Etheral. Beautiful. Stay tuned for more of Joe and Bethany’s Happy Day.

Hi, we are Daryl and Thelma Musser a husband/ wife team based in Ephrata PA. This is the blog about the photographic side of our lives, both professionally and personally. We hope it helps you to get to know a bit about us, our work, our daughter, and the people and things that are important to us.
If you are a potential client we hope these images give you a better idea of our current style of shooting, and a little idea of who we are and what we are about.
Have fun, click around, get to know us! Then leave us a comment, send us an email--we love feedback and getting to know you!
Thanks for visiting!
Our family photo is done by Authentic You. by char.

When I think of Kirby and Joanna’s wedding day, I can’t help but think of the glowy beautiful spring day that they had for their wedding day. It was the perfect kind of day to be outdoors, taking pictures, celebrating love:-) Kirby and Joanna planned their day carefully down to the last detail, it was beautiful, and I think, a reflection of them.
Here are some shots that make me very happy:-) We always love when a bride and groom choose to see each other before the wedding-it makes the day so much more relaxed and makes for much less stress on the photographer’s part:-) We are more then willing to work with a couple if they want to have a special “first look” experiance. Here Joanna chose to walk down the aisle to meet Kirby for the first time.


And here are the happy two, on their very special day: Mr. & Mrs. Kirby Nissley.


We loved the light that was coming in the windows of the church.



Couldn’t decided which of these bouquet shots to share, so I guess you get to see both!


And four sisters. Can we say Fun?!?!

The whole bridal party. 

Mr. Groom.

Glowy happy day:-)



I must share these. Funness and happy times. We were well ahead of schedule between wedding and reception, and since it was the first day of spring and free italian ice at Rita’s, we decided to all head out there and get some free Italian Ice. Daryl and I thot it was a very fun spontaneous kind of thing to do. I think the other visitors at Rita’s did as well:-) Plus it made for some great, differant wedding shots:-)




To say that this was a super-fun photo shoot would be an understatement! Missy and Jake are quite special to us, beings that Melissa is Daryl’s baby sister. We are quite excited about their wedding not-so-far-away in May. The other week, after one of the snowstorms, we braved the cold, and had a bit of fun collecting these engagement images.

We are so happy Missy found someone as sweet and nice as Jake. We gladly welcome him into the Musser family:-)


A personal favorite of mine.

Who knew that the inside of the gazebo roof could add so much visual interest?

Snowy glowy day.

Like.




Another favorite of mine:-)



This past weekend, I spent some time with MaryBeth doing her senior portraits. I forgot how fun seniors can be!! Marybeth rocked her look–super fun to photograph.
Winter time can be somewhat limiting for outdoor portraits. We found a surprising spot out of the weather that was loaded with delicious perfect light, and there we stayed:-)
I can’t choose a favorite so I’ll just share a bunch!














It’s always fun when an old friend finds the person with whom they are going to spend the rest of their life with. Rodney is an old friend of ours, and even before there was “us”, he and Daryl ran with the same singles group. So it’s preatty exciting that Rodney found Crystal. It’s great to see him with one who makes him so happy.
On a not-so-snowy winter day, we spent some time getting their engagement images done. We are super excited and honored to be shooting their wedding in May.


They make each other laugh.

Super awesome glowy light that day!



More light deliciousness.



Walk with me, the best is yet to be!

Happy New Year everyone! Wow, I haven’t realized how long it’s been that I’ve been on here! Let’s just say it’s been an unofficial winter vacation, I guess:-) We had about 8 weeks off w/ no weddings, and to say it was lovely is an understatement. There’s nothing like a little break to get one rejevenated and ready to go again! I’ve been working on some personal projects these last few weeks, doing something with images I took for ourselves, so it’s been a fun creative outlet.
But now, we are back to weddings for 2010! It looks to be an exciting season, we are ready to go!
This past weekend was Marvin and Cindy’s big day!! All the way in Ohio! We were happy that a former bride referred her to us, we love that type of word-of-mouth advertisement, it certainly is the best!
Marvin and Cindy had a lovely winter day for their winter wedding. We were thankful that the snow belt wasn’t producing that weekend, it could have made for a very interesting roadtrip. But as it was, the weather was lovely, not too cold, and we were able to get some great images for these two!
Here they are, the happy two:

Simple, with emphasis on the memories, that was the feeling of this wedding.

Dad was a corker.

This veil was so fun to play with. I think it was one of the bride’s favorite parts to the day–other then the groom, of course.




After the reception, we were able to steal away outdoors, for a few shots. We were happy the light stuck with us as well as it did!

Dance with me.




I think this shot is one of my personal favorites from the day.






I love the texture and warmth that old house added to the background.




The bridal party. Such good winter colors, I think.

Back to the reception for a few details shots. I love all the handmade touches that Cindy incorporated into her day. It seemed like every detail was carefully thot through.

The cake.

These branches were fabulous with the lowlight and candlelight, they truly added ambience.

Smile:-)

As winter settles in, and our workload eases, Daryl and I still find ourselves hunkered over our computers each evening. While we may be done editing, there are a multitude of small housekeeping tasks that we have been putting off, that are now begging our attention. Winter is the time to brush up on things, streamline business procedures and marketing products, update websites, review product lines, organize files, etc. etc. It’s like spring cleaning for photographers, only differant:-)
We are excited about new things we are considering for our 2010 wedding season! We’re bringing in a new fun line of wedding albums, and laying to rest our old. We’re updating the website with a new look, and more current galleries….and offering a new pricing structure for 2010 brides.
For now, here’s a sneak peak at our new albums! We are proud to offer the KISS wedding album line. A simple clean, very very very fun book in two different styles, 4 sizes, and 7 different luscious color options!

Let’s see there’s red light red, luscious brown, forbidden green, sultry blue, virgin white, voluptuous black and passion pink!

These images are compliments of the fun helpful folk at KISS. I can hardly wait to lay my hands on the studio samples that I worked so hard designing.

Like I said, two cover options. The hard, and the soft. The hard features a buttery soft leather cover with thicker hard pages, while it’s less expensive counterpart-the soft- is a crispy linen hardcover with thin flex-y pages.

A shot of those flex-y pages.


Big versus small! Sizes range from a generous 12″ square to a teeny weeny 4″ mini! How fun is that?!?

Think of the possibilities of the itty bitty book–how about a little brag book for grandma’s purse–what a perfect gift!


Hard vs. soft again showcasing the differance of thick and thin.

Another fun option for the 8×8 size is a guest sign-in book at a wedding. In place of the traditional guest book, have a book of your engagement images designed with blank pages for your guests to sign–how fun!

Stay tuned for more on these fab fun albums! I will feature another post on them when I receive our studio sample albums!

Happy Monday!
It is indeed a happy day as I am currently working on the last wedding of our ‘09 season:-) Yes, we are kinda looking forward to a few weeks of no editing, as much as we love weddings:-)
here is a sneak image to complete this post

Here’s hoping everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I was able to spend the week with family, well, both Abbi and I were. It was a huge week for Abbi. Amongst all the eating, and family time, she accomplished many new things.
One of them being this:

After weeks of practicing, something clicked in her head, and she took off….love the little toddle:-)

She had alot of fun with Aunt Lor’s Christmas decor:



Did I mention this just really blows my mind. It is so weird to see this little person just take off across the room. Where has my tiny little baby gone???

They’re letting babies walk these days!

Wedding Season 2009 is officially over!!! Which means Saturdays can now be spent doing those things that really should be done on a Saturday like…..
Chilling around the house w/ mommy and daddy….

chugging tall bottles of milk…..

Practicing my crawling skills…..

and did I mention chilling??
Ahhh……this is the life:-)
by musser
1 comment
add a comment link to this post email a friend