A Bright Sunny Day With Logan and Mae

Pamela opened the car door to introduce me to Maekayla and Logan. Before my eyes could even focus on Mae's smiling, enthusiastic face, she was greeting me with a mega-hyped, loud, but tiny, voice "ARE YOU THE PHOTOGRAPHER?!" I looked at her mother and saw her smile that said everything- these kids are kind of a beautiful big deal.Logan surveyed the commotion from his carseat -watching with what seemed to be a thought process along the lines of "if this woman with the camera gets over the top, I will shut her down with a fit and some spit up." I decided that as Pamela dressed Mae for the shoot, I would stroll around to Logan's side of the car and get the scoop on his mood. I leaned in close to him and made a silly face. When his tiny, bright blue eyed, face full of wonder broke into a heart-melting, seven months of a baby goodness, all is right with the world, smile- I knew it:

THIS PHOTOSHOOT WOULD BE THE MOST FUN A PHOTOGRAPHER COULD HAVE.

I really want to give credit where it's due here- I'd like to thank Logan and Mae's amazing super-hero quality mom, Pamela. Mae, at 3 1/2 years old, had "practiced" smiling, and was so excited for her photo session. Pamela brought SO many clothes and props, accessories, etc. for us to play with which allowed us to get the kids in such a cute array of outfits and different looks. As I was photographing and heard Pamela behind me, hopping up and down, dancing, singing, doing everything but playing the Tuba while standing on her head, I appreciated so much her enthusiasm for the photoshoot.

It's good to have a day like this day and a shoot where the kids are actually having enough fun that the shoot (we didn't even realize it until the time had passed!) lasted 3 hours! Kids this age lasting through a photoshoot for 3 hours?! =) WOO!!!

Thank you so much for allowing Frozen Exposure Photography to capture your fall memories, Pamela, Logan, and Mae.

Love,

Frozen Exposure Photography

It's That Time of Year Again!! 30% Off Gallery Wraps!

With all of the fall photoshoots, weddings, and engagement sessions, it's time to figure out "where from here."

I'm seeing a lot of our images floating around on myspace and facebook, hearing about them sitting on your desks at work or in your living rooms (do any of you guys ACTUALLY put them in the bathroom? I find a photograph in the bathroom a little... discouraging). Anyhow, so you LOVE that one particular shot? Or maybe Mom and Dad love it? Christmas is now two months away and that gives you plenty of time to either schedule your photo session with Frozen Exposure ($350.00) or use an image from your recent photo session with Frozen Exposure, and be everyone's favorite person by giving them the most perfect gift ever- a GREAT. BIG. 20 x30 gallery wrap canvas print of your mug- that's right, your big smiley, happy, I-LOVE-YOU-THIS-MUCH face! Or you know, you could give them one of the kids, too. Or you could be a total Scrooge and get a couple for yourself- all the cool kids are doin it!

Regardless of who the gift is for, Frozen Exposure is offering 30% off of gallery wrapped canvas prints if your order is placed before the last week of December. Below are the promo prices:

8X8 $150.

8X10 $150.

8x12 $150.

10x20 $175.

16x20 $200.

16X24 $200.

20X24 $250.

20X30 $300.

Call 615.596.0687 or email tanya@frozenexposure.com to plan your photo session or discuss ordering an album (I have on hand 4 sample albums. Albums start at $250. and there are tons of designs to choose from) or ordering your gallery wrap canvas print.

Love,

Tanya: Frozen Exposure

I Just Can't Wait to Be King =)

To everyone who would like to get a glimpse of the King family (and I apologize for anyone who, due to my blog title, now will be signing Lion King songs in an adult environment throughout the work day):

Meet the beautiful E-Man (Like He-Man with a silent "H" like the word "herb"...why are there words like that anyway? Today, my friend Beth and I have fought over the word "salmon." I fully intend to bring the "L" back!)...end side note.

My first portrait shoot of E-Man, aka Ethan, was last year. He was dressed as a puppy and I kid you not, holding a warm, puppy baby cures all ailments.

See Puppy Baby picture of Baby Ethan below:

This Halloween, Ethan has traded his puppy costume in and will be going out as:

JT!!! (JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE)

You can't tell me this handsome fella doesn't look like Mini-JT (refer to the hair, esp.). I'm pretty sure he's not actually celebrating Halloween as JT, though.

Ethan is at that age where things are getting interesting. He's pointing and distracted and psyched about the world. It's absolutely inspiring to watch. Seeing him look at things as if, and possibly may be, seeing things for the first time, stopped me in my tracks. At one point, I lowered my camera and just watched in curiousity- instead of snapping my fingers and hopping up and down to get him to do what I wanted and smile and look at me, I realized the better picture would be for me to capture him doing what he wanted to do- to capture the world through his eyes, his excitement and his expressions as he saw the leaves and wind chimes. It seemed almost WRONG to interrupt him and try to recreate his moments, instead of capturing them as they actually were- beautiful. And then there was the moment where we had him stop playing with the wind chimes so that we could move on to a different setting. Ha. You see how that worked out (see below):

To the King Family:

Thank you so much for having Frozen Exposure Photography capture your fall memories and Ethan's life full of wonder at the fun age of 18 months. It's so special to watch him as he grows up.

Love,

Frozen Exposure Photography

Waiting for Baby O'Dell To Arrive

Kristine and Matt are having a baby! I love the collage above: the left shot shows how affectionate Kristine and Matt are towards one another, and then the top right shot shows how excited they are for the baby, and the bottom right shot shows how playful they are. Of course we had to include the White Pumpkin of 2009- I am glad to hear that I am not the only person who didn't know they even existed until this year...would've been much cooler if I'd known prior to embarrassing myself while photographing a wedding by saying "Wow, you guys painted pumpkins!" Luckily, by the time Kristine and Matt met me for their maternity session, I had wised up and was now a pro at staging white pumpkin photo greatness!

I honestly don't think Kristine could have picked a more perfect sweater for this photograph. And good job on making the hand-heart, Matt! These blocks are the coolest thing since...okay, they're just the coolest thing period. Matt's family had them and so having them in the shot wasn't just rad, but also sentimental! =) *sigh* I do want my own set now. I could run around spelling all sorts of things and taking photographs of it!!! Wonder if I could find enough blocks to spell out: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING FROZEN EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPH YOUR MATERNITY SESSION, KRISTINE AND MATT!!!
You guys are beautiful and I hope to meet Baby O'Dell in the near future!

Love,

Frozen Exposure

Photography

(Sort of) Trash the Dress!

So you had the big wedding day. Everything was perfect. And now all that's left is the perfect guy, the wedding album, and the dress hanging in the closet. And you were so enamored with keeping everything perfect, that maybe you didn't cut loose and really pose in your gorgeous wedding dress because you didn't want to get it dirty. So?

This past weekend, a few brides and I decided it was time to get the gown outta the closet and go have some fun with it!

We did a trash the dress session and although the dresses did get dirty from crawling around in abandoned buildings and fields, etc., we didn't really trash them...however, a couple girls want to do a shoot in the near future walking through the creek and maybe using paint, etc, and REALLY trash the dresses! So here are some shots from the "Sorta" trash the dress shoot! We had a GREAT time! Thanks to all the brave, beautiful brides/models (Alli, Jessica, Beth, Angel, JR) for making the shoot such a success! And a special thanks to our amazing, talented make-up artist Kathryn Kimble of Visage Bella and to Roger at Julia's Homestyle Bakery in Murfreesboro for the gorgeous and delicious cupcakes and wedding cake!

Upcoming: Look for the uber Trash the Dress shoot to happen soon!

♥

Tanya: Frozen Exposure

Sneak Peek for The Hero Brings Revenge: PROMO SHOOT

To state the obvious, you're gonna have fun anytime you get five crazy guys in a band together for a photoshoot...forget the fact that I was standing in the middle of the road for half the shots and the guys had to, with sincere panic, yell "CAR!!!!" everytime they saw one approaching in the distance. Awww.
Great shoot, guys. Thanks for being so spontaneous.

The Hero Brings Revenge played a show at The Muse in Nashville last night that rocked everyone's face off. Frozen Exposure Photography was there to get some live action shots for them (look for the live shots to be posted soon).

Check out their music by clicking HERE. But be warned- they are LOUD.

♥ Tanya

KATIE'S 27 DRESSES THEMED BACHELORETTE PARTY

FUN: INSANELY FUN.

Love the movie 27 Dresses? Remember the scene where Kevin sees Jane's private collection of bridesmaids dresses?:

"Kevin: [snickering] Right. Well, that makes complete sense because they're... *beautiful*.

Jane: Some of them are not that bad.

Kevin: Not that bad? I'd like to see one of them that's not that bad. "

So all of Katie's girls decided not to keep their dresses in the closet and dressed up for her surprise 27 Dresses themed bachelorette party. They held the "tacky" peach ruffly dress out especially for Katie to wear once she walked in and saw them all in their dresses....somehow though, everyone (but Katie) ended up ooh-ing and ahh-ing over how pretty the dress actually looked once Katie put it on....