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  • WELCOME!

    Hi All, I am Miranda owner of Inner Circle Photography.

    I am a fun loving easy going type of girl. I enjoy the little things in life and try to embrace every day for what it is.

    I believe in Fun.Real.Love.

    This blog is all about those little moments in life, the ones you never want to let go of. I just wanted to say THANKS for checking out my blog and make sure you come back to see more of my art! Enjoy!

GREEN GREEN GREEN!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!

Today we are having a party to celebrate! I am so happy St. Patty’s Day is on a Saturday this year…and I am free!!!

Last weekend was the Corktown’s 54th St. Patrick’s Day Parade! Of course we went and had a blast – AND got sunburn! Crazy in March RIGHT????

Sometimes I am a little over the top….but Adam still loves me! HA!

My house looks like a green monster threw-up in living room….and I kind of like it!

My decoration inspiration comes from various shades of green, a touch of yellow with white ceramic pieces all over!

Because I LOVE LOVE LOVE St. Patrick’s Day I want to offer 10 % off on all print orders!!!!!

Orders must be placed By March 21st! **new orders only**

Have a very Happy GREEN day!!

Much love, Miranda

Casual Friday RECAP!

I just can not get enough of these people!

I swear it has just taken me until now to fully recover from my Vegas WPPI trip. Crazy right? My mind has been racing with new ideas and of all the potential possibilities and to be honest everything was kind of weighing me down. As I vented/cried to my best friends about this they told me I just had to do something and then asked how could they help. This automatically got me motivated.  They were so willing to drop everything and lend a hand I knew had to do something. Over the last two days I have been on a mission! I got my pen and paper out and started writing everything down. Making categories of ideas and to-dos, organizing all the paperwork and finally finding people I met online!!! I feel SO much better now!

I just wanted to chat a little and share this uber cute series from one of my January weddings…..Lana and John.

I love my clients!

Getting my life back in order since Vegas has been interesting.  Seeing that this is my slower season, all I want to do is hang out with Adam, my family, and friends! Oh and sleep lots of sleep! Upon coming home I was informed by my brother that it had been almost a MONTH since I had seen Noah and Owen!??!!? WHAT? Of course it made me feeeeeeel like a horrible Auntie! So my mother had us over for dinner last Sunday and I got to hang out and play with the little ones!!

They are getting SO big!! At dinner mom told me that they had SOLD their house.  Yep my childhood home – SOLD. So weird thinking that in a few months I won’t be pulling into that driveway to say hello, the driveway I have pulled into all my life. AH the memories! I think next Casual Friday will be all about that house.

Samson and Feta are doing good. Samson is so cute!!!! The other day we took a field trip to the post office.

This is how Feta spends most of her day.

She is weird. But we love her.

A few weeks ago my bestie, Andrea and her Fiance, Mario stopped by for a quick photo for their wedding website and it started snowing. It was perfect for a quick backyard photo session!

Proves it doesn’t matter where the photos are taken at just who they are taken of!

My friend Derek is their amazing wedding photographer! They should taking their real engagement photos with him soon!

I held my first Pinterest Craft Night in February! Jessica and I helped Andrea with her Save The Dates and then I started on another yarn wreath!

Here is the one I made for Valentines Day!

Speaking of Valentines Day – say hello to my 2012 DECOR!

My cousin Kierstin‘s birthday party was last week . As a present I took her out for some fun sunset birthday photos. Two of her friends tagged along!

I think that gets you all pretty much up to date with my life right now!! Tomorrows BLOG is all about St. Patrick’s DAY!!!

I hope you all are enjoying this wonderful Friday!

Much love, Miranda

March 16, 2012 - 6:07 pm

Joanna Orlando Joseph - :) luv them all!

March 16, 2012 - 6:07 pm

Joanna Orlando Joseph - :) luv them all!

Winning!

02.21.12

Duh, Winning.

Jill, Shawn, and I hung around the hotel until the afternoon, we had lunch and hit up the trade show. At one point I separated from them and went to do my own thing only to search for them for an hour. FINALLY I ran into Derek, who was with them.  We were hungry and decided to go find some Sushi, but Derek decided to stay at the trade show seeing it was his last day of it.

We walked through MGM with no luck and wandered over to New York, New York.  We found Chin Chin and had a really nice lunch. Shawn wanted to play Pai gow poker, so Jill and I went in search of a Gold Fish slot machine. My parents always told me in order to win big, you have to bet big.  Penny machines are my favorite thing to play at the casino. I always play the maximum amount lines and coins. We found one and started playing, but after three spins we noticed it was $5.00 total bet each spin…. Too much for me, I like $3.20 and under, so we moved on. As we walked by a Monopoly Bonus City slot machine, Jill mentioned, she liked it so we stopped.

Jill and I sat down together and began to play. On my third spin I won a bonus round! I was so excited and so was Jill, she stopped playing her game to watch my bonus!

The next six minutes were a blur. According to Jill my facial expression was priceless.  It felt unreal. I just kept winning free spins and with the free spins came winning lines! Then a 8x multiplier! Once my total got to $600 I started to cry! Jill grabbed my arm and just couldn’t believe it!  All I could do is laugh!!!! I just kept winning! But at one point I was so scared to land on chance, because it was going to take it all away. I was freaking out! Jill said she will NEVER.EVER. forget my facial expressions. Once the bonus was over we had to wait ten minutes for an attendant to come get my info and PAY ME! My first thought was this is SO unreal, I need a picture of this!!!

Enter the WOW face, all for my mom.

 I won $1,286.80 on a PENNY machine!!!

Of course I called Adam right way….he freaked out!

IT WAS SO UNREAL! All of it!  We rushed to find Shawn….still playing that pikachu (pai gow) game. :] There were people at the table and I didn’t want the world to know I was carrying a lot of MONEY….so I whispered it to her and she silently freaked out and we headed back to the MGM.

On our way back to the room, we decided to come up with an amazing long story to tell Derek. AND THEN WE RAN INTO BOBBI AND MIKE!

For all you non-photographers, to Jill and I, Bobbi and Mike are our celebrity status photographers. Jill had been wanting all trip to run into them! We stopped to chat and decided that we love Bobbi even more than before.

 After all that excitement, we made it back to the room and switched to being sad and angry at how our day played off, to fool Derek. We went on and on, until I started talking about how this slot machine started paying me a hundred dollars as I slapped them on table in front of Derek one by one.  It was flawless. Shawn and Jill were amazing at playing along!!!! HA!

Derek was trying to play all sad because he felt like we had ditched him earlier in the day to go eat! :p I just started singing a random made up song about winning MONEY! Then tried to rub it in his face! HEE HEE.

Ed was still in class so as soon as he was out I called him and said he needed to get back to the room ASAP.

I hid in the bathroom acting like I was sick……here is how it all played out….pretty funny.

After we all settled down I decided to take everyone out to dinner with my winnings! We went to Paris! Since I was paying I made them eat by my ONE rule: Dessert First!

That dinner will always be unforgettable.

mustaches.party mode.worst lyric.best lyric.the wave.ed’s in.this vs this.dessert first.what is your favorite.

After dinner we just had to get one of those really big obnoxious frozen drinks….lets just say after that made a stop at the 80′s Canon party and headed back to the room where we laughed A LOT more.

I had an amazing time with some really great people! I think I will do a few posts about Vegas throughout the next few weeks! I made some great memories!!

Much love, Miranda

March 6, 2012 - 11:47 pm

Carly Averill - I am so excited to go with you to Vegas :D DDDD! We are going to have a blast!

March 21, 2012 - 3:50 pm

Northern Virginia Photographer – WPPI » Dorie Howell Photography - [...] Winning! – Inner Circle Photography but Miranda Hopkins [...]

Julie and Chris – Moments in Time

I am a sap when it comes to love stories.  I tear up way to often behind my camera.

I mean look at these images. There is so much between them.

Meet Chris and Julie.

They were married a few months ago and have to live in different states because of school and work and to top it all off, Chris is set to leave for over seas soon!

So these pictures mean more to them than anything!

Here is one of my MOST favorite image ever…….

 

Your love is amazing. Thank you for letting me in to capture it.

Much love,

Miranda

February 21, 2012 - 10:26 pm

Kellie Monroe - I love these!

February 21, 2012 - 10:26 pm

Kellie Monroe - I love these!

February 22, 2012 - 1:17 am

Julie Brennan - These are so beautiful!

February 22, 2012 - 2:39 am

Michelle McCoy Potchynok - Very Good pictures!

February 22, 2012 - 2:39 am

Dennis Monroe - Bless your Hearts, Julie & Chris…. Each photo, suitable for framing. Nice work Miranda!

Casual Friday – Out of the Office

-OUT OF THE OFFICE-

I am VEGAS bound again!!!

This time to attend WPPI a photography conference I have been waiting to go to for over SIX years!

FINALLY!

I am beyond excited to meet some amazing people, learn something new and find some wonderful new products to offer my clients!

Plus I can not wait to eat all the food. OK I might be more excited for all the food than anything else….is that a bad thing?!?!?!?!

Remember last time? This time I might just come back 15 pounds heavier! Oh well.

I will be out of the office until Thursday, February 23rd!  If you need to get a hold of me, email will be the fastest!

See you all when I get back!

Much love, Miranda