Love it!

I love receiving thank you card, well who doesn’t  I received one in the mail the other day from Annie and Jake (you might remember their wedding a month ago and their trash the dress session.) I loved the card, it was perfect!

we loved the photo and kind words :) 

(as a disclaimer, we don’t normally stand next to each other when we shoot, it just happened to be the time when Annie and Jake first saw each other that day and there is only so far you can go on a bridge  )

 

We also received an email from a fellow photographer friend Mike Brice who we ran into while shooting at the museum on Saturday, he sent us this…..

Because we are always behind the camera we don’t have many photos of ourselves, so we appreciate it, even if joe’s face is covered  lol

 

A few more kind words we like to share and let you know we truly appreciate them, we love what we do and put our heart and soul into this so we always love to know it is appreciated. 

“we want to thank you and Joe, the pictures were absolutely wonderful, more than we ever expected. I showed a few people the slideshow, and they were just amazed at how the pictures captured the moments and people at the wedding were so impressed at how friendly and fun you guys were! The magic of the whole day can be re-lived through your great pictures. 

Lisa”

 

“Carli!

Holy Goodness!! We love every single picture! You and Joe did an amazing job! 

-Robin”

“

Carli,
 
I just wanted to thank you again for doing such an awesome job on the pictures of my girls!  You are always so easy to work with, and I really appreciate the time and attention to detail that you obviously put into the work that you do.  The fact that you come to us and photograph the kids in their own familiar environment makes it so much less stressful for me as a mom than to pack them (and all of their things!) up and take them to a strange studio. You capture real moments, of them just being themselves!  Those are the types of memories that I will want to look back upon in the future.  Thanks again and I know we will see you again soon, after all the kids are changing everyday and will need more beautiful photos to help and capture those fleeting moments!
 
Sincerely,
Amy (Bacon) Adams”

Thanks we love working with you all and allowing us to come into your life and make beautiful artwork of your special day and your beautiful children.

-C.

P.S.  we have some very big news that we will be sharing very soon, so stay tuned!

Happy Mother

We want to wish all the mother’s out there a Happy Mother’s Day!  I hope you all have a great day and feel as special and as important as you all are.

 

We especially want to wish our beautiful mothers and grandmothers a very special Mother’s Day.  We love you all dearly and wouldn’t be where we are today without you.   Thank you all for being strong woman, caring people and terrific moms and grandmas.  We love you all so much!

My mom

 

Joe’s Mom

 

Mimi  

 

Grandma Delsie  

 

Grandma Smith

 

Grandma Poli

 

And of course my beautiful sister Colbi, who is a fabulous mom to my nephew Jackson.

 

We love you so much and thank you for always being there for us, we feel blessed to have such a loving family because of you all.

 

I also want to wish a Happy Mother’s Day to my friends Emily, Tricia and Cindy (who gets to celebrate her first mother’s day this year ).  You all are great friends and even better mother’s!  I love you all.

 

Love

C & J

 

Jackson’s first B-day party

Here are a few picks from Jackson’s first birthday party and his first time with cake

Enjoy!

 

His cake that mom and Gubbi made:

Now this is a face of a one year old with no sleep and lots of sugar

 

 

 

-C.

 

 

The onelight workshop ROCKED!

Yesterday I went to the one light workshop in Detroit it was awesome.  It started at 10 in the morning and we finished shooting at midnight and then went back to the house to discuss some of the images and talked till 1:15 when I had to leave so I could make it home

 

Zack was an awesome teacher of this workshop check out his blog here.

This workshop is all about off camera lighting, and as most of you know I have been an available light shooter most the time, but the off camera lighting gives me options, it doesn’t mean I am going to ditch the available light it just means I can give you all  a lot more options with your photos!

 

Here are some photos from the workshop:

This is the whole crew and zack!

 

 

Here are a few of my photos from the day:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you believe that these next few were taken at 11:00 at night in an abandon parking lot next to a old building?

 

 

 

 

 

And then here are a few with available light, because I still love available light

 

 

So like I said before expect a lot more cool stuff this year with Shutter Love, we are going to be offering some things that you can’t get anywhere else in town.  (Like our children’s alphabet books, those are a ShutterLove original )

-C.

Out of the Office on Thursday

I will be out of the office on thursday April 17th all day!  If you contact me via email or phone I will not be able to respond until Friday.  I will be at an all day seminar that I am super excited about.  It is a photo seminar to help us refine our skills to help better your experience with us.

 

This is only one of the few seminars I have this year and I am super excited about them and what it means for our photography studio and boutique.  Like I said before there are lot and lots of great new things and experiences coming to you this year with Shutter Love.  So stay tuned and get pumped

 

-C.

 

If you need me on thursday try my phone and leave a message and if I get a break I will try to get back to you as soon as possible!

 

Jackson’s 1st b-day

Yesterday was  Jackson’s first birthday.  My parents, sister, joe, jackson and I went to eat at a place called 2toots diner on Reynolds, where your food is delivered on a small train

 

Here are a few pics of the one year old

Jackson with a proud uncle joe…..

 

 

 

This photo Jackson took of me, I think he is a natural

Jackson with his stuffed puppy that his dad got him for his birthday since he couldn’t be at dinner.

 

the train the food comes out on….

 

 

Happy birthday Jackson and I hope everyone survived tax day

 

-C.

 

I love daylight savings :)

I love light, I love daylight, as a photographer this should probably be obvious that I enjoy light. So what can you love more than the fact that it is now staying light longer. Spring and Summer are my favorite times of year, not only because the weather is a little nicer than this blizzard we had over the weekend, but it also stays light till 8 or 9 at night which is great! I feel like I can get so much more done. Just thought I would share my pure excitement that Spring is almost here which mean we can get rid of this annoying snow.

But first here are a couple photos of Wonka in it, I didn’t want to leave a post with no photos, how boring would that be

-C.

Happy New Year….

What a great year 2007 was….  I look back on the past year as a new year is here and what a fantastic year it was, we were blessed in so many ways.I got to marry by best friend and I finally got to experience being a bride after seeing everyone else’s wedding while photographing the many beautiful weddings we did this year.  We got to meet many great couples this year and made some new friends in the process.  

Not to mention we became a Aunt and Uncle this year and it couldn’t be more fun, I also became a “aunt” to two other boys this year as well with two of my best friends having babies.  We have lots of little ones to spoil now  

We also became first time home owners which is so exciting, because it give us the opportunity for our little family to grow (don’t take that the wrong way, there are no kids in the plans for a few year, sorry Bev!) and it also gives us more room for our business to grow.  2008 is already shaping up to be a busy year, as our wedding schedule is booking up fast and we plan on expanding our portrait/lifestyle part of our business as well as some other new exciting things in the work for Shutter Love.  

We look forward to 2008 as we look back on how great 2007 was for us.   What were the highlights of 2007 for you, share them!  We love comments

Jackson 5 months

I thought I would update y’all on Jackson’s 5 month session.

I AM AN AUNT!!!!!!

Yesterday at 5:41pm I became an aunt to the most beautiful baby boy ever!!!

I am so excited and can’t wait to spend time with my nephew Jackson!

Who knew you could love something so much the first time you meet them!!!