Hillary & Jorge ::: Wedding

Last weekend before I headed back to Nashville I shot Hillary & Jorge’s incredible wedding in Oak Park at St. Giles! I grew up next door neighbors to Hillary so it was so much fun to catch up after all these years...and to shoot in my old romping grounds! There were forecasted to be bad storms all day but thankfully it only poured during the ceremony and then was the most beautiful lighting the whole rest of the day! Incredible! The reception was then at The Lodge in Oak Brook which is attached to the McDonalds headquarters which even though the place is super classy it has little mcd’s surprises here and there including passing out cheeseburgers at the end of the reception! So hilarious! The day flowed so perfect and to see the two of them catch the sweetest glimpses at each other or make each other laugh so hard made my heart melt. Also seeing how much the families were involved in the day was so beautiful and showed where the priorities were! Loved it! Here are some of my favorites from the day below and the **SLIDESHOW HERE**

The Lookbook!

Back in December my beautiful friend Sierra and I sat down for coffee to catch up and to also talk biz... she was getting ready to put together the second edition of her Nashville fashion magazine The Lookbook... an online and in print magazine feature all the local and international designers and stores with incredible editorial stories throughout. It's genious! I've seen her build this from the ground up, from a simple idea one day last year to now her second publication and SUCH a successful release party as well! We decided to team up during that meeting and I started doing little videos for the lookbook featuring the looks that were IT now as well as being able to advertise in the latest magazine! I was so happily surprised that the ad made the second page too! This was my first advertisement ever so I was prettty excited, especially cause it featured one of my favorite weddings...Kevin & Karen!
So proud of Sierra and all that she has accomplished! Check out her site **HERE** and be inspired!

The interns ::: April 2010

Back in April I once again headed to Chicago...I know I know...pretty much every post here lately is heading to Chicago...but I still work a lot up there as well;) Plus it's nice to be able to spend time with my family while there as well!
I have been doing wedding internships which is the same internship that I have been teaching for the past several years but minimized into 4 days and based around shooting a wedding. So many of the past interns had come out again after the longer internships to shoot weddings with me so I figured why not combine it and make it more personal just having two girls at a time? It has worked so well that way! Even though it is a JAM packed couple of days it is so much fun and as always getting to know these girls on a much more personal level makes it that much more exciting! We shot Esther and Dave's wedding which I posted back a few posts ago then spent the rest of the time developing their brands, photography skills, and biz savvy. So great! Plus we had the internship at my family's house so of course my fam of 9 adopted these two as there own and didn't want them to leave!
Even when I went back last week my little sisters were asking about these girls! I love them!

Amanda Megan Miller
Amanda has such a passion to learn and grow that I loved to see. Originally having an art major and not really wanting to get into "this" type of photography as it was usually looked down upon in the art world she realized she had such a passion to capture people and real emotion rather than bare landscapes. I think she chose so well as she is so gifted with people already and has such a beautiful heart that drawing out people's real sides I'm sure will be no hard task! Plus she just released an incredible new brand and site so check it out at the link above!!

Sarah Pence
Ahh Sarah...I actually met her several months before the internship at her dad's chiropractors office. I had heard all about her through her dad and then to finally get to meet her and talk photography was a treat! She is so so precious and has one of the sweetest spirits I know. I love that really every little thing she has learned she has taken and run with it. Even once she got to the internship she had applied the few things we had talked about at our first meeting. I love it. She has quite the eye as well and surprised me at her skill especially justtt starting out! She is going to go far I know...and I can't wait to see how she thrives in this art!

Sarah & John ::: Wedding

Last weekend I headed to Chicago to shoot Sarah & John's wedding! The day turned out so beautiful, despite the rain we were able to find some great places to shoot! Probably the best part of the day was when they told me that the church that the wedding was being held at was the same place that Sarah's grandparents were married years ago...they had booked the church not even knowing that! What a perfect coincidence!
Sarah and I grew up together, so being able to be a part of her wedding day was so special and the fact that she found such an awesome guy who compliments her so perfectly couldn't make me happier!! It was absolutely beautiful to see the family and friends all come together even all the way from Italy to celebrate the day! Here is a slideshow of the day ***CLICK HERE*** and some of the favorites below.

Hillary & Jorge ::: Engagement

This past Sunday my two interns, who were in town, and I headed to gorgeous River Forest and my old neighborhood to shoot Hillary & Jorge and hang before their wedding this weekend! They are so so much fun...I literally almost couldn't shoot a few times because I was laughing so hard! Sadly the rain put a little damper on the day as it got almost as dark as night at one point but we got a few great shots in between the rain bursts! Can't wait for the wedding this weekend! If it's anything like this shoot we will have hurting sides and smiles by the end of the day;) Check out the **SLIDESHOW HERE**

Josiah ::: Fashion ::: HIGHLINE

A couple weeks ago while in NYC we met up with AMAX model Josiah who was out there for a month working! I was a little worried we wouldn't get to shoot as the weather kept not cooperating. But the last day everything worked out for a good hour so we headed to the Highline park in the meat packing district. It's an old raised railroad that they have not converted into a several block walkway. Soo brilliant! I'm excited about the shots we got!!

Stephen ::: Fashion ::: Desert Sweater

Totally forgot I hadn't posted these yet. Did some location scouting one day down in Franklin & randomly decided to do a shoot with everything we had in our cars...ended up into one of my favorite shoots...as well as some hookah smoking at the end. Quality.
A woman or man dare not be called a worthy model so long as they are ignorant of the spontaneous nature of art.(David Allio)