It's Vacation...YAY Family Reunions

Family Reunions for my family are a lot of fun, a lot of low level drama, like how do you make the coffee pot work and a lot of story telling and commisurating. I was going to put these photos up last night, but it took 24 hours to finally get wireless set up from our palatial rental.

For those that don't know, we rent a house for a week. This is year two in Tucson as my Dad's Mom's sister, aka my Great Aunt Dorothy lives here. She's the one of the last of my family's Grand generation, aka Grand Parents, Great Aunt's Uncles, etc from either side of my family. So, we get to see her and Jay and their kids Rick and Brenda and their kids Andrew and Ashley and I think that's the spread.

So we rented this house that's sort of like a mansion. It's large, palatial in size and a whole lot better than renting a couple hotel rooms for an entire week. I highly recommend renting a house, kind of like time sharing, but without having to "own" and deal with time sharing. Spreading the cost over 8 or so peeps means we each pay about $15 a day and well, as you can see, that's just not too bad when you can live like a king and queen for a week. So More much more fun photos will be up tomorrow. I just wanted to get some pix up for my Tucson friends and family and let y'all know life is good in Tucson, AZ.

KeyBank's Linwood VIP branch opening slideshow

Congratulations to Denise Saunders, Gary Hentschel, and Key's entire Central Indiana Region for yet another great Branch opening. Key is opening one more branch this year in Brownsburg. Check out my next blog post re: community wall photos and how this week, is what I'm calling my "Key Week". Thanks also to IndyDine for awesome catering. I never leave hungry and am ALWAYS just surprised at what I got to eat. Yesterday was prosciutto/ham ravioli, sweet fire roasted onions on flatbread, apple grilled chicken & a stuffing I can't remember exactly but was just incredible.

The Album Design without slideshow....

It's like a sideshow of slideshows over here on my blog today huh?! So I put together the post on Pictage to make the slideshow and while I like the slideshow, I know if I were the bride and groom and all their family, I'd want to see them bigger, so here are the images roughed out for proofing but approximately what they'll have in the form of a KISS wedding book very very soon. Of course Click it to Biggie size it :)B

Aaron & Elizabeth Quinn's Album Design slideshow

Aaron & Elizabeth Quinn's wedding

Last Saturday was one of the most beautiful days of the year and I was blessed to photograph Aaron and Elizabeth Quinn's wedding up at their uncle's "farm" in Noblesville.
Now I've done a fair amount of weddings in my time now, and done them in all shapes and sizes, and I'd have to say that in all the events I've shot this was just one of the most lovely, simple, low key, low drama, high in love weddings I've ever shot.
Without boring you with all their story, the couple basically have known each other as kids. Their dad's have been friends for ages and it's kind of one of those weddings where the parents probably jokingly said over a beer back in the 80's, "Yep, those two will be getting married..." I'm not sure exactly how many other weddings I've done where the families on both sides were friends before the relationship happened, but I must say, that it makes for a great wedding and an incredible relationship. So I digress, I loved shooting this couple, from the engagement session to the wedding day. They're incredibly gracious, friendly and totally in love. God bless you two and I can't wait to get the book in your hands and see your faces.
I've included a handful of my favs in no particular order or significance. Stay tuned for the album design soon and then the whole set of photos will be available for everyone to see and order.

Thanks for looking!
Brian

Kids Kastle Kandids slideshow

Here's yet another 5 minutes of preciousness! I was watching this after I created the slideshow and for those that watch, let me know if you spontaneously smile as much as I did. Kids are just like medicine... the best medicine. Thanks to Karen Baker, director at Kids Kastle and all the parents for allowing me to come and photograph their kids. To order prints, you'll have to be a parent or family member to get the event key. To everyone else, just smile and if you need to smile, you know where to come.

Blessings...
Brian

Mr. and Mrs. Stilabower

It's been a little while since I shot a wedding. This week I'm doing two! I've never shot a wedding via the Justice of the Peace but my good friend's daughter, Nina sprang the news on her dad last week! Being a firm believer that the only thing that will last as long as the love that's between the couple is the photos, I offered my services on the fly for the new couple and as a favor for my good friend Jim.

This couple, Nina and Jacob are a ton of fun. I really can tell they fit well together and as you can see, they're not only fun and good for each other, they really have love and I enjoyed photographing their small service and some fun candids between city hall and the Monument.

Nina and Jacob, may the Lord bless your new life together.
B