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Light writing proposal

January 5, 2010 Posted in Informational, video

A friend of mine sent this to me and I haddddd to share it. I love when people get creative with their wedding proposals, but I don’t know that I’ve ever actually cried listening to an engagement story. This video just gives me chills in the best way. To have a fiance and a group friends willing to spend hours in the cold for several nights to help with our wedding proposal? What truly blessed couple. =)

Read about how this amazing proposal story went down, and all the fun technical stuff for you nerds out there!

xoxo

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January 8, 2010 - 7:16 am Rickard - WOW!!!! That is one outstanding video!!! really amazinG!!! I also have to share this:) People need to see those brilliant, creative and "lovefull" things! We need to get reminded that not every thing in the world is bad:) I have to link to your blog on my blog: http://www.therickardnilsson.com

Autumn Bridal Session

December 30, 2009 Posted in Bridal

Autumn is beautiful, classy, her dress is amazing, her hair is perfection, AND she’s delightful to boot! Really, though. I seriously considered dying my hair red for about a month after this session. I can’t get over how brilliant her hair looked in the sunlight! It was so hard waiting to post these until she was married and I’m still jazzed about this session!

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January 15, 2010 - 8:28 pm George - hey do you know if that marriage worked? cuz she's AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND STUNNING! obviously it was the pics! CONGRATS!

January 12, 2010 - 3:31 pm Kyle Hale - Nessa, it's been a while, but just wanted to say you have been doing a great job lately! I'm following your blog now as well. Hopefully, I'll have more work to show this year!

January 11, 2010 - 12:55 pm Adrienne Gunde - Absolutely stunning! I love the light and color in all of these, especially the 6th one down! Just dreamy!

January 7, 2010 - 10:32 pm kristen - Your photos are lovely!!!

January 4, 2010 - 6:51 am Rickard - Wow!! I love your photos! I love how you work with short depth. Brilliant!! You are an inspiration! Found your site on your flickr profile.

December 30, 2009 - 11:11 pm Elissa - What a gorgeous bride... I especially love the shot of her holding the pearls in her hand with the amazing & shallow depth of field. Fantastique!

December 30, 2009 - 10:57 pm Jessie - Stunning!

December 30, 2009 - 10:25 pm Megan - Her dress is incredible! I love this session. Wish you had been doing this when I got married :)

December 30, 2009 - 10:18 pm Nicole Chatham - Beautiful bride and stunning pictures! Great job!

Leslie & Andy are married!

December 28, 2009 Posted in Weddings

Leslie and Andy made their way into my list of top favorite people ever for asking me to photograph their engagement session at a carnival. As a lover of lollipops, funnel cake, cotton candy, deep fried anything, and bright colors, I loved this couple immediately. Their wedding was just as bright and amazing as they are, and their families are fantastic! Leslie’s family always prepares fun performances for family members’ weddings, and for Leslie, they did none other than a medley from “Annie.” I love my musicals and I keep the “Annie” soundtrack in or near my record player at all times, so I got so much out of that. What a rockin’ wedding!

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Exploring: Austin, TX

December 28, 2009 Posted in Personal, video

Made by Nessa K and Martin B. Cherry.

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December 28, 2009 - 3:37 pm Mary - LOVE THIS! Such a beautiful magical video.

Emma & Daniel are engaged!

December 27, 2009 Posted in Engagement

I adore Emma — her smile, her upbeat attitude, her natural beauty, and Daniel is a riot to be around — he’s hilarious and keeps Emma laughing, making them the perfect couple to photograph! They drove down from Houston for their engagement photos and I’m incredibly glad they found me and let me be a part of their wedding this summer because I truly enjoyed just being around them.

Here are some of my favorites from our session together!

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John & Kelly are married!

December 26, 2009 Posted in Weddings

John and Kelly are just rad people. I met John through my boyfriend, Josh. He went on tour with Josh and I got to hear all about how amazing he was before I even met him. After spending time with both John and Kelly for an engagement session and smoothies, and then spending another day with Kelly in her gorgeous wedding gown for her bridal session, I can’t even begin to express how excited I was to get to hang out with them all day for their wedding. John and Kelly are a perfect match. They write songs together (I hear Kelly is quite the lyricist!) and John even broke out his guitar to serenade Kelly during the reception. Is that perfect or what? They were married at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and the entire event was flawless. Laid back, unrushed, not too hot, awesome music, beautiful people, tasty food, and just plain ol’ good company. Thank you guys for letting me a part of your big day!

And Austin folk, trust me on this, you HAVE to stop by John and Kelly’s vegan food stand DeFresh Mode for some meatless goodness! It’s ridiculously good. =)

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December 31, 2009 - 12:26 am Kaylinn - I always know when Jenn is looking at your blog because she says (over and over) "She is SO good. OMG She is SO good..." And it just kinda goes like that until I have to check it out. :) These photos are amaaaaazing. I love love love the super-duper close-ups of the bride/groom at the beginning. VERY cool!!

December 27, 2009 - 11:55 pm Michelle C - Yes, I love the first shot(s). So gorgeous!

December 26, 2009 - 5:11 pm Mary - Love every single image! Moments captured beautifully! Also I love the blog and twitter changes! very lovely! <3

December 26, 2009 - 12:52 pm julie h - so beautiful! the close up of their faces with the sun shining through it gorgeous. :)

Kim & Derrick are Married!

December 26, 2009 Posted in Weddings

Kim and Derrick are an amazing Dallas couple, and when we had our engagement session in downtown Austin, I absolutely fell in love with both of them! They have the sweetest personalities, a great sense of humor, and when their wedding day finally came, I got to meet all the reasons why these two are so fantastic; their amazing friends and family!! Josh and I had such a fun time photographing this wedding. The sunset at The Oasis that day was perfect and the company couldn’t have been better.

This post is long overdue (so are many posts!) but my life is about to get a whole lot bloggier! I’m behind! I know! I know. =) And I totally miss blogging and keeping you all up to date with what I’m up to. Watch out for tons of new weddings and really rad engagement, lifestyle, and family sessions to come! I’ll be posting about them on my twitter so, if you’re following me in twitter, prepare for a wave of blog updates in the New Year!

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Exploring: Austin, TX

October 17, 2009 Posted in Personal

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I’ve been living in Austin for over a year and a half now, and I still haven’t found my own little special places to go, hang out, and just enjoy being in the middle of nowhere. The West Virginian in me wants to be able to go out and sit in a huge, open field with soft grass and skies full of stars at night. There are tons of really, really beautiful wooded, forest areas to visit in Austin, but it doesn’t seem like I can ever get far enough out to escape be away from everything and still be in wide open spaces. That seems pretty silly to me considering the fact that I’m in TEXAS! Texas, to me, screams wide-open-isolated-places. So I’ve decided this winter will be all about seeing what Austin (and the outskirts of Austin) has to offer.

This week, my friend Martin B. Cherry came in from Nashville, TN to second shoot two weddings with me and we started my exploration of Austin. We found this amazing train engine and I saw one of the prettiest sunsets I’ve seen in months!

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I’m glad that Martin B. Cherry was awesome enough to drive down from Nashville to hang out with Josh and I for a week! We’ll miss you!

Tags: Austin, Austin Photography, Exploring, Martin B Cherry, Train engine, Train Station, Traincar, Trains

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October 28, 2009 - 7:54 am Stephanie - Marty is a ridiculous attractive man, and you captured all of the amazing parts of him. It's always hard to find your own place in a new city. Most people take years to find it. It helps to have an exploratory friend. Good luck. And, as always, you're beautiful.

October 17, 2009 - 11:25 pm Emily Porter - 1) I love love love that second shot of your friend 2) I love love love the new logo/watermark 3) you so pretty! :)

Sneak peak: Becky + Michael

August 30, 2009 Posted in Weddings

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I got home a few hours ago from Michael and Becky’s amazing wedding and I can’t stop going through their photos! I know I need to tear myself away from them to get some sleep, but before I get to bed, I had to share one photo from their beautiful wedding.

More soon to come!

Tags: preview, sneak peek, Weddings

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September 20, 2009 - 12:10 pm Brandi - That is gorgeous! The light in it is so yummy. I often have that problem.. Had it with yesterday's wedding so I had to post a few today as well!

September 11, 2009 - 5:39 pm Nycia@Inspired Events - YOUR WORK IS AMAZING!! I would love to share with my readers from time to time!;)

September 8, 2009 - 4:40 pm mary - =) I love this! Can't wait to see more..

Waffle House at 3 a.m.

August 28, 2009 Posted in Personal

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I’m accepting that editing photos almost always keeps me up past 2 a.m. in summer months — no, not just accepting it, I’m embracing it. And why not? When you’re living in Austin all the best food available is served up 24/7 anyway! And because Josh is a tattoo artist and a painter, our sleep and work schedules are just about in sync so I always have a partner for my late night meals. Due to our routine visits at all of our favorite late night diners, I have enough photos to fill a room with images of us eating our favorite dishes at Kerbey Lane Cafe, iHop, Waffle House, Denny’s, Magnolia Café, Katz, the list goes on and we love them all!

As unflattering as photos of us eating at 4 a.m. often turn out, I can’t help but bring my camera along. I really couldn’t believe the amount of images I’ve collected of just us eating pancakes and drinking coffee late at night from just these past few months, so I had to share the phenomenon with you. =)

Also — if you’re ever in Austin, do yourself a huge favor and go to Kerbey Lane for some Cowboy Queso — SO amazing!

Tags: breakfast, Denny's, food, iHop, Kerbey Lane Cafe, meals, Waffle House

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