Blackbird Photography

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.

beth and harrison wedding slideshow!! =)

engagement session at the workshop

while at the mcnabb workshop we also shot a mock engagement session.  we had two great models, ian and nicole.  nicole owns this awesome company called studio wed.  as of right now there are two locations in asheville and one in atlanta, but she is opening more soon!  i just loved getting to know nicole and ian.  they are such a fun couple and were definite troopers in the rain for our shoot.  we had pretty nasty weather the whole time we were in asheville, but the rain managed to stay away long enough to get our shoots in so i can't complain!  here are some of my favorite images from our shoot.  

i just loved the way that ian was all nuzzled in nicole's hair.

nicole has "the look" down pat!

McWorkshop Photos

i'm home again.  i had such a great week this last week in asheville, north carolina attending corey mcnabb's "mcworkshop".  i have been really blessed this past month to attend such great workshops and learn from some really talented and brilliant people.  i have said so many times this past month that i just feel really blessed to be in this industry...an industry that is full of people who are fun, smart, and just love other people.  photography has so much to do with relationships and that's why i love it.  building relationships with fellow photographers has been something that i have been craving, and really needing, and i'm so glad i have been able to do that.  we got to shoot as some really great places while in asheville, one of which was the biltmore.  it rained every single day, including the day we were at the biltmore but we got so lucky and the rain only lasted for about 20 minutes or so and then we had beautiful skies.  it was kind of cool to be able to shoot in such different light from one hour to the next.  we also did a great engagement session and a night shoot as well and i will be posting some of those pictures tomorrow, until then, here are some of my favorite pictures from the biltmore....

this is probably one of my favorite images ever, the light, the clouds, the drama.  love it!