Annie Velenovsky Photography

Annie Velenovsky Photography I photograph weddings, families, and humans of all sorts who have an insatiable thirst to live life deeply. I am based in Easton, MD, but travel worldwide!

POLL TIME! ⚡️Please comment and/or vote on my stories! ⚡️I am doing autumn mini sessions for the first time in a few yea...
09/14/2023

POLL TIME! ⚡️Please comment and/or vote on my stories! ⚡️
I am doing autumn mini sessions for the first time in a few years. The two weekends I’m considering are:
🌾 October 14 + 15
☀️ October 21 + 22

I will make an official decision and announcement tomorrow evening, September 15th 🍂🍁

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Hi, friends! My main email is currently down - if you have tried to reach me and I have not responded, that is why! Plea...
01/11/2023

Hi, friends! My main email is currently down - if you have tried to reach me and I have not responded, that is why! Please email me at [email protected] or direct message me on Instagram at www.instagram.com/annievelenovsky ! I am looking forward to getting my website and online portfolio back up for y'all. Talk to you soon! 💜

A bit biased, because these are my own nieces Isabel & Ivy, but this was some winter time full moon Christmas portrait m...
12/10/2020

A bit biased, because these are my own nieces Isabel & Ivy, but this was some winter time full moon Christmas portrait magic. ✨ I have been and will be in the editing cave, as I call it, making sure galleries get out to all of my clients in time for the holidays and gift giving season. 🥰🙌🏼

I think photographing Zaz meeting his new pony friend Cadbury, a surprise Christmas pony, is some of the most important ...
12/10/2020

I think photographing Zaz meeting his new pony friend Cadbury, a surprise Christmas pony, is some of the most important work I’ve ever done.

This first frame is Zaz and his grandfather Richard, who has been a horseman for decades. Zaz, riding his Christmas pony, next to his grandfather.

Zaz’s face in these frames says everything I can’t. He is irrefutably a kind soul, who will take great care of a very, very special pony.

I just can’t wait to go hang out with Zaz, Cadbury, and all the other critters on the farm again soon. Thank you Emily, at Hundred Acre Wood, for this opportunity 🐴✨ A true gift well needed after this year.

I am burning the veils of evil that corrupt our world, my mind, and spirit; it is not a one time decision. It is a recko...
06/26/2020

I am burning the veils of evil that corrupt our world, my mind, and spirit; it is not a one time decision. It is a reckoning. It is a new way of being, and I never want to return to complacency. ⠀
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Last week, the K*K distributed recruitment literature in my hometown of Ocean City, MD. I wasn’t shocked or even surprised. I wept deeply, I raged, I took time to learn about the Eastern Shore and racism. I prayed that Jesus illuminate my own racism and my deepest evils. ⠀
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The air was pregnant with a storm that morning; thick, swampy Maryland summer air that leaves you drenched in sweat after being outside for 10 minutes. ⠀
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I made my way to the statue of Frederick Douglass on our town's courthouse lawn in Easton, MD. Hundreds of flowers lay at his feet after a BLM Juneteenth protest. A Confederate statue still stands next to him. A local artist was painting the scene, and I am briefly reminded that there are also people who desperately want to do inherent good. ⠀
Fredrick Douglass was born and enslaved 15 minutes from my house until he was 8 years old. Harriet Tubman was born and enslaved ~30 minutes from my house until she was 27 and said, “No more,” before leaving her legacy via the Underground Railroad. ⠀
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How many brilliant Black families were executed on the Eastern Shore of MD that did not become famous? How deeply pervasive is the evil in this land that we are not only looking at injustice and microaggressions, but the K*K? ⠀
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I will let my rage lead me to love, to knowledge, to truth, to photographic story telling, and most of all, to Jesus. ⠀
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“’Twant me, ’twas the Lord. I always told him, “I trust to you. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,” and he always did.” - Harriet Tubman⠀
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“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” - Frederick Douglass

Not sorry for the radio silence of “regular programming”; we are in the middle of a Revolution and a pandemic. ⁣⁣Maya wr...
06/06/2020

Not sorry for the radio silence of “regular programming”; we are in the middle of a Revolution and a pandemic. ⁣
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Maya wrote a song that has played in my mind over and over and over as the anthem of this Revolution. She has it on her IGTV. You need to take 6 minutes to do nothing else but grieve with her and search your heart. ⁣
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It is absolutely my business to love everyone. It is my business to see everyone deeply. It is my business to ensure that Black people feel safe in my presence, in my friendship, and in front of my camera. When I say “All are welcome, all are seen,” I want to make sure that everyone actually feels safe in front of my lens. Know that this work is not a trend or political stance; it is a lifelong commitment to no longer look away. ⁣
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The work that I’m doing within my own heart this week is off the screen through self education of the TRUE history of America, in-person conversations, and incessant prayer to Jesus to search my own soul. We have all of the information at our fingertips. ⁣
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I’m questioning the morals of the companies I frequent with my business. I’m brainstorming a list of the ways that racism exists in the wedding industry and photography industry to share. Question everything. Stay safe. 💜 ⁣
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“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.” - I Peter‬ ‭5:8-9‬ ‭NKJV‬‬⁣
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I wish I knew 3 years ago, in May 2017, who I was really photographing. I was taking senior portraits for one of my favo...
05/01/2020

I wish I knew 3 years ago, in May 2017, who I was really photographing. I was taking senior portraits for one of my favorite people, Bri. I was newly sober from alcohol and I fumbling to adjust to life and socializing without the toxic shield that alcohol provided me for 8 years of my life. Bri graced my lens many times before this, but her friendship was the best part of our many artistic collaborations. This feels like lifetimes ago, and I guess in a way it was. ⁣
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Bri got her degree in respiratory therapy with a job offer in our small town hospital shortly after graduation. I didn’t know what respiratory therapy entailed until I met her. I did know that the kind of resilience that field takes is something to be reckoned with. And that’s how I feel about Bri; she is a force. I wish deeply that I could time travel back to that moment to fully absorb how much of a badass my friend is.⁣
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She’s in the battle against this virus in a way that I know I can’t fully fathom unless I was the one living it.
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As our family enters 7 weeks of quarantine in Maryland, I find myself burning for moments of deep, intimate, in-person connection with my loved ones and friends. I’m also grateful for the opportunity to have this forced pause to learn how to connect fully with humans again. I recognize how blessed and privileged I am to be able to say that right now. I pray that as this crisis evolves, we remember to hold each other more fully, with presence, love, and the remembrance of human frailty. ⁣
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At this time, I will not be photographing or having in-person meetings until June 2020. This decision was a heart breaking one to make, but one that I know I am called to. This date may be extended depending on Governor Hogan’s decisions concerning the stay at home order. Until then, I love each of you. I know the way I see other people, and consequently the way I photograph them, is going to never be the same. ⁣
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I'm so excited to shoot Ellen and James on their wedding day in May! Here are some of my favorites from their engagement...
02/08/2020

I'm so excited to shoot Ellen and James on their wedding day in May! Here are some of my favorites from their engagement session. 😍 Portra 400 +1 film developed by PhotoVision Printing

Rainy wedding days get a bad reputation. Yes, it will interfere with some of you and your partner’s intricately planned ...
10/16/2019

Rainy wedding days get a bad reputation. Yes, it will interfere with some of you and your partner’s intricately planned details, but at the end of the night, you and your best friend just made the most sacred promise.⁠

Rain or shine, right? ☀️🌧❤️⁠

And just maybe, I’m a little biased, because I had a rainy wedding day myself. 😏 It was nothing like I imagined in my head, yet 1000 times better. ⁠

Venue & Catering: The Oaks Waterfront Inn and Events
Florals: Honeybee Flower Farm
Couple: Linda Seymour & Derek Epstein ❤️

Running a business as a one woman show certainly has its challenges; which is why I'm so grateful to be blessed with pat...
09/06/2019

Running a business as a one woman show certainly has its challenges; which is why I'm so grateful to be blessed with patient and loving clients/future clients while I navigate some obstacles life has thrown at me in this season. Thank you, with all of my heart. The only way I know how to move through life is to create by seeing myself, so here we are.

It is the season of my Mother. The season of unraveling everything society taught me about womanhood, and tuning into the strength within me.

It is the season of knowing that my Mother's and her Mother's brilliance is also mine.

She is golden, and she is love. WE are golden.

The resilience coursing through me is something I can no longer ignore.

I am meant to rise from fear. I am here to be love.

Questions that I am asking myself right now (Maybe you feel called to them too):

How can I bring the sacred into my everyday life and its tasks?

How can I be of service?

What is one thing I could do to improve my health?

What is my work?

Highlights from Emily & Randy's Wedding on September 28th, 2018
04/09/2019

Highlights from Emily & Randy's Wedding on September 28th, 2018

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