Matt+Monica+Abby

Ashah Smith April 5, 2010

HEY!!!! I've had so much going on in the last month. I've been so excited about this blog post and I've finally been able to do it today! Monica & Matt are my best friend Michelle's sister & brother-in-law.

Location: Huntsville, Texas aka my second home!

Let me tell you a little story. Monica & Matt met at Kaldis (a small coffee shop in Huntsville, Texas - GO SAM!). It was there that they started getting to know each other, talking about their mutual desire for Christ, sharing their testimonies and well, falling in love with each other.

Three years ago this month I flew to Texas to shoot their engagement pictures. I went through my old files and found these!

At Kaldis, doing their favorite thing.

A few months later....they got married...I did their rehearsal pictures & their wedding pictures....

This past November (2009) Abby came into the picture!!! I met up their family in Panama City Beach, Florida and did a maternity shoot of them.

Last month they flew me to Texas to do Abby's very first photo shoot!

Monica reading the Bible to little Abby.

They are such amazing parents! I'm so proud of them! It has been SUCH an honor to photograph the story of your lives. I love y'all so much!

Love, Ashah

Girl Time

Ashah Smith February 10, 2010

Every once in a while I like to put together a girls night out for my friends and I. We like to dress up, do a photo shoot, and then go to dinner etc. There were 18 of us girls altogether. I've never photographed 17 girls all at once so this was an experience! I didn't want all of their pictures to look the same so I tried hard to make them different from each other. I'll be putting more on Facebook later when I finish the rest of them. I had a blast girls! I'm so grateful to call y'all my friends. Y'all are amazing. -Ashah

I warned the girls driving that I may randomly pull over on the side of the road when I saw a sweet spot to shoot at....I found it alright, but I picked the very spot that had some good ol' Georgia red clay haha woops! Needless to say it got all over our shoes:)

Sisters!!!

Twins!!! (I'm their triplet btw)

Imaging USA 2010- Nashville, TN

Ashah Smith January 21, 2010

Okay so here goes...My first blog post on my new blog! A couple of weeks ago I attended a photography convention put on by PPA (Professional Photographers of America) called Imaging USA. It was by far the best convention I've ever been to. I learned so much from the most amazing photographers. I love being part of it!

Here is a little about my trip(outside of classes:)...

My friend Kellie Hardemen and I drove up to Nashvegas together. She is the sweetest thing ever.

Road trips are always better with Michael....

We got to see SNOW & ICE! We were so excited! We pulled over on the side of the road somewhere in Tennessee and decided to take some pictures and play in the snow :) PS. I want her SUV really bad!

For some reason she looks a lot like Sandra Bullock in this picture (maybe it's just me, I dunno).

We were a little excited and had to show off the fact that we were standing in SNOW!!! We hardly ever get to see that white stuff!

It was gorgeous!

We stayed at the Gaylord Opyrland Hotel and this was our view from our balcony. Let me just tell you, this hotel is about the size of my town(maybe:). I got lost SO many times. It took about two days to halfway figure out how to get back and forth from places. I'm sure that has something to do with my awesome direction skills.

My buddy Jordan Fleming recently moved to Nashville. He has a band that travels around quite a bit now. On one of my breaks from classes he picked me up so we could hang out. I decided to bring my camera at the last minute. He didn't really know he'd be doing a photo shoot but we had fun with it. He showed me all around downtown Nashville. That town is pretty sweet! FYI - this didn't work... He climbed this wall to get on a roof to do some more shots...and while he was on this roof he almost fell down this crazy deep hole up there. All I heard was this bang and then he wouldn't answer me. No worries though, he didn't die(or fall).