Julie+Maria

I attended this continuing education class yesterday and the pleasure of shooting Julie, she was so much fun and was a really good sport. It’s not easy getting flashed in the eyes 10,000 times over the course of a few hours and STILL be smiling by the end of it. She was a real trooper!

Yesterday’s class was nothing short of amazing and was put on by a fantastic instructor, now my favorite instructor of all time, Maria. How amazing? She has this unbelievable studio in her house and calling her house just a house is like calling King King just an ape... this thing was enormous.

Any way many thanks to Julie and Maria, I hate to miss a Sunday with the family but it was well worth worth it.

Sun Rise Over the 360 Bridge.

Kaysie and David’s big day is coming up in late October and for their engagement they really wanted to do a sunset shoot at the Pennybacker Bridge (360 Bridge) which is fine other than it’s 130 degrees at sunset these days. Then we got the bright idea about a sunRISE shoot, only 80 degrees. Brilliant!

Kaysie and David have one those amazing “How we met” stories, they should really be on one those wedding shows and for sure get published in “Modern Bride”.... hmmmm. The story is long and detailed but it ends with “if you love someone set them free” endings.

I’m thinking of taking a tape recorder to their wedding and getting the details on tape for all my both my readers To top it off they are a genuinely nice couple, are totally committed to giving back to the community and making the world a better place. She works with, mentors and inspires incarcerated teenagers (giving back) and he’s an environmental artist for a gaming company here in town (making MY world a better place!).

Ring Shot!

Light Test.

Chelsea and Matt

This is Chelsea and Matt! I shot their wedding a few weeks ago (middle of June) but since the blog is so new I figured a little extra content wouldn’t hurt.

Man was I ever intimidated walking into this one! The largest wedding I ever shot was 600 people but Matt and Chelsea had... 14 people, I made number 15! No where to hide, no corner to duck into, nothing and I ended up loving it! With just a few people present I really got to know my couple and made such good friends we’ve had them over for drinks (and a little picture editing) since. It was a great experience.

The other thing that made this wedding one of the most unique ones that I’ve shot was the fact that Chelsea and Matt were sooooo into each other. I know what your thinking, “Mike, it’s their wedding day you dummy of course they will be into each other!”. The thing is I’ve never seen anything like this, my first meeting was just with Chelsea (I didn’t meet Matt until about hour before the ceremony!) she just gushed and gushed about her husband to be, when did Chelsea’s bridal same thing and the day of the wedding... more gushing!

I love their expressions when Chelsea rounded the corner and they got to see each other for the first time.

The shot right after the ceremony, you know that first chance you get to talk to each other was a long passionate kiss, again like one I’ve never witnessed (I didn’t post that, it seemed like to private of a moment to put out on the internet), they were/are really in love.

Lake Travis

“Holy cow, we just got marred!”.

Daddy just got a new wide angle lens so we rolled it out at the play ground the other day. I love this picture of Cole! So Cole has the worlds WORST fake smile, it’s painful... really it looks like he’s in serious pain! The key to a good smile (at least for a five year old handsome boy named Cole)? I get him to tell me a joke, I think he know exactly two. This one goes something like this:

What do you get an 800 lb. gorilla for his birthday?

I don’t know he you better make sure he likes it!

That one slays at the playground. Anyway he gets about half way through the joke and he just starts cracking up. The only thing that worries me is that one day, probably soon he’ll get wise to my ways.

The second pic is my baby girl Emma Grace, she’s cute

even when’s she sweaty! She and Caleb (pics of him to come soon) tend to run when I pull the camera out these days. All I hear is cries of “no daddy, no!”, I think the flash at a young age has ruined them. They run even faster when I come out with the light stand and umbrella!