Washington DC Wedding Photographers | Nessa K

Artistic DC Wedding Photography by Nessa K for people in love.

I like old globes and questionably bad indie films. I drink an absurd amount of mint tea and I love junk food. I have three dogs and a wonderful husband named Josh who enjoys tattooing and taking photos. I adore art museums and dabble on the ukulele. I graduated with honors when I received my BFA in Photography from Shepherd University and I moved to Austin shortly after.

My entire life, I’ve been in love with the act of documentation, taking photos of everything and keeping notebooks of observations. I wrote a journal entry at the age of 7 stating I would someday be an artist. I scribbled the words “I don’t want to be famous, but I want people to want my art” which still I think is incredibly suiting for me.

As profound as my literary self-realizations were at 7 years old, it’s admittedly a little difficult to write about myself. Not to mention it’s much more interesting to tell stories using photographs, which thankfully, is exactly what I get to do. I narrate the world using captivating light and a series of photos that tell the story about the everyday you. Images that draw you back into that moment, that make you feel beautiful, that say exactly who you are.

And getting to work with you on your wedding day is so much more than just photojournalism — there’s the getting to know you bits and the getting to share the things you love bits. Everything from weddings to editorial and lifestyle portraits to working at a newspaper has taught me to see beauty and adoration through the lens of a camera, and I would love to tell your story.

So, hello there, my name is Nessa and I have some photos I’d like to share with you.

Category Archives: video

Dec 24 2011

Christmas Eve – Our One Year Wedding Anniversary

Posted in Personal, video

It’s been one year today since Josh and I said our vows on top of a parking garage on Christmas Eve morning. It was foggy, chilly, beautiful, and after some photos and a video were taken by our incredibly talented friends Ben and Caroline, we spend the evening eating leftovers and watching the Die Hard movies in our underwear. For our one year anniversary, it looks like more of an oatmeal/pizza/Breakfast at Tiffany’s kind of day. We might’ve planned a bit more for our first anniversary, but we’re still unpacking boxes in our new home in Frederick, Maryland.

Speaking of packing, I had the amazing experience of being photographed by Brittany Esther, a Calgary Wedding Photographer as I was packing up our tiny little house in Austin. Her work is… phenomenal and absolutely worth checking out. I have a book of her travels to Guatemala that’s absolutely inspirational. If you’d like to see what a wreck our house was as we got everything together for the move, check out her personal travel blog.

And that is my life to date. Spending the day with my husband of one year, my two tiny dogs, and enjoying our new house. Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Apr 04 2011

The Ferris Wheel – Carnival Ride Video

Posted in Personal, video

Carnivals make the world feel a little more magical. Whenever I worked at as a photojournalist at a newspaper in Martinsburg, WV, I would always ask to cover Apple Blossom Festival and the State Fairs and every other carnival that came through town (can you believe there were a ton?) and I don’t see my love of Ferris wheels, deep fried Milky Ways, and rickety roller coasters dying anytime soon. I was thrilled to do a lifestyle session with a lovely friend of mine and her husband at the Rodeo Austin Star of Texas Fair just a few weeks ago and I’ll be posting that radness next week.

Last week was the first time Josh and I had been apart since we were married in December and I didn’t realize how much he really does to make my life easier. A combination of house chores, emails, laundry, taking care of puppies, editing, and dealing with an allergy attack/sinuses made me miss him all the more. After two boxes of tissues, finishing three Harry Potter books between naps in bed, and drinking more mint tea than I’m willing to admit to, I’m finally nearly over my cold/allergies/my sinuses hating me. So, Josh and I felt it caused for celebration.

There’s a sad little carnival in a parking lot near our house, so we packed some sandwiches, ate our dinner in the parking lot near the bright lights and rode the Ferris wheel for $4 a piece.

Mar 03 2011

Backyard Slideshows on Wooden Fences: The Travelers

Posted in Personal, video

I can first smell summer coming in early March. It gets a little bit warmer every day and the doors and windows stay open longer in the afternoon. The sun hangs in the sky a little bit later in the evening and it suddenly feels just days away from 110 degree days and 80 degree summer nights.

Summer nights are always magical – we spend months sleeping exposed with the doors open before the light pushes in through the cracks of gaping windows and closed blinds. Last summer we made a bunch of silly music/audio tracks and we stayed up later than we should’ve almost every night, editing and working our on little art projects. We couldn’t afford to travel, so we played pretend on wooden fences with slide projectors. This is a video we made that reminds me everything Josh and I get to resume in just a few shorts months.

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