The CSP Class of 2011.

A lot of you know I used to be a teacher. When you’re a teacher, you have a class of about 25-30 kids a year (plus their parents). You have initial meetings with them before the first day of school, then you batten down the hatches and go through the year with occasional consults in between. At the end of the year, you say farewell and hope they’ll stop by your class again as they get older.

Photography is not unlike that. I have about 30 couples (for weddings) a year (plus their parents…haha). I have initial consults with them, and then we batten down the hatches and go through the wedding planning, wedding photographing, wedding editing process. At the end of the year I bid them farewell and hope that I’ll see hear from them again down the road, either for a session or for coffee. :) Then I look at the list of the names on my Class of 2012 and think about all that we’re excited for.

So goodbye, Class of 2011! Each and every one of you were fabulous. We went to some incredible places and photographed some of our loveliest weddings yet. Better still, we made a lot of close friends out of some of our clients this year… which is probably the thing that I treasure most out of this job. We’re sooo excited to see what next year brings. Here are our favorites from the Class of 2011 (one picture from each portrait and wedding session we did).

As an added bonus, we’ve decided to show some outtakes of ourselves from some of our portraits and weddings. We take a lot of pictures. And, let’s face it, these are our weekends and weekdays too… so documenting your shindig is essentially documenting our lives… no matter how disheveled we look. ;) And trust us, we look pretty disheveled in some of these. But typically these are after a 10 hour work day with occasionally no food but lots of caffeine, so I’d say we’re looking pretty okay considering! ;) :P I find the evolution of my hairstyle and Geoff’s beard particularly amusing.

Happy, happy new year everyone…. here’s to a healthy, happy, and safe 2012 for all our families, friends, clients, and blog stalkers!

Happy holidays from us to you.

This is my second-to-last blog post before the end of the year (my last one, coming in a few days, is our best of 2011 post). I don’t post personal stuff terribly frequently, but before the Best Of post I wanted to say Happy Holidays to all of our clients in all different parts of the world and of every religion and non-religion. This is a glimpse into our corner of the world’s holiday cheer which consists of really bizarre family traditions like dressing up the CSP spokescats in t-shirts, taking your sister’s plastic dinosaur and placing it in the tree with a crown on its head while it simultaneously eats a reindeer and plays the saxophone, and feeding a healthy dose of eggnog to your nutcrackers. Happy holidays, ya’ll and yinz guys. ;)

Featured in Luxe Mountain Weddings Magazine

Woooooo!!! We are very very happy and thankful to have one of our weddings highlighted in Luxe Mountain Weddings Magazine! It’s always exciting to have work of yours in print… and I gotta say I’m pretty proud of us. :) … though we couldn’t have done it alone!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the following people: Debbie from Luxe Mountain Weddings, Sarah and Jimmy – our wonderful couple, all of the amazing wedding vendors from their wedding, and Geoff (husband) who second shot this and every wedding with me… and whose photograph landed the main “Escape to Asheville” page of the magazine!

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