Friday, October 28, 2005

Kristi & Kenny

While I wait for Pictage to get Kristi & Kenny's engagement photos up, I made a slideshow of some of my favorites.

Check it out here:
http://www.shutterbugsphotography.net/kennyandkristi/

I am hoping for sunny skies and pleasant weather for Amanda & Steve's wedding day tomorrow. It was warmer today, so let's hope it is even better tomorrow. I look forward to all the neat things we can do tomorrow with their Fall farm wedding!

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Chattanooga

I love Chattanooga...Downtown is a photographer's dream...So many cool places to shoot. Bill & I went down there Sunday to photograph Kenny & Kristi's engagement photos. They were so much fun and so up to a lot of different locations and ideas. Look for a slideshow soon-I am still editing-I never shoot 350 frames for an engagement but I did Sunday! They all look beautiful...Sunset on the walking bridge...beautiful skies, beautiful couple.

Saturday is Amanda and Steve's wedding day and we are experiencing a cold snap-I am praying for a warm day for their outdoor wedding! We'll have fun though and it is going to be such a cool wedding, fall themed....horse & buggy, antique tractors...

Look for our new wedding pages to debut sometime in the next few weeks-each couple will now have their own page on the site to direct friends and family to, there they can see the couple's engagement session slideshow, register to be notified of the release of wedding images, view a slideshow of the wedding images after the wedding. I'd like to incorporate "love stories" for those who want to share how they met and got engaged-complete with engagement photos.

It is late and I have a day of computer work ahead of me...night night...

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Boy-I am BEHIND!!

Sorry for my long absence....We left on vacation for 10 days Oct. 7th and are just now back in the swing of things.....

Oct 1st-we shot Danica & Joe's wedding here in Maryville...What a sweet couple with such nice family & friends! The wedding was such a breath of fresh air...With the concentration being so much on the love of these two wonderful people and their love for their family & friends. Small, touching ceremony followed by a lovely meal(best meatballs I have EVER had-ask me about the caterer-I highly recommend them-professional, wonderful presentation & yummy, yummy food!!) and socializing/dancing.(the DJ was a sweetheart too-see Merlin's Music to hire Brian) You could just feel how much everyone loved this couple....They were so relaxed & comfortable in front of the camera and I am so happy to be releasing their photos later today for them.....Each one of them shows how much they love eachother and are oh-so-romantic......I love to show the love!! I had such fun creating dreamy romantic images from this wedding....I think have have just as much fun editing & enhancing as I have shooting the actual affair.

Sunday we have an engagement session in Chattanooga (oh, how I love that town-I wish we still lived there....But visiting is second best, eh?) with Kenny & Kristi who are getting married next July. Another super nice young couple. Another great part of my job is getting to work with so many great people, it is truly a joy meeting them and having the priviledge to preserve the memories of the most special day of their lives. Fall is a great time for portraits and we will have a lot of fun shooting all over downtown, and sunset shots on the wonderful walking bridge over the Tennessee River!! I am so excited about this...Something other than Cade's Cove (don't get me wrong-I love it there, but change is good)

Our vacation was WONDERFUL.....We did little more than hang at the beach and pool.....I could sit on the beach this time of year all day & just watch the waves roll in....Nice breeze, warm sun...Fresh sea air....I hated to leave! I'll post some vacation photos soon....The kids had a blast, Cass was ready to come home (middle schoolers-friends, friends) but Corey could have stayed....He loves the beach and the pool. He loved sea world and came home with a whole menagerie of sea creatures (stuffed, that is) and , oh, about 30 lbs of seashells....

Off to edit-have a great week and continue to pray for this facing yet another hurricane....Let's pray it stays out to sea...