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  • Studio Momenti features the work of Josef Willis and Lisa Ruschetti and is located in the historic downtown of Bristol Virginia/Tennessee.

    In addition to maintaining a studio in Bristol we travel frequently throughout the Southeast and beyond to photograph weddings.

    Additionally we have a summer presence in Butte, Montana where we primarily concentrate on high school seniors.

    Through our Pageant Photography Division we photograph the Miss Maryland USA and Miss Illinois USA pageants in Bethesda and Chicago.

    To visit our online proof galleries chick here. Thanks for visiting our blog and websites

  • Samantha Casey, MISS VIRGINIA USA 2010 @ Studio Momenti

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{ Sarah + Sid }

I love wedding that celebrate families.  And Sarah and Sid’s was one of the best.  After spending the morning at her parents house getting ready Sara and Sid headed over to Abington’s Virginia Ballroom for a truly heartfelt ceremony.  Great food and quality bluegrass music rounded out the afternoon for an especially enthusiastic  Virginia Tech crowd.

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{ clarissa + chad }

It rained. Big whoop!  Clarissa was singing in the rain on her way to the alter inside the historic Martha Washington Inn.

And Chad scarcely noticed the rain either as he was too busy waiting for the love of his life to stroll down the aisle.

After an especially enthusiastic ceremony the hotel quickly turned the ballroom into a rockin’ reception site.  I think the rain was the only thing keeping this crowd from burning the place down!

And a big thanks to Andi Brown of Weddings by Adrianne for keeping everything moving like clockwork.  She even put her husband David (shown holding the umbrella in photograph 4) to work!  DJ, Robbie Britton kept the booty shaking all night long.

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{ Snake wine + The Black Rooster }

Although it sometimes feels like we never leave the office, Lisa and I have been fortunate to have traveled widely.  From Saigon to Venice.

So when The Black Rooster Gallery at the historic General Francis Marion Hotel in Marion, Virginia asked us to hang a sampling of our photographs there we were honored.

Although you won’t find the snake wine (a.k.a. Vietnam’s Viagra) on the menu, The Black Rooster is an especially yummy place for lunch or dinner.

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{ Cut and Print }

Lisa abandoned me in the studio for a couple of days to work on  “Brothers”,  a feature film produced in the Bristol area.

Our friend David Radford was the cinema photographer and he convinced Lisa to skip out on me for a couple of days to help him and director Jerry Sword with this project.  Thanks Dave!

Brothers is a story of love, devotion and brotherhood and will be released sometime next year.

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