Every Little Moment Photography

Here’s a little preview of Shelly and Danny’s engagement session! You know me and my polaroids these days…

Stay tuned for the rest of their DARLING session. (Eeek, it’s so cute!)

That’s right folks.  We’re back from vacation!  (Ok, we’ve actually been home for a week now.  Don’t judge, we’ve been insanely busy.)

Wisconsin was awesome.  We had such an amazing weekend with our good friend Amy and it was so nice to have a break from everything.  Don’t for one second think that this was a lounge-around-and-do-nothing vacation.  With two weddings, one engagement shoot, and lots of just-for-fun shooting, we barely had a spare second.  We need a vacation to rest up from our vacation!

I know you want to see all the awesome photos we took, right?  All in good time.  Seriously, we have to get caught up first.  (If you’re waiting for your photos from a recent shoot, hang in there.  We’re working hard!)  We’ll definitely be blogging about all of our Wisconsin adventures in the weeks to come, so stay tuned.  For now, sit down, relax and enjoy:

SAM AND AUBREY’S “WISCONSIN OR BUST 2008 EXTRAVAGANZA!”

For whatever reason, the airline people decided to ruin our lives by making it ridiculously expensive to fly from SLC to the airport in Appleton, WI.  (Basically next door to Amy.)  Instead, we decided to fly into Chicago, rent a car, and make the 3+ hour drive to Neenah.  It made for a much longer voyage that should have been necessary, but we saved a couple hundred bucks.  Totally worth it.  Besides, we’re always up for a road trip.

We had an uneventful flight from SLC to O’Hare.  (Except for the guy who started yelling at everyone for touching his computer bag.  He was a jerk.)  We picked up our rental car, a totally sexy Chevy HHR, and hit the road.

Aubrey did awesome as our navigator/map reader/GPS programmer/iPod controller.  Turns out we didn’t even really need our maps.  We borrowed my dad’s GPS and it was totally awesome.  You should get one.

I took the driver’s seat and I am very proud to say that while in a strange and distant land, I didn’t once get lost, wreck the car, or kill anyone.  (Thank you, thank you…)

I’m totally digging the rental.  Doesn’t it look good on me?

I was NOT, however, digging the Chicago traffic.  An insane amount of construction mixed with rush hour is not very fun.  It made I-15 seem like a rural country highway.  The construction on our way home was so bad, that it doubled our drive time. DOUBLED.  It sucked.

Toll booths.  This was something new.  We don’t have toll booths in Utah.  At least none that I know about.

Amy gave us a heads up, so we had plenty of dollar bills on hand.  We were not, however, prepared for the last toll booth of the trip, right next to the airport.  This particular booth only accepted coins and didn’t have a person at the booth.  AND the toll was not $1.00 like all the rest, but only $.80.  Who in the world carries $.80 for a toll booth?  We didn’t not have said $.80 and had to just drive on by.  (Here’s to hoping the Illinois transit people haven’t sent out the hounds to track us down.)

WISCONSIN WELCOMES YOU!  (I know it’s blurry.  All the rules of photography are off when you’ve been traveling all day, are shooting with a little point and shoot, and are speeding down the freeway and therefore only have one shot.)

Wisconsin has lots and lots and lots of water towers.  Seriously.  They were like LDS church buildings in Utah.  They were on every corner.

(We’re thinking of starting a new genre of photography: The Drive By.  What do you think?)

Skip ahead five days and we’re FINALLY almost home.  I say finally not because we wanted to leave Wisconsin, but because our return journey included five states, four airports, and three different airplanes.  (Stupid layovers.  Don’t ever fly from Chicago to Salt Lake via St. Louis and Denver.  It was the longest day ever.)

Well, I’ve summed up the coming and going parts of our trip.  A lot happened in between those two parts and we’ll get to those soon.  (I have to break them up or else this would be the longest blog post in the history of the world.)  We have lots of amazing photos to show off, so keep checking back!

Ok, now for a little business.  If our lack of blogging recently doesn’t explain, let me.  We’ve been CRAZY busy the last few weeks.  Lots and lots of photo shoots, editing, meeting with clients, etc.  Add our vacation on top of that and we’re basically slammed.

Aubrey and I have decided that we need a little breather, so we’ve made the decision to take the month of December off.  With the exception of newborns and possibly engagement sessions for spring weddings, we won’t be taking on any sessions for the entire month.  Don’t worry though!  We still have several spots left in November and we are now actively booking for 2009.  If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

One more note, we are planning on raising our prices at the beginning of next year.  That includes both wedding and portrait packages.  If you want to secure our 2008 prices, book us now before they’re gone forever!

Okay, so its not exactly a cruise or exotic vacation, but we are outta here! We have 2 weddings and 1 engagement session to shoot in Wisconsin, and we couldn’t be more excited!  It’s only for 5 days, no worries. We will be back to full swing next week, with lots of posts of really cute kids, fun families, and the most unique weddings we have shot to date!

Because of the trip, replies to email or voicemail may be a little delayed this week. We will have access to both, however, so we will get back to you as soon as we can!

Wish us luck! (and if you know of anything amazing to see or do in Wisconsin, let us know!)