Parsons Love

This has been a long time coming but it is finally time for you all to meet Ashley and Jeremy Parsons. Amazing friends, wonderful parents, and fellow photographers.

Heather and I have had the extreme privilege of getting to know these guys over the last few months and are truly honored to have become friends with such wonderful people. This business can be pretty cut throat and it's such a release to spend time with people that understand that.

This weekend we had the opportunity to go out and have some shooting fun with both couples (yes, pictures of us exist out there too). They were amazingly easy to photograph and we're just happy that we could give them some great images of themselves. Ashley was stunning in that amazing dress and Jeremy simply glows around her.

In honor of Ashley this is also my first post of textured images. It is a technique that I've been struggling on whether to embrace and she has slowly convinced me how wonderful it can be. Watch out! Now that I've opened that can of worms I'm sure there will be plenty more to come, it just fits our style :)








Thank you guys for being such wonderful friends. Keep up the wonderful work, the sky is the limit!

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

Vacation Pictures... Finally

Well at long last I have finally gotten some vacation pictures looking pretty. For those of you who don't know Heather & I took a much need vacation at the end of November. We did an 11day Eastern Caribbean cruise on the Princess Cruise Lines' Emerald Princess that sailed out of Fort Lauderdale and stopped at Antigua, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Kitts, St. Thomas, and The Bahamas.

I tried not to take too many pictures as this was a vacation away from photography but of course I still took quite a few. I'll try to throw in a little explanation on some of them but if you want to hear more detail just give us a call! Enjoy.


Our ship, the Emerald Princess docked at St. Lucia.
The docks at Antigua, shot from our balcony. Lots of rainbows that morning.

Our first excursion was zip lining, and it was tons of fun! I can't believe Heather agreed to do it!

We took a pretty long tour on St. Lucia that took us all over the island. The next 9 pictures were taken at their poorest fishing village. This was a little scary because our tour just dumped us in the middle of the village but I got some of my favorite pictures of the cruise here.

I just love this shot. He really wanted to pose when he saw me taking pictures. It cost me $2 but I think it's worth it.

I would swear this dog was posing for me.

I just wanted to post this so you could see what the scene above actually looked like.

After the village we went up around the Pitons and visited this natural hot springs.

Then on to a drive up volcano. Very cool because you could see the bubbling water and steam. Stunk like sulfur though.

When we hit St. Kitts we realized that we hadn't actually been to a beach yet. So we got up early and went to shore in search. The tourist desk recommended we go to Frigate Bay, much to our surprise this was the ugliest beach we had ever seen. At least the water was pretty and I got a couple of nice pictures (not of the beach though).

After the beach we took a private 4wd tour of St. Kitts. This was our favorite tour because it was very private and we stayed off the road for most of it. Our guide even stopped and gave us a picnic with local food and rum. This particular shot was at an old sugar cane plantation.

This was at a different plantation but this building wasn't lived in because they thought it was haunted.

We just thought all these caterpillars were cool.

Looking up in an abandoned windmill.

It wouldn't be a vacation with out Heather showing off the bikini. Taken in The Bahamas.

We're Back!

I know we haven't posted in a while and I promise we didn't fall off the face of the planet. For those of you who didn't know Heather and I took a much needed 2 week vacation. It's been a great year but we really needed to get away.

Anyway, we're back now so keep an eye out for lots of fun pictures and a report of everything we got to do.