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What do you get when you mix lots of sun and forgetting to put sunscreen on your back?

LOTS OF COLD SHOWERS!!!!!!!!

Other than that major mistake my family and I had a great time! The first couple of days were rough because I injured the muscles in my back the week before but after doing some exercises to strengthen the muscles I was back to about 90%. Good enough to do some activities like going to the beach, 4 wheeling, jet-skis and a charter boat fishing trip.

The weather was a little rainy but when it rained it only rained for less than an hour which was good. LOTS OF PUDDLES TO DRIVE THROUGH!! Yippee!!!! ASk anyone who knows me. If I see a puddle while driving you'll usually hear VROOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM SWOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!! AFter the rain there were planty of puddles to go around especially in the 4 wheel drive access area behind the beach up in Corova.

I highly recommend going up to the 4 wheel drive access area because you can take your SUV or truck right on the beach and park where ever you like and just get out and set up your beach stuff. Beats walking and carrying everything to the beach from the parking areas. But be careful, if you get stuck it'll cost you $125 to get towed out. There is a guy who drives up and down the beach all day looking for people who are stuck. I bet he makes 1500 to 2000 smackaroonies a day doing that because right in front of us there were about 4 or 5 people who got stuck.

Make sure you have a good 4 wheel drive vehicle and if you do get stuck don't use plastic shovels to dig yourself out like I saw this one group of people doing.

We also went crabbing on the sound between the outer banks and the mainland. I was quickly reminded why I like snow crab and king crag much better. Eating those small blue crab are a lot of work for very little meat. Amanda and I abandoned our cooked and uneaten crab and went straight to the nearest crabhouse for an all you can eat snow-crab leg extravaganza. Plate after plate they would bring them out to do. Hot and full of good crab meat. Yum!!!

Below are some photographs that were taken while on vacation. Enjoy!!!

UPDATE FOR MY CLIENTS:

I am hitting the ground running and have loads of editing to do so I am tackling everything with full force.

Lipka, Ehrlich, Brody, Katz, Vanderau, Heiserman, Turkheimer, Kandel Smoliga. If any of those names match yours than that means you are all at the front of my mind and am feverishly YET CAREFULLY working on your portraits so don't anyone worry that good ole Josh got amnesia due to too much sun. The sun may burn my back but not my brain =). That was the beer's job LOL.

Thanks for reading and if anyone has any questions please call me. 888-517-6374 or e-mail me at Josh@JoshBarry.Com

Watch very closely at the end…who is that?

Remember Corley and Gina Heiserman?

Well little Lindsey made it here with no problems a couple of weeks ago and has come back for her newborn session.

I'd like to take this moment and point out how great Corley is when it came to handling his new daughter. What I mean is he got pooped on and peed on and he didn't break a sweat. Well Gina didn't break a sweat either but luckily she wasn't the one with newborn poop on her shirt.

Other than that the session went fantastic and I can't wait to post more images after I am done mastering all of them first.

Here is a sneak preview.

Leslie and Troy came to us from Camp Hill Pennsylvania.

Very laid back and easy going Leslie and Troy came over to my studio over in Harrisburg for her maternity session. Her favorite color was blue , which we decided was probably a shade or two darker than electric blue. So off to Jo-Annes fabrics I went to search for the perfect blue. I came across this fabric which was INDIGO. I think it photographed PERFECTLY. I knew it would photograph darker than it actually looked to which I thought I would darken it even more in my mastering process I do in photoshop however I hardly had to touch it.

I think it was all lit very very well and Leslie's skin tones were a perfect match for this color. This will look AMAZING hanging in their home.

Also here is one of the both of them together. I like this dramatic moody look I have been playing with for the past few months.

I know Leslie will be happy to see a preview of some of these images. She wasn't too happy with me when I was teasing her by showing a photo or two to Troy from the back of my camera and not to her.

You're a good sport Leslie.

camp hill maternity photography

So much fun….so much dancing. Shlock Rock was amazing and kept the guests moving all night long.
I wanted to share one quick one with everyone. This was taken at the end of the night right when we had one last glimmer of sunlight at the horizon line.

If you look really close you might be able to see Dina wearing her crocs under her wedding dress! =)

Dina and David were so much fun the whole night. Their stamina (and their guests as well) was far beyond what I could handle if I were to dance as much as they did. What a night!

Ok this has nothing to do with photography but as an avid you tube explorer I occasionally find things that make me lose all consciousness from losing the necessary oxygen needed to stay awake from laughter.

I bring you

Joe Cocker in all his marble mouth glory.

Every time I hear this I think of the Wonder Years with Fred Savage. C'mon guys raise your hand if you had a mini crush on Winnie Cooper.

After driving some ways to another town I met up with Hillary and my friends for a fun filled senior clinic. Hillary was our senior model. Very photogenic and very pretty. She was in such a great mood all day despite the swarm of paparazzi around her all day. Thanks Hillary.

After 12 days of running in the woods she was finally spotted and tracked down.

The same people that spotted her about 10 days ago are the same ones that caught her. I had put Penny's kennel in their back yard after they saw her the first time hoping she would be smart enough to stay around houses and water since there is a big pond and plenty of fresh water running in streams around that neighborhood. My theory proved right thankfully.

There is a side story to this though which is equally impressive. The nice people who saw Penny the first time, Cindy Lashinsky and Ben Fiereer saw her again yesterday. Ben said he spotted her way up on the hill moving around and decided (with some help from Cindy) to go running after her up the hill and through the woods.

Ben gave chase and Penny ran from him but eventually after realizing that Ben wasn't a threat AND seeing their yellow lab nearby decided to turn aruond and headed right for their dog.

They were so nice guys. Really. I came to see penny and they had already removed several ticks from Penny and gave me the rundown of all the things I'll need to do to get her healthy again and up to speed health-wise. She handed me shampoo, phone numbers for vets, a tick removing kit (which I am still using ) and a new collar for Penny. I think Cindy said she is an animal trainer so her knowledge on veterinary medicine seemed to be really extensive.

It was meant to be. They took such good care of her in such a short amount of time. I'm glad they found her.

Here is Penny with her welcome home present after her much needed bath.

Meet Harrison everyone.

I know you can't tell but at age 13 Harrison stands 5ft 10in tall. He plays center for his basketball team of at Linglestown middle school.

This weekend he will become a Bar MItzvah. Saturday is the service and then in the evening is the party!!!!

We had a good time creating the portraits today at Chisuz Emuna in Harrisburg, PA. His younger sister, Lauren had an especially good time making horror film noises over the microphone system. As her mom put it she hasn't met a microphone or camera she doesn't love. Nice to see she is warming up for me in 4 years!!!

Here are a couple of my favorites of Harrison from today.

Bar Mitzvah photographer

I come from Harrisburg, they come from New Jersey yet we found ourselves in Frederick Maryland. LOL go figure.

Two things I want to share:

1) Frederick Maryland is sooooooooooooo beauftiful. Parts of it remind me a lot of Oklahoma City's Bricktown. I could have spent all day down there. Maryland is such a beautiful state all around. If it weren't for my family and friends up here I would definitely move down into Maryland.

2) Dave and Dina are set to get married June 29th 2008 at Camp Shoresh in Maryland. These two are fun to work with and you can obviously tell they have a strong connection between them. OK not trying to step on Dave's toes here but Dina's smile can lite up an underground cave. She is such a pretty girl and she's a sweetheart. Dave and Dina, congratulations on your wedding and I look forward to creating more great memories with you in a few weeks.

I forgot to mention that everyone that has seen these portraits so far thinks Dave looks like Dr. McDreamy from Grey's Anatomy. Ya know…Patrick Dempsey.

My wife is going to starngle me but after Dave left my house after meeting my wife for the first time she says "Is that your client?" I say "yeah why" To which she responds "He's hot!"

Haha heres to you "Dr McDreamy"

This is another catch up I promised to do.

I loved how these turned out. She could have fooled another drag king into thinking she was a man. Her make-up skills were outstanding and her understanding of shadows was killer (yes I said killer).

Portrait Photography based out of Harrisburg, Pa serving Pennsylvania and Maryland. If you live in Harrisburg, hershey, york, Lancaster, Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill or any of my coverage areas and are looking for professional portrait photography I can be reach at (toll free) 888-517-6374.

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Meet Matt and Melinda Raback.

They come from us right in my own neighborhood. Small world. Mindy was looking on google for a photographer and found me. If I squint really hard I can see their back porch from my house LOL.

Mindy and Matt wanted something more natural and relaxed and wanted to show off a bit of their newborn daughter's room.

Their house is beautifully decorated which made everything easy for me. Mindy and Matt have great taste.

Ella was so pretty and so calm the entire time we photographed her. I think we could have tossed her in the air, hung her up-side down, played the radio really loud and she still would have stayed asleep.

Here are some from their session

July is family portrait month so if you live in Harrisburg, York, Lancaster, Camp Hill, Mechanicsburg, or Hershey call 717-541-0681 Today to book your session. I book 2-3 weeks in advance so call soon as I only have so many slots open as I keep it to a minimum so that I may offer superb service and quality to my clients, All session fees in July are 25% off when booked for a session in July. Once my slots fill up I cannot accept anymore session.

Call 717-541-0681 right now to reserve your spot. Ask for Josh

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