Beautiful People, Beautiful Day

What happens when you have a 75 degree and sunny day, a cool farm with chickens and barns and cows and pitchforks, and throw into that environment a gorgeous couple saying I do? You get two wedding photographers smiling from ear to ear, that's EXACTLY what you get!

Daniel and Ashley were sooo fun to work with. We had met with them at Casa Cantina a few months ago, just before they were heading to Hawaii for work, to discuss the possibility of us shooting their wedding. Heather and I both immediately loved their bubbly personalities and kept hoping we would be the lucky ones chosen to photograph their special day. They weren't sure if coming back to Ohio made the most sense, where exactly the wedding should be...just a lot of things to work out logistically with moving AND getting married.

A few months later we got the email saying it WAS going to be here in Athens and, yes, we WERE going to be their photographers...and we went whoo hooo! Well, maybe not out loud but we were mighty excited on the inside ;) They had decided it would be at Daniel's family farm a couple miles outside of town...red barns, hay fields, ponds with fountains, apple trees...well, you get the picture, just about perfect!

Outside weddings are always nerve racking for photographers. What's best for the "feel" of the wedding (sunny skies with not a cloud in view) is not necessarily the best light for photos...and rain is even worse. I guess what we are always hoping for, and never have gotten yet, is a nice, cloudy day with no chance of rain and that beautiful soft light blanketing everything in sight for 8 hours straight. Our 2nd choice would be a bright sunny day. We got our second choice.

So we were going to be dealing with some squinting, some harsh shadows, and it being at 4:30 and in the middle of a field we would be fighting with certain angles looking directly into the sun. No problem, just part of the job.

It was an awesome day. The families...friendly and warm. Ashley and Daniel...breathtaking and handsome. Yep, we had to fight the sun and there were times that there was nothing you could do but take pictures with squinty eyes and splotchy patterns of light filtering through the trees on faces...but it all worked out. They were in love...they were happy...and our cameras as well as everyone else there was able to see it, capture it.

Thanks for choosing us Mr. and Mrs. Brown...

Jeffrey