My name is Aaron Riddle and I am a professional photographer residing in Winchester, Virginia. I specialize in wedding photography, portrait photography and special event photography needs.

I tell stories through my photography by capturing candid moments and preserving them in time to show the beauty of a wedding, the happiness of an event or intimacy of a kiss shared by a newly-engaged couple.

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Photo Session Date: December 2, 2009

Photo Session Location: Community College, Middletown, Virginia

Photo Session Details: The blue collar world of construction is much different than the office environment I work in most of the day. Visiting this construction site for a new building at a local community college, I was presented with the bitter chill of the rainy cold weather, dirt, mud, and dust as my working conditions…and I loved it. There is something refreshing about getting out of the office into the field to photograph people doing work much different than mine. My photographer’s eye was excited by the colorful, dangerous glow of the welding machine, the vibrant sparks from the saws cutting metal, the geometry of the steel beams…beautiful, artistic scenes that these gentlemen create every day. All the workers were very friendly and I appreciate them taking their time to let me capture them through photography. Oh…and I got to wear a hard hat too!

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This series is part of an on-going 26-week project entitled the ABCs of Photography in which I take a few photographs each week centered on on specific letter of the alphabet.

E is for Eggs - Eggs…a breakfast staple at the Riddle house on the weekends usually served with home fries, toast, juice and coffee. At the suggestion of taking some photographs of eggs for the letter “E”, my wife immediately began whipping up a fried egg and boiling some hard boiled eggs.  I wish I would have had some eggs to photograph that my pet chickens use to lay (brown and blue-green shells), but I had to settle for the traditional white shelled variety.

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The true face of excitement (photograph of my 18-month-old daughter).

Photo Session Date: Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2009

Photo Session Location: Linthicum, MD

Photo Session Details: Every Thanksgiving Day for the past 20+ years, my family has been shooting off model rockets between turkey dinner and the serving of pumpkin pie. What started out as a one-time novelty using a build-your-own rocket kit (courtesy of Estes) has turned into a yearly hollowed tradition featuring unique and crazy rockets constructed by my father, brothers and cousins. The rockets are launched safely from a baseball field and have resulted in some very humorous stories from year’s past. I will let the photographs tell the rest of the story from this year’s launch.

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Photo Session Date: November 20, 2009

Photo Session Location: Middletown, VA

Photo Session Details: A local community college recently held a talent show for its students. While I was unable to attend the actual show, I did have the opportunity to take a few photographs of the winners giving repeat performances for the College’s employees as part of a pre-Thanksgiving luncheon. The performers included a hula hoop dancer, a singer/guitarist, a comedic performance by a pretend married couple and a singer/pianist who played a self-composed piece.

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