ORLANDO | FLORIDA

Lisa: "I've got balloons in the car. I wasn't sure if you would want me to bring them in"-
Me: "Oh my gosh, I'm so excited!!!"

I have been wanting to shoot a session with balloons for months and so to say that I was exited when Lisa actually brought some balloons to our session would be the understatement of the year. I'm sure I made a complete dork of myself as I flipped out about them. Just look at all the amazing colors she brought! Seriously, I think we may be soul mates. ;)

We're so blessed with amazing clients. We leave shoots all the time, get in the car, and say to each other, "I hope they liked us. I'd like to hang out with them again." And that is one of the best things about what we do, we get to meet such amazing people. Today we got to meet Lisa. Lisa is one of our "Recessions Suck" participants and we are just loving these little mini portrait sessions. Seriously, they are so much fun. And when you have people like Lisa, who are just absolutely stunning, it makes our jobs ridiculously easy. Thanks Lisa, for being so much fun today! We hope to see you again soon. And we'll be finishing your images in the next week or so but for now, here's 5 of our favorites...

MANHATTAN | NEW YORK

It was one of our goals for 2009, as artists, to do something that stretches us outside of our normal comfort zone in our photography. We really were not sure when we made that resolution, how we would go about it, but we figured that the right answer would present itself when it was time. And, as fate would have it, we only had to wait 4 months.

While we did have fun stuffing our faces with all manner of amazing food, snapping thousands of pictures, shopping for shoes and cameras and vintage boots, walking miles upon miles, and meeting amazing new people, we did have an actual photography purpose for our trip to the big city. That purpose was to push ourselves outside of our normal portraiture box into the world of head shots. What better place to learn than in New York? Our talented actor/singer/performer friends needed new head shots and we were more than happy to help them out. (We even snapped a few for ourselves while we were at it.) These two are so gorgeous that they made our job extremely simple and they really took the time to explain the crazy-intense world of "New York Head Shots" to us giving us quite an education on what the aspiring artists in the area are in need of. We had a great time and got some really beautiful images. We hope to continue to grow in this area and hopefully make the trip back up to NYC for more sessions like these.

Enjoy these samples from our sessions. I'll have more after these two pick out their favorites...

Tomorrow I'll post our personal shots from the week and a surprise that we shot the last morning in the city. Stay tuned...