Sneak Peek: Emily and Daniel

2 days left of our August Special!!!!

During the whole month of August, we've been having an August special going on. For booking your session in August, you could get up-to $100 print credit. August is almost over, so I thought I would remind you guys about it so you can take advantage of this opportunity! You still have 2 days to get yours!!!!!!!!!

And remember! We are still accepting high school representatives!!!! Check our website for more information!

Have a great day!!

Coffee Table Book

Here are some pictures of our coffee table books! I love it! This is a sample book, and it can be designed to your taste. It comes with a hard custom designed cover, and it can contain up-to 40 pages! We offer them in 5x5, 8x8, and 10x10. This one on the pictures is 5x5. I can't wait to show it around!!! It's so cute! And it comes with a protector cover! Get it before september, 1st and get $20 your coffee table book! ;)

The Castro Family

Sorry I have barely posted anything! we've been so busy! we spent the weekend in Alabama to spend some time with my family, and we got back sunday night. We had the opportunity to shoot a family photo session while being there! The family is from my home church and it was kind of like a last minute thing. But we got ready really quick, we prayed, and we jumped into it! We shot around 400 pictures! It was so fun!!!! We tried different things, and I loved seeing them laugh and have a good time! You can see in the pictures how they were enjoying :D And we enjoyed it even more! I love the colors they were wearing!!!! It made the pictures so colorful!

Thank you guys for such a great time with you!!!! We can't wait to send you all the pictures!!!

A little update

I know it has been a while since I´ve posted anything. I´ve kept myself very busy! I´m working on my branding, designing things, editing pictures, etc. But I really enjoy doing all this! Today I received some Christmas cards and birth announcements that I ordered. I absolutely love them!!! They turned out better than I expected! So that encouraged me even more to design others, lol. This one I posted can actually be used for many purposes: announcements, party invitations, christmas cards, etc. And it gives you the chance to put 4 pictures in case you can't decide what your favorite picture is! It's also perfect for families! Plus, you can change the colors to any color you want!

Don´t forget about the discount if you order yours before november!

I would like to post a slideshow with the wedding pictures, but I´m going to have to wait till next month. I want to do the very best, so I´m waiting till I go to the seminary in Nashville, where I know I will be able find good stuff! I´ll keep posting new pictures every once in a while!

While all this, God has been blessing us greatly! He keeps answering prayers, and that increases our faith in Him! He is so faithful and merciful! I started reading a book! God blessed me with a great book that is helping me to be the best help meet for my husband! And honestly, it´s helping me a lot, and everyday I´m more excited about reading more and more books! Nate loves reading, so that`s encouraging me even more. Plus my aunt Pilar, who loves reading, is encouraging me too :D

Hey! As you guys saw, we have a little poll thing! We would like to see what photographt style you all like, so feel free to give your answer!!

Thank  you!! Have a great day!

We need high school representatives

Hello again!!!

We just wanted to let you guys know about a few promotions we are having!!! Since this is the perfect time to get senior pictures taken (not too cold, not too hot, not too early, and not too late!), we are offering special packages for seniors. But first of all, we are trying to find representatives (juniors or seniors in high school) that will be able to refer our services to other juniors or seniors. We need a girl and a boy, and they would receive a complimentary session with us and a web-sized image from the session so they can use it for their facebook, or blog! And for each referral, we would give them a $20 print credit! It sounds like a good deal, doesn't it?

Feel free to e-mail us at info@nateandaranchaphotography.com, or call us at (256) 684-1076 if you're interested or if you need more information!!!

Check out our website if you would like to see more pictures of our portfolio! Have a good day!!!

Christmas cards!!! And don't forget to check out the new gallery on our website!

I know what you're thinking! what is this girl doing designing Christmas cards in August! is Christmas sooner in Spain? hehe, no, but it would be cool! I know I get too excited about Christmas, but this time I was just thinking ahead for everybody!!! Since this is my first Christmas as a married lady, I've been thinking about doing some cool Christmas cards to send everybody with a picture of us. Actually, I've always loved to do that and I finally can!!! We can send them as a new family! I actually enjoy designing, and I'll probably be working on more designs! So if you are interested on getting some Christmas cards, with us you can get 2 things done at one time! The pictures and the cards!!! I'll be designing cards for families, children, babies, couples, etc. to be able to offer a variety of products! I want you to be able to choose the style you want! I love modern designs, so I thought I would try that first! But feel free to ask me about other styles! And guess what? we are offering a 20% discount on Christmas cards if you order them before November :)

Derrick and Julianna pics on the website

Just as the title says, we got more pics on the website! it would be too many to post here, so I opened a gallery with all the wedding pictures. There you can see more of the groomsmen and the bridesmaids, and details... I'll keep updating it during the week and probably next week. 

Thank you again for stopping by!!!

And another sneek peek!!!: Trash-the-dress photo session!

We got back from Georgia! Today we did a "trash-the-dress" photo session with Derrick and Julianna. We wanted to get some good shots of just them, so we met in the afternoon and took a bunch of pictures! I have to say, they`re so cute together! We enjoyed taking these pictures! And we had a great time with them, just talking, taking pictures, laughing... They´re now on their honeymoon, and we´ll be editing pictures all week. These are just 3 of our favorites (we love pictures taken from the ground as you can tell ;) but we promise we have many more from different angles that we`ll be posting, hehe). We´ll be posting them throughout the week!

Sneak Peek: Derrick and Julianna

This is just a sneak peek of Derrick and Julianna´s wedding. It was a beautiful wedding!!! Everything went great! Every little detail was just perfect (the programs, the dresses, the food...) I also loved the music that was played during the ceremony. Julianna surprised Derrick with a slideshow with pictures of them (their story). I didn't tell them this, but during this slideshow there was a point where I almost cried... but I started focusing on capturing their faces and their gestures during that moment! It was so sweet! We loved shooting this wedding! Their family were great, their friends were great, the videographers were great, etc etc everybody was great!!! And we had a great time with all of them!! Nate shot with me during the whole day! I'm super proud of him! He's so good and it's so fun working together!!! Also, it's really nice to be able to get more variety of all the shots, with different lenses and angles! This way we can ensure we capture all about the wedding, and we can get the best angles!!! The second pic of the wedding party was taken by him!

We`ll be posting more throughout the week, so feel free to check our blog for updates! Hope you guys like them!!!! And congratulations Derrick and Julianna! You had a beautiful wedding!!!

She has a very pretty smile, so it was very easy to take pictures of her!!! :)

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Wasn`t her dress beautiful???

Nate took this pic... I love it!!!!

New prices!!!

Nate and I have been working on providing the best prices we can! In order to have more flexibility in our prices, we are now offering new options! We still offer packages, but now you have the choice to start with the session fee and just buy prints a la Carte. Check out our website for more information!!! We are still working on giving the best possibilities to our customers, so feel free to keep checking for our improved prices and products!!

More pictures of Josh & Manda

Sneak Peek: Josh & Manda

We just shot the coolest session ever! We went downtown (I know, as always, but I love that area) with our friends Josh and Manda to do an in love session! They got married last July, 4th (how cool is that huh?), and we met them at Crown College. They are great, and we had an awesome time!!! Honestly, they pretty much did it all. We just told them where to stand, and to act like we weren't there, and they did the rest!!! And that's how we got the best pictures!! Nate brought up many ideas and I was so excited with the results and how well they were doing, that I didn't want to stop... We didn't have much time, which is good, because I could have kept them there all day! ;) So here are a few images, and we'll post some more during the week. I just couldn't wait till I could edit them all to post them... I needed to post at least a couple! I hope you guys like them!! Even if the pictures were not good, they're just such a cute couple... And thank you Josh and Manda! you guys did great!!! We hope you like them!

And of course, most important than anything, we thank God for giving us the opportunity to have this business and for helping us to improve every day!!

Coffee Table Books

This week, I've been working on some designs for products we are going to be offering. Once a finished designing our brochures, I started working on our coffee table books. I'm loving this thing of designing with Photoshop! There is so much you can do! And I love designing these albums! It's so much fun! We are going to be offering 5x5, 8x8, and 10x10 coffee table books! I just love them! They're different, and it allows you to show your pictures in a cooler way! It's still an album, but in a book format. It has a high quality, and long durability. You can choose from 10 pages (20 sides) to 40 pages (80 sides). It includes a custom hard cover, and each page is designed carefully to match your style with your favorite pictures! These are just two examples of what they would look like (each picture would represent 2 pages). These are a just a simple layout but there are many things, colors, shapes that we can change and add to give them the look you want! We'll be ordering a few samples for you all to see! You're gonna love them!!!!

Sorry for no posting!

As you can see, we haven't posted anything for a long time! It's been a busy week because Nate has been working 12-14 hours a day! I feel so bad!!! But tomorrow or monday we're getting the 70-200 2.8 that we rented!!!! I can't wait to use it!!! so we'll be testing it and taking more pics!

And by the way, we're going to a wedding photography seminary directed by David Jay!!! For those who have no idea, he has been recognized as the #1 wedding portrait photographer in the world and one of the best 15 photojournalistic wedding photographers. So we area all excited for what he's going to be teaching about!!! The seminary will be in September, and we can't wait!!!

God continues to bless us every day! He really is good to us!!! And I feel like I don't thank Him enough for all the things He has done and is doing in our lives!!!!

Want a verse to share? Galatians 6:9 "And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." This is actually my life verse :D And it's so true! God gives us great things, greater than what we give! Every time we do something little, God gives us something huge!!! It's been like that in all my Christian life, and it's what has always helped me stay strong!

Have a great day, and thank you again for reading my blog!