Knoxville Portrait Photography - The Brezeale Family

Moving on with another amazing fall session, we meet the Brezeales from South Carolina. They're big UT fans so we started off at Neyland Stadium and then headed over to Ag Gardens.

None of us realized that it was Homecoming Week, so the stadium was a hotspot of activity. Our plans to sneak in and get a few shots on the field didn't happen. Well, we tried, but none of us were in the mood to get tasered by the security guards. We improvised and did some photos around the stadium instead.

Go Big Orange!
What a fun family! You can tell Miller and Jonathan love their folks. :)
You can't go the gardens without playing on the old truck.
Brothers.
A few of just Jared and Jeanette.
Miller's mugging like he's King of the Rock.
For the record, I didn't ask them to pull Jared's ears.
I told the boys to look mean. After the giggles subsided, this was the photo.

Everybody tackle Dad!!
If they ever release a rock album, I think we found their cover.
Thank you Brezeale family! It was great session (a whole lot better than the Vols' season!) :)

Knoxville Portrait Photography-Jessie is 2!

Well, we are in the thick of wedding season and there's a very good chance that the next couple of posts will prove that, but I thought we'd take a break and share these pics of an adorable family! We did pics of the Conners last fall and now we had the honor of taking Jessie's milestone pictures as he just turned two!






See, aren't they a cute family?






He's still just as adorable as he was last year!






With daddy and with mommy.






The boy loves these rocks!










Such a sweetie!










A boy and his Pooh! (sorry couldn't resist)










Love those lashes!






The many expressions of Jessie.

Thank you so much Conner family! It was great seeing you guys again!

Knoxville Senior Photography-Trintge

Okay, we go from a cute baby to a cute senior! Meet Trintge (yeah I don't think I pronounced her name right during the entire session)! :)

Trintge is an aspiring photographer who wanted some artsy senior pics in the Old City. We walked around shooting for almost 2 hours! Here are the results:

I think the neat criss-cross affect in the stairs is my favorite in this one!

She has a great smile.

Love this one!

Always shooting through stuff!

Another one of my favorites.

Even used the train tracks and didn't get into trouble!

Thank you, Trintge for a great session! Good luck with your future after graduation!

Knoxville Portrait Photography - Lauryn + Josh

Greetings everyone! I hope you're ready for a great weekend. I thought I'd end the week with a sweet engagement session I photographed last weekend. Lauryn and Josh aren't getting married until June, but they needed some photos for some Save the Date cards, so we went ahead and did their engagement session now. It was a little chilly at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens and even chillier once we got the wind swept alleys of the downtown Knoxville, but these two were troopers. And we walked away with some beautiful photos!

Hey, when's your wedding again? ;)



Aren't they cute?

I always blurt out stuff on engagement sessions to see how well the couple takes direction. So when I said, "now jump!" I was pleasantly surprised when these two starting hopping up and down. That tells me I can get them to do anything on the wedding day. [insert evil "mwahahaha" here]





Danielle sat this session out with one of her horrible migraines, so I had to pick up the slack and catch some sun flare. Hey, who do you think taught her how to shoot it in the first place?



About halfway through the session, Josh says, "you know, this isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be!" Not to be too blunt about it, but DUH! I'm telling you to make out with your woman! It doesn't get any better than that. The guys are always skeptical going into engagement sessions, but after a few minutes of smooching they're always having fun. :)



Just don't try and turn right.





Flaretastic!

We wanted to play with the shadows a bit (mainly to warm up in the sun), but I'm a little ashamed to admit how many attempts it took us to get something like this. I think the cold had seeped into our brain stems by that point. Regardless, I thought this was pretty cute.

Thanks so much Lauryn and Josh!! I can't wait to photograph the wedding in a few months!

-Wes