We met Riley and Ryan in downtown Suwanee for the final MS Walk Session. We instantly fell in love with Riley’s curls and blue eyes and Ryan’s red hair and freckles. They did their thing- Riley worked it and Ryan smoldered. But we just couldn’t get a real, big smile from Ryan. This one was pretty good.

We told jokes, made faces. He’s got the James Dean thing down, though.

Riley needed no direction. Once she got started, she took off. Watch her go…

Riley’s mom says she’ll move to straightening her hair soon. We sure hope not. You’re beautiful, Riley!

This is a pretty decent smile, too. Still not there yet…But LOOK at those freckles! They’re so wonderful!

Just as we were about to leave, Alan snuck up on Ryan and…THERE IT IS!!!

We had so much fun with you guys! Thank you both and thank you, Lea! Hope you enjoy these!

This is Buddy. Buddy is 8-months-old and he loves pulling on his leash and playing with his boy, Tristan. He also owns Mike and Carrie, Tristan’s parents, who feed him and walk him and wait patiently for his puppy stage to calm down. He lives a pretty tough life.

This is Buddy’s boy, Tristan. He likes to climb things..just like Buddy.

Buddy has a pretty good-looking family, don’t you think?

Buddy liked our camera and got excited. I think he thought it was some new black, flashy ball.

Thanks, Buddy for letting us play with you and your family!

Karla and James are some of our favorite people. All you have to do is watch how easily James cracks up and doubles over with laughter and experience Karla’s candid and genuine nature and you’ll fall in love with them, too. We were overflowing with blessings after shooting their Dallas wedding last August and our blessings continue when they asked us to do an early one-year anniversary session while visiting Atlanta. We wandered through a warehouse district downtown and even got kicked off of somebody’s front porch (who knew warehouses had front porches?)! Oh, it’s all excitement and adventure with ADP! Karla and James, you make us look GOOD.

We love haystacks. We love beach parks. We love the Bryants. Life is good. For those of you that don’t know about haystacks, we don’t mean bales of hay – we mean a wonderful twist on a taco salad indigenous to the Seventh-day Adventist culture. Come on over to our house sometime and we’ll introduce you to them!

The Bryants are a special family. First, Kellie and Jonathan invited us to their home in Oahu for their beautiful wedding this last Sunday. And since we include an engagement session in each wedding package, we made sure to slip in a last minute session in Ala Moana Park, or Magic Island, before we had worship with their family and watched the weekly fireworks. The two kids, Noah and Chloe are originally Jonathan’s but could not be more in love with their new family member!

We will talk more about these guys in their wedding blog on Sunday, but here is a peek at the wonderful Bryants. We know you’ll love them almost as much as we do.

We love you, Jonathan, Kellie, Noah and Chloe! Be watching Sunday for their wedding!!

P.S. We found a place in Oahu that does a light frothy macadamia nut sauce on pancakes. Wow. Now I have to go find food…

We met two beautiful ladies earlier and when we showed up later that afternoon for MS Walk Photography Session #4, we met two really cool guys, Nathan and Harrison – along with their mom, dad and their chihuahua Ruby.

It was HOT. But we stole these pictures as we darted from shade to shade. Nathan is the cool, hip one. Harrison is the crazy cat with the awesome hair. We’re kind of hoping Harrison and Nichole get to meet each other if they haven’t already, because that would be one entertaining duo!

Coffey family, we had a blast with you and hope to see you again sometime soon when you need to get updated images of those handsome boys…

Last Sunday was our second installment of the MS Walk sessions. We have been working with the MS Walk of Georgia to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. The Mauldins braved the heat to get new portraits of their gorgeous daughters, Amanda and Nichole. Amanda is approaching her Junior year and getting excited about her drivers license. Nichole kept us in stitches with her antics and her ballet poses. I would name them for you, but neither I nor Alan know a THING about ballet! And yet, we do know that Nichole has a great future in it – either that or comedy.

Amanda is gorgeous. We really hope you’ll call us next year this time for your Senior Portraits!!

Nichole has a thing for yellow – yellow flowers (see above) and especially yellow cars. She adopts any she sees as “hers,” and this yellow Maserati was one of the better ones she’s claimed – so we posed her in front of it.

Mauldin family, we really enjoyed marching across downtown Lawrenceville with you. We hope that this session gives your dad some great new wallet photos of his two beautiful girls.

Our friend Allan is a graduating senior at Atlanta Adventist Academy and we did a mini-session with him to celebrate his 19th birthday. We were privileged to be at the class of 2010′s graduation this weekend and they are all so amazing and talented. We’ll miss them all a lot.

We are excited and honored to partner with the MS Walk 2010 in Georgia. Walk MS is the rallying point of the MS movement, a community coming together to raise funds and celebrate hope for the future. One of the teams walking this year contacted us about selling portrait sessions to raise funds and we were thrilled to get involved and provided certificates for sale. Thank you Dawn for inviting us to be a part of the MS Walk this year!

The first shoot day of three was last Sunday in Downtown Duluth and we met up with two families. You’ll probably recognize Burke from his pine cone exploration and we met a really fun couple, Steve and Linda with their two Great Danes, Stormy and Bristol.

There are a few MS Walk certificates still available. Please contact us if you are interested in a session for yourself and also help support the MS Walk 2010. There are two more shoot dates available, May 9 in Downtown Suwanee and June 13 in Downtown Lawrenceville. The certificates are $49 ($150 value) and $39 go directly to benefit the MS Walk.

Here are a few of our favorites of the day!

Spring is here and we were excited to spend some time with our friend Shannon and her son and husband. It was fun to spend some time with Shannon outside of the therapy room. Shannon has been our massage therapist for the past several months and we’ve been planning this session since before Christmas. We just couldn’t find the right day, but we found it last Sunday. Burke got to get out in the sun and run around the park and hunt for pine cones (which he had never seen before). He was enamored with them, he must have thought he discovered a secret that no one else knew about. He eventually grew bored with them and we were able to catch a few smiles and capture his fun energy.

Here are some of the favorites! Thank so much for hanging out with us Shannon, John and Burke!!

Our latest client/friends are Kristen and Jeff. Both of these brave souls are firefighters in the Chattanooga, TN area. We convinced Jeff to let us take a handful of pictures at the firehall and then moved on to Chickamauga Battlefield for the rest of our session. We spent a lot of time laughing and talking and getting acquainted before moving on to some yummy Mexican food! Thank you for indulging us just a little with the firetruck pictures and we loved meeting you both and look forward to your wedding this May!

Rahshan and Joy are seniors at Atlanta Adventist Academy. Rahshan came to us months ago, wanting to plan something extra special for Joy’s birthday, and a mixture of couples’ portraits and senior photos was just the ticket!

These two are extremely fun, outgoing, talented seniors who we will miss terribly around AAA next year. But we hope that these pictures will help you remember your big senior year in Atlanta. Thanks for making us a part of it!

Our dear friend Jennifer LaMountain dropped in with baby Garrison last weekend and requested some new headshots, for which we were happy to oblige. We braved the icy winds and Jennifer did her best not to turn blue while we cracked non-stop silly jokes just to keep ourselves laughing and warm. The laughing part is not difficult with Jen around. She’s also one very pretty lady. We love you, LaMountains, and we hope to see you and and the whole family again soon! And while you’re looking, buy some of Jennifer’s music here.

The Ilies attended a Morning Song Concert in Duluth, GA and walked away the winners of a free family session from ADP! It’s taken us a while to get our schedules to mesh, but when they called and told us that their daughter and grandson were in town from Idaho, we made sure it happened! The Ilies are from Romania and fed us until we were bursting! Now we’re quite spoiled, all you future clients… Thank you, Ilie family. We had a lovely time with you.

Sierra and Daniel are such fun friends and we were thrilled when we heard that they had started dating, even more thrilled that they were engaged and ecstatic when they asked us to photograph the event! We’re partially excited because these two have flawless style and taste, so we really look forward to their wedding day details and secondly – LOOK AT THEM! They’re adorable. Not so difficult to photograph. So congratulations to this fab British guy and this fantastic southern girl. We love you both and had such a great time with you!

Part 1: We talked with Sierra a few days before this shoot and she told us about the location that she had chosen and we were really excited. We met in Madison, GA at Perk Avenue for a quick breakfast and coffee. Madison is such a cute little town – Alysa said she “wanted to put it in her pocket and take it home!” Our main destination was The Nolan House but we took advantage of some fun locations in Madison before we left.

Part 2: The Nolan House is an old abandoned plantation style house about 20 minutes north of Madison. It’s in amazing, yet dilapidated, condition and we just fell in love with all of the textures and character of the building. This is definitely one of our favorite locations ever – well done Sierra! Thank you for giving us such a wonderful place to work.

Lela Joy’s cousin Finn (and his parents David and Holly) was in Chattanooga for Thanksgiving and Finn’s grandparents were wonderful enough to give them an early Christmas session – a family session with ADP! (Wink, wink – *ahem* – nudge…we’re just saying it’s a great idea)

I (Alysa) have known Dave since college and we were both thrilled to meet Holly and Finn finally. The poor little guy was a little under the weather, but he’s still one handsome dude and he let out a handful of grins throughout the day. He was mostly content to sit in dad’s arms and make these little half singing, half sighing noises, just to let us know he was still there. Thank you, Gary and Malia for sharing us with the rest of your family and we hope to see ALL of you again soon!

And you know we can’t do a whole session with Lela there and not swipe a few of her! We hope these two baby cousins had a blast together this Thanksgiving!

In March I’ll be in Hawaii to photograph the wedding Adriana and Cyrus and I can’t wait! I was disappointed not be in San Diego to shoot their engagement photos, but they were able to book Jaclyn Pruehs. Jaclyn is my sister and I think it’s cool that we both get to be their photographers and keep it in the family. Jaclyn did a great job and I want to share one of my favorites of the day. Check out the rest on her website: http://jpruehsphotography.blogspot.com

This session was just flat out fun! Leslie contacted us a few weeks ago about doing a session with her whole family at TPC at Sugarloaf. We got to meet all 13 of her family members including 5 kids under the age of 5 and we couldn’t have hoped for a family that is better looking or laughed as easily! The three boys were a bundle of energy and we were completely consumed with following them around with our cameras. We really enjoyed you guys and we can’t wait for our next opportunity to photograph the whole clan or your separate families. We hope you smile and laugh at these photos as much as we did! And here’s a special message for Jack, Sam and Tripp: MONKEYDROPS!! (Don’t worry, you had to be there.)

Priscilla Berry is an independent Gospel artist with a new recording project in the works. An album’s photography is always such a big part of the project and we’re thrilled that she trusted us with her images. I’m honored to be a part of Priscilla’s music ministry and I’m looking forward to hearing the finished product as well. Here are some shots that we think would be great cd art!

We said it all in part one’s post, but we would like to state again, for the record, that we really could have done much better work had the bride and groom been better looking. Too bad. (Ha!)

We are so honored (or should we say honoured?) to have been invited to capture the beautiful wedding of Melita and Brandon. We are also thrilled to announce this as ADP’s first (of many, we hope) international destination wedding! Woo hoo! The wedding was at Wasing Park, just outside London and we were overwhelmed with the beauty and class of the venue – and of these gorgeous clients. Melita’s family showered us with attention, home cooked meals and even our own chauffeur! (Thanks, Matt!) We had a fantastic time and we hope your exotic honeymoon is fantastic as well!

Melita is Serbian and Brandon is Canadian. The reception was FULL of references to their proud heritage. At every other place setting, guests got either a Serbian salad dressing or Canadian maple syrup as their favors. Ours made it all the way back to the states and I can’t wait for waffles!

We learned more about the Serbian culture than we could learn in a lifetime – but mostly, we learned that Serbs know how to PARTY! The men break out in song randomly, the women in dance and the wedding reception just keeps going and going with magic, dance lessons, games and laughter.