Angela Anderson Photography

Portrait Party! July 15-17 & Brandy's bridals!

I will be hosting a three-day portrait party beginning Sunday, July 15th.

What is a portrait party?

An excuse for me to take portraits all day every day for three days! I love it!

How does it benefit you? I lower my standard portrait rates for those three days! (session fee is reduced down to $250)

I had a wonderful experience when I did this back in February and it is back by popular demand. These days are for any kind of portraiture. In February I focused mainly on bridals and it was wonderful. This time around I am opening it up to any portraits. Families, children, engagements, Mr & Mrs (this means you take photos AFTER the wedding, anytime! Wedding clothes or not), Bridals, Headshots, Lights Out (more commonly referred to as boudoir but I prefer to say "lights out").

As I said back in February I didn't/don't  have to be your photographer for your wedding day for  you to participate in this. In February I had many brides who contacted me and I was booked for their date but they did Bridals with me at that time. And they were fantastic!

I have 5 (6 on Sunday) spots for each day. Last time they booked quickly so be sure to give us a ring at the studio (502.561.8111) or drop us an email at bliss@angela-photo.com to schedule your time.

This post also makes  me want to share my latest bridal session with Brandy. If I have one more woman come to me saying that they are awful in front of the camera or that they are unphotogenic! Girls, that is impossible. And I can prove it!

angela and luke!

I have been looking forward to Angela and Luke's wedding since I first met Angela. We do share the same name, which is awesome, and we also share much of the same aesthetics. When she started describing her wedding I was immediately excited.  A wedding after my own heart!  The colors were mint green and white (loved it!) and it was small affair at the absolutely gorgeous Bodley Bullock (a fantastic spot for under 100 guests).

Angela told me of the Mint Green vespa that Luke and she purchased a few years ago and I was overwhelmed. My husband and I left our reception on a red and white Vespa (our colors) so of course I was like, "I love it!". She had her flowers done by the unbelievably talented florist, Hollie Chambliss, who also did the flowers at my wedding. And her cake was done by the markedly fantastic Martine Holzman. I was in Heaven!

Angela also had the forethought to set aside a lot of time for portraits of just the two of them. We went around downtown Lexington and had a blast. They were up for everything! The second to last shot in the slideshow below is actually them in the backseat of my 9-5! It is not uncommon for my couples to ride around in my car with me looking for photographic hotspots.

But to really appreciate the gorgeous day you can look through the gallery below!

(Note the man in the green suit, he is one of Luke's friends, and married the two in their ceremony. His suit was nothing short of pimped-out!)

SUMMER INTERNSHIP at AAP!

I am excited to announce that I am accepting a summer intern this year. The position is to be filled immediately and will consist of 2 days minimum in-studio and 8-16 hours a week. So if you are eager to learn photography and want a starting point this is a great opportunity.

Please send all inquiries, cover letters and resumes to bliss@angela-photo.com

Please remember, you need to be deeply interested in photography, be passionate about art and reliable!

I am excited to meet you!

T.D. & Mandy: Love these guys!!

My June 9th wedding was in Ashland, Kentucky at the Chocolate Church! T.D. & Mandy was my  fantastic couple I photographed down in Nashville. Their engagement guest book won me a book of the month award and was stupid-cool to put together. T.D. and Mandy are four kinds of crazy. And I mean that in a good way. Their humor and smiles make them so charismatic and hard to forget! What a great pairing!

So I put up their slideshow yesterday and I emailed T.D. to let him know. He sends me back such an awesome thank-you, I just had to share it. I think it gives you good insight into his fun psyche.

OMG!  Angela – I’m at the office and almost completely had a breakdown watching the slideshow.  You cannot possibly fathom how brilliant you are, or how absolutely blessed I feel for your being at our wedding.

You totally got it – and now for the rest of my life I will have embodied in photographs the emotions I felt.  If ever I am old, decrepit and without my faculties, I will only need a glimpse of these images to remember the unimaginable joy and happiness of that day.  (That, or I’ll bash the head of some orderly, who I will presume is playing a cruel joke on me as I will never believe that I married such a beautiful woman!)

I will never be able to thank you enough for what you’ve done for us.

T. D.

So without further ado, here are my new Nashville friends:

Priya and Jeremy had an amazing three-day wedding weekend. Day one was the evening Mehndi ceremony, which was held at the  beautiful house of Priya's mother and father. The next day, Friday, was a day of ceremony, the Pooja, which was an fantastic thing for this Westerner to be a part of. And then Saturday was filled with so much wonderful activity. In the morning there was an Indian ceremony, set in a dream-like landscape of decorations. In the early evening there was a gorgeous and heartfelt American ceremony. Finally the affairs ended with a fabulous reception with
amazingly choreographed dances and lots of energetic dance-floor moves! I loved it!

Planning: Sherry Spradlin
Decor and Planning: Sima Patel, Weddings In Style, Cincinnati
Gracious Host and Event Coordinator: Embassy Suites Lexington, Amy Stamper

Amazing Moments, Dream-like backdrops

It is definitely of importance that an artist has a mission. I feel that it is a duty of the artist to push themselves to communicate deeply and with inimitable intent.

I often think when I am photographing and composing a photograph (in camera and even before I have the shot in my camera) of a an ideal dream-state. If I am photographing a person I try to consider what this person sees when their eyes are closed, when the world is silent, when they are alone with themselves. I think what comes from it is that my subject and I get connected, and when I trip a shutter their immediate beauty is at the forefront, their self comes through and blows me away.

Yesterday I photographed Michele's bridals. I love the slideshow, the music is amazing. I am, as always, so excited to share with you:

Sadi + Mike

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

Recently one of my guest book albums - T.D. & Mandy - was awarded a book of the month award by my album company. It was awesome news and I was already pretty proud of the book but now I was even  more excited to see T.D. & Mandy use it on their wedding day (this Saturday!).

Us photographers chat a lot amongst each other - in forums, through our blogs, in user group meetings and I think it is a great thing. I love to share and be inspired by others. What tickles me so much is to see things I share get copied. It flatters me to no end when I see other photographers take things that I do and incorporate them into their offerings. I visit other photographer's blogs and I see my guest books all over again, but with their photos and their design ideas and it is such a cool thing to see. It makes me feel famous! ;) I love that they borrow my exact questions, my exact wording. (I have openly been OK with this and have been asked if it would be acceptable for people to use my ideas in this way). It is so much fun to see the things that come up in my little brain all of a sudden be used across the board. A few weddings ago a client of mine copied  my guestbook idea and made a guestbook with photos themself and I noticed she even used my words and even a little paragraph that I wrote about love. It is awesome to be quoted!

But, without further ado, I am going to share with you T.D. & Mandy's very cool guest book (their engagements were shot in Nashville).

An Engagement Picnic! ANDREA and DAVID

I had a blast photographing Andrea and David. When I met them we instantly clicked and since I knew that we would be photographing their engagement session in a few weeks I immediately started planning a location. While planning I came up with the idea for the two of them to go on a picnic and I would come with and photograph it. They are both so easy-going and such a pleasure to be around. They were even very agreeable when I took them to look for a swamp (that we never found, mind you).

See you guys next May -- or sooner, when Andrea has her bridals done!