Aleksa

A few weekends ago I got to spend some time snapping photos of Aleksa, a c/o 2011 senior!  aleksa is such a sweet, smart girl!  We spent the afternoon talking about what she wants to major in (engineering, natch--see I told you she was a smartie;), where she wants to go to school (she had an academy interview the day before our shoot--wow), and what she'll be up to this year (i think she said something like 4 or 5 AP classes?? Not sure but whatever it was, I was very impressed!). 

Here are a few of aleksa pictures--hope you all like!  aleksa, good luck this year, you are going to do great!
susan

Mr. + Mrs. Moline

Last month I had the pleasure of photographing (with the fabulous Ms. Juliecate) Pauline + Nick's wedding out on Navarre Beach.  P+N came all the way from Indiana to get married at the beach and have a quaint brunch afterwards at Nick's family beach house.  The couple was beautiful, the day was gorgeous, and the families were joyous in celebrating the new union!  Here are a few pictures from the day!

Awwww Mondays....

do mondays ever make you want to bury your head under the covers and not peak out until tuesday?  do they ever make you regret that you did not savor every last minute of the weekend?  mondays have always been the bane of my existence!  like i seriously do not like mondays! Okay, well, that might be a bit dramatic...I can almost hear brandon say, "but i thought {you could literally insert a multitude of slightly irritating things...: people who wear their sunglasses in walmart, that weird cable access t.v. show with people making "music videos," people who talk during movies, etc. } was the bane of your existense??"  well yes, I do find all of those other things to be annoying too but there is just something about mondays.  today was different though, I woke up this morning and instead of throwing my usual 4 year old temper tantrum about the fact that it was monday, I sprung out of bed and ran to the computer room full of excitement to once again review the pictures I had taken from the weekend. 

i had such a great weekend that all got kicked off with a great photography workshop I went to in Rosemary Beach (i'll have to post on this later), my little brother turned 18 and graduated high school {tear...}, i got to see my best friend whom I hadn't seen in a little over a year (!), i had a great mini shoot with her and her husband and brandon and i Saturday night, and then we also shot a gorgeous wedding sunday morning. 

me and my camera, we had a frenaissance this last weekend.  i woke up this morning with a renewed love and passion for photography--so much so that it's like it's like I forgot that it was monday.
happy monday everybody!

Julie (and her husband James) of {Juliecate Photography}

Senior 2010 sneak peak

I have the biggest smile on my face as I type up this post...the reason being?? This particular senior is my baby brother! My brother James is graduating in just a few short weeks and I can barely believe it...it seems like just yesterday that he was a baby and I helped to change his diapers...feed him his bottle...take him for walks in his stroller! This is a cute {cute's probably not the best word to describe a picture of a guy..errrr... i'll go with "awesome"} little picture that we snapped of James this last weekend at his school. Oh and the other shot is a picture that we did for him because he said he wanted one that looked like an "Under Armour" ad. Oh those crazy kids. ;)

Anyway, more to come from this shoot soon. Happy early graduation James!
love you-
Susan

Update

Wow...it's been a while. World's WORST blogger here...;)Things have been pretty busy around here but as I was working on photos tonight I remembered that I had quickly snapped a photo of a couple that I met with last month and thought i'd share. Pauline + Nick are getting married at a cute little beach house on the Gulf in June and me and my photo partner in crime {juliecate} will be capturing their big day. Anyway- this is the cute couple. They are super sweet and I cannot wait for their wedding!

Well- here's hoping to posting again tomorrow...I actually have a really sweet "Save the Date" that another one of our couple's sent us that I need to post on. So stay tuned for that;)
S

Save the Date

**I meant to post this 2 weeks ago- but I finally got around to gettng a picture of J+J's Save the Date. Thanks again for sharing this you guys- it's so awesome!!

So i's been a while since we've posted...and those of you who know us know about all of the crazy, EXCITING things that have been going on in our lives this year!! Because of these new things that are happening with us we are really not going to be doing much photography this year but there are still a few special things we are working on- one of those things being Jenn + Joel's upcoming nuptuals:) I LOVE when I get to see what couples do with the pictures that we take of them and this special treat arrived in our mail box yesterday (see below). I LOVE the way this turned out. It's classic and elegant- very much like Ms. Jenn! Thanks for sharing this with us you guys!
Susan

Jennifer + Joel Engagement

Last month Brandon and I got to meet with the lovely Jennifer + Joel at Ft. Barrancas in Pensacola. It had been at least 15 years since I had been out there and was so excited that J+J had chosen such a unique locale for their engagement shoot! Here's a sneak peak from their shoot. :) Have a great weekend!
S
P.S. Don't forget to click on the image to blow it up!


Jennifer is absolutely gorgeous!

Jessica+Shane Engagement

All the way back in December {which literally feels like forever ago!} Brandon and I got to meet up with Jessica+Shane for their engagement shoot at Grand Boulevard. Jessica+Shane are from Atlanta and we met them through one of our all time favorite couples Caitlin+Brandon H. I was so excited to finally meet them because I had heard so much about them from the H's- and everything they said was true! They are such a sweet, loving, and fun couple; definitely the type of couple that you would want to have as friends. So here are a few pictures from their shoot. This particular day was so, so cold and the sun was blaring. It made for a tough shoot but I am in love with the colors of the images and Jessica and Shane looked so great in the clothing colors they picked out! Jessica+Shane, thanks for letting us shoot your enagagement shoot. It was such a pleasure to get to know you guys, even if it was for only a short amount of time:)
xxx's-
susan
As always...click on the pictures to blow them up:)