Our Engagement Portraits

Well, so many of you have asked us WHO will photograph our wedding!? It is true that we would be super particular about the photographs for our own big day and I'm proud to say that we have made a wonderful selection. Dawn from Dawn Schubert Photography came in to assist me with a wedding a few weeks ago and she took our engagement photographs at that time. She, along with Alison Berk of Imagin Photography, will be photographing our big day! Nathaniel and I couldn't be happier with the sneak peak of photographs that Dawn gave us! We anxiously await the others and can't wait to put up a nice canvas collection of these in our home! Have a look at a few of our favorites!

BluOrchid Photography in a Print Competition

Well, we got back from the annual Inferno Conference in Nashville, TN this past week. I was really excited to go because it is always a good time getting together with my photography friends from all over the world and just getting to "talk shop" for a few days. While I was there, I entered the print competition (my first ever) and was so nervous about it. I made Nate choose the final 3 images I entered. I entered one print each in the Wedding, Group, and Individual categories. I was sitting there at my table trying desperately not to pass out from my nervousness when they called my name as the 3rd place winner in the Individual category. Well, you would have thought I had won the Academy Award or something! I sprang out of my chair and went up to collect my ribbon and print and got my photo taken with the judges. It was really exciting. There were something like 94 entried from photographers all over and I was very excited to have placed since I had never competed before. It's hard to look at my work objectively since I have so many emotional connections to it, but I wanted to share the print that placed! It is called "Solemn Grace" (you have to name your competition entries and the name can either make or break your score). This photo was on the blog a while back, but I made a few changes to it and am going to re-post it for you to see!

Fun Engagement Video by BluOrchid Photography ~ Marion AR Photographer

This is one of the fun new videos I created to highlight some of my engagement work this year. I'm sure you all remember Courtney and Beau...I hope they like this video!

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Memphis Engagement Pictures! BluOrchid Photography ~ Marion AR Photographer

Meet Erica and Jermaine. We did their engagement session and I am really excited about putting these on the blog. They met each other at a bike get together of some sort...so they knew they wanted to incorporate that into the photographs. ***Side note....I totally love how people have been incorporating things into their sessions that scream THEM!**** Ok, back to regularly scheduled programming. We went to downtown Memphis for this session and found some really cool, grungy locations. Erica had gone shopping and found these awesome shoes that she wanted to incorporate into the session...and let me tell you, she worked it in those shoes. I would have broken my neck, but not this girl! Too hot! Anyhow, it was a great time and I love how urban these turned out. Have a look....