» Anna Creissen Photography

This shot was taken in Hillsborough.  We had driven around the week before to hunt for some places to take pictures.  We found an old car garage that was painted white and had a bright blue trim.  The sun was bright as it was around noon so we had Ceci put her favorite umbrella up and then used a reflector as well.  We had an old man come out of a house nearby who was wondering what we were doing taking pictures. We could not seem to convince him of our purpose there.  We tried to tell him we liked the colors etc.. but he kept asking why here and why do you want pictures.  Anyway, we took our shots and moved on.  I will add a couple more from that day. The top photo is of James at the old garage.

Me in my wedding dress fifteen years later......

Well, last night I was up until about midnight photographing flowers with the help of my good friend photographer Dilip Barman.  A wedding bouquet was made by Victoria Park Florist located in Timberlyne shopping center. The photograph will be used in Chapel Hill Magazine’s next wedding issue.  Dilip is very good at photographing still lifes so I called upon him to assist me.  What is for sure is lighting is very difficult to get just right.  But I think we succeeded  in getting the lighting just right on these shots.

The Beautiful Bouquet

Saturday night our club hosted a Wine Tasting and Dinner.  It started off with tennis with one of our Pro’s Lauren.  Everyone then enjoyed some bubbly and five different tasting wines representing different regions of France. Guests then enjoyed a red and white wine with dinner.  Dinner was Chicken Basquaise and Boeuf Provencale followed by salad and herbed goat cheese prepared by Victoria Grulich (gourmetfriday@gmail.com).  Dessert was provided by Guylaine Argeles, Owner of La Maison Sucree, and was Pear almond tarts with chocolate sauce and Chocolate Meringue mousse cake.  It was all wondeful and everyone enjoyed themselves.  Chapel Hill Tennis Club members can access the pictures of the event by entering their password in the CHTC Wine Dinner Gallery on my web site.

watching the exhibition match

Sunday was the most perfect fall day to host a Pro Am at our club.  75 members signed up for this event.  It was an exciting format with four half hour rounds where members got to play doubles with UNC college tennis players.  One round consisted of drills done with either a UNC coach or a pro.  It was all very fun and the college players were very gracious.  Here are a couple of pictures from the event.

Saturday evening I had the opportunity to photograph Erica who is a lovely eighteen year old from Chapel Hill.  Erica has great poise and with her hair done the way it was she reminded me of a Greek Goddess.  She was a great model and her Mother was very helpful holding up the reflector at different points during the shoot.  Thank you both.  I hope you like the images.  See you soon.  Anna