Movin' out, Movin' up

Well we're moving on to better things, better blogs that is. We have an all new blog and some other fun surprises so make your way over and check everything out!

Super Amazing New Blog Link

What have we been up to lately?

Sorry it's been so long since I posted last but things have just been really busy. For those of you who don't know my printshop handles most of the design and printing for the KC Brigade Arena Football Team. Their season starts this weekend and they've kept us very busy trying to get everything done. In fact, Heather even joined in on the design fun this year. Anyway, I just wanted to post so you can see a small portion of what has kept me away this month.

Be sure to come to the home opener on March 1st and support KC's other football team at Sprint Center. If you haven't been before it really is a lot of fun, and pretty cheap. You can always stop by and see Heather and I in section 122!

Email Troubles

We just found out that our contact form on our website has not been sending us your messages for the last couple weeks.

If you tried to send us a message please contact us now. It's been fixed and we're up and running.

Thanks for everyone's understanding.

KC Bridal Spectacular

This last Saturday we got to work our second bridal show. The KC Bridal Spectacular. Even though this was only our second show we have realized that we really enjoy them. We get to meets tons of great new couples and some great vendors as well.

Thanks to everyone that stopped by the booth and we look forward to talking with many of you again.

Here are a couple of pictures of our booth. Unfortunately we forgot our camera (photographers without a camera, what a crime). So these are pictures from the first show, it looks pretty much the same, just a few different background pictures.

2007 Best-of-the-best Photos

Well it's a new year and Heather & I are so thankful for all of the wonderful couples we got to work with over the last year. It was a year that has shown a lot of growth for us and we have all of you to thank for it.

As the busy season slowly ended we sat down to reflect on all of the images we've captured this year and decided that we wanted to both share our thoughts and show off some of your beautiful events. Heather and I have each gone through and chosen our personal favorite 3 images from 10 categories (Engagement, Getting Ready/Pre-ceremony, Ceremony, Details, Reception, The Couple, Bride Only, Groom Only, Wedding Party, and ending with our overall favorites). We'll spread the posts over the course of January so be sure to check back often. This may seem like quite a bit but considering all of the events we've done and the tens of thousands of images captured it made for some very tough choices. That's also the reason we each chose our own favorites, and simply because we couldn't agree very often.

So please, enjoy. Check back to see if your event makes our favorite list and to see some other wonderful couples. Feel free to leave your comments, we always love to hear from you!

The Picks

1-3-08 Engagements

1-7-08 Getting Ready

1-10-08 Ceremony

1-15-08 Details

1-17-08 Reception

1-21-08 The Couple

1-24-08 Brides

1-29-08 Wedding Party

2-1-08 Grooms

2-4-08 The Final Picks

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.

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