A nice citizen of Philadelphia who decided this day he was going to wear his outfit covered with coins glued all over it. That’s real bling!

To the church for the wedding, St. John the Evangelist church in Philadelphia. The look of this church is grand I love it, look at the 2 towers they look awesome. This church is shoulder to shoulder with all these high rises with no parking, in front of a narrow street, true city style. A lot different from the churches you would see in Arlington, VA which would be surrounded by grass and have enough parking for service.

A look inside the church at some beautiful stain glass.

This alter is very detailed I want to say it’s Gothic style, but the outside of the church I’m pretty sure is not.

A beautiful bridesmaid walking the aisle leaving the church after a nice catholic service.

Another great alley, this one is right next to the church laced with dumpsters and filled with puddles. can’t you just see our hero chasing the bad guy threw this perfect alley, splashing threw these large puddles? I can.

Philly is just full of interesting buildings, this is just one that caught my eye.

I found some great signage simple neon lights attached to the side of this building, the thing about this sign is it looks like it’s just floating there. I don’t know how eye catching it is for other people walking the streets? Considering that it is very small and simple a lot of people might pass it by without even noticing it. I think it’s very modern and it definetly caught my eye.

Philly is full of great art work here is an example of a mural on the wall of a parking lot just blocks from the church. Some crazy weird Aztec looking art work with very detailed little images within the large images.

A little more signage, simple but effective.

A little closer look at the awesome ornaments in the buildings of Philadelphia, I like the details.

Here is another great example of the architecture that fills the Center City Philadelphia, great arches.

Another great Philadelphia alley, the kind you don’t want to go down.

A look at the grand City Hall look at all the columns filling the front of the building, the clock and the statue on the top everything here is completely old school.

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange the same spot where Dan Ackroyd and Eddie Murphy take the Duke brothers for all their money in the classic movie “Trading Places”. I love that movie.

The building right next to the Stock Exchange these little details all along the side of the building, from a distance it looks like just your typical awesome Philadelphia brick work. But when you look a little closer they are zodiac signs, what an original idea! Below is a closer look.

This one is the Sagittarius sign, I think that is really cool only the people who really look at this will notice.

Something else that caught my eye was that everything in this town gets tagged.

Almost everything is tagged.

The doorway and the lady both beautiful sights.

More of a look at the entire doorway, I  see 2 lions and a rams head.

Another church that looks like it’s straight out of the mid-evil period or something, you really don’t see a lot of churches like this in Arlington if any.

The buildings here just seem to reach the very clouds themselves.

Here I was just having a little fun with depth of field, setting my aperture to 5.6 to get me the this fence in focus and everything else out of focus.

This was some fun design outside of a museum I believe, it’s bright different and you can see it from a distance. I think it does it’s job of attracting people to check out what is inside.

Grassroots marketing: stickers

A colorful city

With that we kissed Philadelphia goodbye.