Category Archives: Asheville

19th April, 2007

ann and nathan – e-session at grove park inn

I finally got to meet Ann and Nathan after months of emails and telephone calls for their engagement session. They live in Boston, MA, but her parents live in Charlotte. The wedding is at Claxton Farm on July 1 and I am so excited about how beautiful their photos are going to be.

Ann and Nathan are such a cute couple and so much fun! We were supposed to meet at Lake Lure for their engagement portraits, but with the crazy weather we decided Grove Park Inn would be a safer location. It’s a good thing we moved the e-session inside. It was snowing in April! We got some fabulous shots in the snow with the stone work and mission style exterior lights. I love the shots at the end with the dogwood and the snow. Thanks for braving the cold for the cool shots!

Click here to see Ann and Nathan’s engagement slideshow.

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12th April, 2007

asheville pictage user group (pug) april meeting

We held our monthly Pictage User Group meeting on Tuesday night. Corey McNabb was our studio spotlight and he did a presentation of his work and talked about his business. Corey has been named one of the top 100 photographers in the country and is a recent first place and multi-award winner at WPJA (Wedding Photojournalist Association). He also recently studied with Mike Colon in Newport Beach, CA and is a member of the Grace Ormonde 5-Star Directory. Several of Corey’s friends came to show their support and two of his brides and his wife joined us at Carraba’s for dinner. Then, a few of us went to Corey’s studio until the wee hours of the morning and he showed us how to use Lightroom. We have been teasing Corey that he is on every photographer’s blog that attended the big WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) conference in Las Vegas. Michael gave him the new name McBlogStar. Corey had over 600 hits to his blog and most of them came from other photographer’s blogs linked to his. It is so cool that my closest friends are all photographers that now hang out with each other.
Tara, Jill, Corey and his wife Jill

Me and Dana

Laura Tolle, Corey and Tara

Michael, Corey Cagle and her husband, Billy

From left to right, Laura and Troy Tolle, with Tony McCune, both with Digital Chalk, Tara, and Jill Schwarzkopf.

Previous Pictage meeting post.

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14th March, 2007

asheville pictage user group (pug)

I have partnered with Pictage as my online viewing website, but Pictage is so much more than just a gallery site. They are a top notch professional photo lab, offer fantastic products including the albums I offer and believe in helping their partners grow their businesses. Pictage encourages photographers to work together and learn from each other. This a totally different concept since a lot of photographers are secretive and do not socialize much less talk business with other photographers. I am happy to say that most of my closests friends are other wedding photographers. Pictage asked me to host their Asheville Pictage User Group (PUG) and our first montly meeting was in January.

Last night, we had 17 photographers get together and guest speakers Nathan and Amber Holritz came from Chattanooga.

Nathan and Amber are amazing photographers and great speakers. Nathan is so super organized and has transformed their business into a paperless office. He spoke a lot on the concepts from the book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. Warren Sanders won a free copy! Amber seriously rocks on the baby portraits! I think she is one of the best in the business. A lot of the group went to dinner together at Carraba’s after the meeting and then a few of us went to play pool. We all want to say a big “THANK YOU” to the Holritz for their time and generosity. It was greating see you both again and I look forward to seeing you again at Pictage’s conference in Chicago in May. Please check out the amazing photos on their blog, too!

Please note: All of these photos are from my point and shoot camera!

Corey McNabb, Corey’s office manager, Jeremy Russell and Christopher Record.

Terry Hopkins, Lisa and Warren from Blue Moon Portraits with Nathan.


Jason Tench and me

Honour Hiers and associate Aimie Cook, with Honour’s baby and Corey McNabb.

Dana Andreasson and Brady Linkous

me and Amber

Corey McNabb won both games!

Nathan tries some slick moves

Corey Cagle, Nathan, Amber, Corey McNabb and me!

We were having a problem getting all of us in the self-portrait, so a girl at the pub offered to help. She might have been a little too intoxicated, because she thought this shot was “perfect!!!”

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