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Apr 29 2012

Alex – Class of 2012 – Franklin, Indiana – Senior Photography

This is Alex, a 2012 Indian Creek graduate and actually working in my classroom this year. I have really enjoyed having her in my room, she has been a huge help. She is planning on going to college to get a degree in elementary education and she is going to be an AMAZING teacher!

So, when she asked if we would do some senior pictures, of course we said YES!! She scouted out some locations before hand (we’ve been so blessed to have people scouting out locations for us!!) at the Johnson County Horse Park. This is the first time we have ever shot there, but I now have a great location for shoots. It has so much to offer!

Then, wanting pictures with her truck, they took us to a really cool iron bridge. While shooting a gentleman stopped and told us about an area where a cement bridge had broken up near a creek with some really cool rapids. Although our light was fading fast, we decided to head over and it was gorgeous! It’s too bad we didn’t see it earlier, we could have shot there for hours! I would LOVE to take a wedding party there sometime!

You can’t tell, but it was really, REALLY cold that day. Alex wore a jacket while we set up each shot with lights and such, then she took the jacket off and did a great job not appearing cold. There were so many pictures that turned out amazing, here are some of our favorites!

~Jamie

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Apr 28 2012

James and Amy Engagement Shoot – Columbus, Indiana – Engagement Photography

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Let me tell you, it feels good to…feel good again! We had actually shot this engagement shoot B.C. (what my wife refers to as “before the crash) and am just now able to finish editing it. I appreciate all of your thoughts and especially your prayers through a very intense time but God has spared my life and for that I am truly grateful. (For those who have no idea what I am talking about, I am currently recovering from a plane crash, but doing well!)

Anyway, this is James and Amy. We met with Amy to discuss shooting her wedding early in January and we hit it off. After talking we realized we had a lot in common and we left excited about their upcoming wedding. We were also very excited to do an engagement shoot with them. I love doing engagement shoots. It allows us to spend time with the couple getting to know them, them getting to know us and everyone getting comfortable with each other before their big day.

Amy wanted to do the pictures in Columbus and had already scouted out some great locations. We started out downtown, then traveled to Cummins where there were some gorgous dogwood trees in bloom. We almost had an adventure when my wife wanted to shake some flowers down on the couple for a “romantic feel” to the shoot. She began to pull on the branches and I feared that she was going to break a particularly large branch down on the couple. As you will see, we weren’t able to shoot the “magical moment” she had in mind, but we did get some just as spectacular ones regardless.

We ended our session at Millrace Park and they brought T-shirts with their date on the back for Save the Date cards. How cool! This was the most creative way to spell out the date we have shot to this day. It was an amazing day and I know my wife and I cannot wait for their wedding! Here are some of our favorite shots.

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Elizabeth McCuen - April 28, 2012 - 8:00 pm

I love these pictures you guys!!!!! Too cute!!! Can’t wait for the big day!!!

Joni Hurt - April 28, 2012 - 6:54 pm

Love the pictures!

Apr 03 2012

Haitian Soccer Game – Zoranger, Haiti – Missions

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I know it has been a while, but we have been really busy with the adoption and everything that goes with it. This past March, I traveled back to Haiti with a friend of ours, Mark Appleton, to first visit my son and second as a fact finding trip in a little village of Zoranger, Haiti. You see, at this village the children go to school only half days because there is no food to feed them to allow them to go the entire school day. On our last trip back in November, we met up with a man that is helping fund the school, Louis, and told him about our own community garden we have at our house and how the local school comes and plants and helps harvest (thanks to my wonderful wife!). He was excited to hear the possibilities and wanted us to come and see if such a garden could be planted and thrive in his area.

While we were there, we got to witness a soccer match between the school and another local school in the area. The entire village came out to watch. It was equivalent to a high school sectional football game here with the townspeople cheering, visiting and coming together to root for their school. It was amazing to watch and capture. I was also impressed with how far advanced the students were in their learning and education. In fact, Mark, who is a fourth grade teacher himself, felt that they even surpassed many of our own students. I’m sure this is due to the fact that students there take their education so seriously for they know that education it their only way out of poverty. If only our own students here in the states realized how blessed they were and took their own education as seriously.

But I regress, back to soccer. Here are some of my favorite shots from the match. It was an amazing trip with so many stories and adventures from riding through the beautiful mountains on horseback, to getting stuck in the mud on our way out of the country to people burning tires and rioting in the streets not letting us through, I’m counting the days until I return. The people are amazing with such inner strength and beauty.

We’ll have many engagements/weddings booked in the next few months, so watch for our updated blog posts. It will be great to get back to shooting/blogging regularly again now that we are in the “wait on foreign governments side of the adoption!”

~Seth

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Jan 22 2012

Jacob and Mara – Wedding – Columbus, Indiana – Wedding Photography

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To start the new year we had the opportunity to capture the cermony that would start Jacob and Mara’s life together. Their New Year’s wedding was held at The Commons in downtown Columbus, Indiana. This was the first wedding we had shot at this venue and we were extremely impressed (and highly recommend it to our future brides). With the historical buildings downtown, the colorful little alley ways and the architecture that Columbus is famous for, we had so many different options of backgrounds and shots we could have set up, so many we really had to focus on narrowing it down to make time. The bridal party were champs, braving the cold and putting on their “model” face for us the entire time. The sound and DJ provided by Maddox Entertainment kept the reception lively and smooth. To Mr. and Mrs. Redmond: It was our pleasure and an honor to share this special day with you! Here are some of our favorite shots from your wedding:

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Jan 22 2012

Hall Family Pictures – Morgantown, Indiana – Family Photography

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Meet the Hall family! We had actually did a Christmas mini session with their extended family this past December which lead us to this family. We took them to Morgantown for their family shoot, shooting against some of the buildings and the railroad tracks. (This little town is one of our favorite places to shoot, there are so many great walls and textures to shoot against!). During our shoot on the railroad tracks we did get a reminder from a “friendly” onlooker that private property starts 15 feet from the middle of the track (and apparently we were venturing onto private property). Who knew? But now we know for future shoots! We had a blast shooting them and here are some of our favorites:

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CARPE DIEM photo|video - January 22, 2012 - 5:31 pm

Aww…thank you!! It helps that you guys are soo photogenic!!

Sarah - January 22, 2012 - 5:02 pm

You are SO Awesome!! You have So much talent and gift! We LOVE the pictures of our family. I never imagined how they could come out, wonderful. Plus, you are the nicest, funnest people ever!! Thank you!!

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