I just received my 2009/2010 copy of Experience Magazine in the mail today. For those of you who haven’t seen this magazine before, it is a magazine for lovers of the coastal life in the northeast. When the editors contacted me a few months ago and asked me to send them some photographs from Molly and Adam’s wedding (whose wedding I photographed last year in Bar Harbor at the Bar Harbor Regency), I was surprised since the magazine is not wedding-related. The editors told me that they wanted to use Molly and Adam’s wedding story to entice couples to take a second look at getting married in Bar Harbor/Acadia. Molly and Adam’s wedding story (and a few of my favorite photographs from their wedding) appear on pages 78 and 79 of the magazine, followed by a spread on the Bar Harbor Regency itself.
After speaking at the Digital Wedding Forum Convention in Tampa in 2008, I was approached by one of the editors of Photographer’s Market 2009. Every year the editors choose a wedding photographer to feature, and I’m pleased to say that they chose to feature me in the 2009 edition! It is a five page feature in interview format- they asked questions from marketing to style to destination weddings, and a few of my clients had their images featured!
After a long wait, the book is finally out! (For those of you that don’t know- I just had a book published- it’s on fashionable wedding photography and the evolution of the image.) Check it out here at Barnes and Noble!
So, I just got back from the destination weddings of Adrienne/Mike and Mel/Donny (to see pics from their Mexico weddings, scroll down), and I think it must have snowed the entire time I was away!
Here are some pics I took over the weekend- let’s start with the cute skiing photographs!
Here is Cody (my six year old)- we are skiing at Saddleback in Rangeley, Maine (one of our favorite family-friendly mountains):
And here is Jackson (my three year old):
Of course, snow on the mountain is nice, but in front of the house it’s not so great…
This is the entrance to my studio (hey, it’s a good thing that almost everyone books online since I don’t think we’re getting in there any time soon…):
And here is the walkway to my side porch:
I’m ready for spring!!!
Jay Philbrick and I did a winter shoot last week in North Conway, NH. Originally we had planned for a fun, outdoor bridal in the snow, but the cold drove us inside! It was well below freezing- I think it may have been 5 degrees when we started that morning. So, we were only able to do a few minutes of shooting outside before we were forced to go inside! Anyway, here are a few of my favorites from the North Conway winter shoot:
And just in case you are from somewhere other than the northeast and you are wondering if we really are getting a ton of snow this year, WE ARE! The snowbanks go halfway up my front door! Even our poor dog hasn’t gotten used to the almost daily snowstorms…
On Monday I spoke at Mystic 3, the wedding photography convention in Mystic, CT. It was a great time to reconnect with other photographers and meet some new people! I spoke at 10am (a much better time for me than the 8am slot I had in Tampa!)- my friend (and incredible photographer) Earl Christie was kind enough to take some photographs of me up on stage, so I wanted to share them!
Speaking of conventions, I received an email from my friend (and awesome photographer) Charlotte Geary out in Colorado- she emailed me to let me know that she had posted some pics from the Tampa convention. What’s funny is that a few of my past brides chimed in on her blog to let her know that they knew me! Anyway, if you want to see more pics, head on over to her blog here.
You may have noticed that I now have a new website! I am happy to say that the new website is up and running at www.michelleturner.com . Why a new website? I was having some difficulty updating the old one, and I needed to make some changes. First of all, we have a brand new contact form that is generated by a great company called ShootQ.
I also have a NEW LOGO! I am pleased to unveil the new logo, which is the creation of Petra Hall, a fabulous European designer! Here are a few examples of the logo:
So when am I going to update the logo on the header of the blog? Well, I’m going to wait a little while- I am expecting to get a brand new blog in the not-so-distant future, so stay tuned for updates!
Hey all! I just wanted to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season! We will be closed on Christmas and New Year’s Eve to be with our families, but we will be checking email, so if you need to get in touch with us feel free to email us at info@michelleturnerphotography.com and someone will get back to you promptly.
It is snowing almost every other day up here in Maine, so we have a good foot and a half of snow outside. We have been doing some ice skating and hope to be skiing in the near future- it seems like we are definitely going to have a snowy winter this year unlike the last two years. Finally, it’s time for winter sports again! We might even be able to use the snow shoes more than one time this year. It’s absolutely gorgeous, but freezing! I hope, no matter where you are that you are enjoying the season!
Also, I wanted to let everyone know that I will be speaking at the Digital Wedding Forum (DWF) convention down in Tampa in early January, so I will be out of the office from the evening of January 1st through the 7th. The Digital Wedding Forum (DWF) convention is running at the same time as Imaging USA (the PPA convention), so for those of you who are photographers reading this, shoot me an email if you are going to be in Tampa for either convention! When I’m not speaking at the convention, I’ll probably be at PPA’s trade show- it’s like going to a mall that only stocks photography equiptment! Definitely a dream come true for a photographer that is a gearhead like me!
Anyway, to read more about the DWF convention, visit the Digital Wedding Forum’s website. I have been a member of the Digital Wedding Forum for over three years now, and it is a fantastic resource for photographers. If you are a professional photographer, be sure to check it out. If you are an aspiring wedding photographer, the DWF has a special section for you called DWF Start. I have been invited to be one of the DWF Start Mentors to help people in their first few years of business. Click here to check out the Digital Wedding Forum Pro and Start.
After I return from the Digital Wedding Forum’s convention, I will then be traveling to Mexico on the 9th for a destination wedding at Las Caletas, which is a peninsula owned by Vallarta Adventures- you can see it by clicking here. This will be the second wedding that I have photographed there in the past month- Ashley and Bill Timmel (scroll down to see their wedding photographs) were married there in late November. Anyway, if you need to get in touch with me while I am out of the country, I will be checking email throughout, so feel free to write to me at info@michelleturnerphotography.com and I will get back to you as soon as I can!
I also wanted to share a recent family photograph. I set up the tripod for this family shot out on our family farm in Winthrop, Maine, during the fall. For once, both of my children (and Eric!) are sitting still! We had to shoo the horses out of the shot since we are sitting in the middle of the hay field…
Just thought I would share a few pics of us-
The first was taken by my good friend Alicia Williams who was second-shooting for me recently at a destination wedding in Mexico. She took this photograph of me (well, my back, anyway), while I was in the pool with the couple during their post shoot.
And here is one of Eric. This was during a family shoot- I was metering off of him to set up for the family and captured this one:
There’s a current web game among photographers (all over the world!!) and now I’ve been tagged by my good friend and photographer Alicia Williams. This means that I need to share 8 things that my blog readers don’t know about me and then tag six more people!
First, my 8 interesting facts:
1. Between my husband and I, we have (individually and/or jointly) lived on and/or visited every continent except Antarctica. I have spent time living in Spain, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Australia and New Zealand, and I’ve visited way too many places to list! That’s a lot of traveling!
2. I received my degree from Georgetown University in International Security and Law (I was a teaching assistant at Georgetown in a class called “Map of the Modern World”) and then studied art for my Master’s at Dartmouth.
3. I worked for the government for three years during college on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense. Our committee created the budget for military spending across all of the branches of the military. I’ve also driven a tank and both f-18 and helicopter flight simulators (part of the perks, I guess!).
4. I have three horses and try to ride with my husband and/or kids (if you are a loyal blog reader, you probably know that I have TWO boys, ages 2 and 5) at least four times a week!
5. While I was starting my business many years ago I made ends meet by teaching high school Spanish!
6. I coach a high school field hockey team in Winthrop, Maine. That’s one of the reason that I’m impossible to reach at the studio in the fall- I’m either on a shoot or at practice (or a game!).
7. I have a dog- Kaia- she’s an Akita. I have owned Akitas my entire life!
Now who should I tag? How about: