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The greenbelt in Austin is so beautiful. Even in the harsh heat of summer, if you go there and sit on the mossy rocks, with your body half under the running water, and wiggle your toes, it feels really really nice. I had the pleasure of photographing Kacey Samiee, who was up for doing a water shoot. We played around in the water for some pictures, while I made sure not to slip completely into the water with my camera. Kacey was like a water sprite, and looked amazing. I wonder if some brides would be willing to do a boudoir shoot like this in the water.

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kacey austin fashion photographer

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  • July 29, 2010 - 2:57 pm

    Thomas Lester - What a great location. With the heat we’ve been having, it looks so inviting. Great images and beautiful model.

  • July 29, 2010 - 4:20 pm

    Eric Kotara - Nice stuff. The last one is particularly intriguing with expression and toning.

  • July 29, 2010 - 9:34 pm

    A Story in Time - She looks awesome. I love her expression in the profile shot.

  • July 29, 2010 - 9:58 pm

    Kyle - Very cool, moody portraits, Nadine!

  • July 30, 2010 - 3:40 am

    Shella - Looks like a great location indeed! She’s gorgeous!

  • July 30, 2010 - 7:30 am

    Jessica - Very nice.. I love the mystery that each one of them has….

  • July 30, 2010 - 12:19 pm

    Avelaine Scyrup - Beautiful light in these. The second photos is my fave – like she’s enticing you!

  • July 30, 2010 - 2:39 pm

    Robb Duncan - Awesome stuff, love the lighting, pose and composition of the first one especially.

  • August 1, 2010 - 8:11 pm

    Amber Hughes - These look so refreshing right now… nice work 🙂

  • August 3, 2010 - 8:19 pm

    ayesha - okay… these are awesome! i love the mood, the attitude and mystery of her poses and expressions, the tones of your processing. fantastic set!

  • August 14, 2010 - 9:51 am

    Heather - I love the lighting on that first photograph!

  • September 24, 2010 - 3:10 pm

    sally watts - Wow.
    These ROCK, Nadine.
    I particularly love the last one.
    So unique and moody.

I got to attend a good friend’s wedding in Richmond, VA, as a guest, last weekend. It was set at the Wilton House Museum, a gorgeous Georgian-style plantation house, overlooking the James River. It rained just before the ceremony, and then cleared up, giving us a nice cool evening for the reception.

Cathy and Josh are very fond of their Ugly dolls, all of whom were in attendance. They even had a place of honor on the groom’s cake!

There was renaissance dancing, including a galliard, which made the geek in me very happy.

austin wedding photographer at a plantation house

austin wedding photographer at a plantation house

austin wedding photographer at a plantation house

austin wedding photographer at a plantation house

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  • June 16, 2010 - 5:42 pm

    Natalie - That cake is absolutely amazing! Great shots!

  • June 16, 2010 - 11:35 pm

    Avelaine Scyrup - Sounds like a fun wedding! Love that first photo 🙂

  • June 17, 2010 - 8:12 am

    Ryan Brenizer - Great job, I love the tenderness of the first image and the shot of him peering over the book is hilarious.

  • June 17, 2010 - 8:35 am

    Jessica Horton - What a fun couple! I love it when brides & grooms incorporate things they love!

  • June 17, 2010 - 10:21 am

    Laurie Peacock - Love the shot of him reading a book. Hilarious. The cake is awesome too.

  • June 17, 2010 - 12:30 pm

    Becca - The cake toppers are so cute! I love that first shot of them…very romantic!

  • June 17, 2010 - 1:53 pm

    Phill - Some quirkily beautiful images of a beautifully quirky wedding day. Love the spirit in these.

  • June 18, 2010 - 11:18 pm

    Amanda Hoffman - LOVE the cake! Too cute!

  • September 2, 2010 - 11:10 pm

    Francis Joseph - Love that first shot! And the cake toppers

I shot a short and sweet wedding last Sunday for an older couple. They were very calm and chill about the whole process, and yet were clearly enjoying themselves. It was definitely less frantic then a lot of weddings I’ve been to. The food at Steiner Ranch Steakhouse was delicious, and there was a dessert bar. In my opinion, wedding cakes are the one of the best parts of shooting a wedding! Here’s a sneak peak to some of their pictures.

austin wedding photographer at steiner ranch texas

Want to see more wedding pictures? Check out a wedding I did at Spicewood Vineyard! Click here.

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  • June 10, 2010 - 6:55 pm

    Dustin - I love the view from the Steak House, nice pics!

I just recently got married, and we didn’t get a picture of our wedding rings from our photographer. So I posed them with a miniature ceramic house bought at an Austin art festival. I like the concept of a home, because a lot of times, my husband’s arms feel like home. Yes yes, cheesy.

And now the geeky. I’m a big Dr Who fan so my husband made a felt and cardboard TARDIS to be used as our wedding cardbox. It can hold more wedding cards then you think, since it’s bigger on the inside!

We eventually want to add a little LED light on the top of the cardbox to make it flash. Wwwoooosh! Wwwwooosh!

So… we’ve gotten several requests to make a TARDIS cardbox tutorial and have placed it on our todo list. But basically it’s pretty simple, we got blue cardboard, and that was covered with blue felt. Andy printed out the policebox text, and I made the somewhat crooked light on top. It took him 3 nights to get it finished.

ETA: The Tardis cardbox step by step tutorial is done! Click here.

tardis card box

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  • March 16, 2011 - 2:04 pm

    trin - I have to know how it was built! My fiance and I are big Dr who nerds and I want to surprise him with this special card box. Thanks!
    trin m.

  • March 17, 2011 - 8:27 am

    admin - I’m trying to get my husband to make another one so we can build a tutorial and post it here. But basically it was just cardboard and felt, he just improvised it and finished it in 4 nights.

  • April 10, 2011 - 6:54 pm

    Thoughts and Ideas | Jason and Sasha Plan a Wedding - […] Tardis cardbox (it’s bigger on the inside!). Something we’d have to make ourselves though, and I’m not that good at do-it-yourself. […]

So I’m shooting the rehearsals of three new ballet dances that are being choreographed for the Califa Arts Collaborative performances on June 18 & 19. This one is Reginald Harris’ dance. It was really fascinating watching him figure out the movements he want, and I love how emotive the dancers were. I really love dancing, and I love photography, so this was a great blend of my passions.

ballet dancers rehearsal in studio

ballet dancers rehearsal in studio

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  • June 4, 2010 - 7:40 am

    Thomas Lester - How cool! I bet this is a fun gig.

  • June 4, 2010 - 7:41 am

    Albert Palmer - I love photographs of dancers. Nice job, they are really artistic and the minimal processing works well.

  • June 4, 2010 - 4:25 pm

    Lara Eichhorn - Cool. You really captured the movement. The first shot is very striking.

  • June 4, 2010 - 4:27 pm

    Kyle - What a cool subject to get to shoot, you’re so lucky!

  • August 8, 2010 - 5:57 am

    Brian - great job you get to take pic of Ballet and you also are Ballet dancer?

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