constancepohlphotography.com

The grass is getting green and I think I saw some little buds on a neighbor’s hedge as we walked by the other night!  Spring, though late here as always, is on it’s way!  This time of year quickly becomes my 2nd favorite as we lose the dirt and snow and start living outside for the few short months we have nicer weather!  Reminds me of my trip down to Atlanta where we shot a beautiful couple in this amazing winery!  So much green, such beautiful weather.  It makes me want to burst out with “Oh what a beautiful morning….”  Ok I’m done – you can unplug your ears now!

Also just a little note that my weekend sessions going into the summer are starting to fill up! If you want a saturday session make sure to book soon to avoid disappointment!

Some of you may remember James and Chelsea’s gorgeous wedding a few months ago! Just before Christmas I got their wedding albums in… and just about called Chelsea up and told her that they uh…had gotten lost…um yeah. I mean really…is it wrong to want to keep someone else’s wedding album?

I love how it lays flat!

This is not your mother’s wedding album! (sorry mom…yours is nice and all!)

I think it’s so important to have more than a cd of wedding photos at the end of the day. Real life gets in the way, and even though most people think they will do *something* with their images…they sit on a cd more often than not. I’ve recently made some changes to our 2011 Wedding Packages. All but our specialty coverage package now includes an album!

If you or someone you know is getting married this year, drop us a line! We’d love to talk to you!

Had a wonderful time with Amy and Wilhelm at the beginning of this month as I dusted off my camera after a few months off to capture this special time in their lives – their engagement. So far they will be the first 2011 wedding of the year and I think we’ll have alot of fun. Thanks to Brian for coming along, hauling gear for me and catching the gorgeous silhouette!

A few months ago I blogged about James and Chelsea’s awesome engagement shoot as well as mentioned that my brother-in-law came along to film the shoot. I thought I would share with you one of the videos taken – this is a peek into the fun we have when we go out on a shoot!

Thanks again to Andrew Pohl!

Last weekend, or perhaps now that we’re through Easter weekend I should say the weekend before that, Brian and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary. We spent that day in our usual way – close to home, giving each other cheeky grins all day and saying “you’re my favorite {husband/wife}”. I’m sometimes often not very patient or kind like the famed love chapter in I Corinthians 13 talks about – but Brian and I do work on loving each other every day and have committed to doing that for the rest of our lives.

As we grow “more married” it’s been fun to discover not only who we are as individuals but who we are as a couple. I think every couple has a personality – it’s own dynamic. If we were to get married all over again today I think our wedding would look very different than it did 6 years ago. We’re not as formal a couple as we maybe thought we could be back then? For example – our favorite romantic tradition is hot dogs at Ikea. Not joking…it’s how we do valentines day and at least one of the meals on our anniversary. The sappy reason for that is that we just enjoy each other and spending time with each other and find more to talk about in a crowded store restaurant then when we’ve dressed up to spend a night on the town (pressure!) The real reason is that I love hot dogs…no I LOVE hot dogs. I could eat them for breakfast lunch and dinner. Hot dogs in a cheap Swedish furniture store?…GENIUS! Brian doesn’t have quite the same love affair for hot dogs but he does love that they are cheap. (Shhh…I’m not sure it’s dawned on him that what he’s saved in hot dogs is spent elsewhere in the store )

Anyway all this to say that recently I stumbled across this awesome blog that is constantly being updated with photos from all kinds of weddings. What I love about this blog is seeing all the details and being inspired by them. Those of you who have had a wedding shot by myself and Brian know that I LOVE the details of your day. It’s what helps me to get to know you even more! I love seeing what things you’ve chosen to represent you as a couple, or just even what adds to the fun your guests have at your wedding.

And because no blog post is complete without a picture or two…These are some of my personal favorite details from just a few of the weddings I’ve shot this last year. I had the pleasure of being a second shooter for Lisa Lacroix last summer and fall and many of the fabulous detail shots seen here are from those weddings.

After my last post featuring many beautiful winter scenes I feel cold. Time for a quick spring warm up!

Oh and if you haven’t found us on Facebook here’s how to join our fan page!

Hope to see you there!

I’m really excited about these images… so much so that my mind goes a little blank and I think…nobody really wants to hear me blather on about the weather etc etc right? But I DO need to mention the weather – it will give you some perspective on how amazing James and Chelsea are (not to mention the crew I had with me!) I had been watching the weather and hearing highs of -6 C and sunny and thinking…ok if I shoot fast we should make it…-6 isn’t bad. Well the morning of this particular session dawned neither clear nor bright – but the hoar frost on the trees that morning was spectacular. As if God had painted each tree with frosty snowy icing! The downside of this was that it was cold…freaking cold…and nowhere near -6. I think we hit -15 C that morning. Added to this my very talented brother in law Andrew Pohl was filming this particular shoot for another project we are working on together (more of that to come). So I of course did not want to wear my big puffy winter jacket… and of course James and Chelsea didn’t want to spend the whole time in boots and hats and mitts and parkas… so we decided to see how far we could get before we were frozen.

My friends….frozen came and left us a several times in this shoot…more often than not numb took over…which made it not so bad. James and Chelsea lasted 2.5 hours! (can you hear me slow clapping them?) This resulted in some seriously awesome images. So thank you to them for sticking it out and for Brian (who again took some of my favorite shots from the day) and Andrew who stuck it out with us as well! Enjoy the sneak peek!

Chelsea…you are gorgeous…look at those eyes!!!

James isn’t so bad either! I think he looks like Matt Damon…



Then we headed to the park…

Thanks again you guys! I can’t wait to do this again in a few more months!