Pine Lake is one of my favorite places for an engagement session

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If you’ve followed my blogposts or looked through a few pages of them, you’ll notice how many of them feature Pine Lake, my home town.

Engagement Photograph taken in Pine Lake near Atlanta

This photo from a Pine Lake engagement session recently won a WPJA Diamond Award.

Redfin contacted me recently asking me if I knew of any great places to take photos in the Atlanta area.

My response?

You guessed it. I sang the praises of Pine Lake. My comments about Pine Lake appear in The Unique Angles of Atlanta: Explore Your City One Photo Op at a Time on the Redfin site.

Engagement photo by Atlanta wedding photographer Cindy Brown

Under the trees in Pine Lake.

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Cindy Brown

I'm an Atlanta wedding photographer who takes soulful, quirky and honest photos ...

I'm also an adventurous traveler and all-round nerd. I love to hike with my beagle/cattle dog Roux and best friend/spouse.

I was born in Atlanta, moved around a lot--30 cities and 5 states--and then came back.

After graduating from the Art Institute of Atlanta, I took a job at asmall newspaper in south Georgia, where I photographedhospital teas, pecan farmers, and beauty queens.

I photographed a biker funeral, death penalty protests andTed Bundy while interning with the Associated Press.

While a photographer for two dailies in Florida, I photographed Ronald Reagan, a train derailment and the dedication of a screened-in porch.

An unexpected life turn took me to Vermont where I fell in love with Bernie Sanders and on to Indiana, where I edited photos for a major daily, and nerded out getting a master’s and PhD.

After teaching photojournalism at colleges and universities in Florida, Indiana and Mississippi, I returned to Atlanta to earn myfifth degree--a Master's of Divinity.

My passion for storytelling with my camera and my interest in religious diversity led my to the field of wedding photojournalism.

I have documented weddings large and small, Unitarian and Pagan, indoors and out, Christian and Muslim, in backyards and in churches. The most exotic wedding I have photographed took place in Mexico and was officiated by aMayan shaman.

When I'm not photographing weddings, portraits or corporate events, I work on personal photo projects, visit friends in amemory-care home, and volunteer at a recovery center.