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Kari & James, a couple of Texas A&M Aggies in love.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Wow, we had a blast with Kari & James. We took a short trip up to College Station, home of the Texas A & M Aggies. Both Kari and James graduated from A&M and they really wanted to have their e-session done back at the old school. The local weather had been talking about rain and wind all week and we kept hoping that the weather would not be ugly. We ended up with a little breeze but an amazing South Texas fall day with an AWESOME sunset. Kari and James were so much fun and they really opened up to us. They gave us the nickle tour through various parts of the campus and told us about some of the traditions that were part of the areas we visited. A&M has so many amazing places to photograph and we were only able to make it to just a few places during our time there. We were so fortunate that they invited us back to the place that they spent so many days together and we look forward to going up to College Station to work with other Aggie grads.

The Century Tree – No Engagement photo on campus would be complete without a photo under this old Oak.

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Very Intimate Engagement at The Houstonian with Caitlin’s Marine.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

We had the honor of photographing Caitlin and Alex for what was basically a homecoming for Alex. They had been apart for a long time because Alex was stationed in Iraq with the Marines. He was only able to return for a couple of weeks for the wedding. Caitlin really wanted to have some photos of them at the wedding so we told her that we would make it happen for someone serving our country. Alex flew in on Monday, we did the shoot on a Wednesday and pulled an all nighter getting them processed and ready for them to view. They chose their photos and we overnighted them back from the lab to have for the wedding on Saturday. It was CRAZY!!!!, but worth it.

Cait and Alex were planning to spend the first night of their honeymoon at The Houstonian Hotel so she wanted to have her e-session photos done on the grounds of the hotel. The hotel has some awesome grounds that created the perfect backdrop for our shoot. Cait and Alex really opened up and let us capture the love they have for each other. I think you can see it in their photos. We had a blast working with them and feel honored that they spent part of their limited time together with us. Thanks guys for the amazing shoot!

Very Intimate!!

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Sparklers for your Grand Exit

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Last week Becca & I were chatting with Nickie who booked us for her wedding about using sparklers for her Grand Exit In the past, we have shot weddings where the sparklers looked really cool, ones where we were worried about the sparklers catching people on fire because they had such a huge flame, sparklers that smoked so bad you couldn’t see the bride and groom and weddings were the sparklers burnt out as quick as you lit them. After telling Nickie about all the different things that we have seen she asked where she could get sparklers that would work best for her wedding. I had no idea so we decided to go to the net and find out what we could. We came across several sites that looked to be among the best places to get information as well as actually purchase sparklers designed for weddings. They are available year round and legal to purchase for a wedding no matter what time of year it happens to be.

The first has been written up in Weddings magazine and looks to be a really good place to look first. They have alot of photos and some info on the use of their sparklers along with a really good plan to get them lit efficiently. Sparkle

The next one looks to be a good site as well and has alot of information on the Sparklers use. Skylighter

Hopefully this will help all of you who are considering their grand exit with sparklers. I know it will help make your photos that much better by using the best type of sparkler for your event.

Keep Smilin!!

Scott

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