Posts by Mel McLellan

On Friday we had a wonderful session with the Grass family! We haven’t taken on much portrait work for lack of time to market the avenue so it was fun to work with kids for a change. Massey and Mia are such great kids! We ran around downtown Franklin for the beginning of the session, took a break for icecream, and then headed to a hilltop as the sun set.

I had to share an image from the hilltop because I just love the look of these! The chairs we used are family heirlooms so they incorporated two of my favorite things – furniture outside and something sentimental! :)

Janel, Kevin, Massey, and Mia (and Carter too!) – thanks for coming out to play with us! We enjoyed our time with your family and you’re going to love the results! :) See you soon!

– Mel

Today is mine and Sean’s 4th wedding anniversary! It’s hard to believe it’s been 4 years already and then again, I can’t believe it’s only been 4 – time is funny that way. Whatever the case, these have been the best 4 years of my life – hands down!

Because Sean and I are complete, mental, workaholics, we are spending the day retouching images and having Racheal and Wes over tonight for their engagement premiere. However, we were in Chattanooga last week on business so we decided to spend the night and celebrate early. If you’ve not made it to downtown Chattanooga yet, you really should go visit! It’s such a beautiful city with a real flair for the arts. We spent the evening wandering around the Bluff View Art District as the sun set and had dinner at Tony’s Pasta Shop and Trattoria. It was excellent! We’re pretty miserable at taking personal pictures so we did our best to record something of our little trip. That’s always interesting – it’s so wierd being on the other side of the camera! :)

We get slightly bored in the car – these are our rapping faces:

Hangin’ out by the Aquarium

How could you not love this view?

My lame attempt at glamour…

Ah city light! We really should do another session down here sometime – any takers??

By the way, the majority of these images have been brought to you by the iphone.

Happy anniversary my love! :) Here’s to many more!

Love,
Mel

So, we were across the state on Friday night and then back at home the next morning for Mandy and Kevin’s wedding. We had the best luck this past weekend with locations! Mandy and Kevin’s church was only 5 minutes from one of our favorite places to shoot so we took them and their wedding party to the historic square for pictures. Once again, our bride was simply too cool and let us take her (and her dress) to these gritty places before the ceremony! :) You guys were great!

I love Mandy’s laugh!

Congratulations Mandy and Kevin! We enjoyed spending your wedding day with you and we’re so excited for you to see the seriously killer stuff we got of you two and your fabulous gang of misfits! :) Have a great time in Disney World!!

– Mel