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  • Well hey, good lookin’. Thanks for stopping by our blog. Kick off your shoes and stay awhile. Make yourself comfortable. Smile and laugh and enjoy all of the beautiful celebrations of love that are featured here. They all make us so happy! Something else that makes us happy is that we were just named one of the 30 Rising Stars of Wedding Photography. You can read more about that here. Check out our favorite images from last year here. We would love to be a part of the day that you marry the Love of Your Life, so contact us here. We can’t wait to meet you!

June Trigger. Happy.

Last month we had the amazing Zack Arias out to speak at trigger happy. And, y’all, I’ve never been so happy to be in a room with 100 other people. The energy was awesome, and Zack had us all in stitches (home boy is funny!)

This month we are thrilled to have Sean Mclellan come down from Nashville to share with trigger. happy. about the Business of Photography. It’s going to be a great night, and I can’t wait.

For details and to sign up, click here.

For regular updates, and to get information on meetings as soon as they’re available, be sure to join our Facebook group. We have lots of goodness coming down the pipelines this year.

Peachy Keen: Our Summer Bucket List Challenge

We mentioned a couple of weeks ago that this summer we are taking part in the Summer Bucket List Challenge. Inspired by our amazing friends over at the happy family movement, we are going to make this Summer one to remember; a summer of adventure, fun and family. We decided to put our bucket list where we could see it everyday; a constant reminder of all the awesomeness that we have to look forward to. We haven’t even started yet, and I can already guarantee that this is a family tradition that will last for a very long time. We have had a ton of fun with it, already. If you haven’t signed up for The Summer Bucket List Challenge yet, it’s not too late – get on it!


Here are our bucket list items:

- Build a sandcastle

- Shoot the Hooch

- Paint a giant canvas (with balloons filled with paint)

- Hike to the Indian Seats

- Let Evie take our family pictures with a disposable camera

- Take a road trip

- Wash a neighbor’s car

- Buy a new book (get one for a friend, too)

- Visit a water park

- Make someone a cheer-up kit

- Bury daddy in the sand (give him boobies)

- Camp in the backyard

- Have a silly string fight

- Go swimming

- Cook dinner using ingredients from our garden

- Picnic at the park

- Go to a drive-in

- Zoo scavenger hunt

- Run a lemonade stand (put encouraging notes on the straws)

- Go geocaching

We want to hear about your Summer Bucket List – leave us a link to yours in the comments, pretty please?!

Christy Tyler - May 20, 2013 - 12:37 pm

I love your list, and love the way you displayed it! I may have to steal this idea so I have our list out in plain site to remind us to do these things!!! :)

Meagan - May 20, 2013 - 3:39 pm

This is SO fabulous! I can’t wait to see these stories. Also, geocaching = TOTALLY addicting!

Meagan - May 20, 2013 - 3:41 pm

P.S. Being from Atlanta I SO want to steal your ‘Peachy Keen’. I say that ALL the time, don’t know why I never thought to use it. So cute! :-D

Peachy Keen: Family Business

I remember back when we were contemplating starting our own business. Late nights at the dinner table, our faces glowing blue in the light of our computer screens, trying to decide whether or not this could work. Whether or not it was even worth trying.

Family business are complicated. We might fight. What if we became a slave to it all?

But then, ultimately we came to the most important question: What if we do it anyway, and we do it our way?

With room to breathe and a commitment to building one another up. With an emphasis relationships instead of sales. With a business that fits into our lives, instead of lives that get drained by our business?

And so we did. And starting this Family Business was the best decision we ever could have made.

I love this image that Graham grabbed of Evie helping us on a family shoot this week. I’m pretty sure her pictures were better than mine.

Christy Tyler - May 18, 2013 - 12:13 am

Love this so much!!! Here’s for businesses that enhance our lives, not take over our lives! Xoxo :) )

Jim Altieri - May 20, 2013 - 11:37 pm

Good think you let E shoot with the ‘cheap’ camera. Is that the new hasbro cam? :)

What’s in Our Bag? 24-70mm

Happy Thursday, friends! Today we are bringing you another installment of What’s in Our Bag. We’ve been doing these posts for a few weeks now to pay homage to our very favorite lenses; the one’s that we feel suit our shooting style and fit really well with what we do (wedding photography).

Today we are going to be talking about our 24-70 – which is kind of ironic because it may or may not have gotten run over by a car at a recent Wedding. But you guys – and I swear to you this is true – this friggin’ lens is built so well that it got run over by a car and we were still able to use it for the rest of the day. Let me say that again just in case the people in the back couldn’t hear. IT GOT RUN OVER BY A CAR AND THE THING STILL WORKED.

Which is why I will never again complain about how big and bulky this lens is (it’s both of those things, but apparently it’s also indestructible).

**insert serious plug for equipment insurance here**

This not-easy-on-the-pocketbook lens is really fabulous when you aren’t quite sure what’s going to happen next. In a super cramped room capturing the Bride getting ready (with 37 of her closest friends and family)? This baby is a great go to. In the middle of the celebratory circle during the hora? The 24-70 is perfection. It allows us to capture the scene and tell a full story with an image even when we can’t stand back as far as we would like (sometimes, even though our feet are ready to zoom, we find ourselves up against a wall). It creates some pretty noticeable distortion around 24, so we have just found that we have to be careful where we place people in the frame when we are shooting wide with this puppy. It’s great for exteriors, too.

So, in short, we love our 24-70. Incredibly versatile, very reliably sharp and fast. As soon as it gets back from the Nikon Hospital, we will probably throw it a party. You’re all invited, of course.

Tara - May 16, 2013 - 9:56 am

these images are, of course, beautiful… but I too want to emphasize that your lens got run over by a car?!?! Crazy. And not only did it not obliterated but you continued to use it?!!? Amazing.

Sarah - May 16, 2013 - 2:49 pm

Thanks for the “What’s in Our Bag” series…
I shoot Nikon and have the 50, 24-70, and 70-200. I have to say my 70-200 is my most used lens.
So… what do you use to do ring shots? the 85mm?

Ashley Scobey - May 17, 2013 - 9:26 am

Tara – I mean, seriously?!? Crazy, right??

Sarah – You’re like the Queen of mind reading! We use the macro for our ring shots, and that lens is next in the series. Be on the lookout for that blogpost next week! :)

Sarah - May 19, 2013 - 8:54 pm

Haha! Thanks for the reply, Ashley! I look forward to reading it!

Married: Erica and Matt

Some gifts come wrapped in fancy paper, laced in diamonds or tied in a bow. For Erica and Matt, their greatest gift to each other is the Love that they share. The joy of making each other laugh and of spending their lives, in partnership, building each other up and supporting each others dreams. In calm and in stormy weather, they are the dancing type; the type who don’t get bogged down in the little things, but who pour themselves into others, filling up hearts along the way.

Matt and Erica – You guys absolutely amaze us. Your positivity and perspective are beautiful, and we were so blessed to document your Wedding Day. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for inviting us to be a part of it. So Much Love – G+A

Event Coordinator: Katie Goldberg / Ceremony & Reception Location: Flint Hill / Bride’s hair & makeup: Scoobie West / Dress Designer: Essense of Australia / Bridal Salon: La Raine’s Bridal Boutique / Bride’s shoes: Vince Camuto / Groom’s attire: Savvi Formalwear / Florist:  Flint Hill Design Studio / Cake: Rhodes Bakery / Band: Big D and the Refugees

To see the rest of Erica and Matt’s images when they become available, click here.

F o l l o w   U s !
L i k e   U s !