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