7-8-09 Gecko

So the other night, Steve and I were headed to bed when Steve spotted a Gecko clinging to the window. I thought it was so great, I had to take a few pictures. Well then we blinded the poor thing with a maglight to get the right effect. Meanwhile 3am rolls around and the Gecko is so tired of us it leapt into the night sky. yuck... it almost touched me ;)

This experiment is a study of the effects of light. One subject, different lighting, completely different effects.

enjoy.

---mel

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7-2-09 Big Boy

My Bishop Boy is getting so big I just wanted to show off that most sweet little mug.

I'll be back soon with some real work.

Thanks for looking.

---mel

June 30, 2009

June has come to a close and I realized today that I never put anything up about the Bridal Extravaganza. It was a little over a week ago at the Palmer Events Center, here in Austin, Tx. It's a huge bridal fair held 3 times annually. I know for brides it can be a bit intimidating, I understand that, but I LOVE them!!! I really do. It gives me the chance to get in front of a bride and really show her how much I love what I do and how our work will fit into your dreams of the perfect wedding. It makes me a little teary ;) that's for you Samantha. 

Steve and I worked the event together, he is the perfect carnival barker and I am great at having passion for our product. Together, as in life, we are a perfect team.

Here are some pictures of us and our booth, course I forget, or rather, chose not to bring my stinkin' camera. 

Enjoy,

---mel

June 6, 2009 Powell Wedding

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Green Pastures location and catering

She-N-He Wedding Photography Austin, Tx

The Powells were married at the end of 2008 but were unable to share it with most of their friends and family. Thir first wedding was quite last minute, save a trip back to Toi home in Isreal, it's quite an interesting story but I'm sure you're more interested in the pictures.

Toi and Richard were two of the most lovely people I've ever met, they were very appreciative and complimentary, they made us feel like family while we were there. They had a large collection of nieces and nephews, they were SO stinkin cute. We couldn't stay away from them. I hope they marry again next year and we're invited again ;)

All the best to you 2, I saved the bum picture for your own personal collection ;)

Also, as always you can see more images from their wedding on our facebook page at she-n-he photography and design.

Thanks for looking. See you soon.

---mel

6-7-09 Christina + Matt Engagement

I shot Christina and Matt's Engagement session @ Mayfield Park in Austin, Tx on Sunday. 

It was really funny, in my old life I was used to never meeting my subjects before I shot them but now working in this industry I almost always meet my clients first.

Not these 2, they found me online and were so excited after our chat on the phone they booked me right from the phone call, Sunday was our first face to face. I couldn't be happier, what a pleasure these guys are, so bubbly and happy. 

They met as camp counselors (really) a little over 4 years ago. They spent some time in different states for college. I heard a great story about an airline ticket give-a-way from Wendy's having to do with saved cups, ask them about it, it's pretty sweet. They are MADLY in love and they really have a great time together always cutting up and making the other feel at ease. LOVE THEM. Their wedding is coming up in the fall, I'm excited.

As always there are way more pictures than will fit on the blog so join us on facebook to view the rest. become a fan on facebook at she-n-he photography and design.

We also photographed Toi and Richard's wedding on Saturday @ Green Pastures in Austin. I am working on a collection from the wedding all day today, hopefully I can get those babies blogged by tonight.

6-2-09 Margaret's excited

I love to get comments like these...

Melanie - THEY LOOK AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE THEM.

I'm so glad y'all are our photogs!!!

Margaret  

Thank you Margaret and Steve, for choosing She-N-He Photography and Design to capture your wedding photography.

6-1-09 Margaret and Steve Engagement Session

We actually shot this engagement shot at Mayfield Park in Austin on Saturday afternoon. But it's been a busy weekend, what with all of the photo assignments and my mother in law in town, I have been working around the clock to process but just got them done now.

We're excited for their wedding in July. 

Congratulations guys. Can't wait to hear comments nudge, nudge, ;) ,  ;)

There are several more on our She-N-He link on Facebook become a fan and have a look.

---mel 

5-30-09 Lindsey's Senior Shots

So freaking cute. Lindsey is graduating from Crockett High School in Austin, Tx in just a few days. She was a little slow to get her senior shots, but I am glad she waited, cause I got to shoot her yesterday. What a doll. Super easy to work with, takes excellent direction. Love her!

Plus I can't help but be impressed, she's starting at UT in the fall to study human biology, she would like to be research scientist... somehow I don't recall having that good a head on my shoulders at 17...

Thanks for working with us Lindsey it was wonderful, good luck in college we hope to see you again sometime.

---mel

5-21-09 Iconic

These images were all shot here in Austin, in the last year.
Please Enjoy.

---mel

5-19-09 Collection of Couples I love!

These images were all shot here in Austin and they're a collection of iconic couple images.

Please enjoy.

5-21-09 Brides and their Mom's

I have been putting a collection of work together based on the undeniable connection between brides and their mothers. All of these wedding were shot right here in Austin. Please enjoy.

5-21-09 Trip to Dallas

This weekend our family is packing it in and traveling to Dallas. My sister and I promised to swap every other month after we had our babies so our babies and we would know each others kids. It's been proving to be pretty difficult to leave on the weekends. So far this year, we were in Dallas in February and my sister's family came here in March, so we are little behind with our visits.

So we are going to Dallas to see my sister's family, my mom and my dad + step-mom, if they're around. 

Our plan was to go to Dallas this weekend anyway on Saturday and Sunday, the we discovered we could pull a 4 day weekend so we opted to go for Friday and Saturday and grab a piece of this Memorial Day. Then I got a call the other day from Zoom, Zoom Magazine in Canada and they have asked me to cover the "Mazda Miata" festival in Grapevine and Fort Worth on Sunday.  I'm strangely excited it's not really the kind of thing I'd be into but, we get to go on the race track, Texas Motor Speedway. We'll get to see some "fun races" since I'm told real races would be too much of a liability, bet I can't tell the difference ;)

That's the plan for the weekend. I'm sure we'll have a bazillion pictures to share after.

Family this time we have to let Zoom Zoom publish first. I just love saying it, like the commercial Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!

until next time.

---mel

5-18-09 Trysha in town

yesterday our friend Trysha was in town from New York. She came to San Antonio for a friends wedding and we met up with her on Sunday post wedding. She was a wee under the weather but we had a great time walking the River Walk and taking in a beer here -n- there. The weather was perfect. a gloriously beautiful day. 

Sadly though, we still couldn't shoot Christina and Matt. We are synchronizing our watches, soon we should be able to find a time to reschedule.

We are gearing up for the bridal extravaganza and we are having some sample books made for our office so we picked 3 books to try out. 

For our grande collection we are considering this:

And for our venti collection, this:

We certainly would love to hear your opinion, what do you think, which would you rather have?

Talk to you soon.

---mel

5-16-09 What a bummer

We were supposed to shoot Christina and Matt at Laguna Gloria today but we have been rained out. What a bummer, I have been looking forward to meeting these guys for some time.

Hopefully tomorrow.

---mel

5-14-09 Thoughts from Jamie and Shaun

Jamie was so excited about our work that she left messages every so often and full review I can't even see on the knot. I imagine it's pretty good based on her thoughts in several emails.

Jamie and Shaun's wedding was held at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden, Austin on March 7, 2009

March 10 - "omg. We're adorable. Love them!"

March 12 - "I am so excited to see the rest of the pictures! These are wonderful."

March 23 - "Everyone loved you guys and have been so impressed!"

April 3 - "We LOVE them. You all did awesome."

March 10th and 12th were responses to our quick turnaround to the our blog and April 3rd was a week old response to them receiving their discs. We promise final files in 1 month but usually get them to our clients in 2-3 weeks. So it's fun and exciting to get pictures so quickly.

We appreciate all of our clients and with Jamie and Shaun there is no exception. They were cute as a button and comfortable.

We love you guys too. Congratulations! Best of Luck in your new life together.

---mel + steve  

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5-13-09 Look Out at the Lavender Farm

Yesterday, He and I went to the Austin Wedding Guide event at the Look out at Lavender Farm. click < here> for a link to their website. They're just starting out so their prices are a steal. The owner, Ann Jones, was quite lovely and would make any wedding a comfortable and flowing event. Check them out if you haven't already.

We also ran into Linda Kelly, who we've not have the pleasure of working with yet but we love her, she is so fun and easy going. I think she'd be a great person to work with on my wedding day. She specializes in airbrushed make-up and apparently it's wave of the future. So you should look into it. You can view her website by clicking this < link> 

Last night we met a few photographers, who are all great. But, we fell in love with Dear Charli. She was a lot of fun and funny too boot. We would like her if we met her in a bar, a criteria I stand by when meeting new people, particularly at a dreaded networking event. She does lovely work, you can view her website by clicking < here> 

Besides all of that we are getting geared up for the bridal extravaganza in June, on Father's Day. Come by to see us, if you're going to be there, our booth is #830 we are in the rear on the far left. We hope to see you there.

Until next time.

---mel

5-12-09 Marie Claire

During SXSW, I shot images for Marie Claire's Beauty Roadshow. Basically the premise of the story is woman and their style, so we figured with a crowd the likes of the SXSW crowd we're likely to come across a number of fantastic and individual styles. The story has covered all ends of the earth including most recently Spain and Iceland so it was exciting to have them here in Austin, Tx, focused on our sense of style. The story should be well published by now, so here are some of my favorites from the shoot.

5-11-09 Mother's Day weekend

This was my very first Mother's Day. It was wonderful. "He" really knows how to show Bishop's appreciation. I got an all expense paid trip to the hair salon. So I had my hair cut and did some highlights. I got to go to my favorite hair salon here in Austin, Maximum FX. 

 

When I first moved to Austin from New York I was looking for new subjects to photograph and Leah answered my ad on Craig's List. She came in and she was super cute and she had the best haircut I have ever seen. So I got Maximum FX info from her and started going to the same stylist. Some time has passed and our stylist has moved on and I am working with someone new at the same salon and Leah has moved on too, she is now Whitney Lee's partner. It never ceases to amaze me how small the world it.

Friday night we got to watch the LA Lakers win against the Houston Rockets and then on Sunday our excitement faded fast as we watched the Rockets trounce the Lakers. There are still 3 games left in the series and it's still anyone's win.

On Saturday afternoon we went to Faith's first birthday party. We all had a blast including Bishop who decided it would be a perfect time for a cat nap. In the pictures are Chloe, Faiths good friend, Faith, the birthday girl, and Bishop, another of Faith's good friends.

5-5-09 Nancy + John II

Nancy and John are on a super tight deadline, trying to get their save the date cards out. They requested to see a few images of them looking at the camera to compare. So here you go guys. 

Enjoy.

---mel

5-3-09 Nancy + John Engagement

I'd really love to blog about this couple they are super interesting, they've been dating since high school, mostly long distance while Nancy took a scholarship to UCLA for volleyball, now they live here in Austin and are happily engaged until October. But I promised I'd get these up as quick as possible so they can get them for their save the dates. 

They were awesome and patient with the sun as it made it's final decent into the horizon. 

I hope you enjoy.

---mel