thanks so much to michelle from lemiga event management for featuring us on her blog! check out the interview here and for all of you brides to be out there stop by her open house soiree on august 24th to get some great ideas! (and say hello! we’ll be shooting the event!) :)
hello from the beach!! matt and i were so excited when we got the call to shoot an engagement session here; we don’t give ourselves a lot of breaks so it’s a good thing our clients make it happen! more from the beach shoot later, right now i want to talk about a couple we’ve been blessed to have gotten to know pretty well – a couple that totally cracks us up – a couple that is totally in love. allison and adam met up with us at piedmont park last wednesday for their engagement pics and really, we just hung out. yes we took a b.zillion shots as well but they were relaxed and funny and up for anything so it was like spending an afternoon in the park with friends. so anyway, allison and adam rocked. their reception is at park tavern so taking shots around the park really fit in with their theme and it was the perfect place to bring the rest of their family, gunner and maggie. here are a few of our favorite shots:
these dogs are such a part of the family, this picture cracks me up how the dogs seem so human:
dogs on guard while their parents share some quality time:
every man needs a picture with his dog like this. note: allison is actually behind adam in this pic with little gunner, but you can’t see her at all, which really, i think it hilarious:
the fam: :)
i really love this next image. it is so blown out by the sun but the little pieces of the image that are left really fit together nicely in my opinion:
i’m happy to end on this pic, it’s just so warm and romantic:
allison & adam, it was awesome to spend so much time with you guys! thanks so much for an amazing shoot and even better company. we’re really excited for the wedding – matt is already talking about the shots he has in mind for the cigar room, you guys rock!
ashley and joel are up so be sure to check them out!
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ok, so as you might’ve already noticed, this is matt filling in for kate this morning so don’t expect your usual sass…
just last week i realized that we haven’t really shared with you what it’s been like now that altmix photography is a full-time gig; well let me tell you, it’s awesome!!! seriously, i don’t know how we did it before- how did we have the time to work on images, email our brides, sleep, to shower?… (ok, please let it be known that i’m totally kidding on that last one). it really has been fantastic though being able to focus on photography during the work hours and actually having some ‘us time’ in the evenings. back when we were first getting photography off the ground and when i still had my full-time agency job, i’m afraid we might’ve spent a little too much time working next to each other rather than spending time with each other… now i can’t complain; i’m with my baby alllll day long ;)
something else i wanted to do was to step back from the day-to-day posts of engagement sessions and weddings and take a quick overview of the business and how its going. sort of a ‘state of the business’- which honestly gets me really excited to think of how far we’ve come, man we’ve been so blessed!!! so i hate to bore some of you with the facts, but i love facts (i mean, i love color and some right brained creativity, but sometimes i need my left brain fix, so here we go):
january 2008:
– launched the website
– had 2 weddings booked for 2008
– made a goal to shoot 6 maaaaybe 7 weddings in 2008
– try to go full-time at some point in 2009
june 2008:
– well, we still have a website ;)
– currently have 28 weddings booked for 2008
– we’ve already shot 9 weddings so far
– went full-time in may of 2008
AND, we’ve already booked 12 weddings for 2009! (what?! thats just crazy…)
needless to say, we are pumped out of our minds with how fast this has happened and really can’t believe we’re getting to do what we love, amazing!… i know we’ve said it before, but thank you guys so so much for all the love, encouragement and for spreading the word. we really do feel it’s as much your business as it is ours and can’t wait to see where our adventures take us the rest of the year!
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oh, and ps: part of the reason kate isn’t posting is because she’s working on some new exciting stuff we’re about to offer- so current brides keep an eye on your inboxes!
