Megan, Megan, Megan…some people are just too beautiful and it’s not fair to the rest of us! Is this girl one of those people or what? ;)

We so enjoyed spending the afternoon with Megan and her mom for her senior session last week. We wandered around downtown Nashville, laughed, took pictures of a gorgeous girl and cute shoes…it was the perfect day. :)

Megan and Aaryanne – thank you so much for coming up from Mississippi and hanging out with us! We hope you’ll enjoy this little sneak peek! Lots more too come!

– Mel

We are so excited to announce this new offering coming to you from McLellan Style this Fall! We have all this beautiful new land and we want to put it to good use!

We’ll be scheduling back-to-back sessions for 2 days only. Sessions will be 20 minutes and include a disc of 10 high res images with our custom processing. This is your opportunity to get gorgeous portraits of you and yours for Holiday cards, gifts, or just to preserve this time in your life.

 

When: October 20th and 27th, 9am-12pm, 2pm-5pm (rain dates: November 10th and 11th)

Where: Franklin, TN

Pricing: Please email me at mel@mclellanstyle.com for details.

 

We can’t wait to hear from you! And because no post is complete without a picture, here’s a favorite of our family out on the land from earlier this year. :)

 

Thank you all for all the shares and retweets of our last installment of “All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go”! :)

Last time we talked about seeing past what at object is and seeing the possibilities available to you in the texture and patterns that make up its surface. Today I want to talk to you about another way of seeing differently that is by simply looking more.

Take this ugly old building for example. (If you’ve heard us speak on this topic, then you’ve seen this photo and heard the story behind it. It’s an oldie, but a goodie.) If we use the principles we discussed before, there are several good photo ops to be seen while just looking at this building straight on. But when we’re looking for good locations, we don’t want to just look straight on at the scene before us.

Look from the side, get a bird’s eye view if you can, look up — challenge yourself to look at the scene from every possible angle and you might be surprised by what you find.

In this case, the overall scene was less than desirable, but from one particular angle, it was something that has been a favorite in our portfolio for the past 5 years and counting…

So this is my challenge to you: next time you’re out shooting, take the photo you intended to and then look around and see what else you can find before you have your subjects move on to the next place. You may just happen upon a personal favorite you weren’t expecting.

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