Ault Park & Mt. Adams | Cincinnati, OH Robin and Tommy are incredibly fun to hang out with.  SOmetimes during our session I found myself forgetting that I was there to take their picture.  We would start talking and all of the sudden I would remember, “Oh yeah the sun’s going down, we should get some pictures”.  As you can see they both have great fashion sense (I love that yellow and white dress Robin wore at Ault Park).  You can also see that they are a great couple together…they are incredibly fun, incredibly romantic and most of all love to laugh with each other.

Thanks for such a great time guys!  City View was amazing (especially the Grippos:) and you company was even better.

Here are a couple favorites from our time together:

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Fall beers – If you love fall beers then you know what I am talking about.  Sam Adams’ Octoberfest, Christian Moerlein’s Fifth & Vine, Blue Moon’s Harvest Moon, if it’s “fall-y” then I am going to drink it.

HBO shows - I thought about just saying True Blood but the truth is I love almost every series on HBO right now: Entourage, Hard Knocks, Bored to Death and I am really excited for Boardwalk Empire…I LOVE Steve Buscemi!

Good Headphones – I just this new pair of Ultimate Ears MetroFi 170vi and they are pretty cool.  Although I think I have misshapen ear holes because they always slip out.   I know they aren’t the most expensive headphones but for someone who has been using a pair of the white iPod headphones with only one functioning ear bud they are a HUGE step up.

This and this.

Facebook Places – It’s really the most annoying thing ever.  Facebook sat down and thought, “How can we make Facebook include even more information about a person’s life that no one cares about”.  And they succeeded.

Hot Tub Time Machine – It wasn’t good.  No matter what your expectations for the movie were you can’t say that it was good.  It just wasn’t.

iPhone 4 dropped calls – I worship Apple in unhealthy ways and I refuse to give up my phone but if they don’t fix the dropped calls thing I am going to throw my phone directly at a Genius.  If you are on the fence I would wait until they release the next version of the phone.

Don Pablo’s – All the good local Mexican places in the world and you choose Don Pablo’s…really?  Next stop: Red Lobster.

The photography of Jim Denevan almost doesn’t seem real. He uses vehicles, walking sticks, chain link fences, rakes, etc. to create these amazing large-scale drawings. Each drawing is inevitably erased by water and weather, but captured in these surreal photos.

(via Slow Lane Notes)

Most of you probably don’t know but this blog is actually posted to by two people: Me (Nathan), the one whose picture resides at the top of the page and Jessica, Fyrefly’s resident expert in finding, compiling and posting all things that are good on the internets (pictured left).

Jessica and Nick (you’ve seen his work as a second shooter on almost all of our weddings!) are insanely close friends of ours. Actually they’re the kind of friends that we refer to as family…yeah, that close. Although we may need to stop referring to them as family because their son Hendrix and my daughter Lily are betrothed to each other (they’re both 1.5 y/o) so that might make things a little weird:)

So anyways, Jessica works hard to bring you posts like “Etsy your Wedding”, “Photography Art Spotlight” and other fun creative things that are housed in cyber space somewhere.

What you also may not know is that Jessica is a BRILLIANTLY talented creator/seamstress/Etsy-ier/blogger of her own over at ALittleGray.com. A part from this blog being an amazing source of creativity and inspiration this is also where Fyrefly gets lots of the custom products we use to make our client experience unique. We LOVE her Louise Bags and her Fabric Envelopes. Both are great ways for us to show clients we love them!

If you are like me and like to click, click, click on the internet then you should spend some time on her blog. It’s the kind of blog that you stick in your RSS feed and hope that there is a new post when you wake up in the morning. Really great stuff on there!

And if you are interested in whatever crafty goodness she has going on right now you can check out here Etsy store here…skip shopping at Target for your next baby/bridal shower/birthday gift and get someone some truly unique!

Here is some of her craftiness on display:

The great thing about using Etsy.com to style your wedding is that you can get custom anything. Want your groomsmen to wear purple ties with yellow seahorses on them? You can probably find someone to do that for you. Here are just a few unique ideas for the manly side of your wedding party.

Silkscreened groomsmen ties by Toybreaker

Custom pinwheel boutonnieres by Rule 42

Vintage map cufflinks by Tomato-made

Personalized beer mugs from Glass Girl, or leather wallets by In Blue for groomsmen gifts

Engraved ring bearer bowl by Paloma’s Nest

…well, it probably involves a lot of breasts, bottles, and ceiling fans actually.

But Adele’s blog, Mila’s Daydreams, imagines them to be much more fantastical than that. She says it’s her “maternity leave hobby” to photograph her baby’s nap-time dreams as she imagines them. This is some creative baby photography.

You really should go look at all the pictures, but here are some of my favorites.

Follow the daydreams here.

Ault Park Rose Garden & Pavilion | Cincinnati, OH Claire and Ryan are a sweet couple.  I got the chance to hang out with both of them for the first time this past Tuesday when we shot their engagement session (blog post coming soon).  They are both from out of town so the first chance they could get together in Cincinnati for their e-session was the week before their wedding.  The first thing I noticed about them is that they are laid back and really easy to laugh with.

As you can tell from the pictures this was a beautiful wedding filled with amazing smiles and laughs.  That’s because Ryan and Claire’s default mode is set to “laughter”.  They laugh at each other, with each other, at friends, with friends and I am sure if they met you on the street they would laugh with you too:)  I LOVED being around them for their wedding.

I also loved working with my friend Alison from Aviva Events.  Her and her crew did a great job getting everything set up, keeping things running smoothly and (I assume) torn down and returned.  I love how they keep brides from being stressed with details on their wedding day, it helps me get even more amazing pictures!  Here’s Alison with Claire and Ryan at the end of the night:

Here are some of my favorites from the day:

And, as always, a delicious AND beautiful cake from the Bonbonerie.  Very classic!

*to be notified when Claire and Ryan’s entire catalog becomes available click here to sign the digital guestbook (and view their engagement pictures).

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I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again in case you missed it…

When you have to be creative for a living it is sometimes hard to see being creative is the last thing you want to do.  So from time to time I go out and I take pictures just for me.  It helps me keep the creativity flowing.

These are some pictures I took on our most recent trip to Boston.  What I love about these pictures is that none of them are of classically Boston things…I stayed away from taking pictures of the landmarks on purpose.  It forced me to see more shapes, more light and overall just try some new things.

Without further ado… (all images taken with Canon 5D Mark II & Canon 100mm 2.8L)

volvo in an alley

puzzle

boylston st.

downspout

urban sunset

low tide

4 rowers

forever young

concrete jungle

Boston, MA | Have I mentioned lately that I LOVE what I do for a living?  Because I do.  I get to meet great people and capture some of the most significant times of their life on camera.  On top of that, sometimes I get the chance to travel to fun places.

I met Anne and Matt through Julie from Cincy Event Planning when we met about their wedding.  They are a great couple and couldn’t be more perfect together.  They flew me into Boston to get some engagement pictures in the city where they now live and it was awesome!  Boston is a gorgeous city and the weather couldn’t have been better for our time together.  They were so fun to walk around and explore the city as we hit Boston Public Garden, Beacon St. and the North End for some great pictures.  And they even introduced me to the best cannoli I have ever had from Mike’s Pastry.  It was amazing!

You can follow all of Anne’s thoughts and adventures as she spends the next 10 months planning a wedding at her blog found HERE.  I love keeping up with her there.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from our time together:

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Union, Kentucky | I LOVE couples that are willing to take risks.  I have had this idea of going out into the middle of nowhere and trying to find some fields, farms, etc.  The only problem was I didn’t know exactly where I wanted to go.  So I asked Amy if they would be up for just driving until we found somewhere.  They were up for it and I think the risk paid off.

The light, sky and couple were gorgeous and we left with some pretty amazing pictures.  Here are some of my favorites from our time together:

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