Welcome to our blog! We are missionaries to Spain who use photography to be a blessing to other missionaries and pastors. Since then, God has truly blessed our hobby and we are enjoying taking pictures even more! Feel free to comment! We love hearing about people and sharing experiences on photography, missions, and God!

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

In love: Brian and Cassie

Meet Brian and Cassie! A perfect match! We met them for the first time the day of their photo session! And it was great! They both welcomed us and just interacted during the photo session as if we had met before! It was a lot of fun, and we enjoyed being able to take these pictures in downtown Nashville (one of my favorite cities in the US). They are a very cute couple with great personalities!
Thank you guys! Enjoy the pictures!

Arancha
Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville Portrait and Wedding Photography 












Tuesday, April 28, 2009

What an awesome supper! and husband!!!!

These are some pictures of the Ricotta cheese and Pepperoni Calzone (and an extra mini pizza) that my husband made for us last night!!! He had been saying for a while that he wanted to try to make something new and very homemade, so he got a recipe, bought the ingredients, didn't let me in the kitchen, and made it all himself!

It was supposed to just be calzones, but there was some dough left, so we decided to use it for a mini pizza! Let me tell you... I think that my husband cooks better than me...I'm ashamed! But my brownies and my no-bake cookies will always be the best in our household! ;)

Ignore the fact that we didn't use a roll and used a cup instead. We had to think for a while how we could make the base without a roll and our regular cups have a deformed shape (they are originally like that! and I love them!). Fortunately, we had these other cups and they were a huge help to Nate!


My husband wearing the coolest jersey ever!





Atleeeeeetiiii!!!! Atleeeeetiiii!!!!




Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville Portrait and Wedding Photography

Monday, April 27, 2009

Our first interview!

A few weeks ago, we were interviewed by Serena Graham for her photography blog. The interview is there now! You can check it out here!!

We all know I'm not a great writer, but did all I could! :D And it was a pleasure to answer these questions! We hope we can be a blessing to you!

And a picture to spice up our post!





Arancha
Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville, AL Portrait and Wedding Photography

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Our little busy day

Today was one of those days when you don't really have anything to do, but you end up doing a lot! Yeap! We got a lot accomplished today!

Right at 10 we had a very cool photoshoot with somebody I can't mention yet... It's a surprise gift, so I have to wait for a few days :) But we found a new location just 5 minutes away from our house, and let me tell you! I'M GOING BACK! It was so pretty and had so much to work with!

Then I told Nate how much I wanted to visit Home Depot. I don't know why but office supplies fascinate me... Then we got my ring inspection done, bought a slipcover for our laptop, went grocery shopping, and back to the house! So since I am determined to start cooking different meals to have more variety and also to learn to cook better, I looked at a new recipe for Honey Mustard Chicken and tried it out! It was a very easy and simple recipe, but it tasted really good! I'm so proud of myself! And together with our favorite mediterranean salad with olive oil and vinegar, it made a great meal!

So after a busy morning, we just decided to rest a little bit at home (aka Arancha designing new things with Photoshop and Nate studying the Bible), then go on a date (something we still love doing and wish we could do more often) and some starbucks!

By the way, have you noticed our new blog header???? Do you know how long I've been wanting to have one like that? What a blessing! A spent about 4 hours designing it and it's not quite as I want it, but hey! It's a good start!!! I'm truly enjoying all this branding process and I'll be making a few changes and adding some more branding items to our business! :)

For the rest, everything is going great! We are getting close to officially start our wedding season! But before that, we have more engagement and family sessions coming up! So stay tuned!

Oh! And I'm graduating in a week! Wohooooo!!!! This is like the fulfillment of one of the biggest dreams from my childhood!!! It had been my desire since I was little to study at a foreign college, graduating, and learning another language, and... voila!!! And not only that! On the way to fulfilling that dream, I found so many more and biggest blessings and desires! The most important thing I found on the way: my wonderful husband and being able to grow as a Christian :) Nate just makes me the happiest person on earth and God is blessing our lives greatly! Next goal: being missionaries to Spain, something we can't wait for!!!!!

I was going to post a sneak peek of today's session... but again, it's a surprise! I have to hold it in and suffer while doing so!

Have a great weekend!!!

Arancha
Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville Portrait and Wedding Photography

Thursday, April 23, 2009

This morning we drew the names of this contest's participants and .... we have a winner for this mother's day mini session!!!

ERICA BRYANT! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

We will contact you to schedule your photo session!!!! :) We hope we can be a blessing to you!
Thank you to all of you that participated in this contest!!

Have a wonderful day!

Arancha

Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville, AL Children and Wedding Photography

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Mother's day free session!!!

We have prepared a special gift for a family, a mommy, or a future mommy for mother's day!

It is a free mini session for you and your family! Whether you are a mommy, a husband looking for a gift for your wife, or you just want to surprise your mom with this special gift, you can participate and win this complimentary mini session!

Just leave us a comment on the blog or email us telling us your name, who this session would be for (even if it's for yourself, it's ok!), and what kind of photo session you would like to have! We will announce the winner of this complimentary photo session on thursday, so you have till wednesday night to participate!!!!

This is going to be such a beautiful special photo shoot!!!! :)

We will keep you posted!!!!

Nate and Arancha
Nate & Arancha Photography-Huntsville Portrait and Wedding Photography

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Today I've taken the casual graduation pictures for preschool kids! It was a little different from what we have always done, but very fun! I loved it!
Here is one of the pictures I took! Isn't she gorgeous?

Arancha
Nate and Arancha Photography-Huntsville Children Photography

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Kandis & Frank


Just a few shots that we took around the church! I can't wait to do these upcoming weddings! My head is just getting so many ideas!!! wohoooo!!!!

Have a great day!

Arancha

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Monday, April 6, 2009

Andrew and Yesenia



Some more pictures of this adorable couple! Yesenia and Andrew are a couple of our church. I met Yesenia when I first got to the US (4 years already!), and she has such a fun personality and a very good style! Yesenia and Andrew have been dating for years, and a few months ago, they got engaged! I was so excited for them when I heard the news! And of course, when she told me that she wanted us to be her wedding photographers I was just ..... just too excited! The session went really good, and we really enjoy spending some time with them and coming up with poses and ideas!

Here are some of our favs!!!

Thank you for stopping by ;)

Arancha
Nate & Arancha Photography-Huntsville Wedding Photography