my friend becka and i did a quick photoshoot the other day before hannah and i drove to chicago. it was really fun! to me they capture becka's unique personality. hannah and i spent a couple days in chicago with my family, and i got to help them set up a salt water aquarium for the house. great learning experience. in fact, i was busy most of the time there with one project or another, and i was completely happy. we brought wilco along and he kept himself busy with my parent's golden retriever, lucy. one of the days we went on a bike ride around their little suburb. it seems the nice weather up there followed us home too.

hannah and i celebrated my birthday with a trip to the georgia aquarium in atlanta. it was so amazing. i've always been drawn to marine life, and i'm obsessed with getting a salt water tank of my own someday. so the fact that this is the largest aquarium in the world and that it has four whale sharks made the visit a no brainer. we were not disappointed. maybe someday we'll have way too much money laying around and we'll go back and pay to scuba dive in the big tank with the whale sharks...

hannah and i are hard at work trying to finish everything for the wedding. i can't believe it's only six weeks away! today i'm staining all the envelopes for invitations. i'm kind of behind. although i'm happy that our engagement is short, i wish it were longer so i could have more time to blog about all the details and personality we are putting into it.

a few months ago i worked on an advertising campaign for TUMILA. the website is up, check it out!

baby kate!

this week was spent in mississippi planning my wedding with hannah! we have accomplished so much, and yet there is much more to be done before Oct 17th. we are so excited. it was so great to spend some time with her family, including her sister haley and her baby kate. kate was so adorable, and fun to photograph. check out haley's blog here

an atlanta wedding

last weekend i was in atlanta at my friends daniele and eric's wedding. they chose an art gallery to have the ceremony and reception, and it proved to be really amazing. much of daniele's brazilian family came and introduced some rich culture to the event. it was so neat to see some of their wedding traditions mixed in! and its always great to get to work in atlanta, because i get to see all my friends from passion and six steps records.

below is a quick stop motion video for the camping scene for an advertising shoot i did a few weeks ago out in chattanooga, tn. we had one of the models hit the shutter button every couple minutes as we set up everything. also below is a mock version of the final image. the shoot altogether was really great.