Pangburn Photography: Blog

2009-11-05T02:57:00.002-07:00

Sarah + Dave - Sneak Peek

I know I've become the queen of sneak peeks lately but here's just one more. This totally chic wedding will be landing on the blog very soon!!!

2009-11-02T02:40:00.004-07:00

Boldly Going Where No Photographer Has Gone Before....

Ok so that was cheesy, but Joey and I had SOOOO much fun dressing up this Halloween as Star Trek characters I just had to share a quick picture we snagged at the party we went to! I worked hard all week sewing the costumes from scratch and I'm so stoked about how well they came out! I was inspired since Joey bought me the entire first season of the original star trek series for my birthday and I've been watching them non-stop. I never realized just how big a trekkie fan I really am until now, but it's ok I'm learning to embrace my inner geek.

Is it wrong that now I want to dress up in them again and go to one of the trekkie conventions!?

I hope everybody had fun! Tons of photos hitting the blog this week so stay tuned!

2009-10-28T16:39:00.006-07:00

LET THE HOLIDAY MADNESS BEGIN

BOOK YOUR SESSION NOW!

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And since posts are always so so so much better with pictures, here's just a taste of the kind of shots we are getting at our new studio! This one is from a super fun senior session I did a couple of weeks ago many more from this shoot to come!

2009-10-23T17:32:00.011-07:00

Ben + Megan - Allenspark Colorado

Ok, where to start with this wedding! I was so stoked when I got an e-mail from Ben wanting to talk to us about his wedding in Colorado, because:

1) Any excuse to get out of the Arizona heat is awesome.

and

2) Because Ben was a groomsmen at Amy and Austin's awesome wedding that I photographed last year, and if you are a friend of theirs you're pretty much guaranteed to be awesome as well. And they totally are.

So we were super super super excited for this wedding, and it sure didn't let us down! Everything was just so perfect and the location was just gorgeous. AND to top everything off one of my best friends and photographer Timco came along to help me out as a second shooter on this one! But enough with the talk, I'm pretty sure this mammoth post can sum up how awesome it was without me talking any more! :)

Timco snapped these two...

Totally amazing ring shot by Joey :)

I also adore this one that Tim got... totally jealous it's not mine!

Joey get's the best wide angle photos of ceremonies!

Cake shot by Joey as well! He is turning into such an amazing photographer!!!

Whew! That was a long one! Thank you guys so so so much for letting us tag along!

2009-10-20T02:12:00.002-07:00

Sneak Peek - Lera + Nate

Joey and I just got back yesterday from an amazing photo shoot up in northern AZ and I just HAD to show you one of the images we got while we were up there. TONS more to come later!!!!

2009-10-15T03:50:00.004-07:00

QUESTION - Photo Classes & Workshops

Hey All! I know I've been lagging in blogging again... I really am trying :( Time seems to keep getting away from me and then I realize it's been yet another week with now blog updates. So I am going to REALLY try and get better at this.

But!

I wanted to ask all you guys a quick question! I am thinking about teaching two photo classes at my studio this January

one beginner class for newbies to photography who want an uber fun crash course on how to use their SLR camera and how to take a decent photo.

and maybe a more advanced class for pro photogs wanting to improve upon their photography where I'd go over all my little tips and tricks I've learned myself over the years.

What I really need to know is if there is enough interest in either of these two classes for me to start putting one together.

So here's the deal. If you yourself or a family member or friend or whomever you know is seriously interested in taking one of these classes from me, shoot me an e-mail at inquiries@pangburnphotography.com so I can get an idea of how many people would actually want to sign up for something like this.

Thanks guys!

2009-10-07T17:00:00.001-07:00

Self timers are fun :)

This was from our trip to Colorado to photograph Megan + Ben's amazing wedding, which I'll be getting up here very soon!

2009-10-05T00:37:00.004-07:00

ANNA - 2010 Senior Rep

I am so backlogged on my blogging! Ok here we go let's try and get caught up this week...

I had such an amazing time photographing Anna downtown, she was totally up for anything and an amazing model! I know she is going to be a huge hit in her musical theatre career!

See? She's just a little gorgeous...

Girls like this make my job too easy...

Doesn't she have an awesome smile?

FAVORITES! I love these two images...

How awesome is that pink dress!? I love having fun clothes to photograph!

I love these two as well....

Thank you so much Anna you were totally amazing to photograph!

2009-09-30T15:09:00.003-07:00

THE STUDIO IS OPEN!

Pangburn Photography Studio Opening from Kasie McCoy on Vimeo.

More photos to come!

2009-09-15T00:11:00.006-07:00

Shira + Chang

Joey and I are jetting out of town for a few days to colorado to photograph a wedding, and I just HAD to make sure and blog Shira and Chang's gorgeous wedding before I left!. Partly so you could have something new to look at while we're gone and partly because Shira has been waiting so patiently and I didn't want to make her wait until we come back to see a preview of what we have in store for her! So on with the photos!

When I first heard that Shira was going to wear her mothers wedding dress, for a moment all I could think of was what my mothers 80's style wedding dress looked like and to be honest was a bit worried lol... but then when we were at her parents home during their engagement session I saw a photo of it and quickly got very excited! It totally looks like it just waltzed out of the wardrobe department on an Audrey Hepburn movie.

Have I mentioned yet that I like pictures of shoes!?

Shira was so totally relaxed all day...

These photos are seriously so timeless, didn't I tell you her dress was amazing!?

Shira and Chang opted to do a first look so we could have lots of time to wander around the resort and take photos, I really love this one.

I seriously love this one too, Shira nicknamed Chang, "Chang Bond" for the day. I never realized how much I love bow ties!

Everything about this day had such an elegance it it.

Favorite! Thanks to my amazing second shooting on this wedding Shaun for pointing this spot out!

Ok seriously!? That photo on the left is straight out of old hollywood. I love it!

After pictures we went to sign the Ketubah, one of my favorite parts of this is when the groom veils his bride (after checking to make sure that it's really her under there). I really love this image I got of it!

Then it was on to the ceremony

I really love this image of their parents surrounding them...

Thank you guys for such an amazing amazing day!

Location: Westward Look Resort
Wedding Planner/Flowers: Marianne Langer

2009-09-09T15:33:00.006-07:00

WE HAVE A STUDIO!!!!

I know I have mentioned in posts lately that big things were happening and in the works and I can now finally announce that we are opening our first photography studio! We have been looking and looking forever for a space that would be just right for us and early this summer we found one and have been busy little bees working to update the space and remodel it. It's an old warehouse so we had an interesting time converting it for our needs, but I'm super stoked about how it has turn out in the end.

To celebrate our new studio we are throwing a HUGE party, and we want all of you.... YES YOU (and every friend you have who isn't busy that night), to come! We want to totally pack this place with as many people as we can fit! We're going to have a DJ, so make sure to bring your dancing shoes as we party the night away in celebration!

2009-09-07T00:04:00.003-07:00

A Birthday + A Wedding

This weekend was so awesome! Not only was it my birthday on Saturday, but it was Jesse (my brother-in-law) + Mickey's Wedding! I was so excited to not only be a part of their day, but also be Mickey's matron-of-honor. Mickey has such awesome taste and every detail was so perfect for the two of them, it was totally vintage glam with hints of tuscany. Jesse looked just like Cary Grant in his gray suit. I was so proud of my little brother and pretty much balled my eyes out the whole day, I am such an emotional sap. But seriously, these two are so awesome and so perfect for each other you can't help but be excited for them!

Mickey told me she wanted me to enjoy the day so they had Elizabeth (my amazing intern from last year) photograph the wedding so I could just concentrate on having fun. (how totally sweet is that!?) Of course they are just too darn cute for me to have not taken a single picture. So when they headed off for portrait time with just the two of them I tagged along and grabbed a couple pictures too.

It's late so I'm just going to share one for now just because I'm still so excited for them!

Congrats you two, you are amazing!

2009-09-02T14:22:00.005-07:00

Savannah Dotson - 2010 Senior Rep

More seniors!!! I was so excited when I got Savannah's application to be a senior rep, I seriously can't resist a girl with freckles! Then when we met up for her session and she showed me this amazing leather jacket she brought along I KNEW we had to go to one of my newest photo locations to test it out since it would be oh so perfect for her outfit! I'm so stoked to show you these images!

Doesn't this first one remind you of an old school flight movie?

I found this awesome old hanger to take pictures in there and IT WAS SO COOL!!!!

Of course Savannah was just a tad easy to photograph, so that didn't hurt either!

FAVORITE! I <3 Symmetry!

Dumpsters can be so beautiful...

I mean come on!? She could totally be a model...

I love this one too! Savannah was so great about being up for anything and everything!

Savannah, you are seriously gorgeous inside and out! Thank you for letting me take you picture :)

2009-08-28T13:43:00.006-07:00

Kristen Lane - 2010 Senior Rep

I am so excited to start unveiling some of our senior rep photos! These are the amazing seniors who we have choosen to represent our company for the 2010 school year. Our first rep is Kristen, who is totally amazing, I think I see a lot of myself in her so we got along fabulously. I mean what photographer wouldn't be over the moon when their client arrives with an entire van full of awesome clothing and props! I also got to shoot half of her session in my FAVORITE LOCATION... Bisbee... yes I know you might be sick of me talking about it... but I really love that town. So get ready to be excited because these photos came out so fantastic... I am just a bit proud of myself... having an amazing model sure helps too!

CAN WE SAY FAVORITE!? I am so in love with that guitar picture it hurts...
Are you kidding me!? This girl is so beautiful!
FAVORITE!!!!! I'm pretty much in love with this guitar picture as well...
Then on the way back to Tucson we made a quick stop in St. David to catch the oh so perfect sunset lighting...

FAVORITE!!! Ok I have lots of favorites from this one... so sue me...

Kristen you are totally amazing. Thank you for being up for anything and everything!

2009-08-23T23:52:00.018-07:00

Kayaks, Clowns, Sharks and Blue Hawaiians

I'm Back!!! I had so much fun visiting my parents but it feels so good to be sitting in my own home again tonight! You never really realize just how comfortable your own bed really is until you are having to sleep on other peoples for a long period of time! I know I was a horrible blogger while I was gone, I totally meant to share photos and talk about how I spent my days on the island, but with how busy we have been once I set foot on Oahu my body went into shut down vacation mode and I barley even touched my computer the whole time I was gone! (for a girl who spends almost 7-8 hours a day at her laptop... this is huge lol) In other words I needed to unwind and unplug and stop trying to do five million things in one day. So it was a good thing. But to give you a little run down of what I was up to while I was there here was my basic schedule:

Day 1: Arrive after a 6 hour plane flight, go out to lunch with my mom, relax at my parents new home

Day 2: Head over to Haleiwa and do some shopping (where I bought the cutest little swim suit on clearance) Later that night my mom got tickets for us to see a show in downtown Honolulu. It was a really odd/interesting/funny/experiential clown show. Where at one point I was carried out of the audience by clowns and up onto the stage where I was told to run around with them chasing after me. After my brief moment of fame I was firmly grasped by the wrist by a tall man who quickly dragged me around in utter darkness backstage and finally popped me out a side door with a quick "thank you".

Day 3: I had the brilliant idea that since I'm not really a "beach girl" per-say, I wanted to go kayaking in the ocean. And because I have some strange inability to do any type of exercise without a purpose I decided it would be fun to kayak to a small uninhabited nearby island about a mile off shore. Well this WAS a great idea until we discovered the point at which we had to put in with our Kayaks was not the ideal spot and much further down the beach lengthening my short little jaunt into a 4 mile kayak ride. And although I practically bathed in sunscreen... I fried... and when I say fried, I mean baked like a lobster. Not only that but since I was in a rather odd sitting position in our kayak for the 4 miles (and roughly 4 hours) I manifested the ugliest tans lines ever. Ever. This would not be so bad except for the fact that I am a bridesmaid in my brother-in-laws wedding on the 5th and we all have to wear short little summer dresses. Can we say tanning salon!?

Day 4: After my brilliant idea the day before my father and I who were quite baked decided that it might be a good idea to avoid as much sun as possible the next day so we all just hopped in my mom's new little mini cooper and took a tour of the island randomly hopping out along the way to take photos... (some of those to come at the end of this post!)

Day 5: Again with me and my brilliant ideas. As you all probably know by now, I am afraid of fish. Not just a little, but a lot. The whole time we were kayaking I kept seeing things in the water and almost having panic attacks and had to just keep telling myself that everything I saw was a rock. Well, I had decided that it is high time I got over this silly fear. So my smart little brains says... "hey I know what would be a good way for me to get comfortable with fish... let's throw me in a shark cage three miles out to sea and let 20 sharks swim all around me!" Ummm... yeah.... how I thought this was a good idea I'm not sure. Anyway, I found myself on a boat at 5:30 in the morning my 5th day on the island with my father heading three miles out to sea to be thrown in with the sharks. When we got out there the man on the boat asked who wanted to hop in the cage first and looked right at me. I quickly slunk in the corner and tried to make myself invisible hoping and praying for someone to volunteer. Finally they did and I was glad to whiteness other people going in the cage and coming out alive and all in one piece before I hopped in there. All in all I did pretty well, when I came my turn I got in and toughed it out. I can't say it cured my fear of fish but it was fun in a rather odd scary way.

Later that day (since we did do the shark thing at 6am...) my mom and dad and I all went down to Waikiki beach and walked around the street vendors (where I was attacked by a very serious little asian woman wanting me to buy a pendant for a necklace... lol). After that we went down the beach, and went into one of the cafe's where I had my first blue hawaiian and within 5 min promptly spilt it all over myself. I am just that cool.

Day 6: After the excitement of the previous days my Mom and I decided to explore the rest of the island and snap some more photos. Here's a couple pictures she snapped of me on Sunset beach... right before a huge rouge wave came up from behind me and got me totally soaked... the sea it seems... doesn't care much for me either...

Day 7: This day was spent with my favorite vacation pastime, SHOPPING! Oh and we had to stop and grab some of the famous Hawaiian Malasadas... which I have decided taste no different than a doughnut with no hole in the middle...

Day 8: My last full day with my mom she took me to an outdoor swap meet where tons of vendors come and sell hawaiian trinkets. I had great luck and found some super cute stuff! We had a really nice relaxed lunch right on the beach with the waves crashing against the shore and live hawaiian music being played in the background. It was the perfect way to end a great trip!

Day 9: Pack up and fly home :(

Like I mentioned my mom and I had a couple days when we drove around and took photos, here are a few of the ones that caught my eye looking back through them... Enjoy!

2009-08-07T11:27:00.006-07:00

Shira + Chang: Engaged

Ugghhh I am so behind on my blogging! Back in July I got to do a really fun engagement session for Shira and Chang who's amazing wedding I am photographing THIS SUNDAY! Yes... that is how behind on blogging I am. So I just had to get this blog post up before their wedding lol! Shira and Chang wanted to start the day off somewhere with a desert feel so we headed over to one of my favorite photo spots DeGrazia Gallery In The Sun. They have this awesome old adobe building there that I just LOVE to photograph inside of because the light is amazing!

I really do love this sneak peek I showed the other day...

Is this not so GQ? I love it!

And of course I had to get one of my favorite "Kadie shots"! Have I mentioned I love eyelashes?

Then after we wandered around DeGrazia for a while Shira and Chang told me one of their favorite things to do together is go to a coffee shop and sit and read the newspaper, so we headed down to my favorite cafe in town The Cup Cafe. They have some of the best food in town! We grabbed a table outside and I am so excited with the photos we got!

Is this not so cute! I would totally blow up the photo on the left and make a huge canvas of it for my house!

Showing off the bling...

This was hilarious; Chang wanted to go sit at another table and peek over his paper at Shira, we got some totally hilarious photos of this. This one is of a more casual version of the same idea...

Needless to say Joey was pretty stoked about getting any photos involving a newspaper! lol!

Then to wrap of the session Shira told me that the other thing that her and Chang love to do together is cook, and since neither of them live in town we headed over to her parents house to whip up a bit to eat and capture some photos.

Is this not so cute!?

And finally my fav ring shot of the day!

Thank you guys so much for an awesome day and I cannot wait for your wedding this weekend!!!!

2009-08-06T17:46:00.003-07:00

Hawaii Here I Come!!!!

I know I have been really MIA of late, we have seriously been running around so much this summer that the entire thing has been a bit of blur. But I have some awesome posts with some of the fun we've been having coming soon. For now I wanted to let you guys know that I will be taking off on Wednesday next week to spend a few days visiting my folks on Oahu. I'm going to be there the 12th to the 20th and would love to set up a few photo shoots while I'm there. I'm even going to be giving away a couple free engagement/portrait shoots to the first two couples to contact me! So if you live on Oahu and are interested in having me take your photos (or you have friends who live there and might be interested) just shoot me an e-mail at: kadie@pangburnphotography.com

I'm so excited for my trip! I'll make sure and be a good little blogger while I'm there and share photos with you guys.

2009-07-30T20:21:00.002-07:00

Sneak Peek - Seniors

TONS more coming soon...

2009-07-28T02:12:00.001-07:00

Hilary + Justin

Ok so WHERE HAVE I BEEN!? Well... let's just say I've been keeping busy! I've been working on some awesome things that we will be unveiling very soon and they have had me running around like a crazy person! I have also been working on editing Hilary + Justin's AMAZING wedding! Usually when I do a blog post I just go through the photos really quickly and pull out my favorites and make my post.... well this time it was just SO HARD to decide! It has taken me forever to narrow the photos down for a post but I think I have finally picked out all my favorites!

This wedding was seriously so amazing, Joey and I are so blessed to have been a part of their day. These are two of the most amazing people you will ever meet. I'm so glad they found each other!

But enough talk, I know Hilary has been waiting so long for this post lets get to the photos!!!!

I went a little detail crazy at this wedding becuase everything was just so beautiful!

The shoes...

Isn't Hilary seriously gorgeous!?

Love this shot of her putting on her make-up...

The dress, not my typical view of it but I really love this image!

Hilary wore her mother's pearls, and I was having a lot of fun photographing them, I just had to include this one too!

Justin wasn't looking bad himself! I love these two images Shaun got for me, I was stoked to have him with us taking photos that day. He did an awesome job!

First look... I know you've seen it before but I am in love with this photo...

Hilary and Justin had their wedding at the beautiful La Paloma, where there are tons of fun photo spot!

I mean come on, you can't ask for a more perfect day, perfect location and perfect bride!

Love this!

I knew since Hilary was having Red as her main wedding color, we just had to go over to the red door spa and take a few pictures. The lighting was awesome and these guys are the perfect models!

They also had one of the best wedding parties EVER! These guys were so fun!

Justin and his guys...

The day really was perfect...

The backdrop was so beautiful!

I love this picture from when Justin was saying his vows to Hilary...

First Kiss!! I love these two, the lighting was just perfect!

First dance...

There were also some pretty emotional speeches, (and really funny ones too!)

And the dancing!!! The dancing was amazing!

Thank you both SOOOO much for letting me be a part of your day!

2009-07-14T15:27:00.004-07:00

Kadie & Joe: A Love Story - Act 3 - Part 1

Ok here we go with part 1 of the third act of out love story. Apparently it takes longer to tell this story than I thought! It took me a little long to get to this one because the day before our anniversary Joey and I decided to take a spur of the moment trip to California to celebrate so I ran around like a crazy woman packing bags of clothes, shopping for supplies and getting things ready to go. We had so much fun! I will make sure and share some photos later this week. But with out further ado, here is the third act of our love story as promised ☺

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It was a cold, windy, spring night, and Kadie sat packed into the small metal bleachers surrounded by parents of the little league baseball kids that were running around the field. Joe was out there too, giving the kids his last minute pep talk before the game. They all stood huddled up in a tight circle, their purple jersey backs clearly visible with their “diamond backs” team logo. Joe clapped his hand loudly and the small huddle exploded into a furry of small running legs as the boys took their positions on the field. This wasn’t the first game Kadie had attended, but she always loved coming and watching Joe coach the boys. It was one of the things she admired about him. He was always so gentle with each of them, yet firm and always made his team behave like gentleman. Umpires would always remark to him how well behaved his team was. She also loved watching him do something he was so passionate about. He loved baseball, and it showed. As she sat and watched the game she began to think about “the list”. She smiled.

It had started out in junior high as a way to safeguard her heart. She had seen her girlfriend’s hearts broken by their boyfriends breaking up with them and she just had no desire to go down that road. So she had made the list, and she had made a promise. The promise was a simple one, but always seemed to puzzle other girls her age. But it made perfect sense to Kadie. Having seen her girlfriends hearts broken she decided that she wanted to have nothing to do with dating until she was at least 18. So she had made a promise to herself not to date until then. But of course making a simple promise to herself did not stop her from having crushes on boys. So she decided the best way to make sure she didn’t fall in love with the wrong person would be to make a list. A list of all the qualities she would want to have in a husband someday.

That’s how it had all begun, with that silly list. Every time she would start to have a crush on a boy she would pull out the list, run down the items and see if they met each one she was looking for. And each time the boy wouldn’t match her list. She knew it would be hard to find this person, her list was almost two pages long after all, but she also knew that God had the perfect man out there for her. The one who would complete her in every way, and she knew he was worth waiting for.

The years passed and Kadie kept true to her promise and never had a single boyfriend, all the while she hung on to her list. Still no boy ever matched it. That is, until she met Joe.

The game was halfway over and the Diamondbacks were winning 4-0. She looked around and saw the glowing smiles on all the faces of the proud parents around her. Her mind began to wander again and she thought about the phone call she had with Joe last night. They had been talking a lot lately, for hours. Last night had been no different. During their conversation Kadie had expertly weaved in questions to ask him about the items on her list. Each time he answered her heart beat faster as he met all the items on her list, except one that she had yet to ask him.

It was a silly question really, she had put it on there at the end as a final silly girly test of fate. You see Kadie liked to eat her hamburgers with French fries on them, and she had never met another person who did this. Of course she knew there must be other people in the world who liked French fries on their hamburgers but she figured the odds of a person doing that AND matching all the other qualities on her list were pretty slim.

They talked a little more on the phone, and Kadie aimlessly wandered around the house working up the courage to ask him the final question on her list. Nervously she sat down on the couch and took in a deep breathe. “Ummm… this is kinda random” she began. “But do you ever put French fries on your hamburgers when you eat them?”. There was a momentary pause on the other end of the line. “That is so weird that you ask that,” Joe said. “I do that almost 75% of the time I eat hamburgers.” Kadie fell off the couch, and dropped the phone. Fumbling she picked it up and began to excitedly talk to Joe again, trying to hide the fact that she had a smile stretching from ear to ear on her face.

As the baseball game was winding down to it’s final inning she thought about her list one last time. It was silly really, a young girls fantasy, waiting for prince charming to appear and be that man of her dreams. She supposed all girls had some sort of a list, maybe not quite as long or as detailed as hers, but at least a mental list of who they wanted to spend the rest of their life with. It seemed like it had to be fate. Meeting the man of her dreams who met every quality on her list, even her goofy elimination question just weeks before her 18th birthday.

Kadie snapped out of her day dream as heard the sound of boys cheering. Joe’s team had won. They all ran around cheering and Joe’s face smiled proudly. He looked over at Kadie through the metal chain link fence that separated the bleachers from the dugout and his eyes twinkled, Kadie’s eyes shone back and it was at that moment she knew she loved him.

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2009-07-06T17:42:00.004-07:00

Sneak Peek - Shira + Chang

We just shot their engagement session yesterday and I just had to share this super cute image of the two of them.... I've also suddenly realized my blog has been seemingly taken over by black and white images lately lol! I guess I'm in a monochromatic mood this month! I promise my next photo post will be full of color!

Also, after much debate I have decided that logo frames are icky and distracting to my pretty photos. So all photos will be au naturel from now on! lol...

2009-07-05T01:36:00.005-07:00

Kadie & Joe: A Love Story - Act 2

Ok, here is the next act in our love story, since I know I left you all on the edge of your seats with that last post lol.. If you happened to miss Act 1, you can find it HERE.

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The spring semester was almost over, and Kadie was on cloud nine. After some gentle urging from her photography professors, she had been talked into entering some photographs into her first juried show at the college. She hadn’t really had high hopes for the outcome, since she had only just recently completed her first photography class and all the other entries were from students that far surpassed her in education and experience. But her teachers had insisted so she had given in and entered two images.

When she received the news that she had won not only first place in the photography section, but also third place as well, she was ecstatic to say the least.

As she walked across the parking lot to her car after class she couldn’t help but be proud of herself and excited for the future. Lost in her thoughts she heard a voice calling her name. She stopped, turned around, and there was Joe. Had he been that cute last semester she thought to herself… she hadn’t remembered him being quite so good looking. She caught herself staring and said hello. They chit chatted for a while and she told him all about the photography competition and how surprised and excited she was to have won. He smiled, congratulated her and told her what he had been up to since they had last seen each other. He in turn grew very excited as he told her that he had fallen in love with journalism and gotten hired on at the school newspaper as the assistant editor. “You should apply for the photographer’s position” he said. Kadie cocked her head to the left, the warm spring sunshine hitting her face. She was confused since she had been told just the day before that the position had already been filled. Joe now looked equally puzzled and told her no, that they were still interviewing people but that technically today was the last day to apply. Kadie sighed, sad to have missed a great opportunity on faulty information.

Joe got a twinkle in his deep brown eyes and told her that if she could get a resume and portfolio together by tomorrow he would go talk to the hiring board and convince them to let her apply. She smiled excitedly and told Joe she would bring in her resume and portfolio bright and early the next morning.

Sure enough she did and was quickly set up with an interview and suddenly found herself the official staff photographer for “The Roughwriter”. No sooner had she been hired than it dawned on her that Joe was going to be her new boss.

Being the one and only photographer for the paper meant she ended up doing photography for just about anything and everything the paper might be writing a story on. Her least favorite of these assignments was sports, having to sit through 3 hour games to take photos wasn’t really her cup of tea. However, because of this she found herself spending quite a bit of time with Joe again. You see in addition to being the assistant editor, he was also the staff sports writer. They kept each other company during the games, Joe telling her the rules to some of the ones she had never played and Kadie randomly jumping up to snap a photo when the action got good.

During these long games a funny thing happened. Kadie began to like Joe more and more. Although his sneakers, once white, but now yellow, cracked and warped always bothered her. He might not have the best choice in clothing she thought. But he really was one the sweetest guys she had ever met. So finally, one day after a long meeting for the newspaper, Kadie called out for Joe to hang on a sec. She walked across the cafeteria her feet clacking on the linoleum and caught up with him.

“I was wondering,” she started hesitantly… “if I could maybe get your phone number.” Joe looked at her and smiled, having given up giving her his number after his seventh attempt. He pulled a large sheet of 8.5 x 11in paper out of his beat up blue backpack and in large numbers that filled up the entire page he wrote his number for her. He handed it to her and said “try losing that.”

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2009-07-03T00:07:00.004-07:00

Sneak Peek - Hilary + Justin

Maybe I'm just in a sappy mood because my anniversary is coming up, but when I found this image while going through the photos we took for Hilary and Justin's wedding last month, I just about started crying. I don't know what it is, but I love this image. It just exudes love and tenderness. I love my clients....

I seriously cannot wait to share the rest of the photos with you...

2009-07-02T12:50:00.006-07:00

Kadie & Joe: A Love Story - Act 1

(Joey and I's anniversary is coming up on the 9th, so I thought instead of just sharing the story of how he proposed, I'd share our whole love story in three acts, keep in mind this is from my perspective which Joey thinks is very flawed, so if you want his side of the story you might have to ask him lol...)

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Running late seemed to be Kadie's major talent in life. It probably had to do with the fact that she just loved to sleep, which might have stemmed from the fact she liked to stay up late. Whatever the reason, she could never seem to be on time to anything. Today was no exception. It was the first day of school for the fall semester of 2003 and Kadie was running across campus after her first class of the day had gotten out late. As she ran she thought about her dream of being a forensic anthropologist and then weighed that against the chemistry class she had just endured for the past hour and half. "Could she really sit through eight years of science classes?" she thought to herself. Finally she reached the door to her next class which promised to be a much needed break from all her gen ed's. Creative writing sounded like just what the doctor ordered. She swung the big oak door open and scanned the small room for a seat. The room was tiny, and crammed with 5 circular tables and a teachers desk. Around each table were 4 to 5 uncomfortable looking plastic chairs in various shades the 70's had provided. She took a seat at the first table she came to at the back of the room. The room filled up quickly and soon every seat was taken. The other chairs around her occupied by a very overweight middle age man, and young girl about her age with dark curly hair, and a rather geeky looking boy who always seemed to wear a very mischievous grin on his face.

The first few weeks passed as the class was given different assignments to write and then read aloud to the class. Kadie soon became slightly uncomfortable by the people surrounding her as each week they seemed to grow more and more odd. The big middle-age man to her left was constantly wielding his large red marker, putting massive red '"x"s across anyone's work he disliked in the least bit. That combined with his 6 page erotic poem made Kadie uneasy to say the least. The other two people at her table also seemed to enjoy the erotic a bit to much with the geeky looking smiling boy writing long stories about necrophiliacs and crazy phsyco women. All of this made her have second thoughts about her choice of seat for the class.

The next day she managed to get to class early and take a new seat across the room from her new found erotic friends. She hadn't chosen the seat by random. Although she told herself that she had. Secretly there was a boy in this class she thought was cute. A bit rock and roll, but so was she, in her cut off jeans, long blonde hair, smoky eyes, black and red skater shoes and cool puffy wristbands. Heck, she was even in a band. The room filled up again and her new table mates seemed to give her an understanding smile as they took their seats next to her.

Again, assignments came, and class periods went by, and she soon found that she had nothing in common with rocker boy at all. So she began talking to the other people at her table, one of which was a boy named Joe.

They hit if off right away and talked constantly during class, discussing their families, and newest poetry they were working on. After class, Joe would walk Kadie to her red jeep wrangler, set her inside safely, then stand waving as she drove off into the distance. Kadie however, had a very different perspective on the sweet events that were occurring between her and her new table mate. After arriving home from class she ran into her mothers room and proceeded to tell her about this crazy boy at school that she thought was stalking her. "He even follows me to my car mom! And he doesn't leave until I drive away, and even then he stands in my parking spot waving for who knows how long. I think he's stalking me." Kadie's mom smiled, and assured her daughter that she was sure she was mistaken, and that the boy most likely was not stalking her.

Kadie, however, remained unconvinced.

As the rest of the semester went by, Joe attempted to give Kadie his phone number several times under the guise of wanting to go over some poetry they had written, and to get the other's opinion on the work. Kadie, although flattered by these offerings, was not about to take his phone number. But of course she wasn't going to be rude about it, so she took them and then simply lost them.... 7 times....

The semester ended, and Kadie was sure that was to be the last of her stalker. However, fate had something very different planned for her.

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End of Act 1

2009-06-30T11:58:00.008-07:00

Room To Stay

For those of you who don't know, my little sis is an uber talented videographer, I get to work with her on a lot of weddings when she is shooting for her company Reel Mccoy Productions. However she is also going to film school right now to pursue her life long dream of becoming a movie director. Now you may balk at this; you may even laugh; I mean come do you know how many people ACTUALLY MAKE IT in that industry!? And if we were talking about anybody other than my sister I'd agree with you.

But we are talking about my little sis, who got her associates degree at the age of 17! She is the most determined, stubborn person I have ever met and if she wants something there is no stopping her until she reaches her goals. So I KNOW she is going to make it.

Anyway; yes, I am a proud big sis. Moving on with my story.

On Thursday last week Kasie (my little sis; and yes we have almost the exact same name...) filmed her 1st ever REAL movie! I mean she's filmed tons of other movies with her nice digital cameras, but this was her first movie shot on film, on a soundstage, with a cast that she held auditions for the part, for a story she wrote, and on an elaborate set she made. It was an all out production! So when she needed a photographer to come take behind the scenes photos for her, I really wanted to be there!

It was so fun to see my lil sis in her element! They had like 30 min conversations where I could have sworn they must have been speaking a different language. It was awesome. I for the most part tried to stay out of the way and keep out from underfoot while trying to take photos.

Here's a few photos that I got during the day, and a link to a SLIDESHOW of a bunch more of the photos.

Here's the synopsis for the movie so you can get an idea of what it's about:

A man finds himself trapped in an unknown room, and his attempts to escape only result in deeper levels confusion and disorientation. As various items he finds remind him of a past life, he becomes increasingly more determined to discover a way to escape

The creepy little set...

Kasie turned my photo into the poster for her movie...

Kasie and her hubby adjusting some lighting modifiers...

Will, her actor for the part, was REALLY GREAT! Here's one of the times they filmed him running into the room...

No clue what they are doing, but it looked important...

Ohh this was fun! Kasie's hubby Ryan does amazing special effects make-up, and in the movie there is a creepy bride with her mouth sewn shut. (played by my future-sis-in-law Mickey) SOOOO CREEPY!!!

So this is my favorite photo from the day, it's so hollywood to me! She looks so into what she is doing, I just remember smiling the whole day inside as I watched her directing and totally passionate about what she was doing.

If you want to see more photos there are a TON in the slideshow I made for her. To view it just click here!