As you can pretty much tell by looking at it, our blog page has undergone a major overhaul this past week.  We’re super excited about the new look and features!  Here are some of the highlights:

• BIG BIG BIG photos!  Our previous blog only allowed us to post photos at 600 pixels wide, but now we get to post at 900 pixels wide!  YAY!  We like big photos :-)
• At the top left hand side of the blog you’ll see a Twitter Updates box where you can always see what we’re up to via the social messaging utility Twitter.  If you’re a Twitter user, feel free to follow both of our feeds by clicking on the menu links under “Simply Knot”.
• On top of the comment box at the end of each post you’ll see a few little icons with ways you can interact with our blog content.  My favorite is the Facebook post icon that lets you automatically post the entry on your Facebook or send it in a message to your Facebook friends!

Exciting stuff :-)  Let us know what you think of our new blog by leaving us lots of comment love below!  Thanks for reading.

Making our customers happy is really important to us.  Whether it’s out shooting together, working with us on an album design or even ordering prints of your wedding photos, we want you to walk away feeling like you had a great experience!  In an effort to make the proof gallery side of our service even better, we’ve decided to make the switch to a new proofing company called Pictage.  Pictage is an awesome company that offers tons of great products and has the very best customer proofing interface on the market today.  Here are some of the ways that Pictage will make viewing and ordering your photos easier and better!

- You can create your own gallery of favorites to share with family and friends.

- Your wedding day will be categorized into different sections (ex: getting ready, ceremony, formal portraits, etc.) to make it fast and easy to get to the exact photo you want.

- You’ll have tons of great options to choose from every time you order a print.  The Pictage interface allows you to crop images to your liking, convert an image to black and white and even apply cool borders, all the while being able to view a preview of exactly what your print will look like.

- You’ll be offered great new products like canvas prints and photo cards that can be ordered directly from your gallery.

We’re very excited to make this change, but we also want to make the transition as easy as possible for our clients.  If you’re an existing client whose wedding date or portrait session has already been published in an online gallery, your gallery will remain as is until the expiration date 90 days after it was posted.  If you’re event or session has not yet been published to an online gallery, you’ll receive an email from us as soon as your photos are available using the new Pictage interface.

If you have any questions about our proof galleries or any of our other services please feel free to send us an email at info@simplyknotphotography.com.  Have a great week!

Hello Everybody! I have to start by apologizing that it’s been SO LONG since we’ve posted on our blog. January has been a relatively slow month, which we’ve actually been pretty grateful for after having been so busy for so many months in a row. Hope everybody’s having a wonderful new year so far! We sure have!!! Lots of awesome new clients and preparation for the amazing weddings that are coming up in the next few of months. YAY!

The topic of this post has been a long time in the making. At the beginning of this past wedding season Ryan and I started to collect pictures of each other doing what we love – being photographers! With the start of the New Year, we thought this would be a good time to take a look back at ourselves over the last few months and relive all the super fun photo shoots we’ve been blessed to be a part of. The truth is we have A LOT of fun when we’re behind the camera. We love getting to know our clients and do our very best to make them feel at ease and let their love and personalities shine through the photos. If that means looking a little ridiculous now and then, we think it’s totally worth it! So to give everybody a behind the scenes look at what we’re like out on a photo shoot, we’ve put together a little slideshow for your viewing pleasure!

But first, here are a couple favorites that I felt the need to comment on :-)

There’s just something about this first one that I love – it’s so rare that we’re both in an image at the same time (since one is usually shooting the other) so I just think its cool.

If there’s one thing that I always tell clients about Ryan, it’s that he’ll do anything, and I mean ANYTHING to get the shot! I snapped this one at our last wedding. And in case you don’t believe your eyes – yes, he’s standing in a lake . . . in DECEMBER! I was taking portraits of the bride and bridesmaids at the time and one of the girls actually pointed this out to me. Hilarious!

After getting out of the water, he had to walk around like this for a little while :-) How cute is my husband, seriously!

I may not be knee deep in freezing water, but I have been known to climb on things now and then . . .

And one of Ryan’s FAVORITE shooting positions – lying in the middle of the street! (By the way, though it may look like there’s no traffic – there was! He had to get up and run to the side of the road several times.)

I wonder sometimes if our clients think we’re completely nuts when we’re out shooting. We do things that probably look totally odd, but believe me, we know what we’re doing people! There’s always (well almost always) a reason for the madness. I decided to show a little before and after on a few of these to give you an idea of what I mean.

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Before . . . (I love how the groom looks completely confused in this shot!)

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I’ll close with this one because it’s just too funny! Ryan is actually looking down at me through his legs from where he was perched (rather precariously) on top of a trash can. Sadly my shot from below was not really worth sharing, but at least I still have the image in my mind :-)

***CLICK HERE *** to check out the slideshow with a whole lot more of our silliness :-)

Last but not least, we need to say thank you to all of the fabulous clients we’ve had the pleasure of meeting and working with this past season! It’s because of all of you that we get to do what we love and we are so blessed that you allow us to be a part of your lives. We can’t say enough how much joy it brings us to capture your story and we hope you’ve enjoyed just a little peak at ours! Thank you!!!!