well friends, i am getting ready to head to london for a week. i am soooo excited and can't wait to share all my fun pictures with you guys. just wanted you to know that i will not be able to be contacted through phone for the next week but will be checking my email often so that will be the best way to get in touch with me. if you do call, leave me a message and i promise to call you as soon as i get back!! hope everyone has a fun and safe fourth!!!
July 04, 2009
June 26, 2009
sarah and mitch
last weekend i had the pleasure of shooting sarah and mitch's wedding on augusta. it was definitely a hot one being 103 degrees but it was sooooooo worth getting outside. we had great light and beautiful skies which made for some gorgeous pictures. sarah and mitch are dear friends of mine and i have been really looking forward to their wedding. there were so many sweet moments during their day and i just loved how both of them were so excited to get married. here are like 20 of my favorites and don't forget to view their slideshow at the bottom =)
sarah wanted to just touch mitch's hand before the ceremony. i love how excited they both are
i love these next two shots of both sarah and mitch praying before the ceremony.
married!!!!!
checking out each others' hands with their new rings on!
one of my favorites....
mitch and sarah, i love you both. hope you are having the time of your life on your honeymoon!!!
June 23, 2009
some changes getting ready to take place......
it has been a crazy couple years! i graduated college, prayed for a regular job, with regular hours, ha!, started my own business, got engaged, and got married! i really never thought that i would own my business, but feel so blessed that i have had this opportunity. i have also had the great opportunity learn from people who have been in this business for much longer than myself such as, denis reggie, kevin kubota, dane sanders, corey mcnabb, and amber holritz. i have emerged myself into forums, workshops, and classes and have made a commitment to this business for the long haul. for many reasons and from much advice, starting july 1st blackbird photography will be changing to ashley hoskins photography. when i first started this business in november of 2007 i was hoping ;) that i would be getting engaged and married soon so, i didn't really feel like it was the best decision to name the business after my name, when i was hoping that my name was going to be changing in the next year, so blackbird was born. well, as you know, i did get married and do have a new name. after a year of explaining time after time that i was the girl behind the bird, i thought, ya know, now might be a good time for me to make the change so that when people see my logo, see my business, see my photos, they know that it's me. i want to be doing this job for a very long time and felt like this was kind of my commitment to the business.....taking ownership of my work. i LOVE my logo....always have since the moment i saw it, so that will stay the same....most everything will stay the same. one more really fun thing is that here within the next couple weeks, i will have a new blogsite!!!! i have been working on this for a really long time and could not be more excited about it. the web address for that will be www.ashleyhoskinsphotography.com. it's not live yet, so if you type it in, nothing will come up, but i will let you know when it's ready, trust me!! my hope for this blog is that it will be a place that you will visit often. i will be updating weekly, sometimes even daily with photo sessions, life experiences, and some fun wedding tips. between planning my own wedding last october, and being emersed into this business, i feel like i have learned a lot about the wedding planning process and want to start sharing that more with you.
i thank all of you for your support this past year , and i ask you now for your continued support in spreading the word of the business change! i will be sending reminders of the change once the blog is live.
thank you all again and much much much love.
sarah's bridal portraits
a little over a month ago i shot sarah's bridal portraits. i have been really excited about posting these pictures ever since then but had to hold off until after the wedding. sarah has such a fun loving personality and i really think that came through in her photos. here are some of my favs, ok, more like 20 of my favs.... =)
i love sarah's sassy personality showing through in this image
we had some great light, so i had to play with a little flair.....
it was a little bit of a windy day...and sarah had this AWESOME vail that was her mothers, sometimes it didn't want to cooperate, but made for a fun shot here! i love sarah's laugh!
sooooooo sarah!!
one of my favorites...
June 22, 2009
sarah and mitch sneak peak
so, we just got back from augusta, and let me tell you, augusta is HOT. it was 103 degrees outside on saturday and with the humidity felt like about 113. it like took your breath away it was so hot. all that being said, i had the honor of working with some great friends of mine and capturing their special day. i absolutely love sarah and mitch and could not be happier for the two of them. i started going through their pictures on our way home yesterday and this one really stood out to me. i knew when i took it, it was going to be one of my favorites......many more awesome pics to come =)
June 12, 2009
headin' to bonnaroo!!
so in a little less than 2 hours we will begin our journey to bonnaroo. bonnaroo is a very special place to me. its where i became best friends with a guy named justin about 6 years ago at my very first time at bonnaroo. i knew then that if i ever went back to that place, i wanted him to be with me. and he has been ever since. i have been several times, but never in a million years could i have dreamed i would be going back to be on the other side. the last time i went to bonnaroo the band hadn't even been born yet...but here we are now, my husband and buddies not only playing once, but TWICE at bonnaroo. i can't even tell you how excited we are about this weekend. i have been having dreams about it for months now and can't believe it's really here. if you, or someone you know is at bonnaroo, tell them to come check out the DIRTY GUV'NAHS! Saturday at 5:20 AND Sunday at 6:10. their shows are so fun and you are guaranteed to have a great time. well, i better start getting all my billions of things that i bring to bonnaroo together. just wanted everyone to know also, my blackberry broke yesterday (sigh)....so i won't be able to receive any emails while i am gone, or facebook, or twitter......but promise to respond as soon as i get back....hopefully having met bruce springsteen or ben harper! =)
oh, and i just found this picture!! this is a pic of justin and i on our way to our very first bonnaroo in 2003! i'm pretty sure this is where we were sitting in traffic for 21 hours........i should've known then, that if he could've put up with me through that, he was a keeper! =)
June 09, 2009
blake and mimi rust
so, i am FINALLY blogging some of my favorite photos from blake and mimi's wedding. i felt bad that it has taken me so long to get around to it that i wanted to go ahead and get some up but i'm still working on their slideshow. i have known blake rust since, well, for a really long time. i have grown up with him and his fabulous family since i was a little kid and love each and every one of them. i met mimi sometime after her and blake started dating and fell in love with her too so you can imagine how excited i was to shoot their wedding. blake and mimi are 2 words, SOOOOO SWEET! i took about a bagillion pictures because every time i turned around they were doing something so cute. they were soooo excited to be getting married and their pictures show it. they got married at farragut presbyterian church and had their reception at hunter valley farms. it was gorgeous and so much fun and i just could not be happier for the two of them. here are some of my favorites....remember there is a slideshow in the works! =)
June 04, 2009
a little taste of the new Mr. and Mrs. Rust =)
I had the absolute best time and Blake and Mimi's wedding a couple weeks ago and got a little trigger happy so it's taking me a while to get through my pictures because they are all so stinking cute! Just wanted to give a sneak peak of some oh-so-cute pictues to come.
May 28, 2009
beth and harrison's wedding
a couple weeks ago i shot beth and harrison's wedding. i have always felt so blessed to have such great clients who have such great families! i had such a good time getting to know them and their families over the weekend. they had a beautiful wedding at cokesbury methodist church and an awesome reception at fox den to follow. we were lucky and had great weather during the day, but were followed with a pretty bad storm after the ceremony, but we got as many shots as we could and made the best of it. here are some of my favorites.
also, don't forget to check out the slideshow for even more great shots from their day.
i loved the way that beth's dad looked at her all weekend. it was so sweet. i really love shooting rehearsals. it's when the fact that you are getting ready to get married becomes real.
i don't normally shoot a lot of portraits inside the church, but we took a few and this one really stood out to me.
