ACM Photography

Mom and Daughter... CUTENESS!!!

2011-12-12T18:16:00.000-08:00

My Favorite!!

A Family Full of Energy!

2011-10-24T11:41:00.000-07:00

Took some photos yesterday at the Botanical Gardens of the Willard Family, I work with Katie and she has such a precious family. They even brought one of the dogs out to enjoy the fun!

Cade's Cove

2011-10-24T10:11:00.000-07:00

Can't believe it's been a month since I posted...

Well I had some sweet friends in town from NYC this past weekend and I thought what better way to welcome them to Tennessee than to go and see the breathtaking Smokey Mountains at the peak of the fall foliage. So we hit the road with snacks packed and went for a drive to the beautiful Cade's Cove. The trees were beautiful and I wanted to stop at about every curve in the road as we were driving through the Smokey Mountain National Park.

Absolutely loved the landscapes with all the colors!!

These next few I LOVE!! I was so excited to see a 6-point buck... can't say I've ever seen one in person before!

Reighlen's Baptism

2011-09-18T22:05:00.000-07:00

This sweet little girl got baptized yesterday in La Follette, Tennessee. It's about 30 minutes north of Knoxville and the Sunday morning drive was absolutely breath taking, I just had to share a picture of it.

The baptism took place at La Follette United Methodist Church. It reminded me a lot of the kind of Church that I grew up in. It was so quaint and homey and all of the people were so sweet.

Before heading into the church we got a couple pictures of Reighlen and her adorable big brother, Rylen.

Reighlen loved to be held and loved on by her sweet momma, Judy.

She wanted to be held at all times.

Her adorable big brother, he just loved to smile.

The Church was beautiful on the inside.

I just loved this stained glass window.

Some sweet family pictures.

The Baptism Ceremony

What a proud momma!

Two proud parents!

The introduction of Reighlen to the congregation.

Mr. and Mrs. Collins

2011-09-11T20:51:00.000-07:00

Well ACM Photography made it through the first wedding. I survived and have been sorting through the 1800 pictures that I have over the past two days. I wanted to share a couple of the images of Emily and Josh... the light after the ceremony was breath-taking.

One of my favorites because Josh is actually smiling. You would hold up the camera and his face would immediately turn serious.

Hope you enjoy and there are more pictures to come!

Emily and Josh are getting married... TOMORROW!!

2011-09-09T19:44:00.000-07:00

Well tomorrow is such a big day for me. I shoot my first wedding!! I took some engagement pictures a couple months ago of a sweet, sweet girl that I work with an her fiancé, Josh. She absolutely loved the pictures and over several weeks convinced me to be the photographer for her wedding. I have assisted for several wedding with my dear friend, Tracie Ancelet who has her own photography company, Ancelet Photography, and is absolutely amazing. I follow her on shoots as well sometimes and she is absolutely amazing and as taught me so much.

So I guess it's time to pull it all together. In the world of nursing we say- See one, do one, teach one. Well I've seen several weddings from the perspective of a photographer thanks to Tracie so I guess it's time to do one.

I'm a little nervous, very excited, and am praying that all goes perfectly as planned. I have spent several hours prepping and looking at wedding photography and creating a checklist for all of the shots to get. So tomorrow after lunch I head out to Day Lilly Farms in Corryton for an exciting day filled with hundreds of pictures!

I wanted to share some of the pictures from Emily's engagement shoot...

It was absolutely so much fun to watch the two of them get up in this tree. It was about 5 feet up in the air.

So Josh doesn't smile very often and I only captured his smile in this picture because I told him to "imagine that he just caught a deer." They both laughed at me for a little while and then informed me that you don't catch a deer, you shoot it... clearly I don't spend too much time in the country.

My absolute favorite picture from the shoot.... a little something Tracie Ancelet taught me.

Heather and Jake are engaged!!

2011-08-29T21:40:00.000-07:00

I took some pictures of a sweet friend of mine a few weeks back and wanted to share them with you. Jake was such a good sport for our shoot that lasted about an hour and a half in the Old City. The too of them make such a cute couple, can't wait for their May wedding!!

My absolute favorite!! Love those train tracks!!

Jake's look in this picture kills me.... it's too precious!!

One of my favorites!

A Touch of Africa

2011-08-24T18:11:00.000-07:00

I recently spend ten days in Uganda serving on a Medical Mission Trip. I met so many amazing people that were all so gracious for the very little that they had. Over the 5 days we served at Isaac Clinic in Wakiso we saw 650 patients, handed out more than 300 pairs of eyeglasses, and had over 200 people accept Jesus Christ. It was a truly life changing trip and I wanted to share a little bit of what it was like to live in Uganda.

Katie got away for a few minutes and spent time with this sweet girl, she was too precious.

Me and sweet baby Eddie. He came to visit me while I was working in the lab.

Katie holding a sweet African child's hand while they received some IV medications.

Feet!

A major amount of the Ugandans time is spent walking to and from the well to get water. Most of the homes don't have water or electricity.

The Ugandan countryside looked like these... filled with homes without water or electricity, they took pride in what they had and kept the houses clean. You would be driving along and all of a sudden there would be cows on the side of the road.

A Ugandan home, Children and women would be outside the homes a lot of the time. They used this space to cook, wash clothes, and spend time with one another.

The shoe of choice while we were in Africa was TOMS since the soil carried parasites.

The Team of 23 that came from all across the state of Tennessee and one from Romania.