A couple of weeks ago now, I shot Amberly and Carson’s engagement photos down at White Rock Lake. I’ve never shot down there, but I ride my bike around there fairly often, and I’ve seen a few different areas I thought might make for some good photos. I didn’t realize that it would take a lot longer than I thought to walk to all of them, though. Amberly and Carson were both troopers though and we hoofed it all around the lake for the sake of getting some sweet shots, and I think it was worth the effort. They were a ton of fun to shoot and so natural in front of the camera, it really made my job pretty easy! I hope you enjoy the images!

Last weekend I shot some engagement photos for Kimberly and Harrison, who are getting married in just a few more weeks! I’m really excited to get to shoot their wedding, and I know it will be such a beautiful day! I actually shot Kim’s bridals earlier today, so stay tuned for a preview image from that session, and of course the rest of the images will be put up after the wedding. I hope you guys love your engagement photos, and I can’t wait for the wedding!

I apologize for not being very active the past month or so. Many of you know I just got married a couple of weeks ago, so life was kind of hectic for a while, but married life is settling down nicely for Amanda and I now.

Back in November I had the pleasure of capturing the wedding of one of my friends from my hometown, Guthrie Alexander, and his lovely wife Brittney. They both graduated from The University of Texas and live in Austin – you might have seen their awesome house when they were on HGTV’s “Property Virgins” a while back. Their wedding was exciting for me for many reasons. From a personal standpoint, the amount of love present during their celebration was inspiring, and the sense of family shared by everyone in attendance was simply incredible. From a technical standpoint, shooting the wedding was challenging because I was out of my element – the sun sets about 5:00 in Texas in November, so I had no daylight to work with and had to improvise a little bit. The pace of the evening was also quite a bit quicker than what I am used to, so I had to stay on my toes and kind of make things up on the fly, but I feel like I was able to get some good images because of that. Anyway, enough talking and on to the reason you are here!

I love the details on her dress!

Things are always a little crazy in the girls’ room when hair and makeup is happening, but Brittney was joyful the entire day!

Guthrie gave Brittney a purse full of handwritten notes. When Brittney first opened it up, she thought it was just trash, but after I suggested she take a closer look, she was on the verge of tears. That’s not a good thing when you’ve just had your makeup done!

Brittney gave Guthrie a new watch, and once he got cleaned up the man of the evening was looking pretty sharp!

I rode with the bridal party and the groom over to the ceremony. I knew as we were getting in the limo that a good time was in store for the rest of the evening. I love the shot of Guthrie in the limo!

I love these shots. So prime!

Isn’t she a gorgeous bride?

The ring bearer was pretty shy, but so adorable!

Here he is trying to get a better look at what’s going on…

After the ceremony I hopped in the limo with the bride and groom on the way back to the hotel for the reception.

I love this shot of them coming up the escalator to the ballroom.

In case you can’t tell, Guthrie is a big fan of Chipotle. That giant burrito on his cake was full of Italian creme!

Such a sweet couple!

I love her expression in this shot!

Guthrie’s mom was pretty emotional during their dance, and this was such a sweet moment.

After the reception formalities I managed to steal away the bridal party to take some shots out in the lobby. The girls were having a good time!

The guys were enjoying themselves as well!

I love this quiet little moment.

And this one was one of my favorites from the evening. I love the colors, the textures, and their expressions!

If you like the images, please leave a comment in the form below!

Brittney and Guthrie – thank you so much for letting me be a part of your special day. I hope you guys enjoy your images, and I know that you will have a wonderful marriage!

A few weeks ago I got to check out a new location up near McKinney to shoot some engagement photos for Lauren and Travis. Lauren and my fiancé Amanda are friends from church, and she actually works for the same company I do. She and Travis are both Aggies as well, so naturally they are wonderful people! Although they were a little concerned with how they did on the shoot, they were a ton of fun and I think they did a great job! Having Amanda and our friend Katie along for comedic relief definitely helped, too! After the experience of shooting them for their engagements, I’m really excited to get to shoot their wedding in June, because I know it will be a blast! I hope you guys enjoy the images!

A few weeks ago now I had the great pleasure of shooting John and Nancy’s beautiful wedding at Reunion Ranch just north of Austin, near Georgetown. With all of the rain we have had in Texas the past few months they were a little nervous since the wedding was outside, but the weather turned out to be gorgeous, and the wedding was an absolute blast. The best part about it was being surrounded with some of my closest friends (practically family) from college, and having my great friend and photographer D.O. shooting with me as well. Here are a few of my favorite images from the wedding leading up to the reception. Hopefully I will be able to post some reception images soon.

I meant to post up some of my favorite images from Nancy’s bridal session in Dallas right after the wedding in Georgetown, but, in case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been a little busy lately. I guess that’s really neither here nor there, but let it be known that I am almost married, and hopefully the crazy busy life will calm down a little bit. For the time being, please bear with me and I promise I’ll do my best to blog as often as I can! I hope you enjoy the images, and if you do, let me know in the comments section below! Thanks!

Yesterday evening I had the joy of meeting the future wife of my good friend (and fellow Luther Boy) John Banks. Nancy, John’s fiance, wanted me to shoot some bridal portraits for her before their wedding in October, and since they were going to be up in Dallas for the weekend, we decided to seize the opportunity to go out and shoot. The weather was perfect – not too hot – and clear, sunny skies. The images turned out amazing, if I do say so myself, but I have to admit it makes my job really easy when I’m shooting a good looking girl like Nancy. Obviously, since the wedding isn’t until October, I can’t show all the images, even though I really want to, but for now, this little preview will have to do. John and Nancy, I know your wedding is going to be gorgeous, and I’m so glad that I’ll have the pleasure of shooting it! I can’t wait!

This past Friday I had the pleasure of traveling up to Rochester, Minnesota to shoot the wedding of my friend and coworker Garrett and his wonderful new wife, Dani. The trip was a blast, the weather was gorgeous, and both families were absolutely incredible and full of love for one another. It was truly moving to see them join together, and I am so thankful that they allowed me to be a part of it. Congratulations you guys, I wish you the very best!

I have to admit I have a thing for the vintage look that people get shooting Holgas and Holgaroids. Why I don’t just shell out the $30 for a Holga and shoot some film, I don’t know. Maybe I will soon, because they’re not that expensive and they look like a ton of fun, even though the only choice you have (for the most part) is your film speed. For now, I have the flexibility of shooting however I want with my digital rig, and I don’t have to send medium format film off to get processed. This nifty little program called AnalogColor lets you play around with your digital files to give them a lo-fi vintage look, and you can even simulate light leaks and put a decent “polaroid” style border around your photos. I don’t know how much I will use this going forward, but for now, here are the previous post’s images after processing with AnalogColor. I think they’re pretty neat.

So, I actually got engaged over a month ago, on May 30th, but I haven’t posted anything on here yet. Part of the reason is because I don’t really have any proper photos of me and my beautiful fiancé, and part of the reason is I have just been too busy to do it. Since we are fortunate enough to have the amazingly talented Michael Norwood shooting our wedding, we are going to hold off on doing engagement photos until we’re able to do bridals at the same time, to save him a trip, but we wanted to do photos for our save the dates, which put us in a bit of a predicament. I recently saw some amazing shots that Nate and Jaclyn Kaiser did using a tripod and a timer, so I decided to give it a go and set up the shots and run around and get in them before the shutter went off. I think it worked out fairly well. Here are a handful of the images Amanda allowed me to post (partly kidding). There are some really good ones that will be going in the personal file, as well as the one we chose for our save the date cards (not shown here). Enjoy!