Sneak Peek: Stephen and Jacqueline

And here are Stephen and Jacqueline!!!! We had a great time with them taking pictures downtown! The weather was perfect, and the light was just even more perfect!!! God had the day prepared for us! We spent about two hours taking pictures, and we found so many cute spots, and at the very end we tried a special one that we will reveal in a future post ;) As always, the pictures at the end of the photo shoot are the ones that we end up liking the most!

They were such a cute couple to photograph! And she had such beautiful green eyes! I love how they turned out in the pictures! :D

Thank you Stephen and Jacqueline!!!

Arancha

Happy Thanksgiving!

So we are having a little banquet over here! Toasted bread with olive oil and parsley, prosciutto, and manchego cheese, stuffing, mashed potatoes, stuffed crust pizza, eggnog...! I know, it doesn't match at all, but we just got a little bit of all the little things that we like. And of course, we needed to put a little from our Spain origins in our Thanksgiving meal! I missed manchego cheese with prosciutto so much!!! If you have never tried it, I highly recommend you to! Thanks to my mother-in-law for this meal, she's great!

We also would like to thank God for all His blessings and goodness. For how good He takes cares of us and our things when we put it all in His hands! And for drawing us closer to Him each day! Praise God for salvation too! We are so thankful that He sent His only Son to die for our sins, and to give us salvation! :) We have a great God!

I just thought I would drop a little note :)

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Chad & Tristin

Today we had the opportunity to do an "In Love" photo session with Chad and Tristin. We met them at college, and they've been married for a few years. The first thing I asked them when I saw them was: "are you guys nervous?" And they said: "No, nervous why?" :D So as you can see in the pictures, they were not nervous at all! (as far as I know!) They did so great!!!! I love it when photo sessions go so smooth! They just knew what to do the whole time, they were so sweet to each other, and we found a few cool new spots to try new poses! I loved that there was no pressure, plenty of time to experiment with new backgrounds, angles, poses, etc. We had a lot of fun with them! They're a very cool couple :)

Thank you Chad and Tristin!!! We hope you like them as much as we do!!!

I just found out that tomorrow we will have the whole evening free! We were planning on traveling but all plans got changed! So we will be able to book regular sessions, and special holiday sessions as well!!!! Let us know if you want to book yours!

And I'll leave you with my new favorite image! They're so cute! I love it!

Have a great day!

Arancha

Our weekend!

So we thought that from now on our weekends would be exclusively to relax since during the week we just work and study and work and work... but nope! It just keeps getting busier every time! But praise God things always work out and it is for the better! This weekend we found the place where we want to live! We just have to pray that God will work it all out! And I'm sure He will because He has been blessing us so much and answering all our prayers! The place where we want to move is perfect! We just love it! Our cousin Fran found it for us :) Thank you Fran! He is being such a blessing to us with all this moving process! So, like I said, we're praying and hopefully we'll have our new home soon :)

This Sunday was picture Sunday for the Spanish ministry at our church! It was really fun! We took pictures of every family! It was a new challenge because we had never done this before, but it was really fun! It was a beautiful day so we were able to take pictures outside on a cute little bench in the only cute corner where there was a shade. And that shade was perfect! It made the pictures turn out with a really good light! Today I finished editing all the pictures and preparing them to get them printed, and all the families look so cute! The only problem was: Nate and I DID NOT get our picture taken!!!!!!!!!!!!! I completely forgot!!!!!! We had our friend Emili help us write down the names of the families and at the end I forgot to ask her to take a picture of us! (btw, thank your for your help Emili!) So I guess we'll have to fix or substitute that picture, and I already have in my head what I want to do... but I won't say anything till it's done! wohoooo!!!!

We have more sessions coming up this week so stay tuned!

Have a great day!

Charity

Today Charity and I went out to take some pictures of her! She's so pretty!!! I knew she would make very good pictures! We met here in TN a couple of months ago. She's learning Spanish and she's doing really good! I can't wait to see her visit us in Spain!

We shot pictures for about an hour, since it gets dark so fast! The light was super low and I had to bring up the ISO a lot. But it worked really good, the light was low but gorgeous, and we got a lot of pictures that I love! She did so great! At the second pose, she already knew what to do, I didn't even have to tell her what to do! It's like she knew what I wanted :)

Thank you Charity!!! I can't wait to show you the rest! See you in a few days ;)

Arancha

Sneak Peek: Tim and Annabel

Today I had the opportunity to shoot a mini in-love session for Tim and Annabel! They're such a great couple! We met Tim at college and we met Annabel after they got married. Today we went to a park with their dog Harby (forgive me if I spelled it wrong!), and we took a few pictures of just them and a few of them with their dog. The dog was super cute! I had to end up doing a lot of crazy things so he would look at the camera though, but it was really fun! Tim and Annabel did so good at the session! I barely had to tell them what to do! They were just themselves, and I love how natural the pictures turned out! Thank you Tim and Annabel! It was a lot of fun! 

This is just a sneak peek, more to come later on!

Have a great day and thank you for stopping by!

I suggest to click on it to see it bigger! It makes a difference ;)

Personalizing!!! and our new Spanish website!

As you have probably seen already, we've been changing the look of our blog and website very often. We are not trying to get you confused ;) But we are trying to personalize our business as much as we can! Most of you know that we started this business last summer. God has been blessing us a lot in this business. He has taught us that there is nothing we can plan that can work as good as the way He plans it! And it's so true! We've put our lives and our business in God's hands and trusted Him! And believe us, we are seeing a huge change! 

There are a lot of things that we have accomplished and learned these last few months, but there are a lot more things that we want to improve and learn!  And we can't wait! Every day is a learning process to us, every photo session is a new challenge, and we are enjoying it so much!

So after a time of planning, reading, studying, experimenting, and trying to decide what we want to communicate, this is what we have realized about: as photographers, and I know we have already said this before, our main goal in photography is to portray and communicate the fun, love, excitement... that the people being photographed feel! We want to show their feelings in an unique way! With couples, we love seeing how much they love and enjoy each other, with families, we love seeing the fun and love they are feeling! And that's why we love photography so much!

So you might see a few more changes during this period of personalizing our business! But don't worry, hopefully it will be just for a little bit longer ;)

And two more things done on our check list!!!!! Our wedding website and our Spanish website!!! We've been working on a separate website for weddings and we published it a couple of weeks ago. And thaaaaat makes us feel so much better! Also, since I'm from Spain, we believed that we should present our website in Spanish for the Spanish speaking people (many of them are my family and friends from Spain!!!), and hey! if you are up to learning more Spanish, this can be a challenge for you too!!! We published it last friday. You can go to www.nateandaranchaphotography.com/#/spanish/ to check it out!

I'm on the third week of my student teaching, and although I'm enjoying it, I can't wait to finish! I've taught a couple of times and I'll be teaching 3 more times this week, and probably more during the next 2 weeks. But I love it because they are all business related classes, and besides missions and photography, business is something I have always loved! I used to work full time as an office administrator back in Spain and I really enjoyed it! So I'll be teaching things that I've always been familiar with and that I've always liked. I wish I could teach photography though hehe After my student teaching, we'll be getting even more into photography again! And also, we really want to get more into doing God's work! We have been so busy that we feel like we don't do enough for God. I know that's something that we will always have to deal with. He gave us life and His only begotten Son to save us from our sins, so there is nothing we can do that can compare to that! We are involved in a couple of ministries in our church, but God has been speaking to our hearts about putting everything in His hands and about telling everybody about Christ and why He came to earth! Every day we have a bigger desire to do more for Him, so we'll be busy, but in a good way! And God is blessing us so much!

We are also working on a project that will be missions-photography related! But we will let you know about it later on when things are more settled :)

Wow, it seems that when I do post, I really post, lol Have a great day!

Arancha

What is going on with us? :)

So it seems like we have not blogged in forever! We have been very busy with college, and we have not been able to do many photo sessions during this time, since I have spent almost whole days since early in the morning till dark just working on projects and observing teachers! I am student teaching for 5 weeks (I've done two of them already, so only three left!) and Nathan has been very busy with his school projects too. We also have been traveling and we're moving out of Tennessee soon. And I am graduating in December!!! But God has been blessing us greatly with all these things! We have learned so much and we can't wait to keep learning!

Due to this busy schedule we are having, and the change of the lighting during the winter, we have decided to offer a special edition of photo sessions during the month of November and part of December. We will be offering Christmas photo sessions that will last up-to 30 minutes (with unlimited photography during all that time) but will allow us to obtain a minimum of 10 images per session. The price for these sessions will be $30 and will include a personal on-line slideshow with music, a web-sized image for your facebook or blog, and all the time and photo editing of every image. Prints will be offered a la carte or on Christmas collections for additional savings! Of course you can choose to have a regular session too, but we would like to add this flexibility until our busy month of November gets calmer :) These sessions will be available from monday through friday after 4 pm, and saturdays all day.

So you can still get your Christmas pictures or your Christmas cards with us!!! And now with our bulk prices, you will be able to send your special Christmas pictures to all your family and friends for a very affordable price! As I have said before, Christmas is my favorite season of the year! In our photography, our main goal is to show the love and fun that our clients feel, and just show who they are and how they are in an unique way! That's what will make your pictures different and unique! Because the pictures are all you! :) And we believe that during Christmas, there is just this feeling that brings a special touch in families and couples, that can turn into beautiful pictures! With all the Christmas lights, the winter breeze, even the winter outfits, and a lot of little special details, pictures are going to be so fun!!!! We can't wait to start our Christmas special edition photo sessions! And we can't wait for Christmas to be here!!!

Have a wonderful day!!

Arancha

Fall photo shoots and bulk prices!

This week I started my student teaching, which is the only thing I need to finish to graduate! it's being great! so far I really like it! so I'm going to be busy but we will keep taking pictures and posting more! 

Remember that during this month you can still book your session with us for your Christmas cards!!! We are going to be offering different special sessions, and bulk prices for those of you that would like to order many prints for your family and friends! Plus, here in Tennessee everything looks beautiful! I can't wait to start shooting more sessions with all the colorful trees! I hope these colors last long!!! So if you want a beautiful fall photo session, take advantage of the weather and colorful look that this fall is bringing!! :D

We have had a busy time the last 10 days because my brother, my sister-in-law, and my beautiful niece came to visit us! we had such a great time! and we laughed so much! We did 2 photo sessions for them, which are the ones below!

We'll keep you guys updated!