Hey there! Today I have two posts to share, this first one is about my new friend Mandi Mitchell. She is a photographer in Atlanta as well and so graciously offered her and her husband up for my model search a couple weeks ago I did on my facebook fan page. I was looking for a couple who’s married that wanted to dress back up in their wedding clothes and do sort of a Trash the dress or Day after session, which ever you know it as, and let me re-photograph them in wedding attire. Just a little note for those who are not photographers, Trash the Dress doesn’t have to mean that you ruin it, Its really a way to just get dressed back up in your Dress after the wedding and go into places that are really pretty and take pictures there w/out worrying about getting the bottom dirty, etc.

They volunteered and I was so glad, to capture their love on camera! If you notice they’re in the video that I got filmed by Ron Dawson of Dare dreamer media, for my promotional video. They look so adorable don’t they! 🙂 Well Here’s some of my favorites from that day.

I love this picture, I used a little more “Special effects” in my editing then I normally do, but I felt it called for it. Some pictures just speak to me, and this one told me what to do! I hope you enjoy it.

There are some moments that I will suggest poses to my couples, but I usually start out w/ something then just stand and watch as the pose evolves into real moments, my husband calls them posed moments, whatever you want to call them, they’re real, thats when I click the shutter. The moment below is one of those moments, I guided them to the place I wanted them to stand and even told them to stand that way w/ his hand on her, but then I told him to just talk to her in his ear, so that part is posed, but then the moment you see, is not! He is saying something that truly moved her and made her laugh, thats the moment I captured, thats what I love! This image shows the real true love they share! Thats why its probably my favorite!

Its funny when you have this vision in mind for how your going to do your photo shoot and you envision the sky is blue, amazing light and just everything perfect right? Well that’s not reality and its not what God chose to give us for Mandi and Josh’s shoot that day. We had cloudy sky’s but not much clouds just overcast, and no sun. So everything was really bright in the skyline, that sort of bummed me out because I was envisioning a beautiful skyline with blue fluffy clouds and the sun peaking through right before it sets, amazing right? Well instead I had to compensate for the brightness and still manage to capture some of the buildings. So I did what I could but, God knew what was in store, I actually LOVE the images just like this, I think its real, and thats really what my style is about, real moments that truly move people and that are not fake. So this is real life, cloudy day turned beautiful. Look at the image I still managed to capture below, I think the skyline is still incredible and it still really moves me! How about you?

So then we did a few more posey ones, but I absolutely love them!

So then we moved down towards another gorgeous section of Piedmont Park, i’m telling you, if your in Atlanta and have not been to Piedmont Park, theres a HUGE selection of places to go there, its beautiful and lush! These are more vibrant and I love that!

I love how you can see Mandi flirting w/ Josh, this is a perfect example of why I call my couple sessions “Flirt Sessions” 🙂

I think Josh looks so good here, he’s thinking about Mandi and how beautiful she looks, isn’t he! 🙂

A couple sweet kissy kissy pics before we’re through.