// Him and Honey - Nashville Film Portrait Photography

Happy Monday! We're gearing up for another productive week around here. We're barely a week out from our little road trip to see friends and we're trying to ready the blog, get the house in order, and plan out what we want to see on the road and while in Wilmington. We'll be armed with all of our film gear so if you're in/around Wilmington (or Chattanooga, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbia (SC), Charleston, Savannah (GA), Charlotte, or Asheville...) and you're looking for some snazzy portraits, get in touch! We'll be hopefully passing through each of these cities and we love a good excuse to hang out for a while! Also, if you've got suggestions on places to check out in any of these cities, send us all you know! We've been planning our trip via Roadtrippers and I'm already feeling like we need to make an extra trip to Georgia to check out all of the covered bridges! haha

We're offering both mini and full sessions on our trip, and we've love to share your faces on our blogs. We're hoping we can tack a few extra days onto the tail end of our trip to celebrate our one year wedding anniversary coming up (!!!). It's less than 4 weeks away now. That's insane! It feels like our wedding day was just last week. Speaking of weddings and all that good stuff, aren't Paul and Madison adorable?! We had the honor of shooting their engagement photos and we can't wait for their wedding plans to fall into place. They were so sweet and so awesome to hang out with for the day.

The perfect way to start a Monday... seeing two people totally in love. If you want to see more of our film photo work, check out our Him and Honey website and blog (just disregard the About page... it's on today's to do list)! We've got another session to share with y'all soon! Not to mention the four sessions from this past Saturday! I'm geeking out just thinking about how amazing the photos are going to be. Seriously, we get to photograph some seriously photogenic folks. Anyway, I hope your week is off to a great start! xo

PS; Care to give Him and Honey a "like" on Facebook? 

East Bank on Film

These film photos are from the afternoon we spent traipsing around the East side of the river. I've come to realize our kid just might be the cutest kid (I'm biased, I know) and we will never tire of taking pictures of him. He's just so animated and lively. Never a dull moment with that one. Don't you just love his "stick jump"? 

I'm off for my bridal makeup trial run! So excited to have Miss Sara doing her stuff!

The Littlest Flynn

This kid. Man, I'm tellin' ya. He is something else. I'm in love with these photos that Mike captured during a "dad and little dude" day at the park when I was in San Francisco in June. We just got them back from the lab and I don't think they could be more perfect. I'm just a little jealous I wasn't there to take part in Las Paletas and jumping off stairs. He captured the moments so beautifully.

We've been ending each night with a park venture lately. Toby has made all kinds of new friends, and he's taken an interest in football, too. The other night we were at the playground watching him play with a new friend and then that sort of awkward thing happens: You see a stranger's child push your own kid down on the playground for the first time. We kept our calm and watched the situation to see if they were just playing (we think they were, it didn't seem malicious at first) but all of these thoughts came over me. We watched for another minute and saw Toby push the kid right back, and then we called him over to us on the bench. I quickly spoke up and said "Toby, we don't push other kids on the playground, ok? That's not very nice." He said "Yes ma'am" and went back to playing. I thought about it a lot over the next day or two and even brought it up to Mike last night while we were sitting at that park once more. I told him "I know I shouldn't say this, and it's probably all sorts of wrong to admit, but when I saw Toby push that kid back the other night, I was a little bit proud. Not that he'd resort to violence or being a bully, but because he stood up for himself. He didn't whine or cry to us about it. He just wouldn't be pushed around by a bigger kid." Mike said he thought the same thing, and before I told Toby not to resort to fighting he was going to tell him that if another kid ever did that to him, to do it back, but he figured my response was a little more mature.

I know, I should never condone or tolerate any kid being a bully (even my own) but really, part of me was proud that he wouldn't just take it lying down ya know? I guess we won't know for sure if they were playing or not (Toby thinks they were), but I guess a little rough-housin' is normal for boys. It just got my brain thinking about all of the experiences we'll have as he gets older. First day of school, first crush, first broken heart, first fight (I really hope not, but you know...), etc. 

Every time I look at these pictures I see a three year old going on sixteen. That's such a cliche, I know, but it's true. To see where he's at as opposed to where he was when he first moved in, it's incredible. Anytime he goes to his grandparents' for a visit and comes home a couple of days later I'm floored by how much I feel like he's grown. I guess those are the transformations you don't really notice much when they're right in front of you, but these pictures speak a thousand words.  This is a new chapter for us, and so far it's been really really fun.

If you'd like to see the rest of the photos from this outing, check them out on our Him + Honey blog!

Film Shots

It's been a while since I've shot (and developed, especially!) any film. I used to take almost a roll a day and get them developed by the handful, but for some reason I've slowly stopped. Disposables will probably always be my favorite. No matter how many big body styles or Lomography cameras we get. Don't get me wrong, each of those are fun for their own reasons, but I love the effortless simplicity of a $4 disposable from the drugstore. I have a pile of them sitting unopened in my craft closet. These were shot on our Nikon F4 over the past several weeks. I kind of like letting a camera sit around for a while before developing it because seeing what is on it can be a surprise.

Today we're supposed to go look at a potential wedding venue, and then tomorrow two more. We're also picking up last minute crafty things for our Christmas gifts. This week is going to be so jam packed with crafting + baking + getting things ready. Wish us luck! xo

Adventures on Film

Just sharing some of our recent adventures as caught on film! I love how perfectly imperfect film photos are. I will always prefer film to digital. I think we just cherish them more. Flaws and all!

Thanks for taking a peek!

xo

PS; Do I like feet pictures enough?!
PPS; These were shot on a jank little disposable! (my favorite!)