Natalie & Robeson's Wedding!

Last Saturday we shot a beautiful wedding for Natalie and Robeson. It was such a gorgeous day outside and everything went off without a hitch. It was a ton of fun and they both looked amazing! The wedding was at Winter Park Baptist Church, and reception was at Maison Jardin in Altamonte Springs. They left for their honeymoon on Sunday, but Robeson kept it a surprise from EVERYONE! So no one has any idea where they are right now... can't wait to hear where they ended up once they get home! Here's a few photos from their wedding, more to come soon!

Photographers are crazy...lol.

Someone posted this to my photography group this morning so I thought I would share. I've gotten some crazy photos of John shooting in really weird situations, laying on the ground, shooting funny things, etc but this was cracking me up!

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Cheers! Happy Monday!

Amy & Hunter!

These guys were such a blast to work with. They got engaged in January and we did their session at Hunter's family's lake house where he proposed. It was a fun shoot, and we really enjoyed working with them. They are getting married in December in Dallas, TX. We'll be doing Amy's bridals in the fall as well. It was a really beautiful day for a photo shoot, a bit windy, but we made it work. As we were leaving we got John's truck stuck in the sand and it took John and Hunter about 20 minutes to get it out! That was a first... we've been stuck in snow before, but never sand! Here's their session, such fun!

Girls Night OUT Parties!!!

CNP will be offering Girls Night Out parties for intimates sessions. Each $225 session will include a half hour of shooting time, and a 20 page 5x7 softcover book of your favorite images. Each book is custom designed, all images in the book are retouched, and make great gifts for that special someone in your life.

Kelli Durrant, Winter Park's fabulous makeup artist and hair stylist will also be available upon request. These sessions can take place at the studio or in your home. A minimum of 4 ladies will be required to book a party. As a hostess if you book six or more of your friends your session and book are complimentary. We'll have wine, chocolate, and a ton of fun! If you've wanted to have a intimates session this is the time to do it, and it will save you $450 off the normal rate.

All ladies must pay for their time slot in advance. If you are requesting hair and makeup assistance, that will need to be requested in advance as well. Please call 407-619-1359 to schedule your evening of choice and gather your friends for some fun!

Trash the Dress! Looking for former brides and models!

Hi there ladies!

So I am finally getting around to wanting to schedule some Trash The Dress sessions. If you don't know what I am talking about please go to Trash The Dress!

I would love to do several sessions in April for some of my former brides and models that would like to wear their dress one more time for the sake of art. While your dress may get dirty and need cleaned afterwards, we won't "trash" it literally. Brides and models must be willing to get wet, possibly in a hot springs, beach setting, etc. And also looking for a few "urban" type looks in downtown Orlando during the day, at night, in alleys, etc. Those that participate will receive a printable disk of their images in exchange for allowing us to play. We are looking for shots to submit to the Trash The Dress site, for our website and for samples of our work. All brides and models must sign a release for us to display the images in order to be considered. We are going for "out of the box" looks, sexier and not your average bridal session.

If you are interested please zip me an email back and let me know which days and times are good for you. I'd love to get a group of brides together for a shot with several brides in one image. Saturday afternoons and evenings in April are preferred. Thanks for considering this, and hope to hear back from you!

:) Cristy

A Horse, An old Jag, A MoPed, and a Sunset!

Ozzie and Johanna ROCK! They were sent to us from Jenny & Brian whose wedding we shot last year. Ozzie was a groomsman for Brian. They were so fun! We did these at the Johanna's parents house and Max her horse has been hers since she was a child. The weather was cold today...brrrr...and very windy! Gotta love it when couples do what you ask... I told them to kiss and *ahem*... I blushed they got it sooo right...lol. Their wedding is in late May, so stay tuned! Here's their engagement slideshow!

A plea for help...

Imagine having a beautiful child.
Imagine finding out your beautiful child won’t survive past two years old.
Imagine having ONE wish for your child.
Imagine everyone banding together to make the wish a reality.

This is the story of Lilie’s family, and this is me (and hopefully all of you), committing myself to find a way to make this happen! Lilie is terminally ill. She has been diagnosed with GM1 Gangliosidosis. It is a rare, incurable lysosomal storage disease (enzyme deficiency) that will ultimately take her life by what research shows. . . by the age of two. She will continue to degenerate, go blind, have seizures, and eventually lose all ability to move and succumb to this disease. She is all but blind and her mom (Jen) is spending her last days enjoying what life is left in her daughter.

All Jen wants to do is take her daughter to the Ocean before she dies and Make a Wish will not grant them the wish because she is under two and they believe that Lilie will not get any benefit from it that it would only benefit the FAMILY… Jen is devastated.

Visit their Caring Bridge page here: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lilieclark

This family is a dear friend of a good friend of mine. I’m asking for your help. Myself (along with a couple photographer friends of mine) would love to be able to get them to Florida. If we can get them to Florida (there are 6 in their family), they can stay with family…but with tons of medical expenses, right now it just isn’t possible.

So I’m asking for your guys’ help….anything that you could donate to this fabulous cause….$5, $20, $500…I get approximately 500 visits to my blog daily, if each person donated just $10, we could have $5000 in just one day…that would be A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!! Put yourself in their shoes, imagine having one last wish for your child.

I have set up a Paypal account for the donations. If you are willing to help out, please go to Paypal and send funds to the following address sulrich@neb.rr.com.

Caroline & Scott's Wedding!!!

Wow! What a weekend! Caroline and Scott's wedding was beautiful! Everything went off without a hitch thanks to Susie and Donna from Wonderful Weddings of Winter Park! They were the coordinators of the day and did an absolutely amazing job! They were always there when we needed something and that made our jobs so much easier! Thanks Susie and Donna!

The ceremony was held at the First Presbyterian Church of Downtown Orlando. What a beautiful church! The reception was held at Interlachen Country Club, again totally gorgeous and they did a fabulous job! The food was sooo good, and the service was impeccable! The girls had their hair and makeup done at Stella Luca Salon in Winter Park, and of course they were all so beautiful! The flowers....ahhh the flowers just stunning! They were done by Lee Heard. The colors, the arrangements, the tables, everything was so elegant! Videography was done by Perfect Sky Productions, thank you to Sky for working so well with us. We hope to do more weddings with you again in the future! The cake was made by Linda Kotch, everyone commented on how yummy the cake was! The live band was Complete Desire out of Atlanta, GA. Man can they put the beats down... such fun!! Trolley transportation was provided by Mt. Dora Trolley Company, that was such a fun way to get to and from the ceremony and something we've not done before!

Here's some sneak peeks from the wedding (yes more than a few)! Congratulations to the happy bride and groom who are on their honeymoon in the Virgin Islands!! More photos can be viewed on Caroline and Scott's Wedding Website!!I'm telling you the flowers were beautiful!Scott... right before the ceremony.

Caroline and her dad Mike... the look on his face and him trying so hard not to cry... makes me tear up!

Snuck this one in as they were closing the doors at the back of the church.
From the church balcony...
The wedding party.
The bling...
Back of the trolley fun!At Interlachen

First Dance

The send off!

Ahhh can share Caroline's Bridals!!

Since the wedding has come and gone I can now share Caroline's bridal session. We shot them at her parents house in Winter Park and really had a great time. Working on the wedding photos now. I'll post a few to preview soon!

Took a day OFF!

After the long weekend shooting Caroline and Scott's wedding and rehearsal dinner, John took the day off, as did I, and we took the girls to Seaworld. We hadn't been there in quite a while and we always enjoy it. Here's a few shots from out day courtesy of our point and shoot... I'm starting to realize that not all photos have to be perfect... I spend so much time worrying about perfection that I often miss the moments that we will remember the most with our family. So point and shoot it was yesterday... nice to not have to drag the "mack daddy" camera around with us all day! Days off don't last long...back to the grind today!Grandma bought these glasses... such Jackie O don't cha think??

Getting big, lil miss thang is 11 weeks already!I could sit at the dolphin tank all day...literally!Daddy and his girls!The girls and I taking in the serenity under the dolphin tank.

These guys were too cute, all snuggled up sleepin!

She sooo badly wanted her picture taken here!

John had the idea that we should take this shot everytime we go to Seaworld. We can see how much Shaylee grows since the horses are always the same size!

Took this while John was riding the rollercoaster.Ahhh the end of a long day... gotta love babies sleeping so peacefully amidst all the noise!

Two of my favorite brides!

I love all of our brides, but rarely do I get to do anything fun with them without a camera in my hand... after Caroline's wedding we went to 310 Park South for a few cocktails, and Graham came to join in on the fun, so I wanted to get a photo with them (thanks to John for taking it!). Both of these girls are awesome and we really enjoyed both of their weddings so much! Had to share this shot... I felt like schlumpy stuck between these two hotties, but ahhh such is life! Images from Caroline's wedding to follow soon!

Another beautiful bride!

We did an awesome bridal session this past Saturday with Caroline! I can't show the images until after her wedding but WOW... what a beautiful bride she is! Aren't I a tease?? Scott is a very lucky guy and I can't wait to see the look on his face when he sees her for the first time!! We must be doing something right, we get the most beautiful brides!!

:)

Natalie & Robeson Downtown Engagments!

You may remember Natalie and Robeson from two weeks ago. We shot them at the beach and they allowed us to take them downtown again and play with some new lighting stuff that we've been working on. We hit Church Street in downtown Orlando and found some awesome spots to shoot! Here's the slideshow from that session!

Some photos of US!

We were lucky enough to have photos of us taken by Tanja Butler-Melone of Contemporary Expressions Photography. She traveled from Denver for convention and we got the opportunity to have her shoot our new image for our websites. A special thank you to Tanja... girl you rock!!

Convention was a BLAST!

Well we are back from convention and I'm finally getting around to getting some of my normal stuff done. The convention was at the Embassy Suites in Orlando, we ended up staying there the entire time to save us from traveling with two kiddos and dragging all of our stuff back and forth. John's mom was in town so she helped watch the kids which was so helpful! We had a great time, got tons of inspiration and ideas for 2008, and got to see lots of our photography friends again! We had fabulous speakers David Jay, Garrett Nudd, Doug Box, Jen Hillenga, and Mike Fulton, just to name a few! All of the speakers did an amazing job and we learned a ton from them! Here's a few images from the events. We had sooo much fun!Cher, my other "stepmom"...lol. She's taken me on as one of her own children and I just love her!Some fun time watching Garrett Nudd shoot a beautiful bride!
A shot from one of the workshops about photographing children. Our little girl ended up being a model, can you imagine having 100 photographers chasing you down with cameras? YIKES!The convention planning committee (missing John, he took the photos!). That's me second from right.
And a very special Congratulations to my friend Barbara who won Best in Show for her awesome image! If you haven't seen her work you can check it out HERE!

Convention was so great this year! Can't wait to fly to Phoenix for next year's events!

MIA for a few days...

John and I are in South Orlando for a few days at a photography convention. We will not be replying to emails until Monday, February 11th. Please bear with us as we spend 5 days learning and enjoying hearing from the best photographers in the industry!

:)

Natalie & Robeson!!

These guys were so much fun to work with! They are just giddy about each other which always makes getting great shots so easy! We will be doing a second engagement session with them in downtown Orlando at night in two weeks so stay tuned! Their wedding is March 29th and we are really looking forward to it! Here's the slideshow of their session. Enjoy!

We are smiling!

Camdyn is full of smiles these days. She loves to make eye contact and gets the biggest grin when you look at her! She already seems so aware of her surroundings and enjoys being talked to and all of the interaction. Here's a few snapshots that we took yesterday. I got them both to smile at the same time which is a first! YAY!

Graham & Travis' Wedding Album!

Check out the wedding album preview for Graham and Travis! This is one of the my favorite albums I've ever done. Looking at it totally brings back all the fun of their wedding day. It was such a beautiful and fun wedding! To view this album in a larger format please click HERE! Enjoy!