A Military Family of Photographers for Honors Ceremonies
Attlee Weddings and Portraits owner Tracey Attlee is also a professional photographer of full military Honors ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. She and her USMC-retired husband Todd A. Smith are both professional photographers who team together to cover Honors ceremonies.
Tracey's father, Gardner Attlee, was combat wounded, WWII, Navy, so she has a lifetime of experience watching a parent struggle with permanent war injuries. Then there is a man she never met, her uncle Mike, lost at sea, KIA, WWII. Every family holiday Tracey's grandmother would go to her special drawer in the kitchen and take out her son's Purple Heart for Tracey and her cousins to see. Her grandmother wanted the grandchildren never to forget their uncle's patriotism and memory. Tracey's grandparents had no opportunity to view an Honors ceremony for their son. A shocking government telegram followed by a grim package of personal effects followed by a Purple Heart medal in the mail was their only farewell.
Anyone who has ever tried Honors photography at Arlington National Cemetery will tell you it is the hardest two hours of work a professional photographer can do, emotionally and physically, especially when complicated by pouring rain, howling winds or swirling snow during the ceremony. But Tracey believes nothing can be as hard as what the deceased's family is enduring. She has respectfully photographed military Honors ceremonies for the last 10 years joined often by her husband Todd A. Smith, a retired US Marine and professional architectural photographer.
Please call Tracey Attlee at 703-751-1778 if your family needs a good professional Arlington Cemetery full military Honors or memorial funeral service photographer. Tracey Attlee will personally photograph this event to be sure you have a beautiful family memory for generations. Tracey Attlee is highly recommended by Murphy Funeral Home in Arlington, VA, Columbia Gardens, Arlington, VA, Funeral Choices of Chantilly, VA and Demaine Funeral Home, Alexandria, VA for professional full military Honors photos at Arlington National Cemetery, Columbia Gardens, Quantico National Cemetery and elsewhere in the Washington, DC region.
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