Catching up with Toubab Krewe

So as an early Christmas present to all of you loyal fans and Ashevillians, we wanted to let you in on some shots of Toubab Krewe from their November 29th show at The Orange Peel . They were gracious enough to invite us along and gave us unlimited access from soundcheck to after the show. It was the cd release party for their new album Live at the Orange Peel and they really brought the energy for this preformance. We really love these guys and encourage you to go check them out and support an awesome hometown band. Enjoy the shots...

Peter Rocking the Party

Hi guys. Well, the holiday season is here and we have a much needed break for a couple of weeks. Saturday night we spent the evening with some great local photographers. Peter played Guitar Hero and made jello shots that looked like orange slices.


Thanks to Jill Schwarzkopf, owner of Realities Photography for hosting us, and to Regina Holder and the rest of the Pictage user group for organizing the event and being so welcoming to us. Some of these guys have really been great with the support and advice and we thank them.

So, we're going to be taking things easy for a few weeks. Happy Holidays to everyone and we hope to see you all on January 10th at the Asheville Civic center for the winter Wedding Festival. Until then, have a great Holiday Season.

Good times at Galina's

A few weeks ago we had the fortune of spending a day at Galina's Hair Studio in east Asheville. Galina's clients were great and made for perfect portrait subjects. Here's a little glimpse of what came out of that shoot.

Senior Portrait Time!

So here are a few fun senior portraits of a great young lady named Callie. Peter did a great job with this one and we're really prod of it. (It also certainly helped having a great model)

Busy October is finally over

... though we hate to see it go. October always seems to be the most popular month for just about everything in Western North Carolina and this year was no exception. We've arrived at November with a lot of pictures to process for all of you. Thank you to all of you who have made this wedding season such a great time for us. Here are some of our favorite pictures from October. Crystal and Matt were married on the 25th at Boyd chapel. We came away from that wedding feeling like we have a couple of new friends. These guys were really cool and their wedding was beautiful. We hope that you love them as much as we do.

New Studio

Hello all! Sorry that I'm so terrible about keeping this blog up to date. We've been busy moving our studio space. We're still in the Park Place building, but now we've taken over suite #110. It gives us a gallery space, a nice meeting room and a portrait studio. Peter and I also have managed to find a way to have separate office space. We've also managed to shoot seven events in the last three weeks. It's good to be busy, but it makes it hard to get pictures up on the blog. I promise to have something to show off very soon.

Bru and Luke

A couple of weeks ago we were blessed to be a part of the marriage of two dear friends, Luke and Bru Weber. Congratulations guys, we love you both.

$25 off portrait sessions

With Halloween coming ever closer, we have decided to play a little game of trick or treat. We're giving out cards good for $25 off of our regular portrait sessions. We'll be giving them to local business in batches of 50. All you have to do is go by the business that show up here on the blog and get your cards. Check back often for updates on business that have the cards. First up Galina's Hair Studio on tunnel road. Stop by, pick up a card, make an appointment with the ladies there and rub Galina's pregnant belly.

Erica and Brian

Erica and Brian were married at The Farm on Saturday, September the 13th. We really love these guys and hope that you enjoy these pictures as much as we do.

Gypsy

So, this is the first of many portraits and wedding shots that you'll be seeing over the next few days. This is a portrait of my beautiful friend Natalie. We've been smashing some ideas together for a bigger shoot and just started shooting some sketches that she had put together. I think it turned out pretty cool. Stay tuned, there is more awesomeness to come... Next Episode: Erica and Brian's wedding.

Long time no see...

Sorry that I've been absent for most of the month. We've been busy! A few weddings, a bunch of portraits and a malfunctioning computer will keep you busy. The good news is that we will have some great pictures to show very shortly. Keep checking back and I promise to have some good stuff up before the weekend is out.

Backyard Photoshoot Chapter 1

So, these are a couple of pictures of our friends Luke and Bru. There going to be getting married on October 5th, so expect to see a lot more of them. I caught up with them last night while they were pitching in to build a deck for a friends shower. I have so many pictures from this little shoot, but I wanted to go ahead and show these off. Plan to see more in the near future.

-Luke

A Beautiful View

This is a quick portrait that I did of my friend Kristen from the top of Devil's Courthouse. I think everything about it is just really simple and pretty. Any aspiring photographers wondering how I got the "softbox" look outside, I was shooting with my 5d with one of Gary Fong's whale tail light diffusers. I hope you like it as much as I do.

-Luke

Some cool local blogs and photographers

Hi guys, I'm in a blogging mood and thought that I would share some of our favorite blogs and photographers with all of you out there. First up is ashevegas, local photographer and blogger of some repute who always has a bounty of interesting posts in any given day. Next up is Edgy Mama who has really gained a huge following and has some pretty memorable posts. Now for a couple of photographers, Mike Belleme is a friend of ours who has been up to some pretty amazing stuff lately. You should definitely swing over and check out his work. One warning though, some may find Mike's Uncle Dirty thread a bit offensive. Lastly, check out the guys at Vellum Industrial Photography. Nathan has been a friend of mine for over a decade and it's really cool to see what these guys are doing in that sector of the photography world. Check them out, most of their work could be hung as art. I hope that gives you cubicle surfers something to check out on a dreary Tuesday.

I hate search engines

Hi guys. So this is probably going to open up the flood gates for SEO spam, but we are really having a fit trying to make the website assessable from Google. It's a notoriously difficult process, but we are really having a hard time. If you type "Blend Photography Asheville" in to Google, we still don't come up. We obviously want people to be able to find our webpage, so... help. I would like to stress, that this is not an invitation for third party SEO companies to flood us with email. We are only going to go with someone on a refferal basis, so trusted friends and clients... if you know someone that practices honest search engine optimization at an affordable rate, please let us know (and thanks for listening to my rant).

-Luke

Erica's Beautiful Bridal

Hi Guys, We wanted to share a couple of pictures of the beautiful Erica. She'll be getting married in just a couple of weeks so you should be seeing more of her soon.


You may have also noticed that we added a few more galleries to the wedding section. If you haven't seen them yet, head on over and check them out.

Megan and Chris

Hi Guys, I just wanted to share a beautiful picture of Chris and Megan. This was later in the evening, right before sunset and the couple stepped outside for a little break from the crowd. This was just one of those pictures that falls into place. That sky is something that you can't plan for.

A Few Recent Weddings

Hi Everyone. I've got a couple of pics from recent weddings for you. The first is from this past Saturday. Chris and Megan O'Brien were married at Hominy Baptist in Candler with a reception at High Vista country club. It was a beautiful southern wedding, with lots of dancing and one bridesmaid with some serious ups.

She snagged that bouquet like Jerry Rice out the back of the endzone. I was impressed. Congrats to Chris and Megan.

We also wanted to share a nice moment from last month. Nicole and Thomas were married in Weaverville last month with a reception at On Broadway. Peter captured this nice moment after the ceremony.

congrats to the happy couple.

More to come soon!

Blend on Facebook

So I finally got around to setting up a Facebook page for Blend. The address of the page is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Asheville-NC/Blend-Photography/22032292886 . If you guys are on Facebook, sign up as a fan of the business. It's a great place to add fun photo albums of stuff that Pete and I might not fit onto the site.

First pictures to grace the new blog

So, for the first pictures to grace Blend's new blog, we chose the beautiful Jennalee. We did a really fun fashion shoot with her at the botanical gardens last week and it was a really cool time. Having such a wonderful model made it pretty easy. We think Jenny's pretty great and we hope you all enjoy her pictures.

Welcome to the Blend Blog

Hello everyone, welcome to Blend's new website and blog. The fun part of growing as a company is that we get to have new stuff to play with and this new website is no exception. I'm excited about a lot of the features. It's all so much easier to update so fresh content is going to happen a lot more often, we can do sales right on the website using Pay Pal and you can subscribe to this blog and comment on the posts. Those are just a couple of my favorite aspects. Anyway, welcome aboard. If you have any suggestions or comments on the site, please feel free to leave them here.