St. James 2010 Womens Conference

Well, after a few weeks, the pictures for the St. James 2010 Women's Conference are finally up!  I had the pleasure of photographing this event last year and was so excited to hear I could do it again! As you may know, St. James is my home church and I am just so blessed and humbled to be used by God here.  Great things are happening here!  Here is your picture preview, and the rest of the album should be uploaded shortly!  Click here to view, or go to "client viewing", then "seniors + families + events" on the website! 

Eleuthera Part I

Well, I've finally had time to sit down and work up a few photos from Eleuthera!  I know a lot of people have been asking, so even though I'm not anywhere close to being done with all of the photo's, I thought I'd go ahead and post a few of them. 

For those of you who may not know, Eleuthera is a long skinny island in the Bahamas that is not very touristy and has a very small population.  You won't find shopping malls, casinos, big chain hotels, or any kind of crowds.  It's just miles and miles of uninhabited land and beautiful beaches.  One of the things that this island is known for is it's pink sand.  The sea strawberries break up in the ocean and wash ashore mixing with the white sand which creates an amazing pink color unlike anything I've ever seen.  Another thing that amazed me about this island is that around every bend, there is a different beach, with totally different sea shells, sand, and shoreline.  One beach was completely covered in sea sponges, one empire shells, and another tiny little white and pink shells.  And if that isn't enough, the birds here are beautiful!  I had so many things to explore that the first day there, I was just completely overwhelmed!  Isn't it amazing what God has created!  We can't even dream up some of the creations he has given us.  We are truly blessed.

Well, here are just a few pictures to preview, click here and you can view Part I of the entire Eleuthera gallery.

Nick + Ashley Wedding - Part II

Here is Part II of Nick & Ashley!  We had such a great time at this wedding, and as you can see from the photos at the reception, so did everyone else!  It's so nice to see such happy faces at a wedding, and no bridezilla's and party poopers! 
I love the fall decor these two chose, and the cake topper is so unique!  As for the grooms cake, does anyone know who this is?  I guessed those little guys from Star Wars, but someone quickly corrected me on that one!  Anyone else know? 
Hope you guys had a great honeymoon, and enjoy Part II of your photo preview!

Nick + Ashley Wedding - Part I

Nathan and I had the opportunity to shoot Nick & Ashley's wedding last Saturday, and let me tell you it was one of the funnest weddings we have shot in a long time!  We had a blast!  Nick and I went to school together back in the day, so it was nice catching up with all my old engineering friends.  It's also nice to work with people who think like me!  Us engineers are just a different breed I think. ;-)

Well this is going to be Part I of a 2 post wedding because there are just so many pictures!  And the fall leaves were just perfect for the day. Enjoy your picture preview!

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone had a happy Halloween and got loads of candy!  We had both the families over for pumpkin carving, chili eating, and candy scarfing!  Yum!  Still recovering after the sugar high, then energy low so short post tonight!  Here are a few highlights from our holiday. 

Family & Friends can view all the pictures here:

http://www.fotosbymichelle.com/Client-viewing/My-Family/halloween-2010/14471005_U6pPk

Fall Photo Shoot at War Eagle

Today I got the privilege of seeing my two little nieces for some quality time and fall photos!  We loaded up and headed for the newly restored War Eagle Bridge.  The bridge has just undergone a face lift including a new bridge deck, and paint job, and other structural upgrades.  I'm so glad it's still here and they haven't torn it down.  Such a beautiful bridge with lots of history.  Isn't it funny how engineering can mix with photography?!
Well, I do have the two most photogenic nieces in the world.  They love getting their picture taken.  HOWEVER, they are not usually photogenic at the same time!!  When one is ready and smiling, the other usually gets bored, mad, jealous, or just plain done with the whole thing!  haha ;-)  But there was never a dull moment with these two.  And when they do something bad, they're so adorable you just can't get mad at them!  Thanks to my sister for helping out and holding the reflector when Kaitlyn would let us use it. :) Overall we did pretty good on catching them together and happy!  Here is a little sneak peak!