Dayle & Leah's Wedding

I'm finally into some October events with Dayle & Leah's wedding.

This was a little bit out of the mold for us. We only spent 4 hours with them and they had a pretty small wedding all around. They also wanted a little more traditional style then we usually shoot. They were really great and laid back though so we still got to put a little creativity into it.

More of us to love

This is actually an announcement from earlier in the year but I know that a lot of you don't know yet.

Heather & I are extremely excited to announce that we have brought on another photography team! We've talked about doing this for quite a while as we just had to many couples that we had to turn away. The process was exhausting as I looked through hundreds of resumes, talked to countless that applied and after all of that and a few trial found Matt & his assistants. He is a fantastic photographer with lots of photojournalistic background. He compliments and embodies everything that we strive to achieve in our work.

So pass the word, we have more open dates then before and lots more talent to share.

Nathan & Rachel's Wedding

Continuing on the idea of posting a few older events to get started with here is Nathan & Rachel's wedding.

It was an obvious choice to post because we had so much fun with their whole group and we loved how everything turned out. This was one that Matt came along with us to keep learning how we do things. It's amazing how good the shoots turn out with all 3 of us, too bad we can't afford that all year round.

Anyway, the ceremony was in Blue Springs, then we went to Kaufman Gardens and the J.C. Nichols fountain for a few pictures. They had a great trolley that drove us everywhere, we had tons of fun during the drive and got lots of fun shots in the process. The wedding party even got a little tour around the Plaza because the Plaza Art Fair was going on at the time so they had to drop us off at the fountain and then come back buy to pick us up. There just happened to be 2 other brides there at the same time so they even got a few pictures together.

Sorry there are so many pictures on this post but I could have put up tons more, we just ended up with lots of fun stuff. Enjoy.

The Arnold's are Featured!!

So I know that we're getting into this blogging thing a little late in the year so I'm going to post some of the things that we've done recently (so that we're still fun to look at).

I actually shot Kim and Nathan's engagement session back in early August but I want to share it because it is featured nationally on collages.net this week. For those of you who don't know collages.net hosts our online proofing system. They work with thousands of studios across the country to handle online proofing. Every week they choose one event and one portrait session to feature on their national website. This week it is the Arnold's!

For their shoot we went to downtown Lee's Summit. Little did we know that it was completely under construction at the time. Luckily Kim and Nathan were tons of fun and open to anything (and it's a good thing because I had them climbing into and over just about everything). We loved the results and they got some fun pictures.

Here are a few of my personal favorites from the session but you can go to http://www.collages.net/ to see the rest.

We actually shot their wedding last Sunday it is went fantastic. Keep an eye out for those pictures soon.

And now we're bloggers

So this has been a long time coming but we are finally joining the ranks of the bloggers. It's been something that we really wanted to do and are really excited that we finally got around to it.

So go ahead an bookmark us because we're going to keep you up to date on everything that we're doing with Hawes Photography. From current shoots, to business updates, and I'm sure a few fun things it will all be here for you blogging pleasure!

-Aaron & Heather