{nostalgia}: wedding photography

I'm feeling very nostalgic this morning. Rachel and I shot our last wedding together last night and it mad me a little sad. I love wedding photography. I love the giant dresses, I love the chaos, and I love the cake. I'm also suddenly feeling a little old. Not too old, but realizing that I'm past some of the more juvenile parts of young weddings. It's sad not having the business that we once did, but we just don't have the time! Weddings are HUGE, and when I mean huge I mean 30-40 hours of editing huge. Now that I'll be home it seems like something I could more realistically tackle, but not with Paisley. And I don't want to do it alone. I've grown accustomed to having a buddy with weddings. It's nice. We flow well, and at this point with as many weddings as we've done, we're like a well oiled machine. That was part of the fun part-shooting this wedding took me back to a short time ago before babies, husbands and so much going on in life. A time where if we weren't shooting a wedding every weekend, we were editing a wedding every weekend. It was fun. We had good times...

I'm excited moving forward to do things on my own, but I do miss you Rachel... ;-)

{memories}: photography

Rachel and I have a folder called "april's behind." I flipped through it and it made me laugh so I thought I would share with you. It's a bunch of our test shot that we somehow land ourselves in...

These last two were donations from other photographers...

{rant}: photography

I've really put off ranting about this, but I saw yet another blog with yet another photographer who sucks at photography. Now, I am not saying that Rachel and I are the very best photographers on the planet. What I am saying is that we invested A LOT of school, time, money and equipment into what we do. We actually have professional equipment. We actually went to school for photography and digital motion picture production. We took classes in how to do things the right way. We've attended things like WPPI and worked hard to make a break into the wedding industry here in St George by advertising and putting on booths in the wedding show. We competed with the 60 other photographers last year and got voted for the cover of St George's Wedding magazine. Yet business is slow, and everyone is hiring crappy neighbors over us that just have a "cool" camera and learned how to use Photoshop Elements or some other crappy computer program. Why did I bother doing college at all? It makes me so crazy because now that digital has taken over, everyone with an SLR thinks they are a photographer, and they're not. Not at all. Go do the work if you want to charge people money! Pay business license fees, property taxes and sales taxes! Why do we bother doing things the right way??!!? Grrrr. I just get so fed up with it all. And really, not as much anymore because I'm too busy as of yet to even pick up a camera, but really that's what I would like to be busy doing...

{family pictures}: autumn

We went out for some adventures in LaVerkin with Jake & Rachel to do pictures. We figured it was about time to make it official and take real pictures of the whole family. Jon made sure to brag to Jamie that she wasn't invited (she was very upset).