Kaitlyn Suter Photography

Senior: Brittni

Kaitlyn Suter — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:27:44 +0000

My Mom’s friend contacted me to photographer her homeschooled daughter’s senior portraits. I met Brittani the day of the shoot and she is a gorgeous spirited girl with a lot of passion. She was a great subject and we had a lot of fun on the shoot…..including random guys dancing in their car and yelling at us and wind that would not cooperate. It was a great and successful time!!

Belize: Culture

Kaitlyn Suter — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:18:55 +0000

This is Francisco, who we fondly refer to as San Francisco. We instantly fell in love with him and he hung out with us pretty much the entire trip.

This guy stopped on the street to chat with us. The people of Belize are very friendly and it is common in their culture to make conversations with random strangers. It is much different from our American culture where people mostly stay to themselves.

We were sitting on the curb waiting for our ride to get back so I made the most of my time and the view.

This is how we traveled when we were not walking or in a 15-passenger van.

Champ.

Kaitlyn Suter — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:03:00 +0000

My good friends at the Bro House (or Kyle) got a baby Pit. He’s so precious! I took him outside to play so he wouldnt drive us crazy and snapped these shots.

Kaitlyn Suter — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:20:45 +0000

We went to another village in Belize and did Vacation Bible School for a day. The kids there were awesome….and crazy!!

One of our games involved water balloons.

And limbo which they kind of understood but had fun so that was the most important.

These girls are so cute!! Every child in Belize was obsessed with silly bands!

Belize: Pier

Kaitlyn Suter — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:48:30 +0000

The pier was probably one of the most fun places to hang out with the kids. And there were always kids on the pier fishing, swimming, or hanging out with us. I’m pretty sure at one point I helped every child in the ocean get out by way of the beams where there wasn’t any decking. It was crazy! Most of the time the kids would exit the water by climbing up the cement columns of the pier which is a lot harder than they made it look. Being the determined the stubborn person that I am, I finally managed the climb out that way and was very proud of myself!

John was the first on in to ocean.

This is a Blue Crab that Mark caught…..

….and this is Mark with his crab!

Belize: The Adventure Begins….

Kaitlyn Suter — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:33:30 +0000

Thus begins the Belizian explosion that is about to happen to my blog.

From August 3rd to August 13th I was on a missions trip to Belize. It was an amazing experience and made me miss Nicaragua (check out my blogs about Nicaragua from July 2010) even more than I still do. The travel there and back was probably the most eventful and unusual that I have ever experienced. On the way there I was up (or didnt actually “go to bed”) for about 47 hours. We drove from Greensboro to Raleigh, took a place the Charlotte (everybody else went to Atlanta), then another plane to Cancun. From there was rode in a van for 5 hours to the Mexican border. Once at the border we were stuck in “limbo” for 2 hours because our ride, who was actually there the whole time, didnt know who to look for and neither did we. After almost hitching a ride in a random pickup we found our bus and rode 8 hours (it doesn’t actually take that long but we were driving slow and it was a sketchy bus) to Dangriga, Belize and arrived at about 5am. It was a crazy experience!!

We stopped in Mexico and ate some amazing food!!

Driving through Mexico!

We stayed at the Pastor and his wife’s house. Their house was across the street from the Caribbean Sea and an awesome pier that was always filled with kids. This is the view from the room Heather and I stayed in.

This is the view of where we stayed from the pier. So gorgeous!!

I will be posting a blog specifically with photos of the pier very soon! I have so many!!

5D+Belize

Kaitlyn Suter — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:12:02 +0000

This has been an eventful (and expensive) week! Two days ago I bought a Canon 5D from my good friend, Adam and a week from today I am going on a missions trip to Belize. I am so glad to finally have something that is full frame and better than my 30D. I cant wait to use it in Belize!! Stay tuned because I will be posting photos from Belize!

Rachel: Class of 2011

Kaitlyn Suter — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:08:22 +0000

My friend, Rachel, just graduated and I had the honor of doing her senior portraits. It was super fun minus the extreme heat and humidity. And we trespassed twice. Yes, we’re awesome!!

She wanted to go to this secret place that actually isnt that much of a secret to most of our friends. Its so cool though! I love this bridge!!

Lake Lure Wedding

Kaitlyn Suter — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:22:15 +0000

In April I second shot a wedding at Lake Lure with my friend and fellow Mountaineer, Robin Brooks. We had gorgeous weather and the wedding was beautiful!!

Thanks for looking!!

Check back for more posts coming soon!

A Season of Storms

Kaitlyn Suter — Fri, 27 May 2011 22:02:32 +0000

This summer, as many of you have noticed, has been pelted with multiple severe storms and tornadoes. I got off work early today, and before I headed to Jersey, I had free time to play with some of those dramatic storm clouds. I am now currently late to meet my friend to actually leave but I was excited to get this posted.

Photos from our adventures shall be posted when I return!

Enjoy!