New Proofing Site!

I'm really excited to have a new proofing site! The new site makes it easier to select favorites for clients and their friends and family. You can then share favorites with a url that preserves your choices for 1 month. You can also leave comments if you wish to persuade visitors of your favorites or hint at which prints you'd love to receive at Christmas. And, since I'm a blogger at heart, I love comments anyway.

I'd love to hear what you think and would love to have you all as guinea pigs as well! The site makes it easy to order prints securely, and from the site you can all edited images from events and sessions. If you have any trouble feel free to contact me at kelly@spindlephotography.com.

Vic & Barbara Hayslip: Newlyweds!

I'm very excited to finally share images from Vic & Barbara's wedding! They were married in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 1st, 2010 in a small intimate ceremony (love it). They continued their celebration in Birmingham this month with a reception at the Zoo Lodge (photos to come)!

Garrett is responsible for the above details of the guys, I was really lucky to have him along as my assistant. He has a great eye and I'll just be glad he's on my side...

I really want a typed marriage license envelope. Something about it makes me really excited.

The cake (and baby bites) are from Pastry Arts in Homewood, Alabama. The caramel flavored baby bites are my husband's absolute favorite food. He recently bought half a dozen with the intention to share, thwarted by a few hours alone with them. Seriously delicious and an amazing idea for groom's cakes. 

The couple on the left are my inlaws! Garrett's dad has been friends with Vic for many years, and so I had met Vic and Barbara well before they were wed! It was really fun to have friends and family there and to be able to share in such a happy day for them.

Huge thanks and well wishes to the happy couple and I am super excited that they are going on a honeymoon with my in-laws in February to the Galapagos!  I'm secretly hoping they'll decide to hire a professional photographer to come along.

Onna and the Baby Fruit

Ian and Onna were married almost exactly a year before us (if you count our blessing instead of the legal San Francisco part), and they were our first official fellow married couple friends. It's been really fun following their journey into parenthood, they are due in July and we've had updates on the baby's size from raspberry to melon in the last several months. Going to their couples' baby shower was an experience as well, most of the girls (myself included) quickly lost a game where if you say "cute" you lose your diaper pin that you are given at the beginning of the party. Garrett and I made a pretty impressive watermelon baby with 3D pacifier, I feel good about our skills in creating children.

Onna is so lovely, with her blue eyes and wavy hair, and it was such a pleasure to photograph a maternity shoot for her, and transform an empty lot into a green wonderland. I am so looking forward to meeting their little one (they are waiting to find out if the baby is a boy or girl!) and photographing him or her as well!