photobooth from Aynsley and Brett's wedding

this was my first time doing this....and it was a huge hit.
so glad that i tried this

thanks to Jacob Harkey for pretty much taking just about all of these shots while i was off covering other things
i think i will starting adding this on as an option to wedding packages

the people are what make or break it though....and these people made it

so much fun going through these shots....

Brett and Aynsley - Wedding!

So i don't even know where to begin with this one....

these two have meant so much to me, my life, my marriage, and ministry. Brett is an incredible man with a passion to lead people to a place of intimate and authentic worship of a Holy God...He is full of wisdom beyond his years and has touched the lives of so many
I had the privilege of working with Aynsley for a few years in student ministry....she has an unbelievable gift of connecting with girls and speaking grace and truth into their lives....

jenica and i saw from the very beginning that there was something special between these two and to celebrate with them this past weekend was a huge blessing...and what better way to celebrate with them than having the opportunity to tell their story through images


i can't wait to continue to walk with these two as well as see how God uses them...they are a blessing to all whom they interact with as they strive to bless the name of Jesus in everything they do

so cool...

and their wedding was killer...




















































more to come from this wedding.....photobooth action was awesome!

Camille - senior shoot

probably shot in one of the creepiest abandoned locations i have ever been in...but so much fun

i loved that Camille, and her mom of course, were up to shooting inside for a bit...big thanks also to her brother Wade for being my assistant for the day
i was pumped about a lot of the shots we were able to get and look forward to hopefully getting a few more gigs from over in their part of town

thanks Camille for being great to work with and being up for whatever...

Carrie and Nick - engagement

i had such a good time hanging out with these two and just getting the chance to know them better....i think that's what of the best parts for me. i love getting to hear the stories of other people and how they met, first got together, and their expectation of spending their lives together.

Carrie and Nick are so full of joy and laughter whenever they are together....all they have to do is look at each other and they immediately start cracking themselves up. they made my job very easy and the fact that the weather and the colors were stunning happened to help a little as well


looking forward to shooting their wedding next year....

Hannah Parets - senior shots

ok....so hannah is just straight up crazy...but in a good way

i have known her family for awhile now and it's been so cool to see hannah grow up...she has an amazing voice and just has a contagious personality that you want to be around all the time

she definitely made starting at 6:45am a much better experience than i was expecting




oh yea, and then we got on top of a train and my whole lighting rig just about blew off the top....so that was cool
good thing i grabbed it by the very end of one of the legs before it crashed to the ground

monster mash

last night was great hanging out with friends at our place....ended up being a little bigger scale than we thought, but that was ok by us

it was fun decking the place out with strobes, a fog machine, caution tape, and that fake spider web junk that gets everywhere and is hard to clean up.....but that stuff is so cool

and of course....the photobooth

Halloween pre-post

tonight was awesome...here's a taste.

more to come later...

behind the scenes video!

so this is my first time of hopefully many...but I have decided to start putting up some behind the scene videos of some of my shoots

my friend Chris (www.chris-o.com) just happened to be in town (or country) from Belgium and helped me out as well as provided some of his own thoughts as heard in the video...ha
Stuart (@stuarta13) helped teach me a thing or two on final cut express to put the thing together


hopefully you enjoy it! let me know...

Kristen and John engagement from onenineimages on Vimeo.

kelsey and collin - family

both these cool kids are involved in the youth programs at our church....they have a great family who are incredibly supportive and have been a blessing to the ministries I have been involved in as well as my personal life

it's cool seeing siblings that get along...for the most part...ha
i hope that when Jenica and I start raising a family that we are able to be blessed with children who enjoy being around each other, at least half the time...

we had a fun time hanging out in the awesome weather we have been having lately

Amber and Andy - wedding celebration

so I have known Amber for a couple years now....she has volunteered with the middle school kids at our church and has recently been helping me out as a YoungLife volunteer
she has got a great heart as well as an adorable little girl Ashley

the first time I met Andy, I knew that they were a great match...
they were one of those couples that once you know, you know...so they decided to have a very small and intimate wedding together a couple months ago
however, they still wanted to have a wedding celebration and reception for all their other friends and family

so, here it is...it was a bit on the chilly side for GA this time of year, but it was still gorgeous out

i am really happy for this family and excited to see them grow together over the years





















this shot is fairly similar to one i was able to capture at my last wedding, but I loved how the wind was able to make her dress wave behind her...epic skies always help as well

Kristen and John

I had the pleasure of meeting Kristen at the wedding of my good friends Stuart and Paige...
Kristen and Paige worked at a summer camp in CO one year and have been close ever since....through that connection, Kristen got in touch with me about shooting their wedding in FL this November...

i just so happened to be spending this past weekend down there and so i was able to hook up with the both of them and fit in their engagement shots.
although the light decided to depart rather quickly, we were able to fit in a few more the next morning...

it was so fun just walking around the streets of New Smyrna...they were great to work with, and we even had the pleasure of enjoying some dinner afterwards along with my assistant for the night Chris...he is a long time friend who currently resides in Belgium and was visiting for a bit (www.chris-o.com)

anyways, without more delay, here are some of the shots....these were crazy fun

oh yeah, and John (and his family) were awesome enough to let us all crash on their beach front condo...big win

Project Live Love

so i have connected with an amazing guy, Drew Benton
he used to be on staff at Safehouse Outreach downtown ATL but has since left to pursue the start up of a non-profit he is calling Project Live Love

his passion is to challenge and empower people to do just that - live out love
it's one thing to talk about it and say about how great it would be to love on others. however, it's a totally different thing to do it
this is still in the beginning stages but we have come together, along with Stephen Hunton (www.stephenhunton.com), to work on a project for helping to get this off the ground

so, with that in mind we just went out to hang with some people and try to catch a vision and direction we want to go with this project...really excited about things to come and looking forward to push the envelope on what i feel as though i am capable of

so here are some frames for now...more details to come later
for now, you can follow what's going on with Drew and Project Live Love on twitter:
@drewbenton
@ProjectLiveLove




















Stephen @stephenhunton

i let one of the girls we met take a couple frames of me since i used her camera

life = crazy

with that in mind, here are just a few iPhone shots of randomness...

more to come very soon....i promise

larry...

here are a couple more cover option shots i took for larry parker for his upcoming christmas cd

this is obviously before he sends the work out for a graphic designer to add everything to...and these may not even be the shots we use. i just decided to pull these

finally....

i am posting these polaroid shots after a very long time.....i also decided to throw in some sunrise shots from yesterday

i have a lot around the corner coming up but it will just be a matter of finding the time to post everything....sorry about the lameness

also, i am starting a big project i am very excited about today but don't want to say too much about it until later. looking forward to january though.....so stay tuned for that


chicago






charleston

it's been forever....

and i'm sorry. life has been much busier in other areas though.

here is a shot i loved as i continue to edit tindell and ben's wedding.

many more pics coming up soon with a shoot for the fashion blogger for Star94, many senior pics around the corner, and a couple more weddings not too far away

sorry again....i am lame. i know this

charleston

so this place is awesome...had such a great time hanging out for the weekend reconnecting with cody harris. we did ministry together in germany a few years back

i am pumped to shoot a wedding here in march. so much to see and do and can't wait to visit again...thinking of renting a vespa next time though

have not posted recently due to a crazy schedule...here are a few though from Javi and I hanging out before the rehearsal dinner to last weekends wedding

lots of other pics to post from my time in Charleston as well as some stuff around the corner which should be fun

Tindell and Ben wedding

ok so here it is....such a freakin' awesome wedding as mentioned in the earlier post.

i was able to figure out a couple other tricks with my lighting which gave me some great effects during the dancing...

anywho, it was a great location with two great families who made me feel like i was such a part of their day rather than just documenting it
tindell and ben have a love that is so real that made this day such a great celebration of who they are and what they seek to be about in their marriage

enjoy the shots!


first here are some from the rehearsal:






the only problem was that one of the boats broke down on the way so the other one had to tow it

after the delicioius rehearsal dinner and hearing all of the hilarious stories and huge impacts these two have made on the lives of others, it was time to get the day started

Tindell and Ben wedding teaser

this wedding was ridiculous! so much fun to shoot and came away with some great shots...

i considered it a blessing to share in this day with these two families.

there are about, oh, 60 shots that I want to post....but it's late and i need sleep
so this will have to do for now...

more to come soon

few more from chicago weekend

so there are usually thousands of shots i am sifting through to post.....some shots don't necessarily stand out to me right away until i take a second look a few days later

here are just a few more.....still crazy to think that all these chicago shots still only make up about 15% of the total shots i took

Honey Leaf Jewelry - part 2

so a few weeks ago i posted shots taken of a couple models wearing some pretty dang amazing earings designed by Diamond for Honey Leaf Jewelry

well we got together to knock out some more shots of her earrings to use as just product shots, but then got a few of some of these headbands that she has also designed

thought i would share them with ya...


that's it for now....big wedding on Saturday. should be fun

Haley - senior shots

so thankful for the clouds and cooler weather...headed over to downtown Duluth but shot in a competely new area.
i try and force myself to find the shots in areas i have never been instead of going to the places i already know

i was also pretty pumped tonight b/c we got to shoot on a roof! i had been wanting to for awhile and i guess the stars just aligned for it to happen....or two men painting a building didn't care that we used their ladder and promised not to tell anyone...ha

Haley was a trooper and was totally up to everything...props to her mom as well for allowing her to....they were awesome
my buddy Javi also made a great assistant....and his espanol came in handy as well

Labor Day weekend in Chicago...

Jenica and I had a great weekend in Chi-town....i miss that city so much

we spent it with my sister, Jeni, and her family. it was great being there for my nephew's birthday and just hanging out and not doing a whole lot...

i'll warn you: this post is a bit big...but i though, of course, that my weekend would be best expressed with the pics

so here we go:

traveling there was fun....i love traveling but don't do it as often as i would like...chances have it though that the next couple months will be full of some cool trips





we got in a little late friday night as so we just chilled, went to bed, and were then attacked by the niece and nephew the following morning which is one of my favorite parts
lauren and garrett have differing viewpoints on what it means to "attack" us come morning time....for garrett, being a boy, this generally means a gun of some sort is involved...he didn't let us down





that day just also happened to be garrett's birthday, so the day started off with a new found hobby of his: golf
so off to the driving range we went




we are both pretty horrible


garrett on the other hand seems to have a knack for it....

and lauren really, really, really wanted to make sure that the ball made it on the tee...(or just pretty much waited until her picture was taken) ha

after that we had some time to chill before going to Chuck-E-Cheese for the birthday party...so we fooled around in the backyard playing games and messing with the dog....apparently he enjoys chomping down on the water coming out of the hose....sooo funny. these were the shtos from the 2 seperate times we did it



this is the look you get when you tell lauren that it's time to put away the hose...

and then there is the losing battle of trying to keep the towel away from porter...this is how well that went







then it was off to the birthday party...let's just say that Dave and I owned this one game which helped garrett bring in tickets....he was one happy birthday boy





we ended the night playing around with the lighting gear



after a long day of craziness, it was time for a relaxing day of legos, cafe by the lake, and night out for the adults
i decided to take the liberty of shooting some pics of garrett's legos as he played with them...they look just a little different than i remember







then off to the cafe on the lake...
awesome place!








kaboom

this guy decided to sing happy birthday to jenica and jeni and then tell jenica that she should be a model for crest toothpaste....we are looking in to that





walking back to the car...



after hanging for a bit, it was time for the adults to grab some food and spend a night catching up on life...



passed on the palm reading, but the lighting was awesome!


then espresso from one of the best...


some shots driving back after a long day...



headed downtown on our last day which included the hello kitty store, lego store, and crazy ridiculous fog like i have never seen in the city










had thought about going to the skydeck to stand in the glass boxes over the city, but the wait was crazy so we opted for the ground floor view...


finally, the weekend was coming to a close so i grabbed some shots of the city, we boarded the plane, and said goodbye to what was a great weekend.....
(oh yeah, and oprah thinks she owns the world so they shut down michigan ave. so that she could have her show IN THE ROAD!)








whew.....i need a nap.
too much to do though

oneninimages vid by Stuart

Stuart and I went downtown to hang out the other day and just check out some different areas...
he is loving his new flip mino HD and so he decided to capture some footage as usual....but then he started asking me questions which made me real awkward....totally normal reaction for me...ha

anyways, he just asked me about photography and how onenineimages came about and then he put this together...
he did an awesome job and it's been incredible watching him grow and learn as a videographer....

this dude is going to be good....

check it out and let him know what ya think...vimeo name is: Stuart Atkins

here ya go

And Stuart: thanks! your friendship means more than anything

onenineimages from stuart atkins on Vimeo.

Donna and John

so I had another project to do some headshots....this time for Donna...

however, we also decided to squeeze in some headshots of her husband John as well as taking some of them together

we were able to tough it out through periods of rain as well as getting kicked out by a security guard in a new location i was trying out....tried it....didn't work. ha

anywho, it was so much fun watching these two interact together. they have so much fun together and are like 2 young kids just goofing around together.

here's what we came away with...

a birthday of sorts...

yesterday was Jarren's birthday....he is my brother-in-law (Jenica's youngest of two younger brothers)
He has been staying with us the past couple weeks before heading off to Florida for what's called the Masters Commission


it's been great having him around...mostly because i dominate his world at cornhole...however, he got his revenge at mini golf last night

the cool part about him being here is that he has been able to meet so many of our good friends and they have all really enjoyed getting to know him....it will be a bummer to see him go
but the coolest part i think is all the people who showed up for his birthday party....they have only been able to hang with him for 2 weeks but they still came out...i know that this meant a lot to him considering that all of our friends and family are back in Illinois and i am pretty sure this is his first birthday ever away from all of that

it means a lot to have the close friends we do down here, but knowing at the same time that we really do miss all of our friends and family back north. hopefully for all of those back "home" who follow this, you will see what a great time we had and what great friends are around us who love and support us....even to the point of making someone away from home still have a great time on his birthday.

we love and miss everyone in Illinois, but are also so thankful for the people who we are blessed to call friends here in the ATL


so, without further delay, here are the results of too much ice cream cake from Bruster's...

early morning Atlanta shoot

Stuart and I were wanting to head downtown and get some more shots and footage for this side project we are working on...

we wanted the shots to be at night, but considering our nights are crazy busy we just decided to head on in at 5:30am

i think that i'm going to start taking portraits of random people as long as i have their permission...they are some incredible looking people who i wish i had all the time in the world to just sit by and listen to their stories....

there is so much beauty found in someone's face if you just look long enough to see past any of the hurt they are experiencing or the walls they have put up


here are some random shots i got while in the city as well as some portraits of the few people i met this morning















and here are some of the people i met: could not keep it to just one image for a few of them






this was the most interesting man i met today, and pretty much i have come across in awhile. really wish i could have heard more to his story




one last city shot...

thanks...

to everyone who checks this out on a regular basis, who keeps encouraging me to move forward, and shares my work with others

this past month i have seen a huge rise in hits and it's only because of all of you....so thank you

i hope that i don't ever disappoint....you are the ones who push me to create something new on a regular basis
if you ever have ideas or input on things that you would like to see or locations you feel as though i just absolutely have to shoot at, then feel free to hit me up

september should be a fun month...senior portraits, another wedding, and hopefully some shoots that i haven't even booked yet


here are some random shots from the past month that i just decided to grab and share...
thanks again!

stuff...

had a shoot downtown tonight that i will be working on....

for now though are some shots i got from walking around with stuart as he shot some video stuff

found some cool new places...hope to find more still

photography day with the high school peeps

i had a blast hanging out with about 15 high school kids today who are all in to photography...

the last time we did one it snowed....so we were due for a warmer weather shoot
some of these are so stinking talented it's ridiculous....i can only hope i get to play a part in getting to see them move on to be freakin' awesome photographers....


here are a few i got from tonight, but look for a post that includes many of the shots that everyone else got as well

few more from earrings shoot...

couple more that i liked from shooting the earring product shots the other night...

you can see the other shots in a previous post from a few days ago

Jeremy Cowart - Help Portrait

Calling all Atlanta photogs, designers, hair/make up artists....this has been something that's been on my heart ever since watching Jeremy and some local Nashville boys do something like this initially last year.

now it's grown in to something bigger....If you are an Atlanta photographer and interested in doing this then please get in touch with me as I am working with some people to coordinate and make this happen.


I unfortunately will not be able to actually participate in it here as I will be shooting a wedding in Chicago, but I am working to do everything in my power to equip others and set up the details to see that this happens in our city


check it out!

The Least of These

so there is a cd out that you need to go and get...

One of my best friends in the world, Ben Blascoe (on the left in the pic), is the bass player for an incredibly talented group called The Least of These based in the Chicago area....i remember not being able to get any homework done in college b/c all i would do is go in the other room of our apartment and listen to them jam out

the other two guys in the band are brothers Ben and Josh Calhoun...both are incredibly stand up guys
Ben Calhoun and his wife Alison mentored Jenica and I in the early stages of our dating relationship which was huge for us

these guys all mean a lot to me, have crazy ridiculous musical skills, and it's so cool to see how the Lord is using them in big ways and expanding their ministry through music

go check them out right now at: http://www.theleastofthese.com

you can buy their newly released full length album....i highly recommend it as i just picked up my own copy today


here is one of their promo pics (sadly one that i did not take though)
check 'em out and help support their ministry

Collin - senior session

Collin is a senior at North and I have known him for a couple years now...
tonight it was great to hang out with him though for an extended amount of time and get to know him a little better

he has got a great heart and is not afraid to make the hard decisions when he knows what is best for him...that's cool to see in someone so young

i was so happy with the way the shoot came out and it's always great shooting in a completely new area...so much out there yet to find

also gotta give some credit to my bro-in-law Jarren (better known as Gerv) for helping me out the last couple days...he has made a great assistant....so i threw a couple in of him in action







this would be Jarren...





















whew.....crazy large post!

Diamond - Honey Leaf Jewelry

Diamond is the older sister of Devin (previous post) and is in her senior year at SCAD on the Atlanta campus

she has uniquely designed all of her own earrings and was needing some shots to show to jewelry stores
we were able to get some great shots of the models showing them off as well as just plain product shots of all her designs

it was really inspiring to see the vision that Diamond had for each look and how proud she was of each individual pair
if you see anything you like then let me know and I could put you in contact with her

Devin...headshots

so I was able to take care of a couple shoots in one tonight
Devin is a senior at Peachtree Rdige HS and needed some updated headshots as he seeks some acting gigs

he has a great personality and was awesome to work with...he's gonna be rocking the big screen some day so keep an eye out for him

so.....

this week has been a lot of things.

i have felt incredibly inspired with continuing to go forward with this whole photography deal....as well as feeling like God is placing big dreams on my heart and mind...we will see how it all pans out

however, i have come to the realization that i need to pass by the excuses that quickly enter my mind and keep taking steps in the direction i know i'm supposed to be going...


here is one of my dreams....a studio someday. may not even be this space...but it would be pretty sweet
i also have some other ideas floating around in my mind which you will hopefully hear more about in the coming weeks and months...stay tuned

location scouting...

went tromping around in the woods and other places for an upcoming shoot....may be next week or in a couple months

it was fun just going out and shooting for the heck of it again though...need to remember to do that more often