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B&A Wedding

meephotos — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:24:34 +0000

What a gorgeous day it was! The sun was shinning, I could hear the birds singing and life was just a buzzing in full summer. What a beautiful day it was for a wedding!

B&A wedding peek

meephotos — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Here is a sneak peak of a fabulous couple! More wedding photos to come soon!

Brad & Anna Engagement

meephotos — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:59:38 +0000

Went out for a beautiful walk today along the trails. I love engagement sessions because I get to see how my future brides and grooms interact together and I get to hear their stories and get to know them. These two have such an amazing story of how strong their love is because it has been tested time and time again with everything they have had to go through. But even their condo flooding won’t peel their love apart!

O&L Wedding

meephotos — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:56:27 +0000

Charming, Delightful, Heartfelt and Dear are all words I would use to describe this couple! On the back roads found on a lovely French Getaway, I found myself stepping into a magical, beautiful french country wedding. I have never seen such celebration among the family, as they acted as if these were their dear beloved treasures! Such Celebration! Such Merriment! And such true love!

Back in mee film days

meephotos — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:53:14 +0000

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” ~Ansel Adams

Yes! I shot film once upon a time!

I still love the sharpness + grain that you get when working with film, but I don’t miss how soaking wet my hands were after using the chemicals and since I traveled so much I didn’t always carry with mee an entire dark room, so finding a printer that I loved was pretty hard. I get asked all the time if I miss film and yes part of mee does, but for mee using film was very expensive! I would go through probably 6 rolls a day without any projects. If I was hired on for a wedding or a stock shoot, then I would go through 6-36 rolls easy. Depending on if I had enough chemicals on hand or if I could find a printer, I would pay anything from $4.99-24.99 per roll (!!) depending on where and what I got. My husband felt at that point that even though I was getting paid for my work here and there, that all in all it was a very expensive hobby, so that is when we sucked up and bought a Digital Camera.

Biggest thing I miss in film/dark room?: Multiple Exposures, overlaying them and making them look however you want AND: Having something I just created, immediately in my hands, to look at and gush over

I have never looked back since! I know the local high school/college has a darkroom and I have thought about stopping in to see how they are doing, but either than that my iMac and I are doing just fine!

These images are the very last wedding I took with film. I had a digital camera for years playing with it, but these were the last wedding images I had to scan. (I don’t miss scanning either, saves mee steps! lol) I didn’t re-touch either, that is the beauty with film sometimes! Color/B&W Film for certain occasions were perfect!

Cheerio

-Melissa E Earle